Please! if people receiving social assistance were prevented from playing Lotteries, the lottery system would collapse - how hypocritical it is to take a moral stance by governments who have to resort to lotteries to compensate for their mismanagement of their states.

Just another example of those with vested interests attempting to convince (or dupe) the public in believing there's a way to predict which investments will rise, and when they'll rise. The markets will provide the returns over time based on risk/return relationships - not Wall Street firms and publications using specu...more

"Matt, how can you be so glib?"

The worst part is that these are pre-tax returns - when you consider taxes (for taxable accts), the underperformance is even worse due to the excessive trading (approx. 2-4% per year).

The point not mentioned is that the 1/3 of the actively managed funds which outperformed their benchmarks are statistically unlikey to repeat the outperformance in the following year making longer-term numbers even more disheartening.  Investors would find appeal in the "passive" investment strategy if there were only ...more

DRUG TEST?

DRUG TEST?

Millions have been made on the short selling of Netflix and those investors continue to circulate speculative information to try and beat down the price - hold on to Netflix if you own it, the upside is tremendous and those same short sellers will flip their stories.

I can only speculate on how  much of the income used to purchase the shoes is directly derived from the U.S. and state governments in the form of welfare and subsistence payments - in other words, we are all indirectly paying for these ridiculous shoes - what ever happened to just plain ol Chuck Taylors.