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Google (GOOG – $312.08) stock has lost over 40 percent since July. In the last earnings call, the search engine company’s management expressed optimism on coming advertising revenue, but that message did not support the stock price. Not even its partnership with NBC Universal helped to convince investors.

In an effort to control one alien invader, the Brits now want to import another.

Reports out of Washington indicate that the Bush administration is about to give the American people a parting, one-finger salute by rewriting a wide range of federal rules in an effort to block product-safety lawsuits.

In 1956, a mathematician by the name of George A. Miller came up with the magical number seven. Plus or minus two digits, seven numbers are about the most humans are capable of processing. Perhaps this is why phone numbers are seven digits long.

Think about it: We need the caterpillar to create the butterfly. I was at a lunch meeting today and we were discussing the current crisis in the financial markets as a much needed adjustment to the overstimulated system. One of us said something to the effect of, "This system needs to die for us to…

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Yields on tax-exempt money market funds have shot up in the last two weeks due to massive withdrawals from tax-exempt municipal market funds. At an average seven-day annualized yield of 5%, these money market funds are offering the highest yielding short investments since the 1980’s.

Photo: law_keven, Creative Commons, Flickr There was enough money to bail out negligent bankers and Wall Street, but another program – to protect Americans from pharmaceutical, environmental and pesticide contaminants in meat, milk, dairy and eggs – was discontinued recently due to lack of funding.

When Mercury, the planetary energy of communication and movement turns retrograde* for three weeks usually three times a year, financial markets tend to act unpredictably as choppy and volatile conditions prevail.

Whenever I get into a conversation about socially responsible investing, the other person usually says, "Do people really care about socially responsible stocks? Don’t people just care about making money?"

Photo: Brenda Anderson, Creative Commons, Flickr If you want your vote to count, don’t vote on Election Day. Why? The Moon.

Despite all the doom and gloom seen over the last year, the S&P 500 index is still looking expensive. At Friday’s close the benchmark index traded at a Price to Earnings (P/E) ratio of 24.30, much higher than the 17.17 ratio seen a year ago when the downturn started. FYI – the long term average…

We also discovered a culture of abuse and promiscuity in the RIK program. Several staff admitted to illegal drug use as well as illicit sexual encounters. Alcohol abuse appears to have been a problem when RIK staff socialized with industry. Sexual relationships with prohibited sources cannot, by definition, be arms-length.

Photo: z_everson, Creative Commons, Flickr "Housing finance in the U.S. has long depended on the GSEs Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac," writes Stephanie H. Giroux, TD Ameritrade’s Chief Investment Strategist. "These mortgage lending giants were created by Congress in 1938 and 1970 to support the housing market, and currently hold $5.4 trillion of the roughly…

Even though he is a right wing cheerleader who is always eager to politicize every stock market jitter, while wearing his pinstripe suit and pinkie ring, I have to take my hat off to CNBC’s Larry Kudlow. He has always had the guts to take a contrarian stance. Lately though, he seems to have lost…

Photo: Jamais Cascio, Creative Commons, Flickr Wall Street hides behind complexity, casing too many suckers to buy complex assets that they don’t understand. The sub-prime fiasco offers an excellent example: Very few people understood the instruments they were trading, but no one wanted to look stupid while the good times kept rolling. Now they do…

I cannot find a single convincing argument that tells me that astrologers won’t do better than economists. – Nassim Nicholas Taleb