Stock Capitalist

Les and Simon are a couple of “Stock Capitalists” that scour thru literally hundreds of stock market related sites, newsletters, e-mails, blogs, etc… and “siphon” out great ideas, quotes, recommendations, and stock market related information. They have been trading the stock market for more than 20 years and offer some of their insight and best articles of interest.

Archive for May, 2007

Thomas E. Nugent: Enjoy It While It Lasts – 05/09/2007

9th May 2007 by october Comments Off

However, when Reagan pushed through two large tax- rate cuts and the Fed , under Paul Volcker, tightened monetary policy, financial markets revived and stock markets boomed. The Dow climbed from 850 in 1980 to over 2000 when Reagan left … The stock market crash of 2000-03 was driven by the Y2K phenomenon, even though, ironically, Y2K was uneventful. Computers that were supposed to be exposed to a computer meltdown when the new millennium began were able to handle the …