Investing and Trading News, with a Contrarian, Sarcastic Twist!
Bud Conrad is the Chief Economist at Casey Research, an offbeat, very insightful, investment research service that I subscribe to. Folks from Casey Research are rarely quoted in the mainstream press, as their level of thinking is a bit too deep for the dolts on regular financial news. Here’s a nice clip of Bud being […]
Clip of Ron Paul breaking down the housing bill for us laymen without the time or inclination to pore over 700 pages of legislation. It made me a) sick, b) terrified for the future of our country, and c) calculate my current gold/silver holdings again in my head.
Oh man – if you thought the US could create a credit bubble, you ain’t seen nothing yet. The always entertaining Mogambo Guru of the Daily Reckoning comments that an increase in Chinese citizen credit card usage “is also in line with government goals.” This is a country that saves a huge percentage of their […]
Forbes article Soros expects the oil/gold ratio to decline, closer to its historic average of 10. He expects gold to hold its ground, even if oil were to decline.
Keeping the faith here – strategy has been right generally on these trades, just poor timing. Ah well, it happens. I am re-evaluating my entries, as they have not been serving me well over the past few months. Tried the short side of the grains market with the short on mini-corn, and that worked out […]
Up until this Fannie/Freddie bailout fiasco, I was still a bit on the fence about gold and the dollar – thought that gold should continue to go up, dollar should continue to go down – but hated essentially selling the US short. And I kept rechecking my assumptions, trying to think of ways the US […]
Tom Dyson writes in DailyWealth that he believes corn prices are set to drop sharply – and reiterates his favorite plays are live cattle. After thinking about corn a bit, I also now believe that there is more risk on the downside. Potential catalysts for sending corn lower are the impending bust of corn-based ethanol, […]
Rogers told Bloomberg the plan is an “unmitigated disaster” and that “they’re ruining one of the greatest economies in the world.” Boy this really gets my blood broiling – confirms my belief that this country is going to get what’s coming to it, good and hard. Protect yourself – buy gold.
Another tough one – got to put it in the past, though. Facts are, this system works great when futures are going up, and not so great when they are going sideways/down. And lately, I just haven’t been in the particular futures that are going up (oil looked nuts at $110 – who would have […]
Makes a lot of sense, and who better to engineer a plan than Boone. At it’s heart – we have to expand wind power, where great potential lies in the Midwest. Using wind power for electricity can allow us to shift the use of natural gas from energy to transport fuels.
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