Do you know of any good quality stocks who have 1) high yields (that are not in jeopardy of having dividend cuts) and/or 2) are trading below book value?
My choices would be:
COP Conoco Phillips
NOC Northrop Grumman
TRV Travelers Co.
TYC Tyco
you didn’t mention it but these all also have debt to equity levels below 30%.
do your homework, good luck!
Say, i have two-three friends willing to give me their money to trade stocks-options-futures for them. Should i open a corporate trading account for that or i may use my personal account? Where can i read about that? Is there any law/act regulating that kind of activity in US?
In many States, if you charge a fee for the service, you must be licensed.
Just to keep your hands clean,:
You’d best open a separate account for the purpose, and keep
good records of who contributes what and when.
Get letters of agreement specifying what you are going to do, how you
intend to share any profits, and that they are aware of the risks involved.
(You do know that futures & options open you to risks greater than the
amount of your investment right?)
how would you summarize this:
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WASHINGTON, Oct 21 (Reuters) – Democrats in the U.S. Congress moved on Wednesday to repeal the health insurance industry’s exemption from antitrust laws, cranking up the pressure in a growing battle over President Barack Obama’s hhealth carereform plans.
The moves were the latest chapter in an escalating feud between the industry and backers of sweeping hhealth carereform that would tighten regulations and create a government-run public insurance option to compete with private insurers.
The fight intensified after an industry lobbying group issued a report saying the hhealth carereform plan under consideration in Congress would raise insurance premiums, which sparked protests from Democrats and the White House.
"It’s time to level the playing field for American hhealth careconsumers and make the insurance industry play by the same rules that other industries live by," Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid said.
Proposals in the Senate and House of Representatives would repeal or refine the antitrust exemption granted the industry in 1945. Supporters said the exemption limited competition in an industry where one or two companies often dominate a state insurance market.
"It’s a different universe today than it was in 1945, and this exemption is antiquated, out-of-date, and doesn’t belong," Democratic Senator Charles Schumer said.
Senate Democratic leaders said they would offer their proposal to repeal the exemption as an amendment to a sweeping bill to overhaul the U.S. hhealth caresystem when it hits the Senate floor in the next few weeks.
The House of Representatives Judiciary Committee passed a plan to limit the exemption and make health and medical malpractice insurance companies subject to laws on price-fixing and market allocation.
House Democratic leaders said it would be folded into a hhealth carereform bill that is nearly ready for floor debate.
The trade group representing the industry, America’s Health Insurance Plans, said in a letter to House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers that the proposals "attempt to remedy a problem that does not exist."
"We believe that health insurers have not been engaging in anti-competitive conduct," Chief Executive Karen Ignagni said.
Obama has made his top domestic priority a hhealth careoverhaul that reins in costs, regulates the insurance market and expands coverage, and the insurance industry has stepped up its opposition to the emerging legislation.
Opinion polls show the public is divided on his hhealth careplans, including the public insurance option backed by Obama and liberals as a way to increase competition but derided by critics as a big-government takeover.
A USA Today/Gallup poll released on Wednesday found 50 percent backed a public option and 46 percent opposed it, but a CNN poll found 61 percent supported an insurance option administered by the government and 38 percent opposed.
HOUSE CLOSE TO DECISION
Democratic House leaders, who have been meeting for weeks to merge three hhealth carebills into one, are close to making final decisions on a plan that could include the most liberal version of a government-run public insurance option.
Democrats were conducting a head count to gauge whether a bill that includes the strong version of a public option preferred by House liberals had the 218 votes needed to pass.
"We will have a bill passed well before Thanksgiving," House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told reporters on Wednesday. House Democrats planned a Thursday morning meeting on hhealth care
The inclusion of the strongest possible government-run public insurance option in the House bill could force a confrontation with the Senate, where the public option has less support and is less certain to be included in a final bill.
Senate Democratic leaders are merging two bills, but only one of the proposals includes the government-run plan. The negotiators discussed the public option and other items in a 90-minute meeting on Wednesday night with no decisions made.
"It’s got to marinate and percolate a little bit. The yeast has got to rise still," Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus said after the meeting.
Pelosi said on Tuesday that preliminary Congressional Budget Office estimates indicated all three versions of a public option would reduce the budget deficit over 10 years and at least two of the three would come in below $900 billion.
