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March 22, 2012
 

Keynesian Economics Meets Darth Vader

Zero Hedge stumbles on the answer as to how to boost U.S. GDP beyond 3% with a massive project to build the Imperial Death Star. A project that inflates the debt beyond all comprehension and incorporates extremely hostile foreign policy is sure to draw praise from both parties.

Cost = $852 quadrillion give or take

Cool factor = Unlimited

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Original post from Zero Hedge

Filed under  //   GDP   Keynesian   Star Wars   Zero Hedge   economics  
Posted by Clark Schultz 
March 21, 2012
 

Epic Fail: Portfolio Managers Can't Beat Benchmarks (again)

Random number generation? A striking report from S&P tips off that not only did 84% of actively managed funds fail to beat their benchmarks in 2011's tricky market, but less than 50% of portfolio managers outperformed even over a five year tracking period. Even the best of the lot struggle, with only 12.2% of the large-cap funds ranked in the top quartile five years ago managing to maintain a spot in the upper 25% five years later. "There's no evidence of persistence of performance beyond what would be randomly expected," says Buckingham Asset's Larry Swedroe.

via Barron's and Seeking Alpha

 

Filed under  //   Stocks   investing   portfolio managers  
Posted by Clark Schultz 
March 9, 2012
 

Pinterest Sets the Internet World on Fire

Internet hotshot Pinterest blows past Twitter and closes in on Bing in a ranking of the websites that produces the most referral traffic. The visually striking manner of presenting user photos prompted Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg to "like" the Friendsheet app that aims to produce the same results on the social networking site. (Related: Why Google should buy Pinterest)

via Seeking Alpha Market Currents

Filed under  //   Seeking Alpha   clayton   facebook   google   pinterest   st louis   twitter  
Posted by Clark Schultz 
February 28, 2012
 

Internet Wars: St. Louis vs. Kansas City

Kansas City appears set to easily beat St. Louis in one important category - fastest Internet speeds. The city was selected by Google as a site for an experimental broadband network infrastructure using fiber optic communication, with a launch date set for sometime in 2012.

According to Google:

We plan to build an ultra high-speed broadband network in Kansas City on both sides of the river. Our network will deliver Internet speeds of up to 1 gigabit (or 1,000 megabits) per second. That's more than 100 times faster than what most Americans have access to today

So Kansas City will soon be flying around the Internet at the same speeds currently seen in Asia and Europe, while most of the rest of the U.S. (including St. Louis) trods along.

From the BBC:

The average broadband internet speed across the US is 12.84 Mbps, according to Netindex.com. That makes the US 31st in the world (the UK is 32nd with 12.4 Mbps speed).

Filed under  //   Internet   Kansas City   Missouri   Saint Louis   St. Louis   google  
Posted by Clark Schultz 
February 10, 2012
 

Income Redux: Dividend Stocks vs. Savings Accounts

A quick peek at the widening yield spread between a basket of diversified high-yielding multinational stocks and the best savings account rates:

 

Dividend Stock Portfolio (4.04% yield)

Southern Copper (SCCO) 6.98%

Eli Lilly (LLY) 4.96%

Total (TOT) 4.90%

Merck (MRK) 4.48%

Kimberly-Clark (KMB) 4.14%

Waste Management (WM) 4.03%

Vodafone (VOD) 3.80%

Intel (INTC) 3.37%

Chevron (CVX) 3.12%

Coca-Cola (KO) 2.94%

McDonald's (MCD) 2.90%

Microsoft (MSFT) 2.75%

 

Source: Seekingalpha.com

 

Savings Portfolio (1.27% yield)

Savings Account 1.01%

Money Market Account 0.90%

1-year CD 1.15%

2-year CD 1.25%

3-year CD 1.48%

5-year CD 1.85%

 

Source: MoneyRates.com, RateBrain.com, SavingsAccounts.com, Interest.com

 

Filed under  //   Chevron   Dividends   Eli Lilly   Income   Intel   McDonald's   Merck   Microsoft   MoneyRates.com   RateBrain.com   Savings   investing   savingsaccounts.com  
Posted by Clark Schultz 
January 28, 2012
 

Facebook vs. Mickey D's

The buzz: At the $100B market cap price tag, do you take Mickey D's ($MCD) or $FB? 2.8% yield & Happy Meals vs. tech darling.

Analysis at Seeking Alpha....

Filed under  //   IPOs   McDonald's   Seeking Alpha   Stocks   Tech IPOs   facebook  
Posted by Clark Schultz