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Chris Mayer

Chris Mayer studied finance at the University of Maryland, graduating magna cum laude. He went on to earn his MBA while embarking on a decade-long career in corporate banking. Chris has been quoted over a dozen times by MarketWatch, and has spoken on Forbes on Fox. He has also spoken on CNN Radio, and has made multiple CNBC appearances. Chris is the editor of Capital and Crisis and Mayer's Special Situations, a monthly report that unearths unique and unconventional opportunities in smaller-cap stocks. In 2008, Chris authored Invest Like a Dealmaker: Secrets From a Former Banking Insider.

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China and Why Coal Prices Will Soar

Jun 21st, 2010 | By | Category: Energy, Featured, International
In Beijing, I saw firsthand the unfolding boom serving China’s new and growing disposable incomes. Besides busy shops and restaurants and 5 million cars on the road in Beijing alone, there is something more basic that underlines all of this. In fact, it is more fundamental to the entire story ...read more

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Posted in Energy, Featured, International | 5 comments


How to Invest in What China Really Needs

Jun 16th, 2010 | By | Category: Commodities, Featured, Personal Investing
There must be more communists in Berkeley than in Beijing. That thought crossed my mind as we swept through Beijing’s wide streets, crowded with cars and lined with tall modern buildings. A more bustling capitalistic city would be hard to imagine. I think most Americans would be shocked to see Beijing ...read more

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Posted in Commodities, Featured, Personal Investing | 7 comments


The Agricultural Investment You Need to Make Right Now

Jun 14th, 2010 | By | Category: Commodities, Featured, Personal Investing
The appeal of farmland as an investment is pretty clear in a market in which clarity on anything is hard to find. It starts with one basic premise: The global population is expected to reach 8 billion by 2030. There are certain inevitable outcomes we can take from this. The ...read more

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Posted in Commodities, Featured, Personal Investing | 21 comments


Two Reasons to Buy China-Based Stocks

Jun 2nd, 2010 | By | Category: Featured, International, Personal Investing
How do you make a 100% gain in a foreign stock even if the price of the shares go nowhere in their home market? It’s all in the currencies. To have any chance of doing that, you have to start with a cheap currency. For U.S.-based investors, one of the ...read more

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Posted in Featured, International, Personal Investing | 4 comments


Monetary Crisis Could Lead to Wild Gold Spike

May 28th, 2010 | By | Category: Featured, Gold
When the proverbial fecal matter hit the fan during the week of May 3, one asset shined above all others. It was the humble yellow metal, gold, doing its part in times of panic and crisis. It held up. On May 7, gold closed above $1,200 for the first time ...read more

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Posted in Featured, Gold | 16 comments


Potash, China and the Fire Under Agricultural Commodity Prices

May 26th, 2010 | By | Category: Commodities, Featured, Personal Investing
There are factors building up pressure under the price of other commodities. Demand for food is growing and set to explode. Smart investors will be properly positioned to take advantage when agricultural commodity prices skyrocket. One of the first things people change as they emerge from poverty is their diet. They ...read more

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Posted in Commodities, Featured, Personal Investing | 8 comments


The Brave New World of Emerging Markets

May 19th, 2010 | By | Category: Economics, Featured, Personal Investing
When Gen. Cornwallis surrendered to Gen. Washington after the Battle of Yorktown, the British band supposedly struck up the tune “The World Turned Upside Down.” After all, such an outcome would have been unthinkable at the start of the American Revolution. That is in the nature of things, however. No one ...read more

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Posted in Economics, Featured, Personal Investing | 3 comments


The U.S. Expatriate Paradise of Nicaragua

Apr 9th, 2010 | By | Category: Featured, International
Greetings from Leon, Nicaragua, which is about an hour drive northwest of Managua. Leon is the second largest city in the country and was the old capital for more than 200 years, before Managua took the title in 1851. I’m staying with a friend of mine from college and his ...read more

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Posted in Featured, International | 8 comments


Penthouse Gypsies Flock to Dubai

Nov 12th, 2009 | By | Category: Featured, Personal Investing
As the sun sets over this desert country, it bathes everything in a whiskey-colored tint. The still cranes perched on unfinished buildings look like ruins. But when the sun disappears and inky darkness fills the sky, Dubai’s cityscape lights up and takes on a magical quality.  Crowds fill its restaurants in ...read more

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Posted in Featured, Personal Investing | 7 comments


What Chinese Money Buys: Gold Goes Green

Sep 2nd, 2009 | By | Category: Featured, Gold, International
U.S. banks are going bad as quickly as a bunch of over-ripe peaches in the summer heat. On the heels of the Colonial Bank failure comes another sizable bank failure. Guaranty Bank in Texas became the 81st U.S. bank to fail this year. It was the 11th largest bank failure in ...read more

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