GM has completely failed to face the reality of high priced oil. While one can't fault them for selling the gas guzzlers Americans were wanting to buy, at the very least they could have had pursued some R&D so they could cope with the potential of $3.00, $4.00 or perhaps $5.00 gasoline. The price pof Gas has reached $4.00 and they are just now deciding to eliminate the Hummer line, and perhaps build an electric car of some sort? To little to late. Good management keep irons in the fire...just in case.

The S&P is the perfect mix of stocks to gain from a rebound in the US economy . There is nothing about this that bothers me. In fact, I kind of wish the market would go down a little more so I could get it for cheaper.

I think Apple will do well over the next 12 months. Good company and the overall market is very depressed right now , any recovery should take the stock up. However to the person who said "Apple is replacing the PC", that will never happen. For one Apples are much more expensive. And two, gaming is huge and most computer games are made only for PC (Mac gets a few but not significant amount). So PC is here to stay. As is Apple IMO but don't expect it to make the IBM PC obsolete

Great opportunity to own an oversold, fast growing solar...with a low PE ratio...estimated to earn $1.29 /share in 2008 and $2.03/share in 2009.

UNH is a quality company with 18% annual ROIC average for the past 5 years. At 1.4 times book and 6.5X earnings it is cheap. To top it all off the sales and earnings growth have been been good in the past. Margin compression due to the oligopoly competing too much amongst themselves for market share and due to inflation is a real, but temporary, problem. Imagined risks from democrats is not a real problem.

High oil means solar is a more viable energy source. Good trailing and forward P/E compared to competition. Large companies are expecting major growth in sales but price of their stock might already account for that. P.S. I have a solar powered calculator and it works great!