Investing Rules Learned from the Bernard Madoff Scandal

The Bernie Madoff scandal is a sad case of the lack of care by the investing public ... , commodity and others! Speak with Someone About Your Decisions - It never hurts to talk to someone [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 14:00:53

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thinking like an analyst

Randomly surfing news channels yesterday, I saw an economic analyst from a leading investment bank talk about his thoughts on surging oil ... to play the oil futures market, or are just care about when the price of your daily commute is going to come down, there's a specialist who provides this data, for a fee. Posted by Ed Cotton Tags [more...]

Date: 2008-06-11 16:03:04

The Shortest Investment Book Ever by James O’Donnell

... in commodities or buying options and futures, but for 99% of individuals that stuff won’t matter [more...]

Date: 2008-12-28 11:30:02

A critique of the market as optimal system, and remedies for the meltdown

Why is it that: “The need for a pervasive, permanent role of government in directing investment also emerges from more recent studies of economic ... outcomes rests on Pareto optimality, an absurdly narrow definition of social goals. A proposal ... competition only leads to the right outcomes if everything that matters is a marketable commodity [more...]

Date: 2008-12-18 12:48:22

Bad News Predictor Jailed

The Economist a month ago: Back in September a message appeared on an online bulletin board owned by Daum, the most popular web host in a country, ... the imminent collapse of Lehman Brothers, a now-defunct investment bank. Wild speculation is normally ... began to watch the currency markets in anticipation. The won did indeed fall by about that much [more...]

Date: 2009-01-11 22:26:11

Now that's really funny...

It it at times like this that you realize how difficult it would have been to just follow the simple investment advice of buying commodities in the ... in commodities, yet with news of a high profile commodity hedge fund shutting down and twitchy traders ... about the recent slide in commodity prices is that much of the big move down is being attributed [more...]

Date: 2008-09-03 15:18:00

OIL.....

If you didn't see the special on CBS last night on oil.....here it is. It's a 13 minute clip that is EXTREMELY ENLIGHTENING ... such as commodities, equity's, and debt.(3) advisory/wealth management services for their clients(4) long term investments on their own behalf.In the case of oil prices.....they were publicly pushing [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 12:18:00

saturday post.

Happy Saturday everyone! Our dinner at Olive Garden last night turned out a little funny, will blog about it in a little while ... less this year. He want to study more on options trading and in fact saw a site that could help ... . PowerOptions provides the essential data you need to invest with stock options. For more information visit [more...]

Date: 2009-01-10 21:50:11

Dealing With Income or Job Loss

by Doug West Multiple Income Streams Are More Important Than Ever The latest economy reports show more and more folks ending up on the unemployed ... opportunity to get more serious about my business. I also had been doing some investing (my best-ever stock ... trading, and that does not require a lot of money to get started, but to be really good at [more...]

Date: 2008-12-18 21:23:04

HOW OBAMA WOULD STIFLE DRUG INNOVATION

The pharmaceutical industry has begun to give up on developing drugs for routine medical problems in favor of discovering "specialty" ... controls -- based on a view of medical care as a commodity to be purchased at the lowest price, with little ... economically pernicious effect of price and access controls is how they distort future investment decisions [more...]

Date: 2008-10-21 13:35:56

Better Investment Than Real Estate - At Least For Now

Last week I made the case against real estate as an investment class ... Congress gave him to fund TARP. And it seems to have “worked” since the LIBOR and the TED spread [more...]

Date: 2008-11-16 15:54:57

{Spider Web Marketing System}

socialmarketer asked: http://firemyboss.ws wrightbryant@hotmail ... earn money work at home profitability forex earn financial interest rate hyip investment investments making money buy egold trade no risk cash deposit exchange work from home fund egold egold [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 17:15:15

Market Commentary From Monty Guild

Dear CIGAs, 2008 IS BEHIND US…MANY ARE THANKFUL We would like to take this opportunity to wish you a very happy, healthy, prosperous New Year. OUR OUTLOOK FOR 2009 A) The U.S. dollar will decline in 2009.  This is a lynchpin for several investments. B) Precious metals and grain commodities have bottomed.  These are priced in dollars… [more...]

Date: 2008-12-31 20:54:23

Russia's Overleveraged Economy as a House of Cards

Andrew Kramer has a piece in today's New York Times which examines how so many of Russia's most wealthy people lost so much money in so little time during the current financial crisis. Not a lot of new information, but some interesting quotes ... by falling commodity prices and the flight of an estimated $74 billion in foreign investment since [more...]

