What is a "good investment" these days?

I have an account with sharebuilder.com

For the shorter-term, you may want to consider consumer staples and high yielding stocks. Of course, you could invest your money in a CD at your local bank for a few months, until the problems in the market work their way out. For the longer-term (one-year or more), however, you may want to consider select companies in the financial, retail, industrial, and mining industries. Many of these companies have suffered dramatic losses over concerns about an upcoming recession. I would argue that some are excessively discounted, and provide for long-term outperformance.

Good luck!

Brendan Prewitt
President, New York Capital Investment Group LLC

granny panties are becoming quite popular again

Berkshire Hathaway... BRKB - can't go wrong following Warren Buffett's lead.

frontier markets are a good investment now.

The coming field of the future is Hydrogen. Remarkable strides have been made just in the last 6-8 months tah appear to make the hydrogen powered car a reality. Find out all you can about this concept and invest accordingly. Don't take some hotshot salesmans spiel about his company of his particular stock offering as gouspel. Find out for yourself. There is wind power (off peak excess generating capacity can be used to produce hydrogen) and hydrogen fuel cells, (converts hydrogen into electricity at a 75% efficiency rate) and electrolysers (convert wind or solar power into hydrogen for storage and use in either the home (fuel cells) or the car as compressed gas.
The market is WIDE open and it is ground floor opportunity NOW.

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A thumbs down huh? Well, as i said, it IS a ground floor opportunity and this thumbs down only goes to demonstrate that MOST of the investment community has NO idea where toput their money for the long term. That makes MORE opportunity for me.

Simple really, cash in a term deposit of some sort. The best investment is to get your personal debts down to a minimum as quickly as you can, pay off the credit cards, loans and other millstones as the last thing anyone needs is debts in a potental recession.

Invest in Silver, often called "the poor man's gold"? Silver used to be a monetary metal, and maybe some day it will be again. I've recommended silver before, and now I'm going to recommend silver again. Back in 1980, gold sold for 850 and silver sold for 50. Then, one ounce of gold would buy 17 ounces of silver. Today with gold near 900, one ounce of gold will buy a whopping 55 ounces of silver. It seems to me that silver, in terms of gold, is "too cheap."

try and find a sector that is working good, i like pharmaceuticals and mining stocks nowadays,, they are working good and will continue throughout '08.. long term plays,,, you should check out www.thewallstreethunter.com they have some pretty good market updates where they talk about what is happening on wall street,, check out the articles, good info for newbies..

Good luck...

you've received some of the worst answers I've seen in awhile. What else could you expect from strangers whose qualifications and motives can never be known.

Read a couple of good books on investing. The "dummy" series has some excellent ones on retirement investing, mutual funds, stocks etc.