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Why It’s Time To Buy

Why It’s Time To Buy The Clouds Haven’t Quite Parted, But the Long-Term Case for Home Ownership Is Looking Stronger […]

The Value Of Picking Great Managers & Stocks (Post Ira Sohn)

By Murray Coleman, Barron’s Blog, Last week, my colleague Avi Salzman blogged from the Ira Sohn event, which featured top […]

Another Financial Crisis Is On The Way

From Forbes Blog, Halah Touryalai, Warren Buffett called them weapons of mass destruction. Now those same products, known as derivatives, […]

China’s Manufacturing Slowest in 9 Months, New Orders Suggest Manufacturing May Have Already Peaked; Australia Biggest GDP Drop in 20 Years

From globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com, By Mike “Mish” Shedlock, Weak economic reports in the US, Europe, Australia, and China tell the same story: […]

Berkshire Hathaway unit buys 3 Italian jewellers

Berkshire Hathaway jewellery unit to add new brands in Italy * Richline buys just one brand of earlier target Rosato […]

Home price bargains coming this summer.

Home prices are already a third off their highs, but this summer could bring the real discounts. Buyers are still […]

Apocalypse Not: Muni manager sees buying opportunity, not end of days

By Jeff Benjamin, Default scare gives way to nice yields, increased interest With the municipal bond market so far having […]

Housing in double-dip decline as prices fall again

WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — U.S. home prices fell in March for the eighth straight month, confirming the beleaguered housing market has […]

Cities that weathered housing bust now suffering

Derek Kravitz and Alex Veiga, AP Business Writers, On Tuesday May 31, 2011, 5:40 pm WASHINGTON (AP) — Even cities […]

OXSTONE FOOD FOR THOUGHT – May 2011 – The rise of private lenders and a contrarian investment idea

By Liu-Yue (Louie) Lam, Co-Founder, Chief Investment Strategist, Oxstone Capital Management, Crisis Leads to New Opportunities Recently, many prominent investors […]