Investing Strategies
Nov 24th, 2008 |
By Adrian Ash |
Category: Commodities, Economics, Energy, Featured, Gold, Investing Strategies
“Well, God knows you don’t need any brains to buck barley bags...”
— John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men (1937)
Alpha used to be what hedge-fund managers promised their clients.
Better still, portable alpha — defined in the easy bed-time reading of finance MBAs as the “generation of excess return over a benchmark ...
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Tags: Buying Gold, Cost of Audits, Credit Lines, Credit Shutdown, hedge funds, wheat
Posted in Commodities, Economics, Energy, Featured, Gold, Investing Strategies |
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Nov 17th, 2008 |
By Whiskey Contributor |
Category: Investing Strategies
There has never been a better time than right now to buy stocks. I know what you’re thinking — it sounds strange considering the enormous volatility in the market. But, I’m not talking about just any old stocks. I’m talking about stocks that produce real income.
In these manic times, you ...
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Tags: dividend reinvestment plan, Dividend Reinvestment Plans, dividend yields, DRIP investing, reinvesting dividends
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Nov 11th, 2008 |
By Whiskey Contributor |
Category: Featured, Gold, Investing Strategies, Macro Economics, Oil
If you’re sick of the gloom and doom permeating markets right now, you can find solace in one investment… Well, it’s actually a type of investment. I’m not talking about options or shorting or even bonds. We still like to buy low and sell high, but we also like our ...
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Tags: High Yield Stocks, Income Stocks, Investing Dividends in penny stocks, Penny Stocks, Potential Money multipliers, small cap stocks
Posted in Featured, Gold, Investing Strategies, Macro Economics, Oil |
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Nov 6th, 2008 |
By Byron King |
Category: Economics, Energy, Investing Strategies, Oil
Along with the market decline, the price of oil has fallen. It’s down 50% within three months. Back when oil hit $147 per barrel in July, I said that the price “ought” to be in the range of $100-110, with the possibility of a drop into the $90s. That’s what ...
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Tags: credit crunch, Low Oil Prices, market meltdown, Oil, Oil Price Slide, Oil Service Companies
Posted in Economics, Energy, Investing Strategies, Oil |
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Oct 29th, 2008 |
By Byron King |
Category: Commodities, Gold, Investing Strategies
Do you remember the 1970 Academy Award-winning movie Patton, starring George C. Scott? In the beginning of the movie, Scott — playing the iconic American Gen. George S. Patton — stands in full dress uniform, backed up by a gigantic American flag. Scott then rouses the troops (and the audience) ...
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Tags: capital cost inflation, Constrained Gold Production, Demand Fundamentals are Strong, Gold Investing, Tye Burt, Ups and Downs of metals
Posted in Commodities, Gold, Investing Strategies |
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Oct 20th, 2008 |
By Byron King |
Category: Energy, Investing Strategies
Before you do anything precipitous — like sell your last stocks and stuff the cash into your mattress — let’s ask a few more questions.
If you sell out now, what price will you get? A low price, right? So if you sell now, you will leave a lot of value ...
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Tags: Canadian miners, energy investment, global oil output, hedge funds, resource investment
Posted in Energy, Investing Strategies |
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Oct 13th, 2008 |
By Chris Mayer |
Category: Economics, Investing Strategies
“If you crossed the street blindfolded, you’d probably be OK. But the consequences of being wrong are so great, it’s a bad idea.”
— Bill Bonner, Founder of Agora
The “financialization” of the American economy is an era coming to a close. It’s back to the basics of wealth creation, to the ...
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Tags: buy what people are selling, Durable old investment ideas, investing in farming, John Templeton, recent market crash
Posted in Economics, Investing Strategies |
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Oct 3rd, 2008 |
By Dan Denning |
Category: Investing Strategies, Macro Economics
EVERY ONCE IN a while, a report comes out from a government agency that’s so unassumingly candid you’re forced to admit a mistake has been made and that the document was mistakenly leaked, or that its author will soon be fired.
I couldn’t help thinking something like that when I read ...
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Tags: government sponsered enterprise, GSE mortgage portfolios, GSEs’ investment portfolio, GSEs’ mortgage investment, investing during a crisis, risk of GSE debt
Posted in Investing Strategies, Macro Economics |
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Aug 28th, 2008 |
By Chris Mayer |
Category: Economics, Investing Strategies, Macro Economics
While in Vienna last month, I grabbed hold of the international edition of The Wall Street Journal. Over a classic Viennese breakfast of coffee, a boiled egg and pastry, I stumbled across an interview with Ted Forstmann, titled, “The Credit Crisis Is Going to Get Worse.”
I hadn’t seen Forstmann’s name ...
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Tags: Dr. Andre Homberg, financial cycles, real assets, Ted Forstmann
Posted in Economics, Investing Strategies, Macro Economics |
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Aug 25th, 2008 |
By Chris Mayer |
Category: Housing, Investing Strategies
“All a man has to do to get rich in America is find out where people are going, get there first and buy land.”
— Gen. Douglas MacArthur
Bob Hope, the great American comedian and Hollywood star, was actually born in England. He once quipped, “I left England at the age of ...
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Tags: Bob Hope's real estate, land banking, Land Banking in the Stock Market, land ownership, Las Vegas Valley land, Professional Land Corp
Posted in Housing, Investing Strategies |
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