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...that sounds like a lot of trouble to put your loved ones through, several companies are eager to help you plan ahead - for a fee, of course. Legacy Locker, Asset Lock and Deathswitch are among the firms offering encrypted space for people to store their passwords and other information. "Digital legacy is at best misunderstood and at worst not thought about," says Legacy Locker founder Jeremy Toeman, who came up with the idea for his company midflight, when he was imagining what would happen to his many Web domains if the plane crashed. "I would be surprised if five years...
Also, many private players plan to take advantage of federal financing programs, such as TALF (Term Asset-Backed Securities Loan Facility) and PPIP (Public-Private Investment Program), which will give them low-cost financing when acquiring troubled assets, making their potential returns even frothier. (See the top 10 financial-crisis buzzwords...
Investor Jim Rogers frequently says on television that we are in a long-term bull market in commodities and that this is the asset class that is really going to perform. Do you agree? I'm agnostic about it. I can see the validity of the argument, that it is different this time in commodities, but I don't have a strong conviction about...
...gold is not an important part of your portfolio? I've never understood gold and why you would want to own an asset that has no income return and actually costs you money to own and store. I sort of agree with what [Warren] Buffett said, about how he never understood why they send a bunch of men 5,000 feet under the ground in Africa to bring out this metal, and then they ship it all across the world and it's buried 1,000 feet underground at the Bank of England and the U.S. Treasury. There is something...
...from the month before. The Census Department recently reported that June also showed an increase - a small increase, but one nonetheless - in the amount of money going toward residential construction. Housing permits, which also speak to builder confidence, are creeping up too. As an Aug. 10 report from Oppenheimer Asset Management put it, "this part of the housing market appears to be finding its footing." (See pictures of a modernist house...