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Sugary beverages such as soda became public enemy number one for public health activists (known to critics as the food police) in 2010. That has led to a call to levy special taxes on the...
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It’s no accident that the investing scene in renewable energy stocks resembles the boom-and-bust cycle familiar to hard-rock mining. When the stuff is scarce, a new discovery can get rich. When the...
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Green Mountain Coffee Roasters Inc. (NASDAQ: GMCR) is seeing a bear raid after its earnings. It is one of those bear raids that is for good reason. Shares had recovered from the post-disclosure...
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The tax bill negotiated between President Obama and Republican legislators reportedly contains an extension to the various government supports for ethanol producers. The Renewable Fuels Association...
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To make the cut onto the S&P Dividend Aristocrats Index, a company has to have paid a dividend every year for at least 25 consecutive years. The index includes at least 40 stocks and it is...
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Senator Tom Coburn of Oklahoma told the FT that new tax cuts, an extension of Bush programs, will send the capital markets a simple message: America does not care about its deficit. Americans only...
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General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE) is often hard to evaluate but if any unit will rule the roost, that is arguably GE Capital. This continued improvement was part of our thesis when we named GE as one...
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It was back in January, nearly a year ago, after the Congressional Budget Office released its 2010 budget when we called for the U.S. to adopt a Deficit Manifesto. This called for lawmakers to...
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Insider selling by millionaire and billionaire corporate insiders is already rising, but it is about to go through the roof. Forget the politics and forget the morale left behind as a result, and...
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The current Congress does not have much time to do anything before members go home. Some of them will never return. Americans, though, still want Congress to come up with solutions to the...
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Most of the attention paid to the sovereign debt crisis in Europe, currently highlighted by trouble with Ireland, is about sharp cost cuts, higher retirement ages, and new taxes. The collection of...
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Pot is still not going to be legal in California for recreational use. PROP 19 failed to win enough votes on a low voter turnout and California will not have to worry about whether the taxes will...
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In what is surely one of the strangest stories to come out of the election, a Republican member of Congress says that some of her elderly constituents are so worried about their families being...
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It is hard to argue against the thought that Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) is one of the hottest growth stocks with great share performance and great brand loyalty. Its shares closed out 2009 at...
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Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) disclosed many things in the 2010 Annual Report filing last night. The most important was the warning about its gross margin coming in lower for the next quarter at about...
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