Date: 2008-10-18 16:01:33

The Hollow Men

British financial historian Niall Ferguson recently coined the term “Chimerica” to describe the growing economic interdependence between the United ... was then invested in the U.S., which kept interest rates in the U.S. low and provided easy credit ... American excesses and Chinese suppression. China kept its currency at artificially low levels in search [more...]

Date: 2009-01-02 00:51:42

Herd Waits for Latest Scent

The markets do what they do, and today they're waiting for the latest (ridiculous) piece of employment data.. ... I am less susceptible to the expected unexpected. I will maintain some core positions (small cap gold ... trading and great risk management to all.Educational use only. Never intended as investment advice. [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 17:06:00

Another Sad Quarter Ending for Brokerages

The coming end of August will bring to a close the fifth consecutive ugly fiscal period for major investment banking firms. In what has become an all-too-familiar pattern, the waning weeks of the three-month period are marked with jittery trading, rumors of asset sales, and steady declines in earnings estimates from analysts who managed, [more...]

Date: 2008-08-22 08:23:00

Speculators not to blame

In certain quarters people keep arguing that the surging oil and food prices are caused by speculative international investments in these commodities. People who understand how the market is working have always maintained that the principle effect of commodity futures is beneficial because they smooth extreme swings of prices [more...]

Date: 2008-07-11 05:22:11

Market is Going Turbulent Again

Without any kind of stimulation plan, the market is going turbulent again. The market seems more dependable on US policy makers’ decisions ... deep hole. Stock market is intended to improve economy instead of put it into worse. Today stock ... . Is that “hilarious”? Funds Investing When our interest rate is decreased to almost zero, policy [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 00:10:25

Non-Stock Investment Options

I discovered this very informative article, “No-Stock Portfolio, ... building I’ve ever worked in for the last 5 years (well, except my house). Energy: Specifically funds ... I was in Vanguard’s tax exempt money market but the yield on that baby pretty much dried up. Gold: Another commodity [more...]

Date: 2008-12-23 16:15:30

10 Economic Indicators You Should Know

1. Average workweek of production workers in manufacturing 2. Average initial weekly claims for unemployment 3 ... orders, non-defense capital goods 6. New building permits issued 7. Index of stock prices 8. Money ... invesment decisions. Photo Credit: nancyarora2020 Advertisement: Real Estate Investing Forums Discuss [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 04:58:41

Commercial Real Estate Investing - The Refinance Nightmare

Howdy from the metropolis of Cedar Crest, New Mexico. I just got back from my father-son retreat with my boys Colt (9) and Dakota (7) ... of items that I did not see coming…NO ONE did. But from what I understand….my mortgage broker ... broker is going out of his way to make things happen BUT the “hold ups” are unprecedented. So… [more...]

Date: 2008-06-08 17:28:21

iBankCoin Spits on You

Why do you people bother blogging? No one reads your shit anyway. Let your readers come to my site and they will never go back to yours ... . There will be more bodies. I know oil is a very popular investment for the internet type these days. Back ... the ramifications of the credit squeeze and declining commodity prices, no doubt. COP has over 22 [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 03:16:40

Rethinking The Early Mortgage Payoff

By Julie Rains The borrow-at-a-low-interest-rate-and-invest-to-get-greater-returns mentality was so embedded in our belief system that there almost seemed to be a stigma attached to not carrying a mortgage balance forever. When Washington Post personal finance columnist Michelle Singletary wrote " [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 15:41:42

Investing with Real Estate - Problems and Their Ways Out

You have probably heard the stories about how one investor made over $100,000 in a week by flipping a house. Here appears a natural question – how do these people do it? Is it something that everyone can learn to do? In the information below you will find some strategies concerning this kind [more...]

Date: 2009-01-10 20:32:12

How to buy foreclosures homes training online

Check out the best real estate investment training around that ensures you cash in on hot foreclosure deals with easy-to-understand instruction ... session, Tara — Founder & CEO of REThinkRealEstate.com, as well as a successful real estate broker ... foreclosure buying, including online tools for making your life easier during the process Mortgage [more...]

Date: 2008-09-22 15:19:46

Thier loss…..which you are paying for…. will be your gain!

It has been considered a foregone conclusion that the retiring Baby Boomers are the most affluent seniors in history. Well that may not actually be the case for many of us anymore. After years of careful investing and working our tails off we are finding many of the very people we trusted our futures to have “lost [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 18:53:25

Rigour? In a blog?

Brad DeLong has an impressively clear (although, or perhaps because, a bit technical) piece on risk appetite and fundamental values of assets ... of asset prices are the money-metric values that the costate variables associated with the commodities ... for the limited amount of savings capital available in the world? If I, as a productively investing busin [more...]

