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Agreed - this is becoming idiotic.
So, Mike, what is your take at this point with ISDR? Have you nibbled at all down here?
I took advantage of the drop to .13 today to get some more.
Wow - now there's some confidence! I like the look of this one as well, though I was wondering what was going on as it sat in the high .50's and low .60's for a while. I was wondering if there was some bad news about to come out. Glad to see it head back up and break through $1.
Do we know the brand name under which they are rolling out the DVD Kiosks?
Will we get a sell-off tomorrow? Not sure what others were projecting for the Financials, but I wasn't too impressed. They have really ramped up the overhead.
If that is a forward-looking move as I hope it is, then I like it. But I didn't see much in the way of discussion on the FDA-approval issue (did I miss something?).
Five surgeons from big cities are discussing who makes the best
patients to operate on.
The first surgeon, from New York , says, 'I like to see accountants on
my operating table because when you open them up, everything inside is
numbered.'
The second, from Chicago, responds, 'Yeah, but you should try
electricians! Everything inside them is color coded.'
The third surgeon, from Houston , says, 'No, I really think librarians
are the best, everything inside them is in alphabetical order'.
The fourth surgeon, from Los Angeles chimes in: 'You know I like
construction workers... Those guys always understand when you have a few
parts left over.'
But the fifth surgeon, from Washington, DC shut them all up when he
observed: 'You're all wrong. Politicians are the easiest to operate on
There's no guts; no heart, no gonads, no brains and no spine, and the
head and the butt are interchangeable.
Great DD Dave. Thanks for the efforts!
Easy answer: the government. Wall Street corruption can be rooted out but government corruption, bribery and favoritism has no backstop (only the populace in the case of a democracy). It is clear that an easy-money policy combined with laws & policies that pushed questionable loan practices implicitly back by the government were the root of our current crisis. Government has a critical role to play in the functioning of society but it is when it oversteps that role and tries to influence economic incentives and normal market functioning that significant distortions arise.
Traders are not the only greedy ones. I am a greedy trader sometimes and a greedy investor as well. I look for good opportunities and hold until I think I have gained the value I expected (or sell if things don't go as I thought/expected). I prefer to hold securities that I have either researched or seen others research that I agree are good candidates. My brother, who also posts on I-Hub, trades on a system he developed by looking for dead-cat bounces and he does very well at it. Is he the root of evil because he jumps in when others are in a panic and selling?...I don't think so (and not just because he is my bro... :) ).
Wow - what is the overhang on this stock right now? I know that the last reported Financials weren't great but this seems overdone...
I would say that it's more than a couple... ;)
Anybody that believes that fraud and corruption will decrease with more government intervention in healthcare or any other market hasn't understood the fraud and abuse in Medicare. They also haven't looked at foreign countries where governments run everything (or most everything). They also aren't looking at history (see the US in the '70's). Fraud grows as government influence grows. Incentives get perverted as government grows. Just ask the Russians... Instead of market forces driving change, it is all based on who you know and how much money is passed under the table.
If you want better access to health care and higher quality healthcare at a lower cost, you don't want the government involved (and we have wonderful examples in Canada and Britain of how well those systems work). What you want is tort reform, the health care tax benefit uncoupled from employment and reduced government mandates of coverage to name a few things.
Don't worry, though - doesn't everybody say or write things they regret when they've had a few too many?... :)
Don't know if it will hold, but ASRG running like crazy today - don't see any news...
OK, maybe I'm missing something but what does the collection of Receivables have to do with Revenue? Wouldn't they be recognizing Revenue when the work (service) is completed, not on collection of the Receivable? I would think that this would only be a benefit if they had taken a Bad Debt write-off and then went and collected most of it - but that wouldn't hit the Revenue line...
As Raw would say.... KAAAAABOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!
Lov'n it today!
Hey rce9rys - are you still tracking that contest on stock price for JBII? Who's still in and who's out? I'm too lazy to go back and find that last post with all the guesses...
Brigg or NewMoney - I need one of you guys to take out this girl from New Mexico when nobody is looking. Check out what she did to the girls on BYU's team:
http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=4628040&categoryid=2378529
That is one nasty chick. Of course, she might be right up your alley and you might just end up taking her out on a date instead...
Classic...
THE ANT AND THE GRASSHOPPER
This one is a little different...
Two Different Versions! ...................
Two Different Morals!
OLD VERSION: The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer
long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.
The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and
plays the summer away.
Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed.
The grasshopper has no food or shelter, so he dies out in the cold.
MORAL OF THE STORY: Be responsible for yourself!
MODERN VERSION:
The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building
his house and laying up supplies for the winter.
The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and
plays the summer away.
Come winter, the shivering grasshopper calls a press conference and
demands to know why the ant should be allowed to be warm and well fed
while others are cold and starving.
CBS, NBC , PBS, CNN, and ABC show up to provide pictures of the
shivering grasshopper next to a video of the ant in his comfortable home
with a table filled with food. America is stunned by the sharp contrast.
How can this be, that in a country of such wealth, this poor
grasshopper is allowed to suffer so?
Kermit the Frog appears on Oprah with the grasshopper and everybody
cries when they sing,
'It's Not Easy Being Green.'
Acorn stages a demonstration in front of the ant's house
where the news stations film the group singing, 'We shall overcome.'
Rev. Jeremiah Wright then has the group kneel down to pray to God for
the grasshopper's sake.
Nancy Pelosi & Harry Reid exclaim in an interview with Larry King
that the ant has gotten rich off the back of the grasshopper, and both
call for an immediate tax hike on the ant to make him pay his fair share.
