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Polls show most polls are wrong

I remember the polls during the Al Gore/George Bush election and the John Kerry/George Bush election, neither one was accurate.  For some reason, the media has really been hyping these polls much more than I can remember.  In the democratic primaries between Hillary Clinton/Barack Obama they were pretty much a coin toss with half the [...]

Amazon may bring market down tomorrow

I actually like this stock.  After the dot com bubble burst 6-7 years ago, this was one of the stocks I invested in through dollar cost averaging all the way up until last year.  This stock had given me substantial returns on my investment. I still love this stock and buy goods from the site [...]

Dow -5.69%, Nasdaq -4.77%, S&P 500 -6.10%

Those numbers tell the story for the day. Today was just another day on Wall Street.   Believe it or not, they didn’t close at their worse numbers of the day. The numbers actually bounced up in the last hour.  If you are long in stocks, that really doesn’t change your mental state. I do feel [...]

Oil below $68 a barrel

I remember a few years back a popular chain letter email would circulate saying let’s all not buy gasoline on a certain date so the oil companies will know we can hurt them too.  I think gas was just under $2.00 a gallon at the time. LOL.  I know hard to believe.  I don’t think [...]