By now, everyone has heard all the doom and gloom surrounding the pension fund entitlement programs around the nation. Of course, GM and Ford are getting the most attention. This being said, we cannot ignore a fundamental shift taking place as companies try to replace their entitlement programs with 401k's.

On the surface, it seems cruel to take away something like a pension fund, but t

Hi John:

e your daily insightful comments on the market and individual stocks.

1) i would appreciate if you can list a couple of good agressive stocks that you like for year end rally or even small rally for the begining of next year. If you know any.

Sorry, but I cannot give specific advice, only general ideas. Any stock ideas would be listed in the IA portfoli

GM certainly has had its share of problems. The recent weakness is the stock is due to a tax loss sales by billionaire investor Kirk Kerkorian.

If you own the stock, you need to follow the news very closely. If Kerkorian continues to dump the stock after the first of the year, GM may very well be heading for bankruptcy.

Here are some comments from a Reuters article today:

Let me finish the sentence,...you can get away with just about anything". I was simply finishing the headline of this journal heading. "Ok Mugarian, what in the heck are you talking about?"

I don't know if you have been following the various corporate corruption cases lately, but the biggest joke of the American justice system (second to the OJ trial) has to be the case against former H

After the takeover bid for Burlington Resources (BR) was initiated by Conoco-Phillips (COP), I have become increasingly more confident that Chesapeake Energy (CHK) will follow the same path.

I originally found CHK a few months ago as I browsed through my daily list of insider transactions. Even at current prices, Chesapeake insiders continue to have an insatiable appetite for their stoc