If you're searching high and low for tax deductions, take comfort from others who've done well at tax time.??Of course, no one wants to be challenged, which argues for keeping to the straight and narrow.??Nevertheless, if you're adventurous it's comforting to find someone challenged by the IRS who went to court and won. These aren't ...

pubblicato il: 19/03/2012 - 13:55

Do pullbacks in this sector today anticipate buying on the news tomorrow?

pubblicato il: 13/03/2012 - 14:56

Insight Enterprises posted four upside surprises and gets higher estimates for 2012. Its low multiples make it worth a look for value investors.

pubblicato il: 13/03/2012 - 17:24

StubHub this morning is officially launching its ticket reselling service in the U.K. this morning, the eBay unit?s first market outside of North America. StubHub President Chris Tsakalakis, in an interview from London, noted that the service has been operating in beta for the last few months, and already has about 150,000 listings. The U.K. ...

pubblicato il: 15/03/2012 - 08:23

One of the most famous pieces of investing advice and a piece of advice I still give to my students is Peter Lynch's famous mantra, "Invest in what you know." The idea is that you or I can spot good products and thus promising companies as we go about our daily lives, and we consumers ...

pubblicato il: 13/03/2012 - 18:54

Whatever happened to the American dream of going to college, landing a great job and living happily ever after? College is supposed to be about getting off to a great start, but it's a financial noose that threatens to kill our young and everybody else too. The U.S. has the dubious distinction of now having ...

pubblicato il: 23/03/2012 - 04:25

College loan debt is already bad, but it?s likely worse than people think. Four economists at the Fed published a paper last week analyzing consumer credit data from Equifax to determine the scope and health status of student loans.??They reiterate what many already know: outstanding student loans are now about $870??billion, a bigger debt pile??than ...

pubblicato il: 16/03/2012 - 13:53

Two large new meta-analyses published in the Lancet provide the first strong evidence demonstrating a cause-and-effect relationship between a specific inflammatory protein and the development of coronary heart disease (CHD). Both studies illuminate the role of??interleukin-6 receptor (IL6R) by focusing on the common??Asp??358Ala variant of the IL6R gene. The variant is known to dampen the ...

pubblicato il: 15/03/2012 - 20:54

Humans aren?t generally very good at writing secure code. But it seems they?re even worse at it when they?re an employee of a government bureaucracy or hired as unaccountable federal contractors. In a talk at the Black Hat Europe security conference in Amsterdam later this week, security researcher and chief technology officer of bug-hunting firm ...

pubblicato il: 13/03/2012 - 17:24

Six million people each year in the US go to the emergency department (ED) with acute chest pain. Although only 10-15% of them turn out to have an acute coronary syndrome (ACS), most are admitted to the hospital.??Coronary CT angiography (CCTA) has been proposed as a good method to quickly establish the presence or absence ...

pubblicato il: 26/03/2012 - 16:56