On a related measure, Senate Democratic leaders dropped a proposal to scrap the current Medicare payment system for doctors after the bill failed to gain enough votes to clear a procedural hurdle.
Republicans and a number of Democrats opposed a proposal to boost doctors’ payments under Medicare, the health program for the elderly, by $250 billion over 10 years. Opponents were concerned the measure would add to a reco
dee da dee didn’t work. tried that, i tried "this is stupid" i tried "i don’t care" but none of those work!
heck, i even tried Chuck Norris! that didn’t work for some strange reason!
i tried asking questions these questions so many places but no help.
Why are you posting this on R&S? Ask someone on Government and Politics.
I have 3 trading accounts…the Tradeking account is easy…they have a Schedule D all filled out.
My other options account is simple because I started it in November of 07 and I can manually fill out a Schedule D.
Can I send Several Schedule D’s: one for TradeKing and another Schedule D for another brokerage account?
Now, my (former) day-trading account is complicated because I did thousands of transaction…I have the 1099 B, which lists the stock description, date, and NET PROCEEDS….but my Net proceeds come out to $88 million! and I am at a loss for the year so, it is not showing the net debit.
And this leaves me with my day trading account to deal with. I am just tempted to send the IRS all the broker-sent transactions on the 1099 (or even all the +150 pages of the actual transactions) and write a note saying I am at a loss for the year.
Will this idea work?
I have a similar idea, but this one WLL work:
In my tax software on the Schedule D, there is a line that says "Is a statement with stock sale detail being attached instead of entering detail?" "If yes, Form 8453 is required to be mailed to IRS when electronically filing."
That, my friend, is your solution!
I had tons of options, too, but just sucked it up. I sent it in early – if I did it again, I would just send in Form 8453 and call it a day! Otherwise it is WAY too much trouble and WAY too time-consuming! (As you know!)
Here is a PDF of the Form AND the instructions.
http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f8453.pdf
Regards!
Even though the world’s economy is gradually decreasing, private college costs are off the roof and the college dropout rate is increasing at a disappointing rate, a students needs should be considered before his/her merits. Not every student chooses to go into the medicine field, or the engineering field, but he/she chooses to go towards his/her dream. Even the smallest of change can have a huge impact.
The current world’s economy is at a staggering development. The rich are getting richer, and the poorer are getting no where. Bright and intelligent students may take birth into a rich, poor or a middle class family. No one controls the circle of birth and death. Some children, who are born in the slums of a detoriating enviornment, seem to be the brightest minds present in our world. An average student should not be turned down for scholarships just because of his/her academic standing, they should be given a chance to show their change.
Because of the global economy problems, attending college is only getting much more expensive. Students who choose to pursue their dreams are getting held back by not being able to afford college. Not only because of the high student interest loans, but also because of the government not investing enough money in the education department causes the students to pursue a "$7/hour" job, and wind themselves working in that "part-time job" for over two decades. Students who come from middle or poor class homes finish high school hoping to make a difference in the world, but their dreams are crushed when they find out they won’t be able to afford the tuition.
When students are rewarded on something they worked hard for, the reward, no matter how big or small, encourages them to pursue on further. They want to gain their status, earn more rewards, and work hard. A great man also once said, "If its not worth fighting for, its not worth gaining". Students push themselves to a whole new level. College dropout rates are high, not because of the work, but because of the weak effort inputed by the student itself. Students who want to succeed can and will succeed, but students who find themselves in situations where they aren’t happy, dropout.
Having support is what students all over the world need, they understand the bad economy, and this is exactly why they should be given an oppurtunity, to make a difference. Federal Loans can allow the students to pursue their dreams, and to improve the world.
Feel free to criticize.
Excerpt:
With the rising cost of education in the form of college tuition,
training courses and vocational programs, the competition for
scholarships and financial aid is rapidly increasing. Many college
financial aid offices are assisting students from historically high
income brackets. Furthermore, scholarship programs are seeing
unprecedented levels of interested applicants. The challenge
facing these institutions is whether to award aid based on how
accomplished the applicant is or how difficult it will be for the
student to afford the education.
Assignment:
Is it better to financially reward individuals like students and
employees based on how much merit the individual demonstrates
instead of how much need the individual has? Plan and write an
essay in which you develop your point of view on this issue. Support
your position with reasoning and examples taken from your reading,
studies, experience, or observations.
