http://www.isnare.com/?s=author&a=Ricky+Schmidt Finances Ricky Schmidt Thu, 15 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=252893&ca=Finances Corporate America feels the change as consumers alter their buying habits since the economic slowdown caused by the mortgage crisis and resulting credit crunch last year has not been such bad news for everyone, reflecting both behavioural shifts among US consumers and the advantages enjoyed by those... Finances Ricky Schmidt Fri, 09 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=251608&ca=Finances Dear Fellow-Investor. We all make mistakes even if our name is Warren Buffett or George Soros. But when great investors such as Buffett and Soros make mistakes, the lessons for the rest of us are so much more interesting! Both get far more decisions right than wrong. Buffett took over as the world’s... Finances Ricky Schmidt Sun, 27 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=247812&ca=Finances 1. Buy And Hold – And Not Get Carried Away By Emotions The difference between the drop in 1987 and many other market drop was the rapid recovery. It didn’t even take a year. By comparison, when the market dropped 86% of its value from 1929 through 1932, it took 12 years to get back to break even. An... Finances Ricky Schmidt Wed, 23 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=246192&ca=Finances Despite the IMF ( International Monetary Fund ) saying the US would suffer a recession this year, recovery would not begin until next year and growth would remain well below trend even in 2009, the Fed believes that it can avoid a serious slump similar to the Japanese recession in the 1990’s because... Finances Ricky Schmidt Sun, 20 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=245456&ca=Finances The credit crunch has demonstrated with painful clarity that the financial sector has become dangerously over-leveraged, to a degree that almost nobody realized before – partly because the normal metrics to measure leverage are pretty useless. Fed Chairman Bernanke reported to the U.S. Congress on A... Finances Ricky Schmidt Thu, 17 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=244569&ca=Finances While a weak employment report last Friday (April 4, 2008) seems to confirm the U.S. economy is in the early stages of a recession, investors that are looking at the longer term are already thinking about which stocks will work best for a recovery. Many are saying that the future might be brightest... Finances Ricky Schmidt Fri, 24 Aug 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=177797&ca=Finances Dear Fellow-Investor. "Why is it, that this subprime loan crisis has such a rippling effect on many sectors of the economy?" "Why are even companies outside the USA also affected by the U.S. mortgage crisis?" In the last 7 days I received lots of emails from my subscribers asking me questions like t... Finances Ricky Schmidt Mon, 16 Jul 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=167783&ca=Finances Dear Fellow Investor. Shareholders and investors of two blue-chip companies were treated to good news on Monday July 9, 2007, that carries potentially bullish long-term consequences. First, Johnson and Johnson announced the repurchase of up to $10 billion of its common stock.Then ConocoPhillips anno... Finances Ricky Schmidt Mon, 19 Mar 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=134175&ca=Finances Silly question you may say! Of course you buy stocks via your broker or online using your brokerage account. But … It’s not necessarily that easy if you want to buy foreign stocks which you shouldn’t really underestimate nor neglect. There’s a whole batch of foreign stocks out there that make great... Finances Ricky Schmidt Sun, 11 Mar 2007 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=132207&ca=Finances Catching a stock as it becomes more and more popular is similar to catching the right wave when surfing – but it’s equally satisfying. The essence in both cases is identifying well in advance which waves are worth riding on. How can you pick potential winners from an ocean of mediocre stocks? One he...