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The Bankruptcy Rumor Mill Heads Toward AMR (AMR, EK, BAC)

Posted: October 3, 2011 at 12:39 pm

AMR Corporation (NYSE: AMR) is in trouble.  That is at least what the rumor mill is trying to signal.  What may seem like aggressive reporting over the weekend has added fuel ...
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Europe Hits Struggling Airlines With Carbon Tax (AMR, UAL, DAL)

Posted: September 28, 2011 at 10:57 am

The European Union plans to initiate a plan next year that would force any major airline that flies to a European destination to participate in the European cap-and-trade system designed ...
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E.U. Financial Transaction Tax: Stupid Idea From Stupid Leadership

Posted: September 28, 2011 at 10:27 am

If you can count on the Europeans to invent one thing, it is the invention of taxation.  The latest effort by the European Commission is one that is just baffling if ...
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Android Just Got More Expensive: Microsoft Cuts Samsung Deal

Posted: September 28, 2011 at 8:49 am

One of the attractions of Google's (NASDAQ: GOOG) Android operating system is that it is open source. That makes it free to use for manufacturers. That advantages has begun to ...
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When Feds Raid Your Life Insurance Policy Buyer (IFT)

Posted: September 28, 2011 at 8:44 am

Imperial Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: IFT) is a company that many have never heard of, but the company is in the news in a manner it probably never wanted to be.  ...
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SEC Seeks To Change Market Circuit Breakers

Posted: September 27, 2011 at 3:43 pm

The Securities and Exchange Commission has announced that the national securities exchanges and FINRA are filing proposals in a move to revise the current stock market circuit breakers in an ...
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Patent Wars Cost Society $500 Billion (AAPL, GOOG, RIMM, SSNLF, SNE, ERIC, NOK, MMI, EK, RMBS, ACTG, IDCC, TSRA, WILN)

Posted: September 21, 2011 at 10:23 am

When news hits the street of another patent lawsuit, the characteristic reaction of some investors is to dump the defendant's stock as quickly as possible. Those sales inevitably depress the ...
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Wind Power… Blowing Again (AMSC, ED, GE)

Posted: September 19, 2011 at 10:51 am

The wind power industry has taken something of a back seat to the solar PV makers in the last few months. News of bankruptcies, missed earnings targets, and collapsing prices ...
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In the Pursuit of Wealth Destruction, Muni Bond Tax Seems Unlikely

Posted: September 15, 2011 at 3:29 pm

The American Jobs Act is a bill which is supposed to be "fully paid for."  It isn't.  In the attack on wealth at all costs, the measure to tax ...
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Tech Patent Wars Escalate as Google Buys from IBM

Posted: September 15, 2011 at 6:29 am

The borrow-a-patent, rent-a-patent, buy-a-patent industry is growing by the day. Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) just bought 1,023 patents from IBM (NYSE: IBM). The big hardware company will hardly miss them. It ...
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A New Age of Patent Lending

Posted: September 8, 2011 at 6:26 am

Asia-based smartphone company HTC is locked in several patent battles with Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL). Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) has offered aid to HTC by “loaning” it patents that should help counter ...
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GE Gets Wrapped Up in FHFA Litigation With Banks (GE)

Posted: September 7, 2011 at 8:36 am

It is not just the banks getting wrapped up in this latest FHFA litigation notice.  General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE) has issued a release this morning showing that it ...
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T-Mobile Merger Not Dead Yet (T, DTEGY, S, VZ, VOD, LEAP, PCS)

Posted: September 1, 2011 at 9:02 am

Yesterday's filing by the US Department of Justice in the proposed $39 billion merger between AT&T (NYST: T) and T-Mobile may be, in the words of Winston Churchill, just "the ...
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Lawyers, Smartphones, and Money (AAPL, GOOG, NOK, SSNLF, HTCKF, MMI)

Posted: August 29, 2011 at 8:12 am

During the Cold War, the US and the Soviet Union built enormous stockpiles of nuclear weapons that could have wiped out each other -- along with everyone -- else on ...
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The New Gold Scare… Gold Scams!

Posted: August 24, 2011 at 11:06 am

If you are a goldbug or if you believe gold is a bubble, one thing is for certain... Investors have to be careful to avoid pitfalls, and the biggest fear ...
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