Any interest in an investment forum? Could exchange ideas, answer questions, but definitely need to protect from pumping up stocks... Maybe a password to participate so it is for S-B members only? A lot of folks are looking at how to reposition their retirement portfolios after the past year's run up....

This is something I wish I knew a lot more about.
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I'd be interested.

I thought plugs were the investment of choice here

Definitely not enough traffic on the site to pump up a stock anyway but it sounds like cool idea. I'm in
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I'd like the idea.
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LOL,,, I'd better stay out, my track record is buy high sell low! :smash:

I'd like the idea.
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Next time I tell you to buy Freddie Mac or Fannie Mae u need to listen. I could have got you to buy me a boat off that deal! Lol
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LOL,,, I'd better stay out, my track record is buy high sell low! :smash:

Your due!
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Wish I could tell you I owned ICPT at the close yesterday.......

http://www.forbes.com/sites/briansolomon/2014/01/09/intercept-pharma-backed-by-former-billionaire-triples-after-drug-test-results/

find a s&p stock that is buying it's own stock back. Buy some

I'm in...I hear Blue Star Airlines is about to bust out...
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Next time I tell you to buy Freddie Mac or Fannie Mae u need to listen. I could have got you to buy me a boat off that deal! Lol
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I'm not very bright, but I do ok in other areas, lol.
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USG. Warren Buffet owns a big stake.

Wish I could tell you I owned ICPT at the close yesterday.......

http://www.forbes.com/sites/briansolomon/2014/01/09/intercept-pharma-backed-by-former-billionaire-triples-after-drug-test-results/

Hope you bought it:)

I'm in...I hear Blue Star Airlines is about to bust out...
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You once told me, don't get emotional about stock. Don't! The bid is 16 1/2 and going down. As your broker, I advise you to take it.

i can't wait to come out of retirement
right now i'm kinda...handicapped
meaning farm-less .... the day
that changes i'll be all charged up again
full of ambition to be self sufficient not like a doomsday prepper
so much as a healthier alternative ...... but i'll invest in Land
timber if i can find it ....

Interesting take on the jobs number and the Fed

Gold loved today's awful US jobs data. It could love Fed tapering still more...
WELL, this throws a monkey wrench in the works, writes Adrian Ash at BullionVault

The very same month that the US Federal Reserve took its cue from lower unemployment to start tapering its money-printing program, US unemployment fell to a 5-year low of 6.7%.

So far, so good. That's below the 7.0% level by which Fed chairman Ben Bernanke said tapering might be all done in mid-2014. It's also a good way towards the Fed's 6.5% line-in-the-sand for daring to think about raising interest rates from their half-decade flatline at zero, too.

Higher rates, lower gold, or so things typically run (net of inflation). Yet gold prices jumped on Friday's news...reversing the week's earlier 1.5% drop to close London at $1245 per ounce, its best weekly finish since November...back before the Fed finally found its bottle and made good on the tapering it had promised it would do in September.

Why? Because net hiring sank last month, down to just 74,000 for an 18-month low...less than half the past 4 years' average...and the worst December since 2009.

Hiring down, joblessness down. How about that?

"A few participants," said minutes from the Fed's December meeting, released this week, "noted the risk that the persistent weakness in labor force participation and low rates of productivity growth might indicate lasting structural economic damage from the financial crisis and ensuing recession."

Participation in the labor market fell in October to a 35-year low of 62.5%. It fell there again in December's data as job seekers quit seeking, just as the US Fed started trimming $10 billion from its monthly QE money-printing.

Fact: Ten billion is a lot of money. All the software developers in all the world made a total of $10bn from all the app sales on Apple's App Store in calendar-year 2013.

Fact: That still leaves $75bn to be printed and spent in January...greater even than the entire underground mineral wealth of Peru, the third-largest producer of copper, silver, zinc and tin, and the sixth-largest gold mining nation.

Indeed, at its most valuable in late 2011 and 2012, the entire SPDR Gold Trust (NYSE:GLD), the New York-listed gold trust, was briefly worth some $75bn. Back then, the GLD was the most highly valued ETF in the world. The US central bank is now creating that much money, from nowhere, and spending it to support US debt prices this month alone as 2014 begins.



And they call it tapering...

Hiring down and joblessness down..... Huh? More bad science. Maybe same folks that NOAA uses to assess fish stocks

This is funny
http://www.businessinsider.com/investors-buy-nestor-not-nest-2014-1#!

Gold and pot stocks = 8% pop in portfolio today! Something I find satisfying is being a contrarian (bot gold stocks in late December) and profiting from companies involved with cannabis legally......

I like the idea. I would be interested

You mean that powerball and scratch-offs aren't a solid investment?????
(Tell that to the welfare crowd downtown.)