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To: Rande Is who wrote (57367)	3/6/2006 11:35:03 AM
From: paret	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 57584

What is this exactly? How does it work? "along comes real-time supercomputers that reveal the next move of the small investor to those power houses that play against them "

To: Rande Is who wrote (57367)	3/6/2006 3:28:20 PM
From: Bucky Katt	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 57584

The US Govt is broke>> Treasury sec John Snow notified lawmakers today that the Treasury would begin tapping the Civil Service Retirement and Disability Fund, which Treasury officials said would provide a "few billion" dollars in extra borrowing ability. Treasury officials also announced that on Friday they had used the $15 billion in the Exchange Stabilization Fund, a reserve that the Treasury secretary has that is normally used to smooth out volatile movements in the value of the dollar in currency markets. Treasury has also been taking investments out of a $65.3 billion government pension fund known as the G-fund. He wants congress to up the $8.2 trillion debt limit.

To: Rande Is who wrote (57367)	3/6/2006 4:25:44 PM
From: Rock_nj	Respond to of 57584

Here's a good stock tip, a longer term one, but good none-the-less (buy renewable energy stocks): Green energy sales seen quadrupling in decade NEW YORK - Global annual sales of renewable energies such as wind, solar and biofuels could more than quadruple in a decade to nearly $170 billion if oil prices remain high and technology costs fall, according to a study. Global sales of green sources of energy more than doubled in 2005 to $39.9 billion, according to California research and publishing firm Clean Edge. Sales could grow to a $167.2 billion by 2015, according to Clean Edge, whose forecasts on renewable energy have been met or exceeded by the market for the past four years. If green sales grew to that size, it would still be tiny compared to the conventional energy market. But green energy is the fastest growing energy sector, especially after oil prices hit a record of nearly $71 a barrel in August as a wave of hurricanes hit the Gulf of Mexico. Nearly a quarter of crude output in the United States, the world's top energy consumer, is still out after the storms. The biggest green energy sector is biofuels -ethanol and diesel from renewable resources - particularly on rising numbers of flex-fuel vehicles, cars that run on both conventional and alternative cars. "Flex-fuels was a term that was rarely uttered even a year ago," Joel Makower, a co-founder of Clean Edge told reporters on a conference call about the study. "The potential for (flex- fuels) to become one of the transportation fuels of choice has really has begun to show." A few million flex-fuel cars are rolling on U.S. roads today, but building a widespread biofuel distribution system for them is one obstacle the industry faces, the report said. Other clean fuel obstacles include a lack of processed polysilcon, the main feedstock in the solar power industry and rising steel prices for the wind power sector. But tightness in silicon supply could lead to innovation by companies making solar cells that use a fraction of the amount needed in conventional cells, the study said. String ribbon solar technology made by Evergreen Solar and thin film solar made by private companies Miasole, Heliovolt and Nanosolar all use less silicon. Shares in clean energy companies are doing well this year. The PowerShares clean energy portfolio was trading slightly down at $20.45 per share on Monday. But it's up nearly 25 percent on the year and near a 52-week high of $21.05 hit last month. Clean Edge's study was sponsored by energy venture capital firm Nth Power, private equity firm the Global Environment Fund, law firm Heller Ehrman, public relations company Antenna group, investment bank Pacific Growth Equities LLC, and green group Environmental Entrepreneurs. signonsandiego.com

To: Rande Is who wrote (57367)	3/7/2006 6:08:06 AM
From: Rande Is	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 57584

Apparently, SI is no longer interested in supporting the underlying reasons why the markets move in one way or another. . . such as the treasury department is broke. After looking over the SI boards, it appears there is a new policy in effect immediately. SI claims that newbies are ONLY attracted to talk about stocks, and that because of the name of this website, they owe it to the newbies to be primarily about stocks. The loyal posters that have stuck with SI through thick and thin (to say the least) are no longer as important to SI. This is likely due to the fact that we are all grandfathered in. So this site, famed for its intelligent thoughtful and courteous posters, is taking a page from the annals of corporate greed and ignoring those that made the company great in favor of those who increase this quarter's bottom line. So in an effort to attract more paying business, SI appears to be focusing support toward market boards, and moving everyone's board that is presently off-topic to the political and government classification to get them out of the way of the 222,222... grub contest. We are not the only ones. There is discussion by board leaders elsewhere as well: Message 22197412 Smart investors all over this site, who realize the critical role politics is currently playing in this game (aka/ seeing the bigger picture), have been routinely and purposefully off topic. This is now considered by SI to be a distraction to the income stream generated by newbies over us "what have you done for me lately?" grandfathered-in'rs. Perhaps someone should start a "Political Silicon" site, where smart discussions are prized over get-rich-quick drivel. Kind of has a ring to it, ya' know? Rande Is