FeedPosted Feb 3rd 2010 4:40PM by Sheldon Liber (RSS feed)
Filed under: International Markets, Other Issues, Products and Services, Launches, Rants and Raves, Competitive Strategy, Microsoft (MSFT), Apple Inc (AAPL), Exxon Mobil (XOM), Market Matters, Next Big Thing, Technology
Shortly after the introduction of Apple, Inc.'s (AAPL) long anticipated iPad tablet computer I was quite surprised to receive an email from one of our more astute readers boldly stating "Game, set and match. See you at $300"
My immediate reaction was that this overly zealous stock trader and Apple enthusiast had let all reason escape his cranium. For me it reinforced how irrational investors are and how little they understand numbers. Apple stock will not reach $300 this year. Continue reading Apple $300 -- Not This Year!
Posted Jan 26th 2010 2:30PM by Sheldon Liber (RSS feed)
Filed under: Good news, Products and Services, Launches, Consumer Experience, Rants and Raves, Apple Inc (AAPL), Amazon.com (AMZN), Comic Relief

Tomorrow we are not going to see people landing on Mars, or North and South Korea unite, or the end of poverty and disease. However, the long awaited Apple (
AAPL) tablet computer will be unveiled and from all the excitement it has generated it might even be bigger news than that.
It seems every
one is anticipating that Apple's latest device will have the ability to balance the federal budget and eliminate the deficit. After all the hype anything less may disappoint.
Continue reading Rumored Apple Tablet Is Wowing Them Again
Posted Jan 3rd 2010 5:40PM by Sheldon Liber (RSS feed)
Filed under: Forecasts, Rants and Raves, Competitive Strategy, Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A), Indices, Getting Started, Sunday Funnies
A new year is upon us and like the beginnings of any year, and even more so, a decade, the predictions are flying fast and furious.
The start of 2010 is bringing out every analyst, talking head, business journalist, periodical and newsletter propagator, sportscaster, palm reader, taro card interpreter, astrologist, medium and madam making predictions to garner attention, entertain and even profit. Apologies to anyone I left out.
Continue reading Sunday Funnies: Predicting Nothing
Posted Dec 28th 2009 3:00PM by Sheldon Liber (RSS feed)
Filed under: International Markets, Bad News, Rants and Raves, Middle East, Scandals, Economic Data, Politics, Serious Money, Recession, Financial Crisis
Best wishes to all and, next to world peace among people, we should hope for the same among world markets.
I have let some time pass before commenting on a recent example of how fragile a world we live in. This past year through a time of greater economic danger, fear and volatility than most of us has experienced in a life time, many people cannot fathom how close we came to the edge of Hades.
Continue reading Serious Money: Dubai Vaporizes $48 Trillion
Posted Dec 24th 2009 11:00AM by Sheldon Liber (RSS feed)
Filed under: Forecasts, Consumer Experience, Rants and Raves, Competitive Strategy, Google (GOOG), Microsoft (MSFT), Yahoo! (YHOO), AOL (AOL)
AOL (AOL) has been independent from Time Warner (TWX) for two weeks and I have gotten used to the multiple logos. Probably of greater significance is that the the stock is trading at $24, just above where it ended in after hours trading its first day -- Yippee! (my loyalty prevents me from Yahoo!-ing).
Interestingly, the stock has not only been very stable in the last two weeks (to my surprise), but in examining the opportunities to trade various stock options there is very little anticipated volatility through July.
Continue reading AOL: Independent for Two Weeks and All's Well!
Posted Dec 14th 2009 1:11PM by Sheldon Liber (RSS feed)
Filed under: Forecasts, Rants and Raves, General Electric (GE), Wal-Mart (WMT), Home Depot (HD), Exxon Mobil (XOM), Market Matters, McDonald's (MCD), AT and T (T), Alcoa Inc (AA), Bank of America (BAC), Boeing Co (BA), Chevron Corp (CVX), Procter and Gamble (PG), Verizon Communications (VZ), Rich in America, Kraft Foods'A' (KFT), Serious Money, S and P 500, DJIA
After reading an unbelievable sell recommendation by one of my BloggingStocks colleagues, I didn't know whether to laugh or cry. In Thirteen Dow stocks that are doomed, we are informed that 13 of the 30 are going down and we should all bail out before it is too late.
I find this silly on many levels. For one, 13 stocks amount to a large-cap index fund and since large-cap stocks have lagged the market the probability that they will outperform going forward is real and has many investors promoting them.
Continue reading Serious Money: These Dow Dogs are not -- AA, T, BAC, BA ...
Posted Dec 11th 2009 1:20PM by Sheldon Liber (RSS feed)
Filed under: International Markets, Rants and Raves, Apple Inc (AAPL), Serious Money, Commodities, Stocks to Sell

