Here are some of Senator Barack Obama’s positions:

Opposed the Iraq war from the start.
Voted to end the war in Iraq.
Supports capturing and killing Osama Bin Laden.
Favors a $1000 tax cut for every working American family.
Will implement tax form simplification to reduce filing time.
Provide tax credit for all middle class homeowners.
Provide a tax cut for all families making less than $75,000 a year.
Amend NAFTA to protect American workers.
Amend NAFTA to strengthen environmental protections.
Providing Flex Ed training accounts for workers.
Extending Trade Adjustment assistance to service workers.
Supported Patriot Employer Act of 2007 that gives tax credits to large companies that keep workers here in America.
Double funds for basic federal research.
Implement a long term research and development tax credit.
Invest in green technologies.
Reduce carbon emission gases.
Tackle the challenges of global warming.
Create an energy focused youth jobs program.
Create Federal Renewable Portfolio Standard.
Extend the Production Tax Credit.
Expand Broadband into every community.
Keep the Internet tax free.
Expand high speed internet access in rural areas.
Fight for passage of Employee Free Choice Act.
Ensure freedom to unionize.
Would overturn “Kentucky River” classifications of Bush’s NLRB
Protect rights of striking workers.
Increase the mininum wage to index it to inflation.
Crack down on predatory lenders.
Provide a universal mortgage tax credit for homeowners who don’t itemize.
Sign the Stop Fraud Act to prevent lending fraud.
Mandate accurate loan disclosure.
Create a fund to protect people from foreclosures.
Close the bankruptcy loophole for mortgage companies.
Establish a credit card rating to improve disclosure.
Ban utilateral credit card charges.
Apply interest rate only to future debt.
Prohibit credit card interest on fees.
Prohibit Universal defaults.
Require prompt and fair crediting of cardholder payments.
Protect working people from unfair bankruptcy laws.
Ban executive bonuses for bankruptcy companies.
REquire disclosure of pension investments.
Cap outlandandish interest rates on payday loans.
Implement legislation to drive unscrupulous lenders out of business
Create a bankruptcy exemption for people that went broke because of medical bills.
Double funding for after school programs.
Extend Family and Medical Leave Act.
Encourage states to adopt Paid leave.
Expand the Child Care Tax Credit
Supports ratification of UN Convention Rights of Persons With Disabilities.
Supports independent, community based living for people with disabilities.
Expand educational opportunites for people with disabilities.
Expand job opportunities for people with disabilities.
Strengthen civil rights enforcement.
Sign into law the Fair Pay Act.
Sign law reversing recent SCOTUS rulings that permitted discrimination against women.
Sign law reversing recent SCOTUS rulings that permitted discrimination against racial minorities.
Strengthen federal hate crimes legislation.
Eliminate the sentence disparities regarding crack cocaines.
Establish drug courts for first time, non violent offenders.
Create a prison to work incentive for those transitioning back into society.
Passed a law to prohibit the practice of racial profiling.
Supported reauthorizing the Voting Rights Act.
Opposes all discriminatory barriers to voting.
Helped reform death penalty system in Illinois to protect innocent people on death row.
Voted to ban cluster bombs.
Provide high quality affordable child care to families.
Will quadrulple Early Head Start funding.
Will increase Head Start funding.
Creates early learning challenge grants.
Abolish overly rigid teach to the test curriculum in schools.
Improve accountability in public schools.
Invest in intervention strategies to reduce dropout rates in schools.
Increase funding for afterschool programs.
Supports Step Up program to increase summer learning opportunities.
Support English language learner programs.
Expand college outreach programs.
Create teacher service scholarships.
Requires all public schools to be accredited.
Create teacher residency programs.
Create the American Opportunity Tax Credit for higher education.
Streamline financial aid application.
Introduced legislation to increase Pell Grant to $5,100.
Reduce carbon emissions by 80% by 2050.
Confront deforestation.
Promote carbon sequestration.
Accelerate commercialization of plug in hybrids.
Promote development of commercial scale renewable energy.
Invest in low emission coal plants.
Transition to new electric digit grid.
Double science funding for clean energy products.
Create Green Jobs Cor

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The gamble being they actually start making electric or hybrid cars more and become lean mean money making machines – and the government bails them out at some point.

