This Past Week’s Big Dow Losers

Filed under: Investing Investors took a quiet ride this week, as the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose or fell nearly 100 points during intra-day trading before reversing course the past three days of the week. The roller coaster investors boarded start on Wednesday, with Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke testifying before Congress that the Fed’s bond-buying program could end in the coming months — and based on the central bank’s meeting minutes, which were also released on Wednesday, it seems a number of Fed members think the quantitative easing programs should come to an end sooner rather than later. This news sent shock waves throughout the markets as investors grappled with the thought that cheap money could soon be a thing of the past

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Why the S&P 500 Was Flat Last Week

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Richard Werner: Debt Free & Interest Free Money

Dr Werner discloses facts about money creation that are at the core of every modern economy. About how the creation of the essential money that is needed to …

Let the LNG Export Bonanza Begin

Filed under: Investing At long last, the Department of Energy has given Freeport LNG the OK to export liquefied natural gas to non-free-trade-agreement countries. Continue reading

ADP Stock Is Going Nowhere. Here’s Why.

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The Top 3 Causes of Diabetes

Filed under: Investing A whopping 25.3 million people in the U.S. right now are diabetic, with an additional 79 million Americans in the pre-diabetes stage. Those figures, according to research firm PhRMA, are downright scary, because diabetic patients come with a growing list of health complications and could place an incredible human and financial burden on our health-care system. Continue reading