Investing for hard times not End Times

The News Review:

- Investing for hard times not End Times
- Cramer’s ‘Mad Money’ Recap: Investing Mistakes to Avoid
- The Year Hedge Funds Got Hit
- Investing New Year’s Resolutions
- Madoff Firm Trustee Sued for Return of $10 Million by Investor
- Kids and money: Lessons from Madoff scandal for young investors

Investing for hard times not End Times
Los Angeles Times CA 
The Armageddonites say it won’t work. More to the point I think many of them don’t want it to work. Why? n The Times’ Money & Co. blog and on countless other investing and economic websites many people who take the time to comment on the U. financial-system disaster see it as the inevitable comeuppance for the nation’s borrow-and-spend mentality of the last 25 years. Americans who didn’t borrow to the hilt didn’t lease a new BMW every year didn’t live far beyond their means are bitter about the friends neighbors and family members who epitomized those excesses — and who now want federal help including via mortgage modifications lower interest rates and jobless benefits.

Cramer’s ‘Mad Money’ Recap: Investing Mistakes to Avoid
TheStreet.com 
First he said investors need to understand the difference between an investment and a trade. “A trade is when you buy a stock for some specific event a catalyst” he said. An investment on the other hand is based on a long-term thesis “the idea that a stock has the potential to work over a long-time horizon. Cramer said it would unwise to sell a stock you believe in for the long term just because it’s “gone up a lot off some catalyst. Doing so he said will lead you to get out before the best gains have arrived.

The Year Hedge Funds Got Hit
Washington Post United States 
Now they are under enormous stress. Congressional hearings have highlighted their potential to put the global financial system at risk through excessive use of debt to finance investments and through extensive links with banks and other large financial institutions. More and more pension funds and college endowments have been investing in hedge funds and pressure is mounting for regulation of the funds. "We’ve been living on borrowed time in that the industry has grown far more rapidly than we’ve been able to support with the existing legal regulatory and investment infrastructure" said Andrew W. Lo director of the.

Investing New Year’s Resolutions
Cabot Wealth Advisory MA 
Today with the Cabot Wealth Advisory FREE e-eletter Cabot continues to offer independent advice that is grounded in sensible time-tested investment strategies and presented in a clear readable style. As one reader puts it.
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Madoff Firm Trustee Sued for Return of $10 Million by Investor
Bloomberg 
MadoffInvestment Securities LLC seeking a ruling that Picard has noclaim to the funds. Martin Rosenman managing member of Rosenman Family LLCspoke by phone with Madoff Dec. 3 about investing and Madoff toldhim the fund would be closed until Jan. 1 though he may wire themoney earlier according to the complaint filed in U. Rosenman also the president of Bronx New York-based Stuyvesant Fuel Service Corp.

Kids and money: Lessons from Madoff scandal for young investors
Kansas City Star M 
“But if they don’t learn about scams and how to avoid unscrupulous con artists it may remain the furthest thing later in life. I’m a fan of patient long-term investing. Resist the urge to put too much money into one investment.

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