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Wall Street is going crazy for MLPs these days!  The safe, stable, dividend yield of a master limited partnership (MLP) is all the rage right now with investors.  Which is precisely the reason you might want to steer clear of this sector for a bit. Tom Dyson elaborates in his Daily Wealth column: Whenever you […]

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On December 5th, I bookmarked Jim Grant’s Op Ed for the Wall Street Journal entitled Requiem for the Dollar. I had meant to blog about it, but got busy, and it actually worked out for the best, as we now have 15 days of trading hindsight since the op ed was published. I should first […]

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So Gold CAN Still Go Down, After All Last week was shaping up to be another banner one for gold, as the old relic kept on climbing, day after day…that is, until it stopped. Gold’s one-way rise experienced a sharp setback on Friday, dropping nearly $50 on the day, and over $60 in intraday measures. […]

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Tom Dyson, one of my favorite investment writers/analysts, is also one of the very few lone soles left in the debt deflation / dollar bull camp (last one out, please turn out the lights!) Last week, Tom penned an article that I thought articulated the case for a near term dollar rally brilliantly – and […]

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Mark Twain famously said “History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme.” Several weeks ago I observed that we appeared to be exactly on the pace with 1930. From the stock markets furious rally, to the Fed generating inflation fears, to the self-congratulatory economic comments of leaders proclaiming “the worst is over”…it all seemed to […]

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We know that, right now, we are most likely in a period of “debt deflation.” Wages are falling. Prices also appear to be falling – though this is open for debate, as there are smart people who believe prices are steady or even rising. For example, Marc Faber recently said he’s surprised that prices are […]

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Nice scoop by the Daily Crux – Richard Russell’s comments about current dividend levels…or lack thereof! The second quarter of 2009 was a dismal one for corporate dividends. Standard & Poor’s recorded an all-time low of 233 dividend increases plus resumptions and extras. During the April through June period, the 7,000 publicly-owned companies that S&P […]

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Our friend Tom Dyson over at DailyWealth says that something may be happening in the world of lumber, according to one of his industry sources…Tom writes: I have an “on the ground” contact who’s seeing something else altogether… Don runs a large lumber supply depot outside Orlando. Last week, he sent me a “special commodity […]

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Do we finally have the opportunity that many of us have been waiting for…the mouth watering chance to short US treasuries? First, a quick review of the fundamental facts, which we have discussed at length in this space. On October 19, we outlined 7 Reasons to Short US Treasuries – and then we promptly went […]

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