Category Archives: Fund Management

Survey: CEO’s confidence in economy gets a boost.

By empower | Published: February 23, 2011

The Wall Street Journal gives a glimpse of the confidence shown by CEO’s in various sectors…http://empower.ws/

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Irony: Bernanke – No housing bubble to pop.

By empower | Published: November 20, 2010

…Rather, he has argued for many years that the Fed should respond to rising or falling prices for stocks, real estate or other assets only if they are affecting inflation or economic growth in an undesirable way. Thus, he would advocate cutting interest rates if a reversal in the housing market sharply dampened consumer spending, triggering job losses or a fall in inflation to very low levels. Bernanke believes “the Fed’s job is to protect the economy, not to protect individual asset prices,” said William Dudley, chief economist for Goldman Sachs U.S. Economics Research… http://empower.ws

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commercial lending is back

By empower | Published: September 9, 2010

New opportunities in commercial lending are about to sweep the country – thanks to the banks that leveraged themselves beyond their capabilities and drew the wrath of the FDIC, an insurer who has kept watch over depositors since 1933. The news to small businesses, developers, and the like could not come at a better time as the economy tries to gain stability with loan rates remaining unusually low. http://empower.ws/

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what we can learn from Apple

By empower | Published: June 21, 2010

Any way you slice it, Apple is leading the way in more ways than one. Apple is not just an alternative to Windows and PC’s, but is taking more and more of the computing and retail ‘gadget’ marketplace. The products are extremely intuitive, the engineering and construction outstanding, and the proprietary software has much fewer problems than its competitors. For business owners – I should say, for forward thinking business owners, the Apple model is an incredible model to follow. Business in the 21st century is much different than business in the 20th century. Now more than ever, businesses must have 4 clearly defined principles at its core: (iPhone 4, iPad, iMac, etc.) www.empoweryourbest.com www.apple.com

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why you want to learn more about private investing

By empower | Published: April 19, 2010

Common investing methods – such as investing into the stock market – is generally a passive method. Meaning, it is defensive in nature. Typical investment advisors make choices for their clients based on what a stock is doing, or what the market is doing. Their software tells them that changes have occurred and they need to buy, sell, hold, or plan to make a move based on certain theoretical indicators… http://empoweryourbest.com/

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retire early. retire wealthy. really.

By empower | Published: March 26, 2010

Retiring early is no longer a dream – if you are open to unconventional methods. Retire Early. Retire Wealthy. Your best days are ahead. http://empoweryourbest.com