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Appears to be a decent quarter:
http://biz.yahoo.com/e/120912/ibal10-q.html
Interesting post from Yahoo message board:
http://finance.yahoo.com/mbview/threadview/?&bn=e222edf2-f02f-3811-9bbd-e69b0ab57dcd&tid=1347400869218-a5104468-1377-4b4f-a750-731cb77bf7cd
Eliphino.
Pearlasia Gamboa
According to this link, PYCT (formerly MLON) did a 100-1 forward split of it's WPMLF shares so that it could do a 1-1 stock dividend.
This of course makes no sense. How can they split a stock they do not control?
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/PayChest-Intends-to-Pay-a-Dividend-in-Western-Pacific-Minerals-Shares-592012.htm
Info on the origin of WPMLF can be found here:
https://www.otciq.com/otciq/ajax/showFinancialReportById.pdf?id=29328
No, I cancelled it at the end of the day.
ETrade allowed me to enter a sell order for my WPMLF a few days ago.
Here's my take...may not be 100% correct:
WPMLF was controlled by Pearl Asian Mining, who owned 500 million shares (100%?) of WPMLF.
Pearl Asian Mining has a very entertaining, almost unbelievable history. It seems to be named after Pearlasia Gamboa, a Philipina-American businesswoman who was also president of a now-defunct micronation called the Dominion of Melchizedek.
Info here about her, Pearl Asian Mining, and Melchizedek:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pearl_Asian_Mining
Pearl Asian and MLON traded some shares ... 200 million shares of WPMLF for some shares of MLON (Mellon).
MLON gave their 200 million shares of WPMLF to MLON shareholders as a dividend. Some said that the purpose was to force those who naked shorted MLON to deliver the dividend shares, which they didn't have.
Pearl Asian gave their remaining 300 million shares of WPMLF to their shareholders as a dividend.
So...you could have gotten shares from Pearl Asian (like me) or from MLON.
I have a few shares of WPMLF (around 25K) with ETrade.
Are these restricted in some way? If I sell them and some problem about tradeability arises at some future time, am I liable?
Just wondering...
Looks like a whole bunch of stocks were moved today because of "quoting inactivity." Not sure what that means...
http://www.otcbb.com/asp/dailylist_detail.asp?mkt_ctg=OTCBB&d=03/01/2011
"Punishing" by voting against them...how controversial!
I don't see anything controversial here...
“If Latinos sit out the election instead of saying, ‘We’re gonna punish our enemies and we’re gonna reward our friends who stand with us on issues that are important to us,’ if they don’t see that kind of upsurge in voting in this election, then I think it’s gonna be harder and that’s why I think it’s so important that people focus on voting on November 2."
From 1970 ...
I wonder if they paid for the last PR with stock...the PR dude could be selling.
Seems reasonable... http://www.snopes.com/politics/clintons/mezvinsky.asp
Are you serious? Spain currently has only a 2.3% Muslim population.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4385768.stm
As I see it...
-the bill is meant to make sure everyone (as many as possible) has health insurance.
-there is no "public option"...therefore people are required to buy insurance privately. The bill sets minimum coverage requirements.
-many people will not voluntarily buy health insurance. What can the government do about it? In effect, they've decided to tax everyone approximately the cost of a basic policy (possibly via a penalty cost). If you have health insurance, you get a tax credit that eliminates the tax.
-US citizens are required to pay their taxes. The IRS tries to ensure people are paying their taxes. This is nothing new.
Regarding rationing, what do you think is happening now? People without insurance or who have maxed out their coverage are being denied treatment. It's only going to get worse if we do nothing.
I thought this article about rationing is interesting.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/19/magazine/19healthcare-t.html
I'm not sure I understand your point.
I agree that there are serious problems with the healthcare bill. My concern is that false scare tactics about death panels, health care rationing, and abortion etc are making the problem worse. There are plenty of real problems with the bill that need to be addressed in a thoughtful way, particularly the funding part.
Regarding the bill, I have these observations:
1) INSURANCE IS A NECESSITY BASED ON THE HIGH COST OF CARE. Health care costs (insurance premiums included) are rising rapidly, and are beyond our financial ability to pay without insurance. If, god forbid, any of our loved ones has a serious accident that requires expensive care, we would be financially wiped out in short order.
2) INSURANCE NEEDS TO BE PORTABLE AND PERMANENT. Even with insurance, there is NO FINANCIAL SECURITY if they limit the amount paid out, or can cancel your policy because you lose your job or get sick.
3) INSURANCE IS BASED ON DISTRIBUTING THE "RISK" AMONGST ALL POLICY HOLDERS. In the US, we (rightly) will treat anyone who needs care from, for example, a car accident, train wreck, heart attack, etc, so in essence, we the taxpayers are paying for the healthcare of the uninsured already. As I see it, the only fair way to guarantee that everone is paying for their fair share of "risk" is to require everyone to be insured.
Why is this dated March 2010 when it was written in August 2009?
http://michaelconnelly.viviti.com/entries/general/the-truth-about-the-health-care-bills
The due bills are redeemable on 3/1 so I'm expecting my money on Monday.