[Shimpy]

Originally Posted by Villages PL

Imagine the year is 2030. What will you be wishing you had bought today?

2030, are you kidding?? I'll be 88 and just glad to be alive, I think.

[brostholder]

Originally Posted by nitehawk

wish my family had bought Manhattan for $24 in 1629
although my father did buy the Brooklyn bridge and we got nothing for it

You must be mistaken, because my brother was also sold the Brooklyn Bridge!

[Number 6]

I think that Corning (GLW) is a great buy still. There was a time a few years ago that it was going for $1.50 per share. In better times it is a $30 per share stock.

[Francie]

Google, 3M before Post It notes, Apple

[aljetmet]

I bought both EMC aND INTEL during the mid 90s both split three times and shot up. Unfortuanately I didn't sell anywhere near the top but I did make some good money. It's so darn hard to say sell. Dot COM busted and from 2000 - 2009 it was a lost decade for our retirment fund. Oh well.

Anyone buy GE @ $8 2/09. I did but not that much...

I have overcome saying sell. Easy now....

[HelenLCSW]

Originally Posted by nitehawk

wish my family had bought Manhattan for $24 in 1629
although my father did buy the Brooklyn bridge and we got nothing for it

LMAO

[HelenLCSW]

Well, I guess Apple is on everyone's list, gold when I first suspected it was going to go up, and McDonald's when it first came out. If you thought Velcro was unbelievable, so was the $.15 hamburger --and fast food --what was that?

[BarMixer]

oba

Originally Posted by Doodlegirl

today I would be buying company's in TX and OK working on
fracting in the old wells for gas and minerals (drilling sideways in the old oil fields). I inherited partial leases in some of these and I am seeing the small amounts increase substantially in dividents from company's drilling in these wells using this new process, like Hess and Occidental Permian as an example. Good to research Fracting.

USA.

A stock with potential is Chesapeake Energy (CHK). They are involved in fracking for gas shale - Huge deposits called Marcellus and Utica - covering a huge portion of the northeast, as well as fracking the old oil wells.

My financial guy always stresses utilities such as power and water. He says his daughter inspires this thought - she gets up in the morning, turns on the light and brushes her teeth.

[KARENNN]

Originally Posted by Villages PL

Imagine the year is 2030. What will you be wishing you had bought today?

I have been away from stocks for a few years, any opinions on FSLR? Interesting 5 year chart, but I haven't been following it since 2007.