Reading Time: < 1 minute My old friend, high end restaurant with family appeal, and a legendary founder (company web site). I traded it (Nasdaq:RUTH) back in 2005 shortly after its IPO. Obviously with the recession, high end was hurt badly, RUTH was no exception. To make matter worse, RUTH bought a seafood chain in early 2008 using debt. The

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November 19, 2009

Reading Time: < 1 minute The other day my wife asked me an interesting question: how long will the recession last? I think her implied meaning is how long the job market will be like this (with unemployment rate reach 10%)? I thought about it, and my answer is it could last 2 to 3 years. But on the other

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November 13, 2009

Reading Time: < 1 minute Got some Developers Diversified Realty (NYSE:DDR) shares. A bit late. But as an old saying goes “better late than never”. Why I said “late”? Because the smart money already bought a boat load of this in Feb this year (Developers Diversified Enters Into Agreement to Sell 30 Million Shares to the Otto Family). Quote: it

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November 10, 2009

Reading Time: < 1 minute How much Google knows about you? The google dashboard. I found out the google search I did last Saturday on “enable root on Mac” (by going to google => “My Account” => “web history”). I believe there is a setting a google user can change to disable google to collect the data. But for me

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November 7, 2009

Reading Time: 2 minutes I was a little busy recently, due to many reasons. Thus I did not paid much attention to stock market in the past week, and the big drop in last 6 trading days did not concern me as much (due to distance), another reason is I sold some stocks before and during those days, so

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October 31, 2009

Reading Time: < 1 minute (Aug. 06, 2009) Strategic Hotels misses estimates, sees local revenue fall, quote: A closely watched measure of REIT financial performance, FFO is net income excluding gains or losses from property sales, plus depreciation and amortization. (May 1, 2004) Table Is Set for New Round of Hotel IPOs, quote: Historically, stocks in the sector traded at

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October 24, 2009

Reading Time: < 1 minute From Fox Business News (via Youtube). The journalist also talked about Google and Android OS used in nook.

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October 22, 2009

Reading Time: < 1 minute He talked about job market, compensation, and the events around crisis a year ago.

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October 21, 2009
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