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One thing I am not sure about is how much reluctance foreign holders of US treasuries will have to buy more treasuries. My guess is both foreign government and commercial holdings …

This downgrade is just based on Nokia's current performance which is going to continue to be bad for a couple of quarters. But their balance sheet is solid and looks like the Nokia…

An ode to friends in Finland? The logo looks very much like flags of Finland, Sweden etc.

Well, the one thing I am suggesting for sure is that when I buy a stock in a company, I own a part of the company and as a result own a part of the profit. And I am seriously imply…

Well, a manifestation of the main reason I stay away from owning stocks of tech companies. They do not share profits with the stock holders and pretend to know better how to put ca…

CoWINvest provides tools and products enabling individual investors to do their own research and analysis based investments. CoWINvest also attempts to democratize financial data a…

The idea is scary at first. But really makes sense once you think about it. I agree, it makes the screening process more human. I know the job market is not good right now for job …

"If you ask me about barriers to entry, you don't understand the internet." Asking about barriers to entry does not mean the potential investors don't understand internet. This com…

Do something you like. Life is too short not to spend on stuff that makes you happy. I believe chances are stuff you like will also pay you reasonably. 3 years is a long time to wa…

I think more of such stuff is going to come in coming years. It is just a manifestation of changing economic profile of the world. I believe something similar might have happened a…

It is very heartening to know that many YC winter 2010 startups are already profitable. Is more information available on profitable YC companies so far? And how they got to cash fl…

Now, this is just me imagining. My guess is that part of the tussle with Chinese authorities which Google does not talk about may be demands made on Google for information on indiv…

DHH makes very good points about profit. But he seems to imply that all other startups or majority of them do not get this basic point. He also thinks that 37 signals would be maki…

Does anybody have experience with scaling their Rails application on Dreamhost or Joyent? I have just started using Dreamhost VPSs with overall a good experience but have not reach…

What got me is switching buzz off does not disable people following you - you have to individually block people. They did a similar thing with searching through emails - there was …

Hmmmmm. This would explain it - but for the fact that dividends are generally supposed to be paid out of profits not out of cash in the bank. Aren't dividends a way of sharing prof…

I disagree with the notion that dividends paid lower the share price. Is there a theoretical reason? Or is it observed in practice? I would very much like to learn more about this …

The tech companies, by not paying out dividends, are in effect telling shareholders that they can invest the profits better than them. This belief I guess comes out in part due to …