What was the original question? It seems a bit too precise to be an SAT essay. Anyways. I would give it a 4 or possibly a 5 on the SAT scale because you focused on a minute topic and didn’t relate it back to a broad theme. Also, maybe it’s just me but I found your continuous use of his/her to be a bit distracting, almost informal as well. I was a bit confused by this statement as well.
An average student should not be turned down for scholarships just because of his/her academic standing, they should be given a chance to show their change.
Also if you use a quote it’s good to know it’s source instead of a "great man."
Anyways it’s a pretty good essay, but the only other thing is that it’s very persuasive and calls for action. SAT essay generally just want you to support a theme, and if that involves calling for action then that is fine.
Nice job and good luck!
This question is asked sincerely by a lifelong enviro. A supporter of Al Gore. But this bill appears to have been written by the coal companies based on 25 year old ideas, many of which were accepted by G.W. Bush the Moron President.
The whole idea of the market based solution — the cap and trade solution — making a market in pollution permits — maybe having them brokered through a firm like Enron — which I think did actually broker some of these permits for a while — that idea is 25 years old. It is not change. It’s just slapdash legislation based on making the old dregs by bygone ideas look like a new bill by updating the year and putting a new cover on it. It’s like the old news that CBS, NBC, and ABC purvey — stuff from a few weeks ago — offered today as your "news".
Nobody in America is willing to do any part of their job anymore. It’s a nation of AWOL officials and AWOL staffers and AWOL employees.
If they wanted a real climate bill, they would have included funding for the hydrogen technology. Ways to electrolytically dissociate water efficiently. Ways to store hydrogen efficiently. Ways to burn hydrogen in fuel cells, or in turbines (possibly combined with methane to make hythane (R).
There would have been a huge push for the sorts of thing T. Boone Pickens is recommending. Natural gas powered trains would have been in the mix — and transcontinental tracks for same on the median strips of East West Highways.
Geothermal would have played a huge role. It is a very rich power source in some places, always on, not like solar or wind. Hawaii could power all seaborne freight in the Pacific with Geothermal based Hydrogen Fuel Cell Gas.
Tidal Hydro would have been in the bill.
Micro-scale wind generators (egg-beater style) would have beeb there.
The National Energy Spine (super efficient cable from coast to coast) would have been there. This creates conservation by allowing energy to be wheeled from coast to coast so peak loads can be met with cheap energy on both coasts.
Instead we get the ancient mantra "Let’s find a market based solution (that way G.W. Bush The Moron President, and the Republicans can be happy). No breakthroughs please! No movement away from fossil fuels, and certainly no less coal or oil! We’ll just do this with financial manipulations, sort of Enron style, with pollution permits, create a playground for the K Street lobbyists, make it look like we are doing something because what we do is so complicated administratively.That way we can do nothing — and nobody will know.
With or without cap and trade the carbon footprint of the energy plants was bound to be legislatively reduced in future years. Cap and trade just bring Federal Pre-emption and knocks out the states ability to legislate on this matter. It’s a form of state legal dis-ablement. It’s a form of permission to just keep on keeping on — more of the same.
The climate bill looks like a 100% perfect fraud, from the gitgo. Mr. Axelrod thinks it has a fairly good chance in the Senate because of the writing changes that were made at the last minute in the House, and on this he’s probably right. Coal can see when it has a good deal. The whole issue now will be off the table for the next 10 or 15 years, and there are 10,000 ways that the "caps" can be removed or made more lenient, triggered by all sorts of extremely complex micro-pico-nano regulations that only the coal companies have time to figure out and understand and know how to lobby with. They can get out of the caps. They get a vacation for 15 years. They get out from under state laws. Whee ! … this pollution stuff is easy!
All politicians are politicians. Nature is always Nature. So the Canute story is always apt. The vanity and the lies and the fraud never actually trumps nature, so you can count of on the climate to keep warming up and the CO2 levels to keep going up and the sea level and storm damage to keep going up. If we truly wish to stop being a hypocrite nation, we’ve got to get rid of all politicians. Put a truly independent agency in charge of climate change mitigation — something like the Federal Reserve or the FCC or the NRC — it’s got to be able to make and implement rules smoothly and quickly. It’s got to be run by Chairmen with long terms of office, at least 10 years, 15 would be better. The Chairman has to be mission focused, not politics focused. If can’t get around the Canute Problem (The problem that wise King Canute taught his ministers about based upon knowing that Politics never trumps Nature)., we can’t deal with the climate change issue. This new bill, is just more hot air. Maybe you can find something in it and tell me about what you think is there. Anyhow that’s my question, asked by a true blue enviro, an AlGorista (with rhythm, hence an algorhythm, I’m a poet, I know it, float like a butterfly effect, sting like a karma-effect).
