On this week’s Consuelo Mack WealthTrack: a “Financial Thought Leader” journalist who is considered to be a must read among top investors. Roger Lowenstein is a former Wall Street Journal reporter who has written many bestsellers including Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist, When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management, The End of Wall Street (to read my review click here), While America Aged (excellent book about the pension crisis, to read my review click here), and Origins of the Crash: The Great Bubble and Its Undoing.
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Friedman Industries (FRD)
OPEN: Priced for perfection or overvalued?
13 Dividend Stocks With A Good Yield/Growth Mix
There’s Nothing Generic About Teva’s Stock – Barrons.com
ISCA: The roundabout way to invest in NASCAR
Counting chickens – Sanderson Farms
How To Find The Best Dividend Stocks
Mattel Is Sitting Pretty in Toy Land – Barrons.com
Tune in Tokyo
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If Only Ben Bernanke’s Hype and Swagger Lived Up to the Facts
Is The AAII a Good Contrarian Indicator?
CHANOS: NEO-MERCANTILISM IN CHINA WILL UNRAVEL….EVENTUALLY
10 Questions for Nassim Nicholas Taleb
MARKET STILL FACING MAJOR RISKS
Stocks and shocks: New evidence on global equity returns
QE IS NOT SUPPRESSING INTEREST RATES
IRELAND, ICELAND AND LETTING BANKS FAIL
School dropouts made in the OECD: New evidence on trade and skill accumulation in emerging economies
Obama: Tax cut deal not perfect, but worth passage – Yahoo! News
Daniel Loeb Letter to Obama Supporters
China’s Inflation Fight May Widen as Growth Withstands Tightening …
Mark Madoff Commits Suicide on Anniversary of Father’s Arrest …
Do hedge funds do worse than the market?
Anonymous cyberwarriors stun experts
Holbrooke in critical condition
Elizabeth Edwards Laid to Rest in NC Funeral
Sweden reeling after ‘terror crimes’
Hezbollah threatens ‘new era for resistance’ unless Lebanon shuns Hariri tribunal
Even One Cigarette Can Prove Lethal, US Surgeon General Says