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February 25, 2007 – Here is a story that was running in the U.S. markets last week out of San Francisco: “The Securities and Exchange Commission has begun a broad investigation into whether Wall Street bank employees are leaking information…
February 23, 2007 – There is something known as martial art’s intuition. Every martial artist that has sparred has experienced this intuition. You know when your sparring partner is going to throw a punch or deliver a chick before they…
February 23, 2007 – I remember nine months ago when gold was trading about $570 an ounce how many people that I told to buy gold stocks did not buy because some of the big names like Stephen Roach, the…
February 21, 2007 – One of the most important determinants of building wealth during your educational life would have been a solid course in the history of education. Why? Because a solid understanding of the roots of institutional education would…
February 8, 2007– Occasionally, I’ll revisit prior blog entries and provide a very quick update. Several months ago, I said that I would avoid buying stocks of Chinese banks. Despite the recent comments of a top Chinese politician that the…
February 16, 2007 – In martial arts, there is the concept of mu shin ryu, which loosely translated means “abandon the mind.” In almost every blog, I speak of how martial arts concepts can make you a better investor. In…
February 15, 2007 – There are 7 habits that highly effective investors engage in regularly that separate themselves from the thundering sheep herd. These 7 habits, in fact, often lead to highly effective investors acting very differently from the average…
February 12, 2007 – If you look at this chart for Newmont mining (NEM) as of February 9, it illustrates that large institutional money is still not on board with gold yet and in addition, for this reason, this a…
February 8, 2007 – Most professional athletes suffer from young person’s disease — invincibility. They feel as though short-lived careers will happen to the other “guy” or the other “girl”, not him or her, and consequently fail to adequately manage…
February 7, 2007 – Let’s take BHP Billiton, the world’s largest, diversified mining company, to illustrate the point of this blog entry. For the past couple of months, when BHP Billiton was trading below $40 a share, and it stayed…