For Dana the Master of Science — I know that H2 is not a mobile source fuel and never will be. For fixed point fuel cells, no problem, especially if mixed as Hythane (H2 + CH4). Here is Gao Bwo Fu, Doctus Juris, Magister Plutus to tell you read my book, "Cost-Effective Ways to Comply with the New Clean Air Act", or my articles published by Herald-Mail.
H2 is not a fuel for mobile sources, but it’s fine for fixed point sources. If you want conversation why do you block all e-mail so I have to use this question extension to answer you? You can reach me by e-mail real easily, master of science (and where is your 600 page book on the subject of hydrogen burning — cause mine is in the libraries). Never smarty-pants a smarty-pants.
Scepticism is next to Godlicism. I know it.
This science-thinker atheist says, "Bless you, keep those good questions coming!"
Yes. For example, it will help increase fuel efficiency by 25% by 2020.
http://switchboard.nrdc.org/blogs/paltman/americans_save_on_fuel_bills_u.html
It requires that utilities produce 20% of their energy from renewable sources and increased efficiency by 2020.
It invests $90 billion in energy efficiency and renewable energy by 2025.
It establishes new standards for building efficiency, requiring new buildings to be 30% more efficient in 2012 and 50% more efficient in 2016.
It directs EPA and the State Department to use 5% of the allowances to secure agreements from developing nations to prevent tropical deforestation.
It’s certainly not a perfect bill, but it’s pretty good, and it’s the best we’re going to get in the forseeable future. Plus it’s much better to have a framework in place which we can improve upon in the future than to have nothing at all.
See the link below for a useful summary.
It’s better to be paralyzed from the neck down, than to be paralyzed from the neck up…
Dr. Charles Krauthammer
Dr.. Krauthammer is on Fox News. He is an M.D. and a lawyer and is paralyzed from the neck down. A friend went to hear Charles Krauthammer. He listened with 25 others in a closed room. What he says here, is NOT 2nd-hand but 1st. The ramifications are staggering for us, our children and their children.
Last Monday was a profound evening, Dr.. Charles Krauthammer spoke to the Center for the American Experiment. He is a brilliant intellectual, seasoned & articulate. He is forthright and careful in his analysis, and never resorts to emotions or personal insults. He is NOT a fear monger nor an extremist in his comments and views. He is a fiscal conservative, and has received a Pulitzer Prize for writing. He is a frequent contributor to Fox News and writes weekly for the Washington Post.
The entire room was held spellbound during his talk. I have summarized his comments, as we are living in uncharted waters economically and internationally.
Even 2 Dems at my table agreed with everything he said! If you feel like forwarding this to those who are open minded and have not drunk the Kool-Aid, feel free.
Summary of his comments:
1. Mr. Obama is a very intellectual, charming individual. He is not to be underestimated. He is a cool customer who doesn’t show his emotions. It’s very hard to know what’s behind the mask. The taking down of the Clinton dynasty was an amazing accomplishment. The Clintons still do not understand what hit them. Obama was in the perfect place at the perfect time.
2. Obama has political skills comparable to Reagan and Clinton. He has a way of making you think he’s on your side, agreeing with your position, while doing the opposite. Pay no attention to what he SAYS; rather, watch what he DOES!
3. Obama has a ruthless quest for power. He did not come to Washington to make something out of himself, but rather to change everything, including dismantling capitalism. He can’t be straightforward on his ambitions, as the public would not go along.
He has a heavy hand, and wants to level the playing field with income redistribution and punishment to the achievers of society. He would like to model the USA to Great Britain or Canada .
4. His three main goals are to control ENERGY, PUBLIC EDUCATION, and NATIONAL HEALTHCARE by the Federal government. He doesn’t care about the auto or financial services industries, but got them as an early bonus. The cap and trade will add costs to everything and stifle growth. Paying for FREE college education is his goal. Most scary is his healthcare program, because if you make it FREE and add 46,000,000 people to a Medicare-type single-payer system, the costs will go through the roof. The only way to control costs is with massive RATIONING of services, like in Canada . God forbid!
