Overvalued Stocks: Don’t Touch These Bloated Investments With a 10-Foot Pole

by Marc Lichtenfeld, Healthcare Expert Wednesday, November 18, 2009: Issue #1140

To celebrate my parents’ anniversary, I took the family to see Grease last weekend. As musical theater buffs, I figured that they’d love the seeing the show, especially with my kids who had never seen a Broadway quality production.

Unfortunately, they still haven’t. The show stunk. The “actor” who played Danny Zuko couldn’t act. And American Idol winner Taylor Hicks was so bad as Teen Angel, it was laughable. It was one of the worst productions I’ve ever seen – and I should know, as I’ve been in some pretty awful shows (if you saw Last Exit to Brooklyn in San Francisco in 1995, I apologize).

But the purpose of this column is not a theater review, but

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First, AIG - the huge insurer just blew a massive tire, announcing a $8 billion writeoff - and another capital raise, which again dilutes current shareholders and means earnings PER share is going to be punished for years to come. But really it's all good - whats $8 billion among friends - and it's all priced in (oops, not so much, down 8% after hours, but maybe by tomorrow morning after CNBC announces it's a good thing it will be up). What I want you to do now is close your eyes and imagine Uncle Ben B as a short order cook. He is now ringing that bell over his head and shouting over to the other minion cooks - "got a fresh order, let's get up some more billions of US pesos pronto, print 'er up!" More paper currency ...

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