Archive for 'Construction'
Dow Jones Stimulus Index
The Dow Jones Indexes revealed an index of stocks and sectors that are expected to receive a substantial portion of the taxpayer money from the stimulus package. The index is split into six sectors: “Alternative Energy, Construction & Materials, Energy Grid, Environment, Technology, Telecom/Internet” – which is surprisingly close to the very same categories we [...]
Posted: June 1st, 2009 under Construction, Economy, Energy, Environmental Issues, Infrastructure, Obama, The First Year.
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Stimulus Package Extravaganza
We all know that the stimulus package is going to be the big spending bill of the year, making it the ‘pork barrel’ – so to speak. The fact that there is going to be quite limited appropriations of cash for the rest of 09, this does a lot for us in determining the timing [...]
Posted: February 14th, 2009 under Construction, Defense, Healthcare, Infrastructure, Obama, The First Year.
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More Altucher Picks
In considering Obama’s plans for increased infrastructure (i.e. construction), Altucher has pinpointed a couple stocks very likely to have a growth reminiscent of what we used to see during the ‘Dot com’ boom in the nineties: ASTE and LNN. Both of these stocks have 5x cash flow potential. Astec Industries works in paving and construction [...]
Posted: January 16th, 2009 under Construction, Infrastructure, Obama, The First Year.
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City Slicker
A rather enlightening Time magazine article notes that Obama is the first president to have spent the majority of his life in an urban environment since Teddy Roosevelt. With this, he has a fresh take on city policy and has even established a new cabinet position to deal with this area of government. Since Obama [...]
Posted: January 13th, 2009 under Construction, Education, Infrastructure, Obama, The First Year.
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20 Companies Flourishing Under New Infrastructure
We are still experiencing massive amounts of volatility right now, and new news from Obama only adds fuel to the fire. We might sound like a broken record here, saying that timing is the key to picking Obama stocks, but getting into the market for this reason in this extreme period is a bad idea. [...]
Posted: December 11th, 2008 under Construction, Infrastructure, Obama.
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More on Infrastructure
There’s been a universal consensus that Obama’s aggressive new plans for developing American infrastructure would be good for the construction sector, but so far we’ve been rather short on specifics. Below we have Sham Gad’s observations on the recent two day rally in the construction sector. So far the market believes Obama’s infrastructure job creation [...]
Posted: November 25th, 2008 under Construction, Infrastructure, Obama.
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No Child Left Behind. Oh Really?
While we’ve already had five different posts about the Democratic debate the other day, bear with us one more time to revisit it to pick out a little talked about issue (at least in the debates): education. There was only one question about education in the debate and it dealt with the No Child Left [...]
Posted: July 25th, 2007 under Biden, Construction, Education.
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