October 18, 2006 – As I’ve mentioned many times before, I expect to see a significant correction coming soon in the U.S. markets. Were it not for the imminent mid-term elections on Nov. 7th, I would call for strong and…
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October 14, 2006 – When you look at satellite images of Africa at night, it is truly amazing. It’s beautiful yet eerie at the same time. The entire continent, with the exception of the coasts of Algeria, Tunisia, and Morocco,…
October 8, 2006 – In a previous blog, we mentioned that an abundance of perspective is a critical key to building significant amounts of wealth. Why? Because perspective is the only tool that allows you to sort out reality from…
Q: What is the Most Diverse Place on Earth? Occasionally I’ll just post a short blurb about nothing investment related when I see something outstanding. Noticed Brooklyn is now on board here at the Zen of Investing. Being in Asia…
October 4, 2006 – Here is the graph for the Consumer Confidence Index in the U.S. (Source: Conference Board). Basically the CCI takes a representative sample of 5,000 households in the United States (which by the way, is an enormously…
October 2, 2006 – Came across this site which is pretty interesting. There is a company incorporated in the United Arab Emirates and Malaysia that offers gold and silver backed online transactions, though fees are quite high at 1% of…
September 23, 2006 – The world of global politics is like Alice in Wonderland, a great landscape of fabrication where it seems like more people are accepting of strange, wild fantasies rather than desiring to dig down the rabbit hole…
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 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…
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…