Finally, the EEOC drafts the Economic Equity & Anti-Grasshopper Act
retroactive to the beginning of the summer.
The ant is fined for failing to hire a proportionate number of
green bugs and, having nothing left to pay his retroactive taxes, his
home is confiscated by the Government Green Czar.
The story ends as we see the grasshopper finishing up the last bits
of the ants food while the government house he is in, which just
happens to be the ant's old house, crumbles around him because he
doesn't maintain it.
The ant has disappeared in the snow.
The grasshopper is found dead in a drug related incident
and the house, now abandoned, is taken over by a gang of spiders
who terrorize the once peaceful neighborhood.
MORAL OF THE STORY: Be careful how you vote in 2010.
Raw / Mike (or anybody else)
ADAT
I was looking at this stock. A friend of mine owns a bit and is quite high on it (based on what he knows of their product development activities, etc.). I can't for the life of me, looking at the financials, figure out why it has had the run it has had over the last year or so. Looks like it is bleeding cash profusely (albeit at a reduced pace this past year than in the prior periods) and yet the share price has jumped up to around $1.50. Have you guys looked at this one before? There's got to be some expectation of a break-out technology or huge government contract, perhaps? I haven't read through the most recent 8K yet but wanted to see if you guys had any insight based on some prior research.
Gracias.
Wow!!! Wonder if this holds. What a move!
That could depend on whether or not the procurement exec believes that the limited supply currently available based on production capability of the supplier could be taken by an order from a competitor.
Could drive said exec to lock in demand ahead of the actual need based on wear...
Things were looking very nice early on today. Still ended the day nicely. Anybody seen any news? Insider buying action?
...will, we will rock you! (just had to finish your unfinished post...)
Signed... Yasser Arafat, deceased Nobel Peace Prize Winner
I sold at $1.05 & kicking myself as well... Ouch...
First and foremost, I salute you for your service to our country. I try to always thank in person (in airports, etc.) the real heroes like you but hey, we'll make it a chatboard salute! I have a brother-in-law who just returned from Iraq who is a JAG.
I'm not familiar with the TGP or RLG products (or perhaps I am just not familiar with the acronyms)
I think Honeywell has made admirable attempts to minimize the amount of layoffs through cost reductions in other areas including 401K's, the furlough, etc. What I don't like is that they are not bounding those actions. For example, they had said that the 10% pay-cut would go through Q3. Now it is through Q4. Feels like it's going to become permanent, which means that many will be more willing to look elsewhere (if a job opens) where pay is more commensurate to ability. Economy is tough right now, though, so not a ton of opportunity out there (which Honeywell surely understands and is taking advantage of).
Hopefully things will be looking up by the time you get back, but that depends on whether or not we are successful in killing these attempts at moving swiftly towards socialism/fascism by our current government through Universal Healthcare, Cap-and-Trade and the Employee Unionization Act (to name the most damaging). If these things get through, you can kiss a return to growth and opportunity good-bye... all IMO.
Isn't the $200K per year in profit only for the DCL portion of the business. That would not include Pak-it (pre-DCL acquisition) or Vanguard.
LTMatt - I work in Finance as well. I'm in M&PM Finance currently and have rotated between Sky Harbor & Tempe in various roles.
Good to see another Honeywell finance guy out here as an IHubber.
Where are you located - which Honeywell Plant? I also work for Honeywell in Aerospace - Tempe, AZ...
Could they be an acquisition target?
Dang - I was trying to clear some funds and then the price bumped back up :(
Well - I've got a low-ball out there just to see if we dip again...
Looks like some major volume moving through today compared to the averages...
Except that in this case, as you know, the mortgage payment is 3000, the tenants are paying less each month and there are fewer and fewer tenants to pay
$9.79??? Please say so and I'll be having a marvelous weekend... :)
RPG - there is another possibility in recognizing Service Revenue: % Complete
This methodology would generally be used on long-term contracts. If some of JBI's contracts are of a long-term nature, we could see some Revenue in the current period based on % complete of the total contract.
I'm surprised you posted the article w/o some commentary of your own Raw. A few things that should be remembered about this whole thing and the reason for the stand many were taking against the President:
- The first version of the study-guide included creepy items like, "What will you do to support the President?" I don't care if he's from the right or left, I don't want any kids being asked to write down how they will support a leader they didn't elect on issues they don't fully understand. Based on this kind of rhetoric I was inclined to keep my kids out of it. But once the Administration was caught-in-the-act and made changes to take out that material and focus on reaching goals, working hard and staying in school, then I had no problem.
- You will hear very few in the news media (surprise, surprise) talk at all about the meltdown the Left went through when Pres. Bush Sr. did the same thing. There were calls for a special investigation, etc. See the Political Grapevine w/ Brett Baier at the bottom of the main Foxnews page for details.
My favorite part about all this is the attitude in the articles posted in the traditional media conveying how Pres. Obama so thoroughly diffused all of the hub-bub that the "crazy conservatives" had created. Right...he was forced to stick to a message he should have stuck with in the beginning.
What was diffused was his attempt to do some "community organizing" with millions of school children. LOL
Just a starter position, huh? Good for him - you never want to jump in too quickly to any investment.... LOL
LOLOL!! Yes sir, Mr. President...
I think it's just you, me and Fishin... LOL. Who buys next?
Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!
OK, I'm kind of a newbie to trading, but even I know it's a BB stock... are we all clear? ;)