About a month ago, we received a passionate email from an economics teacher at Adlai E. Stevenson High School in Lincolnshire, Illinois. He informed us that he had created an Economics club at his school to increase financial literacy and show students how technical analysis can interface with their financial future. His club also participates in “The Stock Market Game” (a program of the SIFMA) to compete with other schools, both locally and nationally. After a request to have a discounted MarketClub subscription rate for his students, we decided that MarketClub would go ahead and sponsor his 6 student groups.

We were even more excited after researching this high school’s impressive reputation in the academic community. This ‘Blue Ribbon’ school (as awarded by the US Department of Education), has been listed for the last three years

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Mikhael Gorbachev has penned an article in the New York Times reflecting on how the period since the fall of the Berlin Wall (the 20th anniversary of which will be celebrated on Friday) has not necessarily heralded a less distrustful approach to Russia.  He cites the open letter to  to Barack Obama by Vaclav Havel and other European luminaries in September, counseling the US President to take a firm stand on Russia, and the OSCE resolution equating Stalinism and Nazism as moves demonstrating that latent russophobia is still hampering unity in Europe.To my regret, the events took a different course. This has stalled the emergence of a new Europe. Instead of the old dividing lines, new ones have ...

eDoorways Corp. today discussed the “LEARN” doorway and demoed its eC Device at the Ibero-American Science and Technology Education Center’s (ISTEC) XVIIth Annual General Assembly on the Campus of the University of New Mexico (UNM) in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA. The presentation made earlier this week was so popular that the 200 people in attendance from various parts of Latin America, Spain, Portugal and the US requested a second demonstration.

The theme of this year’s General Assembly is “Using Technology to Enable Collaboration, and Collaboration to Advance Science and Technology.” Speakers included Founder and Executive Vice President of ISTEC, Dr. Ramiro Jordan, Dr. David J. Schmidly (President of UNM), Martin J. Chavez (Albuquerque, NM Mayor) and Dr. Mauro Miskulin (ISTEC President), amongst other esteemed educational, political and corporate guests. Also included was eDoorways’ lead consultant Ajene Watson, Managing Member of Ajene Watson

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This post provides links to a number of interesting articles I have read over the past few days that you may also enjoy.

• Doug Kass (TheStreet.com): Madman at the gates, September 29, 2009. Despite the strong share price momentum and optimistic economic/profit consensus, I continue to hold on to the variant view that the markets have likely peaked for the year based on the existence of nontraditional headwinds, an end to decades of aggressive credit expansion and financial inventiveness, a still-vulnerable housing recovery (in the form of outsized phantom inventory challenges) and a still-fragile consumer — among other factors.

• Joshua Zumbrun (Forbes): Reasons to remain wary about housing, September 29, 2009. After signs of life this summer, here are eight factors to watch that could extend the bust.

• Tim Duy (Tim Duy’s Fed Watch): Rushing to the

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This post is a guest contribution by Charles Kirk, author of the popular The Kirk Report.

I’m always looking for ways to improve my trading and, in recent years, I’ve been reading more on applied sports psychology. The reason? The principles offered by many of those who study sports psychology can be applied directly to trading.

Dr. Bob Rotella is a famous sport psychologist for professional golfers (including Padraig Harrington). Recently he wrote an interesting article in Golf Digest offering 10 Rules to help golfers achieve better performance. The concepts outlined there are as helpful to a golfer looking to win as it is to a trader looking to achieve peak performance in the market. To see what I mean - let’s review each of Bob’s 10 rules and my own interpretation of Bob’s comments as they relate directly to trading:

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Wednesday August 12, 2009

“Yana Venture Philanthropy Group planning to be listed in OTCBB”

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Yana Venture Philanthropy Group planning to be listed in OTCBB

Las Vegas CRWENewswire Yana Venture Philanthropy Group announces today August 12, 2009 its strategic move to go public in the US OTCBB market, with the assistance of Crown Equity Holdings, Inc. within the third quarter of year 2009.

Sat Dharma established Yana Venture Philanthropy Group more than 9 years ago. Yana Venture Philanthropy Group’s principal business is the education and development of an individuals spiritual level.Yana Venture Philanthropy Group objective is to help awaken the inner part of ones existing wisdom and explore ones inner self. Yana Venture Philanthropy Group has and

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Casey Mulligan rebuts my post asserting slack in the economy by posing the scenario "Construction Workers Teaching Kindergarten". He writes:

Econbrowser now claims* that the stimulus bill can be effective, because unemployment rates are high (whatever that means) in health care and education. Let's take a look at employment changes Dec 2007 - June 2009 (millions) by industry:

Total nonfarm payrolls: -6.5

Construction: -1.3

Manufacturering: -1.9

Education and Health: +0.7

How exactly is fiscal policy going to create 3.5 million jobs by primarily hiring people in education and health? I see only two scenarios, both absurd and/or dishonest:

He argues these two scenarios are: (1) "The construction workers become kindergarten teachers" or (2) "The people in construction and manufacturing stay unemployed."

Are Unemployment Statistics Meaningless?

Professor Mulligan apparently disbelieves unemployment rates, preferring to ascribe greater importance to employment figures. I think I understand why he does, given the optimizing theoretical framework he works with (see

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More range trading…  SNB doesn’t target the franc…  Norges Bank cuts rate but looks forward…  Buy your gold and Snickers! And Now… Today’s Pfennig!

Good day… And a Tub Thumpin’ Thursday to you! It was 95 here yesterday, and forecast to be even warmer, or should I say hotter, today! WOW! Like overnight, it turned to summer, after the coldest, most wet, spring I can ever recall… I know, I’ll get 100 emails reminding me that summer doesn’t officially start until next week… I’m just talking about the summer-like weather!

The currencies remained in that range I talked about yesterday, with a slight bias to sell dollars, but not much of one. Crude Oil prices moved higher on the day and overnight, which doesn’t play well with a dollar rally, and therefore, has pushed the dollar down a bit… But again, we’re talking minor moves. It’s as if someone (traders) are waiting for something BIG to

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