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February 6, 2007 – There are a healthy number of analysts that argue against the continued devaluation of the dollar due to China’s enormous position of about U.S. $1 trillion of dollar denominated reserves. The argument being made in very…
Even though the best financial consultant you could ever hire by an extremely wide margin stares back at you every day when you look in a mirror, for those of you absolutely unwilling to learn how to do-it-yourself, here are…
February 2, 2007 – To win in investing, one has to deliver your punch while the markets are “breathing in”. What does this mean? Think about how your lungs operate. When you breathe in, your lungs contract and shrink and…
January 30, 2007 – Many people have asked me what exactly is the long tail of investment strategies because that is what I advocate as the best and safest way to make huge gains in the stock market. I have…
January 28, 2007 – Most people when they read the above answer will think I’m crazy. In fact, I know a lot of people that told me they handed their money over to a firm after trying to manage their…
January 25, 2007 – Well this week’s casual Friday Blog is not so much a blog about investing & martial arts as it is a blog about the investing & the film The Matrix. The Matrix is one of my…
January 25, 2007 – Just two weeks ago, on January 7th, I wrote a blog called “10 Reasons Why Dollar Denominated Bonds Aren’t as Safe as You Think”. This afternoon, on the U.S. markets, MarketWatch reported a sell off of…
January 25, 2007 – This past week, I saw a professional newsletter that stated that there was almost nothing good to buy right now. That most major markets including leading emerging markets in China and India were overbought and that…
January 23, 3007 – Just taking a contrarian position all the time doesn’t mean that you will be right. It takes a much deeper understanding that can be achieved by utilizing the proper information channels that are now available as…
January 21, 2007 – Defined within the realm of the statistical Bell Curve, the long tail would reside in the skinny tail at the borders. The long tail, in regards to goods and services, refers to the evolution away from…