Author: Andrew Horowitz

Unions Continue to Kill U.S. Manufacturing

American Axle strike could be prolonged – UPI.com
American Axel made a profit of $37 million last year and wants to cut its wage and benefits package to a total of $20 to $30 per hour. They are currently paying $70 per hour, the News reported.

Is that right? $70 per...

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China Sex Problems – 1960’s Culture

Does this mean that China is now where America was in the 1960’s? Think about it for a minute. They are feeling the industrial revolution in full swing and have a new outlook on their lives. Where is Jefferson Airplane in all of this?

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TDI Episode 46: The Premiere of FusionIQ

Guest: Barry Ritholtz brings us FusionIQ – an amazing stock selection system and powerful tool for research. FusionIQ decisively changes the game by bringing pro-tools to the investment public – this is not your ordinary stock screener.

– Stocks Discussed in the Episode: (SAFM) (FNM) (FRE) (MSFT) (AAPL) –

Mixing a...

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Jargon, People and Company Update- 2008

Jargon and other interesting phrases that we may soon  find showing up in conversations … Don’t laugh because it really isn’t funny !

Terms
Pizza Inflation
Single-Family Refrigerator Box
Extended Family Dwellings
Right-Wing Terrorism
Florida Condo Swamps
ARM-LEG-BODY Mortgage
No-Fault Foreclosures
Darwin‘s Theory of Econolution
Maximum Wage
Crash Landing
The...

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Fannie and Freddie: Burnt Offerings

There is creativity and then there is desperation. The real question these days is finding that fine line and recognizing the difference.

The FED and the financial powers has thus far been classified as creative in their “handling” of the credit crisis. Yesterday, during a very exciting (?) testimony from...

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