Investing
Sowing The Seeds Of Starvation
This summer’s searing heat has put a fire beneath grain prices. But worse than another round of inflation is the potential for widespread famine, particularly in the former Soviet Union, which has been beset by the worst heat wave in 130 years. Read this article to learn what the heat wave means for wheat prices and for a tip on how to profit…
To Profit From The Gold Market, Timing Is Everything
The gold market has gotten a lot of attention lately. Through the end of June, prices were soaring, and many people—professional traders and savvy amateurs alike—made nice profits trading gold on the commodity exchanges. Read this article to learn whether now is the right time to buy gold…
Pitfalls And Profits In The Wake Of The BP Spill
The climate is changing. I am not talking about the record heat wave in the Northeast but rather the political climate in Washington, D.C., where the Greens are just beginning to capitalize on the Gulf Coast crisis. Read this article to learn what’s in store for the oil industry under President Barack Obama’s Green policies…
Afghan Folly: Why We Should Have Dropped The Bomb
America’s longest war is again under scrutiny in the wake of the recent flood of WikiLeaks Afghanistan documents. For me the news resurrected a question I have been asking myself for nearly nine years: why wasn’t the war in Afghanistan ended before it even began? Read this article to get one take on why a nuclear device should have been used at the beginning of the war with Afghanistan…
Green Lies About Oil Sands Put America’s Energy Future At Risk
A couple of weeks ago the San Francisco based environmental group, Corporate Ethics International—which has few ethics and works closely with the Sierra Club and Greenpeace—spent $50,000 erecting billboards in Denver, Portland, Seattle and Minneapolis that deride Alberta as home to "the other oil disaster.” Read this article to learn what the Green lobby is up to…
Is President Obama As Hapless As Herbert Hoover?
With all due respect to Oprah Winfrey, she was not the first person to anoint a Presidential candidate as “The Chosen One.” The Chicago political machinery was doing that with regard to the father of the Great Depression—Herbert Hoover—seven decades earlier. Read this story to learn whether history is repeating itself…
The G-20 Pig-out And What It Means For Gold
Listening to President Barack Obama at the Group of 20 summit in Toronto, Canada, last week reminded me a bit of myself. As a person who has gained, lost and then gained back 100 pounds over the past decade, I have given much consideration to the very best time to start a diet. Without a doubt the answer is always: tomorrow. Read this article to learn what dieting and government spending have in common…
BP: Blame Petroleum
As I watched President Barack Obama’s Oval Office speech last week—in which he offered up empty buckets of hope—I reflected on the Greens and the crisis their President is muddling through. Read this article to learn what may be behind the silence of the environmentalists…
It’s The Greens That Sowed The Seeds Of The Gulf Oil Disaster
To the Greens I have six words regarding the catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico: Your President, your policies, your fault. Read this article to learn how Obama and the policies of the environmental movement are to blame for the magnitude of the Gulf oil spill…
Obama’s Big Fat Greek Bailout
The $1 trillion bailout by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and Europe to stave off a Greek debt default is just the latest attempt by Big Government to defeat deflation. But the soaring price of gold shows that this latest rescue is mired with problems. Read this article to learn more about what those problems are…
A Crude Coincidence—The Gulf Oil Spill Works Out Well For The Greens
Deep water oil platforms don’t just blow up… they are designed not to. Yet on April 20 an oil platform off the Louisiana coast exploded and sank, killing 11 people and releasing millions of gallons of crude into the Gulf of Mexico. Our energy expert, John Myers, looks at the possible causes and the ultimate cost of the explosion…
Bowing To China: What It Means To Our Future
American greed and extravagance has awakened China, and an eastern shadow is being cast on an indebted and divided America. At stake is our economic future. It seems hard to believe but in just two generations, from Richard Nixon to Barack Obama, America has crumpled from world kingpin to global has-been. Read this article to learn about the consequences of a growing China…
Two Contrarian Trades for the Coming Decade
United States stock markets have just come off of their worst decade ever, with inflation-adjusted returns in the S&P 500 dropping as much as 30 percent. That’s a far cry from what investors were expecting at the turn of the millennium. Then, the Internet was creating paper billionaires overnight. Read this article to get a contrarian opinion on where you should put your money…
Investment Forecast for 2010: The Dollar’s Demise Sets the Table
Washington is trying to jump-start the economy with unprecedented amounts of money. Yet the old economist adage holds, “It’s like pushing on a string.” Unless there is demand for money by willing lenders and borrowers the economy is not going to improve. What is going to happen is a train wreck for the dollar. Read this article to get John Myers’ predictions for 2010…
Trust… Hard to Acquire, Easy to Lose
We are living in challenging times, with change being the constant. Many of us are experiencing information overload with simply too much “stuff” to digest and act on. Many institutions, companies and individuals we thought were safe are in trouble. Read this article learn which investment you can always trust…
