http://ContrarianEdge.com/2008/03/03/patience-and-more-patience/ Wed, 20 Aug 2008 17:49:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 http://ContrarianEdge.com/2008/03/03/patience-and-more-patience/#comment-62381 Tue, 04 Mar 2008 18:14:18 +0000 http://ContrarianEdge.com/2008/03/03/patience-and-more-patience/#comment-62381 Jackson Hewitt getting slammed today. Do you still recommend it? Jackson Hewitt getting slammed today. Do you still recommend it?

]]> http://ContrarianEdge.com/2008/03/03/patience-and-more-patience/#comment-62165 Tue, 04 Mar 2008 00:10:55 +0000 http://ContrarianEdge.com/2008/03/03/patience-and-more-patience/#comment-62165 How is this a great company? I'm about to begin looking at this company for the first time but it seems to me they are privileged to have been granted a government-mandated monopoly. It also seems to me that this monopoly has outlived its useful life- as evidenced by the recent credit debacle- and will have to come to an end in the very near future. The government will likely try to involve itself in many aspects of the banking industry and most new regulations will probably be futile at best but more likely counter-productive. But ending the preferred status for the rating agencies seems like a logical and obvious regulatory change How is this a great company? I’m about to begin looking at this company for the first time but it seems to me they are privileged to have been granted a government-mandated monopoly. It also seems to me that this monopoly has outlived its useful life- as evidenced by the recent credit debacle- and will have to come to an end in the very near future. The government will likely try to involve itself in many aspects of the banking industry and most new regulations will probably be futile at best but more likely counter-productive. But ending the preferred status for the rating agencies seems like a logical and obvious regulatory change

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