Seal of the Export-Import Bank of the United States. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

In Washington, nobody can seem to come to any agreements. But given the numerous social and economic problems and issues we face as a nation, our government should not be forwarding to wealthy politically connected corporations, our limited public resources. And this is precisely what is done by the Export Import Bank.

Some in favor say the Ex-Im Bank protects jobs, promotes U.S. exports and for the taxpayers is a positive deal. These arguments don't stand up under scrutiny.

Google Street View - Pan-American Trek - Downtown Banff (Photo credit: kevin dooley)

Investing in Google today is an interesting part of what stock investing may look like in future decades. Trading is excepted to change noticeably in the next 25 years, and the practice will appear quite different even within the next decade. The middle class of the future is expected to have access to personal stocking trading advisement from professional brokerage consultants. One of these advisers just might be in the form of a digital avatar designed to give highly personalized trading advice.

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Recently GoDaddy hosting has filed for IPO. The hosting provider said that they plan on using some of the money from the IPO to pay some of its debt off, as well as use it for corporate purposes.

GoDaddy filed its regulatory filing, and when they did that they indicated that things such as the number of shares they will offer has not been determined. However, the company did mentioned that they will try to raise some money, up to $100 million. They did say that this is just the placeholder amount, and that the amount could end up change.

The company, based in Arizona, provides products and services such as domain registration, as well as web hosting plans. The company has also listed Citigroup and J.P. Morgan as underwriters for their offering.

For the last 8 years, the rate of unemployment has kept on rising. On the other hand, the growth of industries in technology, energy and healthcare show an upward trend thus energizing the deteriorating economy. Amazingly, some sectors like manufacturing, which were reliable before are now perishing and taking with them whole cities.

During the few final years of Bush Administration and early Obama Administration people who depended on wages as their only source of revenue really suffered. On the other hand, a good portion of Americans who use alternative methods of revenue generation such as investing made more money. In fact, corporate payoffs rose to about 150 per cent as compared to 2007 figures. Many people fear to invest since they think investing requires a complex procedure.

Sure Trader is a company that is Bahamas-based and that clears through US based clearing firms. Recently, their CEO spoke about many of their appealing qualities on Friday's LiveStock on demand. Let's take a look at some of these great qualities they offer.

SureTrader's clients are not subject and not affected adversely by the Pattern Day Trader Rule. This means basically that their clients are able to trade as much as they want and not be restricted to 3 day trades in a 5-day rolling period.

Sure Trader is a company that is Bahamas-based and that clears through US based clearing firms. Recently, their CEO spoke about many of their appealing qualities on Friday's LiveStock on demand. Let's take a look at some of these great qualities they offer.

SureTrader's clients are not subject and not affected adversely by the Pattern Day Trader Rule. This means basically that their clients are able to trade as much as they want and not be restricted to 3 day trades in a 5-day rolling period.

Another positive is that you can operate your account with less than $25k which is a great advantage to investors.

Another great factor of opening an account with Sure Trader is that they require a minimum of just $2000 to do so. This is far less than what is required by most other companies.

Shorts are not waning at all, on the contrary, brokers are now seeing great demands for them. And the other good news is that CEO Guy Gentile is committed to making certain that Sure Trader becomes and remains the short-sales all-in-one broker.

Another great benefit is that for trades up to 1000 shares, the cost involved is only $4.95 per trade, making them one of the least expensive firms out there.

Another positive is that being an offshore company, they avoid many of the involved and complicated US rules.

The seal of the U.S. National Security Agency. The first use was in September 1966, replacing an older seal which was used briefly. For more information, see here and here. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)