November 14, 2006 – Just a few hours after I posted my blog entry on J-REITs this morning, this article appeared on the newswires. “HONG KONG (MarketWatch) — Japan’s gross domestic product expanded 0.5% in price-adjusted terms in the three-month…

November 12, 2006 – To determine if the person managing your $1,000,000 account is truly the expert you believe him or her to be, pick up the phone tomorrow and do this simple experiment. Do not give your financial consultant…

Q: How to Take an Old Idea and Recylce it? Time again for the casual Friday entry. Several weeks ago, for my casual Friday blog entry, I wrote about a photographer that started a project where he was attempting to…

November 8, 2006 – Here in my blog and in my newsletter, I have mentioned Sothebys (NYSE:BID) as a favorite of mine a couple of times. Yesterday I sold out of BID for a 33% gain after holding it for…

November 6, 2006 – No, you aren’t having déjà vu. It’s the topic that just keeps producing good investment opportunities. From natural gas and oil reserves, to diamonds and gold and uranium mineral resources, now this — the first new…

November 8, 2006 – Here’s something that I learned today about the peak oil theory that I didn’t know that seals my skepticism about its validity. The theory of Peak Oil was invented by Marion King Hubbert in 1956. Who…

November 7, 2006 – I have never believed that Peak Oil was real despite the plethora of experts that claim its legitimacy. In life, the majority of people will believe something as long as enough talking heads repeat the same…

November 6, 2006 Yes, I know that I’ve been silent about gold’s bottom but that’s because I don’t think we’ve reached it yet. I’ve merely just been very patiently waiting for the consolidation phase to run its course, but that…