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Friday, October 29, 2004
Tech Central Station - John Kerry's 19 Year Attack on Investors

TCS: Tech Central Station - John Kerry's 19 Year Attack on Investors:

For 19 years, on double taxation of dividends, on capital gains tax reductions, on Individual Retirement Accounts, on free trade, and on tort reform, Kerry has been on the side opposite the small investor.

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Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. --Pablo Picasso


Monday, October 25, 2004
Look Out Above

Larry Kudlow: Look Out Above:

"Investment strategy beauty from our friend Donald Luskin. He talks about a “bubble of fear” that has boosted oil and bashed stock-market price earnings multiples. Post-election, Don looks for a 20% stock rally. I basically agree."

[Via Kudlow's Money Politic$]

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Ready tears are a sign of treachery, not of grief. --Publilius Syrus


Friday, September 24, 2004
Get The Picture On Social Security

In a publication titled 'The Outlook for Social Security', the Congressional Budget Office placed a graphic at the very start of the report that really crystalized the whole debate to me.

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Outlays exceed expenditures as of 2015. The above article, together with a later report titled 'How Pension Financing Affects Returns to Different Generations', are a great primer for people interested in finding some fact, understanding the issues,...and making damn sure they make their maximum 401k and 403b contributions each and every year.

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There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it's only a hundred billion. It's less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers. --Richard Feynman