Investing Strategies
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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Aug 22nd, 2008 |
By Whiskey Contributor |
Category: Commodities, Investing Strategies, Oil
The commodity bull market has a long way to go. This bull market is not magic. It’s not some crazy “cycle theory” I have. It does not fall out of the sky. It’s supply and demand. It’s simple stuff.
In the 80s and 90s, when people were calling you to buy ...
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Tags: Asian oil demand, commodities index fund, commodity bull market, elephant oil field, Saudi oil fields
Posted in Commodities, Investing Strategies, Oil |
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Apr 30th, 2008 |
By Whiskey Contributor |
Category: Investing Strategies
Leaps: An Investment Worth Jumping At
LEAPS stand for Long-Term Equity AnticiPation Securities. Like options, LEAPS are traded publicly and represent the right to buy or sell an underlying stock at a predetermined price. But unlike options, which have expiration dates measured in months, LEAPS expire in a matter of years. ...
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Tags: LEAPS, Long Term Equity Anticipation Securities
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