Archive for 'Investigating' Category

Excellent unadvertised counsel (the ideal sort)

1 July 2009 by Christopher Suleske

I am still processing this read. It’s an interview with Ray Dalio, a well-respected Chief Investment Officer with an excellent track record. More importantly, he pulled out nearly 10% gains last year because he’s been on the watchful end of our economic situation. He appears to know what he’s talking about and [...]

The next big thing

1 August 2007 by Christopher Suleske

The FCC decided yesterday to experiment with governing the nation’s radio spectrum, the hugely valuable broadcast rights that enable TV and radio stations, cell carriers, and other wireless devices to operate without interfering with one another. The commission was setting the rules to auction a chunk of the spectrum that’s becoming available because TV stations [...]

How to profit from slumping “X”

11 September 2006 by Christopher Suleske

“X” is whatever – markets, commodities, equties, bonds, indicies, currencies – anything tied to something liquid.
I read a bevy of contrarian / pessimistic / downright dystopian literature nearly daily. Some of it is better in its content, suspicions, assertions, and analysis than others. It’s always interesting, however. Some contrarians tend to be [...]

The Interesting 135

8 September 2006 by Christopher Suleske

A quick visit to the Wikipedia’s listing of the Fortune 500 led me to wonder what that list, sorted by gross operating profit would look like. I took the list, sucked it into Microsoft Excel, divided profits by revenues, multiplied it by 100 to get a percentage and sorted on the new column. [...]

Reasons to be debt-free

21 July 2006 by Christopher Suleske

Crown Financial has a good article entitled “Reasons for becoming debt free”. Caveat: It is written from a distinctly Christian point of view, as are most things on the Crown site. But the important thing is that nothing communicated is exclusive to a Christian. That said…
The authors list several points why they [...]

Budgeting through a shared vision

18 July 2006 by Christopher Suleske

I am strongly considering a budgeting service I discovered through Crown Financial Ministries, an organization whose vision I generally support. It is called Mvelopes.
Doing a little research, I determined Mvelopes is not a Crown product, rather, Crown is remarketing a product of the In2M corporation. I’m always wary of these kinds of arrangements. [...]

A Unique Debt Elimination Plan, Part 2

12 July 2006 by Christopher Suleske

I wrote the other day about an interesting plan for personal debt elimination. The authors of that plan suggested prioritzing the payoff of each debt according to a simple method, dividing the balance owed by the minimum payment, producing the number of months to payoff. Sort that list with first priority being the [...]

Profiting from the U.S. oil shales?

30 June 2006 by Christopher Suleske

I received one of those e-mails today – you know the type, wherein the author is writing as if he’s out of breath. In this one, the author’s attempting to sell me on an investmest newsletter called The Oil Report, in which he promises to reveal to me the name of a company he [...]

Profiting from the Russell Reconstitution?

27 June 2006 by Christopher Suleske

Is it possible / probable to profit from the Russell reconstitution, as the annual process of shedding and adding stocks to the Russell company’s indicies is termed? That’s the subject of this page over at webspeedreader. It’s an interesting premise, but one I for which I withhold judgment until I can run the [...]