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 the ‘Current Affairs’ Category

What We’re Reading…

15th March 2010 by Les No Comments

Public schools spending more per pupil than they say they do, and other links from around the Web.

Mancessions, Around the World

15th March 2010 by Les No Comments

Men have borne the brunt of job losses in most developed countries.

What Happens if America’s Credit Rating Is Downgraded?

15th March 2010 by Les No Comments

A lower credit rating affects more than American pride. The bigger risk would be to the country’s ability to keep borrowing money.

What We’re Reading…

12th March 2010 by Les No Comments

How the economy affects pop music, and other links from around the Web.

Record Number of Tax Filers Owed No Taxes in 2008

12th March 2010 by Les No Comments

More than a third of all tax returns filed for the 2008 tax year resulted in having no taxes owed.

Stimulus Makes People Bad at Math

12th March 2010 by Les No Comments

In most of the last decade, there were around three million to five million math mistakes a year. But in years with federal fiscal stimulus efforts, math errors on returns soar, according to the I.R.S.

To Control Health Care Costs, Trace the Spending

12th March 2010 by Les No Comments

The government can keep track of waste in the American health care system by keeping better track on how doctors choose to treat their patients, an economist writes.

Greece, the Latest and Greatest Bubble

11th March 2010 by Les No Comments

European leaders are only putting off disaster by talking up the steps Greece has taken to address its debt crisis, two economists write.

A Female Parliamentary Majority in Just One Country: Rwanda

11th March 2010 by Les No Comments

About half of the world’s countries currently have some sort of quota for women in their national legislatures, but women are still a small minority in nearly every national parliament around the globe.

Health Care Reform and the ‘Doc Fix’

11th March 2010 by Les No Comments

For health-care reform to cut the deficit, it doesn’t need to undo the “doc fix” — the continued easing of Congressional curbs on Medicare payments to doctors. It just needs to improve upon the status quo.

What We’re Reading…

10th March 2010 by Les No Comments

Fake storefronts, and other links from around the Web.

Single Parents, Around the World

10th March 2010 by Les No Comments

Across the industrialized world, about 15.9 percent of children live in single-parent households. Most of those households are headed by women.

Does Lack of Insurance Kill?

10th March 2010 by Les No Comments

Different studies offer differ answers. A Harvard doctor tries to sort through the research.

From Arms to Entitlements

10th March 2010 by Les No Comments

Health and Social Security spending went up. Military spending went down. Only one of those two trends will continue.

Did the Minimum Wage Increase Destroy Jobs?

10th March 2010 by Les No Comments

A look at job shifts in individual states seems to prove that it did, an economist writes.