My Ipod Loves Johnny Cash
This article was posted by Ben F Kushner on: Monday 16 February 2009 at 1:47 pm
These are great times to be listening to books and music while getting vast amounts of exercise. With the financial markets for commercial real estate at a temporary standstill, I am returning to the basics. Making cold calls, doing research, trying to get a jump on the next market upswing, I am spending my days doing the ditch digging of primary business. I usually end the day with long walks with my dogs seeking inspiration from my IPod.
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Did They Follow Their Own Advice?
This article was posted by Ben F Kushner on: Friday 19 September 2008 at 09:21 am
Stockbrokers and financial advisors worth their salt preach balance and diversity. Buy the best of breed in each sector. Make sure your investment capital is spread equally among the best stocks in technology, staples, financials, energy, retail, international, large cap and small cap etc.But unfortunately for the nation and the world, the large Wall Street houses did not follow their own advice. During the 90’s and early 21st century, they shifted a disproportionate amount of their assets into securitized real estate loans.
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Panic!
This article was posted by Ben F Kushner on: Friday 25 July 2008 at 1:36 pm
Today we don’t call them Panics but we are in one. The failure of Bear Sterns and the slide of Lehman Brothers shook confidence in the financial sector but the rush to unload shares in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac is an electronic rush to the bank window to redeem specie.
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The Energy Issue
This article was posted by Ben F Kushner on: Tuesday 08 April 2008 at 12:00 am
The energy issue is only now becoming a campaign issue in the November presidential and congressional elections. Perhaps it should be the foremost issue of the debate.
While the United States can not lessen its intensity in the war against terrorism, we can not continue to import 70% of our transportation energy at an annual cost of $700 billion from countries who in fact sponsor or condone terrorist acts against the West.
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