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You’re Only As Good As Your Earnings
By George Acs: Having stopped making an honest living a little on the early side, I still need to make money, or otherwise my wife would insist that I do something other than watch a moving stock...
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I Bought Apple
By George Acs: There are some people that just love to take in wounded birds and believe that somehow that can nurse the poor wounded creature back to health. For some sainted few that is their "raison...
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The Perfect Storm
By George Acs: Generally, when you hear the words "perfect storm," you tend to think of an unfortunate alignment of events that brings along some tragedy. While any of the events could have created its...
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Calm Before The Storm
By George Acs: "There's always a calm before the storm" is a fairly well known saying that doesn't always accurately define a sequence of events. Are all storms preceded by a period of calm? Is calm...
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Season’s Misgivings
By George Acs: This is the time of year that one can start having regrets about the way in which votes were cast in prior elections. The sad likelihood, however, is that officials elected through the...
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Choosing To Go ‘Risk On’
By George Acs: By nature, particularly investing nature, I'm a fairly cautious person. Certainly a near universal application of a covered option strategy is consistent with a cautious approach. For...
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Unappreciated Until It’s Gone
By George Acs: If you can remember those heady days of 2007, it seemed as if every day we were hitting new market highs and everyone was talking about it when not busy flipping houses. Some will make...
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Cisco Was A Friend Of Mine
By George Acs: You have to be of a certain age to recognize the Cisco Kid character, but somewhat younger to be familiar with the song that paid homage to the fictional character. After terrible...
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Things Aren’t Always As They Seem
By George Acs: As I listened to Janet Yellen face her Senate inquisitors as the hearing process began for her nomination as our next Federal Reserve Chairman, the inquisitors themselves were reserved....
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Eve Of Inflection
By George Acs: Thanksgiving is that time of year when many sit back and think about all of their bounty and good fortune in the past year. Sometimes the processes of reflection and introspection bring...
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The Santa Claus Vacation
By George Acs: People tend to have very strong feelings about entitlements. Prior to this week there were so many people waiting for the so-called "Santa Claus Rally" that you would have thought that...
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It’s A New Day
By George Acs: With word this week of the passing of a famed "end of the world" prophet, it may be logical to wonder "what now?"
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Suffering By Comparison
By George Acs: There's a lot to be said in support of those who practice a strategy of surrounding themselves with those that suffer by comparison of whatever attribute is under consideration. Most of...
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What A Surprise
By George Acs: Barely a week ago as the earnings season was about to begin, it seemed perplexing that there was talk of seeing a 6% increase in comparable earnings. Based on retail earnings and...
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Dysfunction Takes A Vacation
By George Acs: Barely seven trading days earlier many believed that we were finally on the precipice of the correction that had long eluded the markets. Sometimes it's hard to identify what causes...
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That Was The Correction That Wasn’t And Will Be Again
By George Acs: "What correction?" you may rightfully ask. Being creatures of habit, it's sometimes unusual to understand why we're not better at identifying patterns. Sure, we try to see things and...
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Personal Conflict
By George Acs: It was a week of conflict and uncertainty that nonetheless took the market to new highs. That's really not the way it's supposed to work, as the market is said to dislike uncertainty and...
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The Weight Of The World Is A Big Burden
By George Acs: Most of us have, at one time or another, believed that we were carrying the weight of the world on our shoulders. The reality will always be that unless we are the President of the...
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Volatility… It’s Back
By George Acs: Barely a month ago there was much talk about rising volatility in the face of a declining market. Those that would tend to use charts to predict the future suggested that the then rise...
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Cook Does Icahn’s Dirty Work At Apple
By George Acs: Barely 6 months ago I contended that the intrusion of Carl Icahn into the company spelled the end of an era at Apple (
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