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September 17, 2006 – Sometimes, I’ll scan financial news on Reuters, Bloomberg, MSNBC and so on, not for information to make investment decisions, but just for ideas to write another blog entry. Occasionally I’ll find something to comment on. By…
September 16, 2006 – Everywhere in the media, you have pundits saying that the commodities Bull Run is over – including even chief global economists of major investment firms like Steven Roach of Morgan Stanley. They’re all wrong. This is…
September 16, 2006 – People continually employ flawed and deceptive statistics when making their investment decisions. In the short term, the performance of the U.S. stock market has enormous influence on all other major stock markets. One of the most…
September 15, 2006 – Although you hear a lot about alternative energy being a good investment today, I think that it’s still a lot more hype than reality. Yes I’ve heard the arguments for alternative energy investments such as high…
September 14, 2006 This is the first time I have ever provided information on short-term trades because they are just too unpredictable and they take too much emotional effort to invest in. There are a lot of longer (not long…
September 13, 2006 – I recently blogged about gold’s sharp decline but wanted to follow up with another blog so people don’t get my message twisted. I am still very confident that after this correction ends that gold will go…
September 13, 2006 – Everybody always thinks that smart people make money. But that’s far from the truth because smart people often lack the proper kind of intelligence. Probably less than 1/10th of 1% in the world have the book…
September 12, 2006 – Today, I’m taking a brief respite from my daily financial blubbering to just write a movie list, with the common theme that all of these movies dig down the rabbit hole. So these are not necessarily…
Q: Who’s Reading My Blog? Hello everyone. I know my blog is still in its prenatal phases. In fact, our final blog website design hasn’t even been consummated. But Google Analytics is a great service that lets me know where…
September 11, 2006 – On July 25th, in my E-Zine Issue #013, I mentioned that I thought the U.S. dollar was going to strengthen and that gold was going to fall. Since then the dollar has rallied for six straight…