Mister Finance
Financial insights, commentary, and advice.


Mid Morning
Posted on June 9th, 2008 on Random Roger's Big Picture
Here is a nutty thought.Some folks want to impose a windfall profits tax on the oil companies because of how much money they are making. The...

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Inflation Products
Posted on May 20th, 2008 on Random Roger's Big Picture
Are we heading towards or already suffering from inflation like we had in Huggy Bear's time?There is no shortage of opinion in either direction but really the only thing most fo...

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Thursday Tidbits
Posted on May 8th, 2008 on Random Roger's Big Picture
Speaking of Romania the Slovakian koruna will be no more as Slovakia has been accepted into adopting the euro starting Jan 1, 2009 (save for a potential snag or two). I d...

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Yemen Jager
Posted on May 5th, 2008 on Random Roger's Big Picture
Feliz Cinco de Mayo, amigos.Yesterday on the Connie Mack show, retired Oppenheimer fund manager Bill Wilby made a very simple but very smart observation about oil that resona...

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Riots In Egypt
Posted on April 10th, 2008 on Random Roger's Big Picture
You probably have heard about the riots going on in Egypt over the rising price and rationing of bread (wheat).I only know what I read (here and here). Knowing what is real...

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Sunday Morning Coffee
Posted on April 6th, 2008 on Random Roger's Big Picture
OK, show of hands, who thinks the Fed has been out in front of the financial crisis accurately calling the various twists and turns in the economy and by extension the capital ma...

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V The Series The IPO
Posted on March 19th, 2008 on Random Roger's Big Picture
If you remember this show you are either a geek or a pop culture maven.Visa's IPO couldn't have been timed any better for the sellers. The issue priced above the high end of the r...

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Sunday Morning Coffee
Posted on March 16th, 2008 on Random Roger's Big Picture
Saturday morning our fire department (for anyone new, I am the assistant chief of a volunteer fire department that deals with wildfires and medical calls) had its annual driving ...

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Viewer Mail
Posted on February 27th, 2008 on Random Roger's Big Picture
A reader asks the following;with most usa interest rates now below the current rate of inflation, ie. negative real yields, i know you often s...

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75 Beeps
Posted on January 23rd, 2008 on Random Roger's Big Picture
So Bernanke lived up to the nickname with a 75 basis point cut before the open.There are plenty divergent opinions about every aspect of the cut and how effective, or not, it can be.My o...

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Oy Vey
Posted on December 6th, 2007 on Random Roger's Big Picture
I am trying to figure out what to make of the Paulson and Hillary ideas for homeowner bailouts.The first thing is that some sort of governme...

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