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Would you keep a cool head if a bear market in stocks dented the value of your retirement fund and your stock portfolio? How would you respond as an investor if business conditions turn downward and the stock market drops precipitously? Will you continue to be a calm and collected investor if your friends or colleagues are losing their jobs, the housing market cracks and your brokerage balance falls every week?

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Prophecy and Extrapolations [The Obama Years]

The dark snake is captured trading its nation
In whispers with the czar’s minion sharing their opinions
Plying the younger to turn accomplice in gambles
Revealing its nature by selling the chosen

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The Role of the Level of Confidence in the Stock Market and in our Society

Confidence is the glue that holds our society together - without it social and economic order cannot be maintained. The American people's confidence in our economic, financial, judicial and political systems represents an unseen social contract that binds our society together. This consensus is based upon the belief that those systems are just. A break of confidence in our political institutions by part or all of the population may hinder the ability of the government to maintain social order.

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Why Many Financial Advisors Fail: What to Ask Your Prospective Investment Advisor

Is your prospective financial advisor an ethical practitioner worthy of entrusting your financial future? Is he or she an independent thinker whose investment research can transcend the investing herd's many mistakes? In this update to a 2009 article, Stock Investing 101 offers some important questions to ask a prospective financial consultant - and we question whether benefit may be accrued by not hiring one in the first place.

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Nation-Building and Stock Market Bubbles in China

May the leaders of the People's Republic of China continue to successfully hold their grip on the pulse of the world's second largest economy? With help from America, China transformed itself into a world power. This writer discusses the economic policy balancing act that China's rulers must continue in order to perpetuate their hegemony. Also, the question is considered whether the 30% decline in the Shanghai stock market may be a buying opportunity or the last chance to sell Chinese stocks.

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What Working at McDonald’s Can Do for You and the U.S. Economy

What can working as a McDonald's fast food server do for you? Should McDonald's workers be entitled to a $15 per hour wage as some of its employees demanded? Does the economics of the hamburger business support that wage? Are making Big Macs a career job, an end in itself, or a stepping stone to further personal advancement.

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Prophecies from the Tongue of the Snake

Speculating in this apocalyptic poem, the writer offers food for thought on the prospective turn of events in America and the Middle East. He rhymes as President Obama negotiates with Iran for a nuclear deal and the U.S. economy still struggles to regain its footing in the aftermath of the financial crisis.

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The Odds of a U.S. Stock Market Panic – Or of an Economic Renewal

Directional moves in the Chinese stock market may act as the "canary in the coal mine," for our stock market. Its direction may precede changes in trend in our market. John Reizner addresses in this post whether or not financial market conditions are simliar in form today to those right before the crash. He cites part of his prescient 2007 article written before the financial crisis where he noted an unsupported speculation in the stock market.

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