Wednesday, 06/18/08
Posted 06/18/08,  11:41 pm ET

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Today's date:  Wednesday, 06/18/08

  Dow Jones: 12,029   - 131
  NASDAQ:   2,429    - 28
  S&P 500:   1,337    - 13
 
 
 
 
 
Final Segment 1
 
 
Final Segment 1 Title: 'Am I Diversified'...

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'Am I Diversified' Segment...

In this segment, Jim takes calls from viewers to critique their top five holdings, to indicate whether they are, together, relatively diversified as a standalone portfolio.

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Final Segment 2
 
Final Segment 2 Title: 'Mad Mail'...

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After this segment, you can see Jim's Sudden:Death picks here...

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Q:  
  I enjoyed the segment on the "Ax Effect."  It gave me some good insight to the cause of the increase in RIMM. While I found that everything you said made sense, my question is, where do you find who the Ax analyst of a given company is? How can you tell who the Street is going to follow?

JJC:    Some things in life are literally experienced. I know I never like to play this experience card on this show, because it says to me, and to you, that you can't play this game at home. I'll tell you who the Axes are, because I have followed these industries for years, and I knew that Rob Sanderson had a great call. Cheryl Scholnick is the Ax in the health maintenance organizations companies... like Coventry Health Care Inc. (CVH), like Unitedhealth Group, Inc. (UNH), which she told us to get out of, literally 25 points ago. Each industry has an Ax. I will try to reveal them as we go along. By the way, the oil industry Ax is the Goldman Sachs (GS*) analyst.


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Mad Mail

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Q:   
You've mentioned in previous shows that the current mortgage crisis is a greater concern over inflation. In my research, I discovered that residential mortgages only account for less than 5% of the GDP and consumer spending accounts for 70%. Therefore, isn't inflation the greater risk since 70% of the GDP is driven by consumer spending?

JJC:    I can show you extensive studies that show you that the worth of your house is the single-most psychological part of consumer spending. If the worth of your house is going down, you're going to spend less, so I say, it's 70% of your analysis depends on housing, which depends on the price of what's going on with house price depreciation. And so I think you need to worry about that more than you need to worry about inflation. It's a deflationary event when your house goes down.


BEZ

38.29

38.59

Mad Mail

Baldor Electric Co. (BEZ)

Q:  
  Not only does BEZ make a very efficient motor, but is is also the BEST electric motor out there. As a steel fabricator, I have used BEZ's motors for years in all of my equipment and won't use anything else! They are very durable and last for years!

JJC:     May I tell you that we heard from BEZ today. I'm hoping to get McFarland on... the CEO. And they were quite surprised to learn things about their own company, in the segment  that we did on BEZ, which is a "new tech" company. I'm glad that we brought to light many different things that no one knew about BEZ. I re-recommend BEZ right here.

LGCY

23.25

23.99

Mad Mail

Legacy Reserves Lp
(LGCY)

Q:  
  You have recommended Permian Basin Royalty Trust (PBT) and Linn Energy, LLC (LINE) as good Master Limited Partnerships. They pay a good dividend but have very little chance of growth, because they are not totally committed to drilling new wells. I believe that LGCY is a much better choice for a high dividend MLP in the oil and gas sector. They are aggressively acquiring properties and committed to drilling and increasing production. They are currently yielding 8.29%.

JJC:    Why did I read Trey's note?... Because we can learn from Trey. We learn from our viewers every night. Those who don't like the show don't like our viewers. I learn from our viewers. I think Trey may have a point, and I urge you to look at LGCY. I am full boat already in these Master Limited Partnerships. I hesitate to recommend another name. In the same way that I don't recommend other fertilizer names, other than IPI.

COST

68.96

68.71

Mad Mail

Costco (COST)

Q:  
 I'm not that keen on the idea of ethanol being even partially our savior for energy independence. I was disappointed to see a sticker on the gas pumps at COST indicating that their regular gasoline would now be 10% ethanol. Personally, I am seriously considering avoiding COST, or any company adding ethanol for gasoline. Do you think COST's decision will have an impact on its earnings?

JJC:    No, I absolutely do not. And, by the way, that's the American way, dictated by our President, right on down. There's nothing we can do about it. They want an ethanol blend. Now, let me just tell you how I feel about ethanol... 3% of America's gasoline is made by it, but it's devouring 30% of our corn crop. It's making you poor, just in time for your July 4th barbecue, and making no one happy at the pump.


 

 

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