I’m mostly a bricks and mortar guy but always look for opportunites….

Now the USA seems more socialist do I look at investments differently there now? I prefer not to invest in the USA for currency reasons but if I could pick up some stock cheap (like penny dreadfuls)……..

Is it likely the government will bail out the car makers to keep the industry alive? Or will it survive without a bail out.

Is there a must buy price? How much more downside has the $us got left in it? Is it (usa car makers) just a black hole investment wise now?

Your thoughts oh financial titans and wizzards of y/a.

Thank you.

It really does seem like everyone is making at least a little bit of money in the online internet world. With so many different things going on and so many different people interested in the idea of the online world, many different people have come to the conclusions that the internet boom has yet to reach its peak. For people that make their living through the online world this is certainly good news. While people may be tempted to go out and spend until they can’t spend anymore with all the money they’ve made, it would do well for people to remember that we were at this stage before.

Most people are too young to remember it, but the internet boom that we are experiencing right now is the second internet boom in history. Ending the last boom, the September 11th attacks happened in the United States. Air traffic was grounded, security measures increased and of course in the wake of that a recession in the economy started to shake the population. No longer were people putting money into unproven internet ventures and therefore the boom of the internet went bust.

So, where are we now? People are making fortunes again and other people are having the times of their life. However, now that you know history, maybe you will realize that this boom may not go on forever. The start of a bigger economic recession in the United States and the dropping like a stone of the US Dollar suggest that the internet boom may bust again at some stage. While the internet boom is still growing massively, you need to save money if that boom eventually does go bust.

How do we reduce the impact of a recession on our business?

First of all, pay off your personal consumer debt. Then it’s important to have readily available cash so that you can pay your bills, and otherwise live a life. A cash amount equal to three months of your monthly expenses would be a good starting point.

After that, you should look at higher yield investments that will have your money working for you and providing you with regular cash-flow. There will be some awesome real estate investment opportunities falling out of the sub-prime problem. You may want to put some of your money into paper assets. In any event, real estate and paper investments require that you spend time becoming expert in these areas. Because time is the most scarce resource, many of us will turn to investment advisors. If you use an investment advisor, you need to take the time to do your homework on this too.

It may well be that your best option is to continue to invest in your own business. You have proven to yourself that you are an expert in this field. You know that the more you invest in and expand your internet business, the more successful you will be. You can then be prepared, with an even larger on-line business, to weather any downturn and possible reduced sales. If any so called “bust” hits, you will then have time to evaluate the opportunites and strategies of your business. You will still be successful if you want to be. And remember that should a bust happen, a boom follows. Be patient. We all have to make the best out of boom or bust situations.

The sun scorched Miami is undoubtedly the hottest property markets of the world. Since a couple of years now, Miami has brought in a quite many changes in its real estate investment market. Miami Florida is well known for its serene beaches and other activities. This has made Miami a perfect location for vacation homes or even a permanent house investment. This holds true for anyone who prefers to settle in one of the exquisite cities.

A few years back, Southern Florida was considered as a realtor’s dream about a real estate property market with a huge exploding growth potential. With the beginning of the millennium, Florida realized about its rising real estate prices. Many areas which include even the Sunny Isle beach, had increase in real estate prices which went as high as 250% in few areas. This came up as a drastic revolution in property rates making Florida a very expensive choice for real estate customers.

The price change showed the world that Florida happened to be a very sought after place for real estate investments. These price changes brought about a revolution in the entire economic structure all over Florida, following on more business and better work opportunities with a still heavier income. In spite of opportunites all over Florida, it still stayed as an expensive city to stay in.