If you're into Apple (
AAPL) or gold for the long term and you have been in for a long time you can stay put. If you are in them to make a quick buck, get out quickly!
Apple and gold are at all time highs. Yes, they may go higher, but not much and not soon.
The reason is that both Apple and gold (and probably golden apples) already include all the product info and inflation fears that could be. The next level is pure speculation. Do you want to speculate or invest? If the latter, invest elsewhere.
Continue reading Serious Money: Sell Apple, sell gold!
Posted Dec 10th 2009 4:30PM by Sheldon Liber (RSS feed)
Filed under: Other Issues, Good news, Press Releases, Products and Services, Management, Consumer Experience, Rants and Raves, Competitive Strategy, Marketing and Advertising, Next Big Thing, Money and Finance Today, Workspace, Media World, Headline News, AOL (AOL)

In the wee morning hours just prior to the market opening I had given some thought to shorting AOL Inc. (
AOL) on its first day as a newly independent company. Yes, that same company that owns Bloggingstocks.com and a multitude of other interesting Internet "content" icons (and some not yet so). However, I did not do it because it would have been too impulsive and that is rarely a good investment strategy.
I was stunned that we changed our logo. And we changed it to what seems like a team of logos instead of one. That seems bizarre to me if you're trying to build a brand. It is also ironic since we are planning on making money on advertising, and we will be muddling our own brand.
Continue reading AOL, I mean Aol, did not tank!
Posted Nov 17th 2009 3:20PM by Sheldon Liber (RSS feed)
Filed under: International Markets, Bad News, Rants and Raves, China, Employees, FedEx Corp (FDX), Headline News, Federal Reserve, Recession
The only thing that has been devalued faster than our precious dollar is the perpetual slide in government credibility. Over the years we have heard countless times about the importance of a strong dollar from our leaders.
"Our administration believes in and will do everything in its power to support a strong dollar" or something like this has been spewed out by Republicans and Democrats alike, yet there is little evidence that the policies put in place over the past century have done anything of the sort. Perhaps there was one person that took the heat and did the right thing -- Paul Volcker, during the Carter administration, who had to deal with dizzying inflation.
Continue reading Will Americans be working for Chinese wages?
Posted Nov 8th 2009 6:40PM by Sheldon Liber (RSS feed)
Filed under: Earnings Reports, Rants and Raves, Applied Materials (AMAT), Sunday Funnies
In this week's (November 9) Preview Section of Barron's (subscription required) I was surprised to find that on Wednesday (11/9) it is noted that Computer Sciences (CSC), Applied Materials (AMAT), and Macy's (M) reported "profits." How do they know this?
On other days they refer to the "earnings" of various companies reporting. Perhaps I am splitting hairs, perhaps it is editorial haste (like you might find on our site), or perhaps there is no difference in some people's minds? From my perspective there is a difference between earnings and profits. Every quarter, public companies report their earnings. They do not always report a profit.
Continue reading Sunday Funnies: Barron's predicting profits?
Posted Nov 4th 2009 2:40PM by Sheldon Liber (RSS feed)
Filed under: Good news, Management, Rants and Raves, Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A), Serious Money, Headline News, Burlington Northern Santa Fe (BNI), Best Stocks for 2009

Yesterday it was announced very loudly that
"my pal Warren" was
going to acquire the 77.4% of the
Burlington Northern Santa Fe (NYSE:
BNI) railroad, that Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A) does not already own, for $100 per share, offering about a $24 premium to Mondays closing price.
Talk about putting your money where your mouth is --
yikes! Buffett has gone all in, betting the economy is healing, and silencing anyone that questioned his integrity or motives for cautious optimism saying it was all talk!
Continue reading Serious Money: Questions as Buffett's money & mouth converge on BNI
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