Tuesday, May 04, 2010
Saturday, January 23, 2010
Bear Market Rally of the Great Depression
One of the above charts shows the 1929-1930 Dow. The other shows the current Dow. Can you tell which is from which?
The current chart:
The chart during the Great Depression:
This is what happen after April 1930 bear market rally peak...
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
The World's Most Profitable Companies
Ref: http://www.billshrink.com/blog/the-worlds-most-profitable-companies/
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12/23/2009 02:32:00 PM
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Sunday, December 20, 2009
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Sunday, November 22, 2009
Don't eat peanut butter unless your mom made it
I've been reading a popular health book, The China Study, published in 2005. In case you have yet heard some of the startling content in it, I'm sending you this piece of info. for your reference.
On page 34 of The China Study, researcher says, 'Considerable evidence had been emerging, first from England later from MIT (the same lab that I had worked in) 10, 11 to show that peanuts often were contaminated with a fungus-produced toxin called aflatoxin (AF). It was an alarming problem because AF was being shown to cause liver cancer in rats. It was said to be the most potent chemical carcinogen ever discovered.'
On page 35, he continues, 'We learned that peanuts and corn were the foods most contaminated. All twenty-nine jars of peanut butter we had purchased in the local groceries, for example, were contaminated, with levels of AF as much as 300 times the amount judged to be acceptable in U.S. food. Whole peanuts were much less contaminated; none exceeded the AF amounts allowed in U.S. commodities. This disparity between peanut butter and whole peanuts originated at the peanut factory. The best peanuts, which filled "cocktail" jars, were hand selected from a moving conveyor belt, leaving the worst, moldiest nuts to be delivered to the end of the belt to make peanut butter.'
Google "peanut butter aflatoxin"
If you don't eat Chicken McNuggets due to its controversy, then you probably don't want to eat jarred peanut butter neither...
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11/22/2009 10:51:00 AM
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Atkin and The China Study
Although the author of The China Study might not have much good to say about Atkin, which inspired my research and practice of healthy diet, he actually offers some more insights and evidence to my current dietary routines that I'm enjoying with my family.
I'd just skin the arguments and just post the "HOW TO EAT" chart for you to see.
The "Avoid" part of the section is what I'm interested to know more. I'd say I've been practicing mostly everything above the "Avoid" part of the chart.
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11/22/2009 12:57:00 AM
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Thursday, October 01, 2009
Restaurant Performance Index correlates S&P 500 (Update 1)
Restaurant Performance Index (RPI) – a monthly composite index that tracks the health of and outlook for the U.S. restaurant industry. The RPI is based on the responses to the National Restaurant Association’s Restaurant Industry Tracking Survey, which is fielded monthly among restaurant operators nationwide on a variety of indicators including sales, traffic, labor and capital expenditures.
I can't help myself but draw a correlation between the RPI and S&P 500. The S&P came out of the 2002-2003 triple bottom during the PRI crossover from contraction to expansion. The S&P peaked during the crossover from expansion to contraction in 2007. Is the RPI becoming the new leading indicator of the US stock market?
edited on 10 Dec 2010: the link of the restaurant.org is updated. And I'm going to check out the recent trend and see if we see something more interesting coming out of this. :>
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10/01/2009 07:15:00 AM
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Qlock
Qlock is awesome. The world's major Forex market hours are horizontally displayed on the top of the screen without hindering other normal mouse movements.
The FREE version is already good enough. Two thumbs up! I like it a lot.
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10/01/2009 04:59:00 AM
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