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    • Fri Oct 31st 10:45 AM
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      Who Will Win the Home Entertainment Battle?
      Lots of harsh comments before me, but some might have merit: You observe that some might not want to pay $12.95/month OR $400/lifetime but expect a regular Joe (or my kids grandparents) to have an X-Box?

      While MSFT just might have some winners and AAPL might have missed the boat a bit, the only sure winner I see is NFLX. They have a service that works now and is evolving into whatever consumers want it to become - as far as video (no games). The customer determines how much they want to pay/month, how franticly they want to watch/return the DVD's, and they still have the "Watch Now" going for them. It's almost like NFLX is anxious for the day when nobody gets any DVD's in the mail - everything is streamed. Me, too!

      Disclosure: Long NFLX
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    • Thu Oct 9th 16:07 PM
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      New Technology Makes Natural Gas a Viable Replacement for Oil
      I can only hope that the country and it's new masters (elected or appointed?) will see the wisdom in having our hydrocarbons pumped from on-shore US wells. I'm "betting" that the US financials will continue to contract for a while. Once they bottom out, we can pile onto NG producers, like CHK. Their true value will be revealed and their share price should rebound nicely.
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    • Wed Oct 8th 10:22 AM
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      Playing the Market in Difficult Times
      It'll go "to the moon Alice, to the moon..."
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    • Wed Aug 13th 11:10 AM
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      Too Soon to Re-enter Oil Stocks?
      Not exactly sure why CHK is listed among the "oil" stocks. Sure, it's energy, but it's not exactly "small" either.

      But, in any case, I agee that it's a perfect time. I just added to my CHK holdings this last week - and I'm already in positive territory.
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    • Wed Aug 6th 09:43 AM
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      Netflix User Statistics: Reading Between the Numbers
      This is cool stuff! How did I not hear about it before this? I'm heading over to that site right after I post this - and signing up. I've tried to do some of those personal calc's myself and it will be interesting to see how my "back of the envelope" numbers compare to theirs.

      Thanks for the interesting info.
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    • Wed Jul 16th 09:22 AM
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      Implementing Pickens' Plan for Public Energy Policy
      You have a very interesting article, with some insightful comments. Then, you get down to giving opinions - and completely lose it. When you write: "From a free market approach, the US should not try and pick which alternative engine will be used," you make everything you write after that suspect!

      You are correct in saying that the US (government) shouldn't try & pick. But, the government also shouldn't impose dollars more in taxes. (your price chart is scary!) If there is a scarce resource, like oil, in a free market, the price will go up to where it is valued by the consumer.

      I'm already seeing people make significant life-style changes: where they live & work, how they get to work, where they shop, and what they do for entertainment. Let's not encourage the government (that as you pointed out, contributed to getting us into this situation in the first place) to start making bets on what fuel is going to be the "best."

      Instead, the government's role should be to GET OUT OF THE WAY. Quit taxing or subidising. Quit regulating and setting standards. When people want fuel efficent vehicles, they will be produced & sold. When driving an Escalade or Hummer get's unbearably expensive, people will buy a Vespa or live within walking distance.

      At least I do agree with most of your stock picks. NG will be a bigger and bigger component of the solution. Solar and Wind will be big winners, too. How 'bout a couple of suggestions in those sectors?
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    • Fri May 30th 09:25 AM
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      In Light of Peak Oil, Financial Diversification Is a Bad Idea
      Interesting and quantitative reasoning for what I think I've found myself intuitively (luckily?) gravitating to over the past few years. So much of my portfolio has trended to energy (NatGas, Oil & TarSands, CanRoyTrusts, and even Solar & Coal) that I've been concerned that I was not "diversified"... enough. Here's an article that reasures me that I'm not crazy. [my picks might not be perfect, but there were/are reason to be energy/commodity heavy]
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    • Wed May 21st 10:44 AM
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      Netflix's Roku is Doomed to Fail
      I'm a happy NFLX member. On days like today, when I've only got one dvd at home (kid's movie that I don't want to watch again), I can choose from tons of movie & shows (granted, not new releases) that are worth watching. Now, I watch 'em by myself, on the laptop. But, with a box (and we are a Playstation family, not Xbox) we could have the whole family watching fav's or classic's.

      For me, $100 is cheap enough.
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