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Is Fast Food Slowing Down? Five Growing Trends in Restaurants Today

Leave a Comment / Food / By Guest Contributor

Americans’ taste preferences over the past few years have shifted away from fast food and towards healthier, but still casual, alternatives. Although McDonald’s, Burger King, and their ilk have seen a dramatic slowing in their sales, competitors like Panera Bread, Chipotle and in the west, Cafe Zupas have stolen market share by offering options with more natural ingredients and more vegetables.

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Zombies at the Gate

Leave a Comment / Economic Trends, Wealth Creation / By Guest Contributor

On August 24th in the year 410 AD the “Barbarians” appeared at the gates of Rome and successfully sacked the city. They spent three days pillaging and causing all sorts of mayhem. Thus began the saying that has come to mean a destruction from without by uncivilized people, “Barbarians at the Gates”. Historically these particular barbarians were

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Will Online Banking Render Tellers Obsolete?

General / By Guest Contributor

Throughout the history of banks, tellers represented the connection between individuals and their money in a financial institution. They handled deposits, transfers, withdrawals, loans, credit increases and account openings and closures. The Internet, however, has started to change all of that. More than ever before bank customers are choosing to process their transactions online or

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Spotting New Trends: Knowing When to Go Against the Grain

Economic Trends, General, Overseas Investing / By Guest Contributor

Spotting New Trends- It is said that hindsight is 20/20. It’s easy to think, “If I had just bought apartments in Paris in the 80s, or tech stocks before the bubble, or gold in 2000 or 2001, I’d be sitting on a fortune right now.” The thing is, kicking yourself for lost opportunities doesn’t do

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Determining Currency Trends in the Forex Market

2 Comments / Commodity Trends, Forex / By Guest Contributor

Editor’s Note: It is always a good idea to look at charts one or more levels bigger than the time frame that you are trading. If you are trading short term (scalping) minute by minute look at the hourly and daily charts. If you are day trading by the hour look at the daily

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Using the MIP to Decide- When to Refinance

5 Comments / Mortgage / By Tim McMahon

The MIP (Moore Inflation Predictor) is our proprietary index that projects future inflation rates one year into the future. It uses a “fan” style with varying level of likelihood that certain rates will be attained. If you are considering refinancing (see When is it Right to Refinance? ) naturally you want the best rate. In

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Market Parallels to 2000 and 2008

Leave a Comment / Stock Market / By Chris Ciovacco

The typical financial disclaimer reads, “the past is no predictor of the future” but learning from historical markets is definately a good thing to do. For some time now Robert Prechter has been telling us to expect a double dip with 2008 being the first wave down. Today we are going to look to Chris Ciovacco,

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Solar Energy in Uzbekistan

Leave a Comment / Energy / By Guest Contributor

In a wierd twist of fate, Uzbekistan is sitting on a “Gold Mine” of scientific information about solar energy which because of cheap Siberian Oil has been totally worthless… Up until now. With the world’s interest turning to Solar once again this might be an opportunity for a forward looking company to snap up years

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Economy Trends Toward Greater Depression

Leave a Comment / Economic Trends / By Casey Research

It’s important to continue to check our economic compass and keep a constant eye on the direction our economy and the world in general are headed. This will help to determine any adjustments necessary in our portfolios and/or our entire financial outlook. In today’s article David Galland looks at the direction of the economy and whether anything

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Stock Trends by Month

Leave a Comment / Stock Market / By Tim McMahon

By Tim McMahon, editor I read quite a few books on investing strategy every year but one that sticks in my mind is by legendary investor and trader Larry Williams called The Right Stock at the Right Time. In it he outlines the monthly and yearly trends that can provide a basis for your overall

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