5. He has surrounded himself with mostly far-left academic types. No one around him has ever even run a candy store. But they are going to try and run the auto, financial, banking and other industries. This obviously can’t work in the long run. Obama is not a socialist; rather he’s a far-left secular progressive bent on nothing short of revolution. He ran as a moderate, but will govern from the hard left. Again, watch what he does, not what he says.
6. Obama doesn’t really see himself as President of the United States , but more as a ruler over the world. He sees himself above it all, trying to orchestrate & coordinate various countries and their
agendas. He sees moral equivalency in all cultures. His apology tour in Germany and England was a prime example of how he sees America , as an imperialist nation that has been arrogant, rather than a great noble nation that has at times made errors. This is the first President ever who has chastised our allies and appeased our enemies!
7. He is now handing out goodies. He hopes that the bill (and pain) will not come due until after he is reelected in 2012. He would like to blame all problems on Bush from the past, and hopefully his successor in the future. He has a huge ego, and Dr. Krauthammer believes he is a narcissist.
8. Republicans are in the wilderness for a while, but will emerge strong. Republicans are pining for another Reagan, but there will never be another like him. Krauthammer believes Mitt Romney, Tim Pawlenty & Bobby Jindahl (except for his terrible speech in February) are the future of the party. Newt Gingrich is brilliant, but has baggage.. Sarah Palin is sincere and intelligent, but needs to really be seriously boning up on facts and info if she is to be a serious candidate in the future… We need to return to the party of lower taxes, smaller gov
I could have told exactly who he was by the company he keeps, his college records sealed so we can’t see his radical writings and his apology tour says exactly what his wife said she was never proud to be an american until the day her husband was elected, another words obama hated what america stood for so he said sorry, i blame the media for hiding everything that would have showed us his real colors, and the democrats for going along with a radical leftists, the best thing that could come out of this is America never trusting a liberal again and doing extensive research into peoples back-rounds
Was it all smoke and mirrors to pacify the angry public?
I don’t see the media fully reporting this issue..
On the one hand, they agreed to further regulation of the financial system to supposedly prevent Wall Street types from creating this kind of crisis in future,
yet … THE ABSURDITY OF IT is ….
they also specifically affirmed commit to and agreed to complete the World Trade Organization Doha Round, which mandates FURTHER DE-REGULATION of the kind that allowed the Wall Street bankers to run the ponzi scheme that create the mess in the first place.
See paragraph 23 of the G20 Communique
"23. We remain committed to reaching an ambitious and balanced conclusion to the Doha Development Round, which is urgently needed."
Why isn’t the media reporting this obvious contradiction?
The whole thing is now looking false.. They are scared that the world is about to rebel. Yes the Doha round is still in place and deregulation is the issue.. They must think we are fools. The sooner we kick them out the better.
I am wanting to play around with trading stocks, but I don’t want to put alot of money into it. Ive checked into scottrade and the minimum account balance is $500. Is there anywhere out there that caters to people like me?
I use sharebuilder.. I started with 100 bucks. and now im trading with 1000-2000 bucks. I suggest penny stocks 
By the way.. the more money you put into it.. the more money comes out of it.. don’t bother trading with 100 bucks.. trust me.. its hard to break even when your not trading with any money… with 1000 bucks you can make 100 bucks a day..
ALSO – Sharebuilder works just find for me. I’m a daytrader and I am making alot of money using this website.. If you take a YEAR to learn how to trade stocks, you will be wasting lots of time that you could be making money. Look up daytrading.. Read the basics.. Take your 100 bucks and practice for a month.. when you feel comfortable trading with more.. go ahead..
i want to know 2 things (but essentially 5 questions 
)
1. when was the first price ceiling/floor put into effect?
1.1 what did it effect? (i.e. option, stock’s …)
1.2 was it first put into effect as a rule of certain trading house’s, then latter adopted as state or federal laws?
2 who was responsible for the rule/law?
2.1 was there book’s that initiated the idea, or was it mathematicians ?
13 minutes ago – 4 days left to answer.
(im interested in the america trading sector EG 1850+) hence the Reference to the stock’s and options
if you cant anser in detail and seriously don’t anser please
In Babylon. You’d think people would learn something after 4000 years of failure.