Miami Florida is second largest in the state, suggesting it to be a better option for real estate. Current prices for houses in Florida are not very expensive. If you plan to rent any apartment or house, you would find high and moderate prices. Miami is always famous for fun and sunshine which again is a reason for many people deciding on property purchase there.

The future for real estate prices in Miami is still a big question mark even though the past has witnessed a lucrative business. In spite of housing units and homes being built as often, the agents find dealings in Florida to be highly difficult. Some houses get sold a lot quicker than others as there are a few of them which stay in the market for months together.

Over the past few years, Miami Florida has seen a drop in transactions and direct prices for property. Though the previous years have seen real estates in Miami to go skyrocket in both appeal and price, the future seems to bring wonders at times. Quite many properties have become hard to sell these days forcing the sellers to reduce the prices to make their deal.

The future would manifest real estates of Miami to be continuously popular even though the trend about low and high would still remain. Miami is undoubtedly one of the accepted cities in the world to be in, not considering the price fluctuation of its real estate chart.

Alternative investments can not only reduce the risk of your portfolio they can also enhance its overall reward.

With stock markets looking vulnerable as high oil prices and stuttering global growth, investors are turning to alternative investments.

Here we will look at high reward one that can produce triple digit gains and can reduce the overall risk of your portfolio, so lets get started.

Definition

The term alternative investments typically refers to hedge funds, private equity investing, high return mutual funds and a selection of non-traditional investments such as land, wine, timber, art, precious metals gems and a variety of collectables.

Portfolio diversification

The concept of spreading risk among a variety of assets but was reduced to a mathematical formula in 1952 by Harry Markowtiz.

Markowitz considered how ALL the different investments in a portfolio can be expected to move relative to each other and how this affects the overall risk/return of the portfolio.

The definition of this is “correlation,” and measures how much an investor can expect different investments or asset classes to change in price relative to each other.

For example, US equity markets and real estate will move in tandem, whereas interest rate investments will move in the opposite direction to each other.

Rates Of Return

If you choose the right alternative investment, then it will not only help reduce the risk of your portfolio, but will help you get better growth.

An investor should therefore combine a number of non correlated investments to balance the risk and reward of the portfolio.

Getting lower risk and triple digit gains!

One that has high growth and low downside and has upside regardless of whether stock markets fall.

We feel land is a great investment and should be considered by any investor.

It’s a simple investment and most of the world’s wealthiest investors have made money.

Land in the right location has provided stunning returns for many investors and for the purposes of illustration we will look at Costa Rica land.

Its historical performance, not only has shown massive growth, but downside has been low. triple digit gains have been achieved in just a few years has with investments in prime locations.

Costa Rican land has also produced solid long term gains regardless of whether stocks, equities and mutual have been rising or falling.

Costa Rica land is being bought to build properties to house the growing numbers of Americans that will flock to this country.

In fact many of the problems afflicting the US and other industrialized nations is the reason that more and more people are flocking to Costa Rica

They get a better standard of living at lower cost in a peaceful country that is a paradise on earth with stunning beaches, volcanoes, rainforests and much more.

There are 70 billion baby boomers about to retire in the next 10 years and they are looking at Central America and Costa Rica in particular to live in and maintain and enhance their lifestyle.

Expect the bull run here that started 7 years ago to gain momentum and whatever the stockmakret does in the US Wont affect demand.

Alternative Investments You Don’t need to be Rich

You don’t need to be rich to consider land as one of your alternative investments and every investor can take advantage of this opportunit.

A Simple Easy and Safe investment

Land is an easy safe alternative investment you get the same rights as residents, buying is easy and you pay minimal tax!

There are many specialist companies who will help you select land that has a high potential to rise in value.

They will do the research and give you all the facts you need and you can then decide in your own time and believe us this time will be time well spent.

Discover alternative investments such as Costa Rican land and see how you can increase your wealth.