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After five years, 900,000+ words and a lot of interesting ideas this will be my last AOL post; a casualty of the Huffington Post deal. Chasing Value will live on somewhere else. In thinking of what to write about today, I thought it had to be a "best of" post so that I could leave readers with...

If you're looking for a few value stocks to start off the new year, consider these 10 picks. The theme is back to basics with a little something for everyone: energy, water, food, communications, household needs and the immediate cash to buy them.

When you run across a stock with a 16 percent yield you at least have to check out the story. Prospect Capital Corp (PSEC) is just such a company. Last week, PSEC declared its 20th consecutive increased dividend.
In sharing my adventures and opinions in the investment world I try very hard to be...

What's all the fuss about Citigroup (C) wanting to pay bonuses to top performers so that they don't abandon ship? Obviously you wouldn't want to lose employees that are bringing in big bucks. However, you don't need to take the money from the taxpayers for this.
The answer lies in the question....

In an interview with the Financial Times, James Hackett, chairman and chief executive of independent oil and gas company Anadarko Petroleum (APC) said, "Washington's energy and environmental policy risks plunging the United States into an economic tailspin that could make it the world's cleanest...

It's been funny over the the past week watching various analysts, gurus, journalists and economists weighing in on whether now is the time to get back in the stock market. With the Dow and S&P at a one-month high, the technical analysts are out in force combing their charts for patterns of...
From gold standard to no standards and inflation at the speed of light
11:30 AM 3/28/2009

In one of my previous posts, Is the stock market spring-loaded?, I coined the phrase Lightspeed Inflation in reference to the price pressures created by the breathtaking rate at which the government is now able to float new currency. It's time we stopped referring to the government's overspending...
Defending Jim Cramer: Don't take entertainers too seriously
12:00 PM 3/16/2009

If you have been following Wall Street news the past two weeks, you can't have missed Jon Stewart's trashing of CNBC, video clips and all. On Thursday, Stewart dragged James Cramer into the fray, showing various video clips of his blatantly bad calls.
Stewart has been roasting CNBC mercilessly and...

It was brought to my attention by a business associate, Howard Brown, CEO of CircleBuilder Software, that there is one city that rivals Detroit in resembling a ghost town as of late and that is Las Vegas. Howard's home base is in Michigan (I'm in California) and we converse frequently about the...
Court rules the government is short sighted
4:00 PM 5/21/2008
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On Tuesday an appeals Court ruled paper money discriminates against the blind. Since I'm quite sure paper money cannot take a position on the subject, clearly it was the U.S. Treasury that was at fault for its short sightedness. Having given the case a good look the appeals court refused to...
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