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1. The Market Cycle Investment Management (MCIM) Program During the past sixty years, most economic, market, and interest rate cycles have lasted from two to five years, peak-to-peak. Rarely have any of the cycle-tracking market indices moved in tandem, and none of the cycles are considered to be... (posted by sanserve 2 years 144 days ago.)

2. Exceptional Business Service Awards – Pay It Forward Maybe it's the holiday season, or maybe it's just the rare sense of appreciation I felt when I noticed the missing number on the monthly invoice. An epiphany even! This company actually wanted, appreciated, and knew how to retain my business. ... (posted by sanserve 2 years 168 days ago.)

3. Jobs - Permanent Jobs - Millions Of 'Em Communist China, 1995--- the dawn of capitalism. The Hong Kong based guide talked about the free enterprise zones, building projects, golf courses, and roads with a chest full of pride and visible excitement. Capitalism was everywhere along... (posted by sanserve 2 years 186 days ago.)

4. Stock Market Correction Dead?! Actually, hindsight and the Investment Grade Value Stock Index (IGVSI) Bargain Level Monitor tell us that it died early in March 2009. More realistically, however, corrections don't die quite so abruptly. They are supplanted by rallies--- and vice... (posted by sanserve 2 years 236 days ago.)

5. How To Stimulate Consumer Spending And Jumpstart The Economy My survey produced an interesting anomaly--- several respondents felt that excessive consumer spending was the primary cause of the economic problems we face today, and that spending is not to be encouraged. But the root problem they were... (posted by sanserve 2 years 246 days ago.)

6. How To Create More Jobs America My recent survey produced a variety of ideas, but most of them had these common elements: replace the Internal Revenue Code with a simpler model, encourage businesses to increase employment, and insist upon tort reform everywhere. It also... (posted by sanserve 2 years 256 days ago.)

7. Health Care Reform or Welfare Program--- Who Pays the Bill? The White House has released another of its health care reform clarification emails--- there will be more. It seems strange to me that the focus is on insurance coverage rather than on the spiraling costs of health care itself. Frankly, the... (posted by sanserve 2 years 281 days ago.)

8. Investment Scam Alert 2009: Spread the Word This is a real world situation that could impact each of you as professionals, investors, and friends of persons who could fall for such schemes. So please get angry about it! An envelope arrived yesterday from a worried investor (not a client... (posted by sanserve 2 years 286 days ago.)

9. How's Your Investment Portfolio Doing? Seven Long-Term Indicators Before Wall Street and the media combined to make investors think of calendar quarters as "short-term" and single years as "long-term", market cycles were used as true tests of investment strategies over the long haul. Bor-ing. There were four... (posted by sanserve 2 years 322 days ago.)

10. "Jim Dandy To The Rescue"--- Of The Economy More than fifty years ago, LaVern Baker & The Gliders, brought Jim Dandy into the fray to lasso runaway horses, dry the tears in little girls' eyes, and to save special mermaids from the hooks of villainous fishermen. (Black Oak Arkansas'... (posted by sanserve 3 years 121 days ago.)

11. Wall Street Bailout, Congressional Cover-up, or Sarbanes-Oxley? Every new controversy demands a look at similar situations of the past. Just what is a bailout anyway? In the early 80's, Lee Iacocca arranged a government loan and tax concessions to bring Chrysler Corporation back from the brink of bankruptcy---... (posted by sanserve 3 years 241 days ago.)