Ken Fisher is a money manager, Forbes columnist, and is one of the Forbes 400 richest Americans. He is also author of several books, including his two latest, a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0470285362?ie=UTF8tag=antiquestocka-20linkCode=as2camp=1789creative=9325creativeASIN=0470285362"The Ten Roads to Riches: The Ways the Wealthy Got There (And How You Can Too!) (Fisher Investments Press)/aimg src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=antiquestocka-20l=as2o=1a=0470285362" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" / and a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/047052653X?ie=UTF8tag=antiquestocka-20linkCode=as2camp=1789creative=9325creativeASIN=047052653X"How to Smell a Rat: The Five Signs of Financial Fraud (Fisher Investments Press)/aimg src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=antiquestocka-20l=as2o=1a=047052653X" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" /br /br /Ken Fisher Interview Part 4br /br /span style="font-weight:bold;"Stockerblog/span: I wanted to talk just a bit about con men versus con women. Do you see more women becoming con artists in the future or do you think it will primarily be men?br /br /span style="font-weight:bold;"Fisher/span: The history, as I mentioned in the book a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/047052653X?ie=UTF8tag=antiquestocka-20linkCode=as2camp=1789creative=9325creativeASIN=047052653X"How to Smell a Rat/aimg src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=antiquestocka-20l=as2o=1a=047052653X" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style="border:none !important; ...

The stock trading technique called 'Buying Dividends' is becoming more and more popular, especially with the recent increase in the stock market. This is the process of buying stocks before the ex dividend date and selling the stock shortly after the ex date at about the same price, yet still being entitled to the dividend. This technique generally works only in bull markets. When you buy dividends, there are many stocks in many different sectors to choose from. In order to be entitled to the dividend, you have to buy the stock before the ex-dividend date, and you can't sell the stock until after the ex date. The actual dividend may not be paid for another few weeks. WallStreetNewsNetwork has compiled a free downloadable and sortable Excel list of the stocks going ex dividend during the next week. ...

In the past, we've written about houses shaped like guitars, airplanes, and shoes. Since Halloween is approaching, we thought it would be interesting to point out the Pumpkin House in West Virginia, decorated with thousands of pumpkins filled with candles. The place has become a tourist attraction.

Goldman Sachs (GS) invested $334 million in Geely Automotive, a China based automobile manufacturer. This investment would give it a 15.1% ownership in the company. The investment is made through GS Capital Partners VI Fund LP, an affiliate of Goldman. Goldman Sachs trades on the New York Stock Exchange.

Back in March, WallStreetNewsNetwork.com produced a free downloadable Excel spreadsheet database of Debt Free Stocks Selling At Or Near Cash. These are stocks which have virtually no debt and are trading at the amount of cash the company has per share. The reasoning behind choosing such stocks is that without any debt and a lot of cash, it would be hard for the companies to go out of business. In addition, the cash can make the companies takeover candidates. If you take a look at the 17 stocks on the list, which shows the trading price as of March 4, 2009, and compare those prices to the close as of today, May 12, you would discover that every stock on the list was up and the average percentage increase was 29%, versus 23% for the Dow and 27% for ...

Back in January, I wrote an article about an antique stock certificate handsigned by Bernard Madoff being sold on eBay (EBAY) for $100,000. Now another Bernie Madoff stock certificate listing has appeared on eBay, but this time the price has dropped significantly to a starting price of only $1,000. This is a decline of $99,000 in only three months.

Here are the top five investment related books on Amazon in the Category of Business Investing – Investing. Look at the titles of numbers 1, 2 and 5.br /br /1. a href=”http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1416588981?ie=UTF8tag=antiquestocka-20linkCode=as2camp=1789creative=9325creativeASIN=1416588981″The Great Depression Ahead: How to Prosper in the Crash Following the Greatest Boom in History/aimg src=”http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=antiquestocka-20l=as2o=1a=1416588981″ width=”1″ height=”1″ border=”0″ alt=”" style=”border:none !important; margin:0px !important;” /br /br /br /2. a href=”http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0470043601?ie=UTF8tag=antiquestocka-20linkCode=as2camp=1789creative=9325creativeASIN=0470043601″Crash Proof: How to Profit From the Coming Economic Collapse (Lynn Sonberg Books)/aimg src=”http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=antiquestocka-20l=as2o=1a=0470043601″ width=”1″ height=”1″ border=”0″ alt=”" style=”border:none !important; margin:0px !important;” /br /br /br /3. a href=”http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0446677450?ie=UTF8tag=antiquestocka-20linkCode=as2camp=1789creative=9325creativeASIN=0446677450″Rich Dad, Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money–That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not!/aimg src=”http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=antiquestocka-20l=as2o=1a=0446677450″ width=”1″ height=”1″ border=”0″ alt=”" style=”border:none !important; margin:0px !important;” /br /br /br /4. a href=”http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0060555661?ie=UTF8tag=antiquestocka-20linkCode=as2camp=1789creative=9325creativeASIN=0060555661″The Intelligent Investor: The Definitive Book on Value Investing. A Book of Practical Counsel (Revised Edition)/aimg src=”http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=antiquestocka-20l=as2o=1a=0060555661″ width=”1″ height=”1″ border=”0″ alt=”" style=”border:none !important; margin:0px !important;” /br /br /br …

The Zimbabwe Stock Market has converted their trading shares to be denominated in US dollars instead of Zimbabwe dollars. Shares are expected to a href=”http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109sid=aaEK5eFMILjI”increase by over 100%/a by the end of the year. The change in currency is due to the fact that the country is experiencing 89.7 sextillion percent and there are 12.6 trillion Zimbabwe dollars to the U.S. dollar. br /br /For more info on Zimbabwe’s unbelievable inflation, check out:br /br /a href=”http://stockerblog.blogspot.com/2008/04/100000-inflation-rate-election-dispute.html”100,000% Inflation Rate + Election Dispute = Rising Stock Market/abr /br /a href=”http://stockerblog.blogspot.com/2008/08/zimbabwe-inflation-breaks-above.html”Zimbabwe Inflation Breaks Above 11,200,000%/abr /br /a href=”http://stockerblog.blogspot.com/2009/01/100000000000000-dollar-bill-thats-100.html”The 100,000,000,000,000 Dollar Bill (that’s $100 trillion)/adiv class=”blogger-post-footer”div class=’adsense’ style=’text-align:center; padding: 0px 3px 0.5em 3px;’
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There is a a href=”http://valleywag.gawker.com/5154585/when-is-the-steve-jobs-autobiography-coming-out” target=”_blank”rumor/a going around Silicon Valley that Steve Jobs, the founder and head of Apple (AAPL), is writing an autobiography. The closest book to a live story on Jobs was the unauthorized biography a href=”http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0471787841?ie=UTF8tag=antiquestocka-20linkCode=as2camp=1789creative=9325creativeASIN=0471787841″iCon Steve Jobs: The Greatest Second Act in the History of Business/aimg src=”http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=antiquestocka-20l=as2o=1a=0471787841″ width=”1″ height=”1″ border=”0″ alt=”" style=”border:none !important; margin:0px !important;” /, which Jobs had removed from all the Apple Stores.div class=”blogger-post-footer”div class=’adsense’ style=’text-align:center; padding: 0px 3px 0.5em 3px;’
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