Monthly Archives: December 2014

Facebook Down As It Addresses Security

Facebook Inc.(NASDAQ:FB) has partnered with IT security firm Eset in a deal that will accord users with a free anti-malware software, which should help Facebook and its users find and detect potential malware running on user PCs. If a consumer accesses a Facebook service and the company detects some sort of suspicious behavior, the user will…

Europe: When The Unthinkable Becomes Possible

Europe’s economic crisis is slowly but steadily eroding the political systems of many countries on the Continent. New actors are emerging and threatening the supremacy of the traditional players. Alliances and events that seemed impossible only a few years ago are now being openly discussed across Europe. On Dec. 3, for example, Sweden announced it…

The Theory Of Global Imbalances: Mainstream Economics Vs. Structu

Dan here…Thomas Palley is Senior Economic Policy Advisor, AFL-CIO Washington DC. Here he addresses the issues of trade imbalances in a paper worth considering. by Thomas Palley Prior to the 2008 financial crisis there was much debate about global trade imbalances. Prima facie, the imbalances seem a significant problem. However, acknowledging that would question mainstream economics’ celebratory stance toward…

Bear Of The Day: Urban Outfitters

Urban Outfitters, Inc. (URBN – Analyst Report) continues to struggle as its flagship brand, Urban Outfitters, flounders in the tough teen and young adult segment of the retail market. Will this Zacks Rank #5 (Strong Sell) be able to turn around the Urban brand? Urban Outfitters operates 236 Urban Outfitters stores, 199 Anthropologies stores and 102 Free People…

The Surprising Truth About Solar Stocks

Investing Daily Article of the Week by Chad Fraser, Investing Daily Reports of solar power’s death are greatly exaggerated. That’s the thrust of two recent reports from the International Energy Agency (IEA). Taken together, they say solar could be the world’s top electricity source by 2050, beating out wind, hydro, nuclear-even fossil fuels. By the middle…

Five Things To Know Ahead Of The ECB Meeting

The ECB meeting or more precisely, the press conference is the main event of the day, and possibly of the week and month.  ECB President Draghi and Vice President Constancio have expressed heightened urgency to boost inflation as fast as possible. This has been countered by others arguing to let the other new initiatives, including…

Dividend Income Update – November 2014

These are the posts that are the central reason we are part of the dividend growth community: Dividend income. November was another great month of passive income “earned” as I continue to build upon my snowball via annual dividends received. A couple months ago I reported how Iexceeded $2,000 in dividend income for the year and…

How To Waste £375 Billion – Positive Money – Apologia...

I have been looking into and communicating with some of those involved with PositiveMoney.org of late. The Princes of the Yen documentary that was featured here the other day was produced by some fellows that are also involved with this movement, although that Positive Money message did not permeate the documentary. There was no clear solution promoted, and most of the…

America Faces Another Shutdown?

When a commentator says that government spending is out of control and on autopilot, today’s reader becomes bored and moves on to a different article. I’ve personally been pounding the table with this message since my commentary became a part of Wall Street Daily nearly two years ago. But it’s different this time… You see, Congress and…