Date: 2009-01-11 03:23:44

An Imperfect Storm of Lousy Excuses

Sebastian Junger caused it all. Blame him for the subprime mess. The banks meltdown. Gang violence in American cities. The collapse of the commodities market in western Australian. A fish kill in Pennsylvania ... . Wall Street investment bankers, who once might have considered their own short term greed [more...]

Date: 2009-01-11 15:15:30

What would be a reason to open a Charles Schwab account instead of a Vanguard account?

My parents swear by Schwab but when I asked them why those chose Schwab over something like Vanguard (which has lower costing funds available) the best they could tell me was that they had other services with Schwab. So I am wondering, strictly from an investing point of view (if I want to buy just the indexes) is there any reason [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 22:20:31

Fruitful Conversation

My father in-law and I were having a a good conversation this morning and I hadn't noticed that it's lunch time already ... . We all know that our economy right now is not doing well and our futures are in stake. So we are talking about investing in the Philippines. But first and foremost, he needs to know more about Philippines [more...]

Date: 2008-10-24 20:46:25

Poor Old Hedgies Face More Rough Sailing

It is hard to work up much sympathy for newly-less-well-off hedge fund managers, given how rich the good times were ... funds from some of the biggest names in the industry, such as Tudor Investment Corp, Citadel, Cerberus Capital and Highbridge Capital – have limited redemptions. Prime brokers, which provide services [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 04:05:33

Find a lender that truly cares - Interview with LendingLadies.com

At SmartHippo, we aim to keep consumer’s best interests in mind and we love lenders who think the same way! ... -founders of LendingLadies.com–a unique broker firm that does things a little differently ... working for us. However, our investment clients are pre-dominantly male, so we are trying to even [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 16:08:28

Watching the Dollar?s Weakness

In recent days, major currencies have rebounded a bit against the dollar, which rode a rally through most of the summer and the fall ... David Gilmore, partner at Foreign Exchange Analytics. Some believe that the anticipation of a bailout ... and the yields artificially low,” says Axel Merk, president of Merk Investments. “Foreign government [more...]

Date: 2008-12-15 16:26:55

Forex Trading Tips: Stop Comparing Yourself To Others

Measure your currency trading success against yourself One of the hard things to do when involved in any type of trading is to just concentrate on your own performance without comparing it with others'. I occasionally invest in the stock market above and beyond my retirement account. It is tempting to look at the great returns others [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 15:16:29

A Bleak Look at the New Year

New Years is usually a time for optimism. But here at Donklephant, we’re committed to discussing both sides of everything ... prices plunge. So, really, a mattress with a nice hole in it may be the best investment next year. 10) Chinese Yen becomes currency peg in Asia. Yeah, well, we still have South America. [more...]

Date: 2008-12-30 19:16:43

iBonds Update

Here is an article about iBonds, which are inflation-protected securities that you can buy from the US Government online that are fully guaranteed. iBonds right now are yielding over 5% because of higher inflation; this could always change in the future. Read more if you are interested. Recently I have been writing about investing in secure [more...]

Date: 2008-12-19 01:12:45

Barron's investment roundtable on Gold. GDL, GDX, AEM, ABX, AUY, SLW, SST.v, TNR.v

Interesting to see Gold as one of the major investment theme from Barron's. "...Faber: The U.S. economy fell off a cliff between October and December, and will stabilize at a lower level of activity [more...]

Date: 2009-01-11 23:50:00

trader incentive contracts, trend chasing and market manipulation

Robert WaldmannI understand that traders are compensated roughly half based on mark to market profits in a given year and half on long term outcomes ( ... are much broader than they would be if market manipulators were trading their own money ... Investment Strategies and Destabilizing Rational Speculation," Journal of Finance 45: 2 (June), pp [more...]

Date: 2009-01-05 05:09:00

Learn About Commodity Trading

Have you ever heard investors mention speculating in futures of the commodity market and wondered what it they are talking about? While most of us are familiar with investing in stocks, commodities can be an interesting way to have your money make money for you. But first, you might ask what is a commodity? commodities [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 17:43:07

Why We Need the Oil and Gas Industry

Every large global corporation currently has a choice ... . One response is a strategy that moves investment away from low-value commodities towards ... gas will continue to be a significant part of our future. However, we can also agree that in order [more...]

Date: 2008-12-19 11:39:17

1 Penny = 1 Billion Dollars

Taking a look at these humorous cartoons about how high gas prices were this summer, ... ) The global recession has caused significant demand destruction of all commodities around the world. Arguably ... . Photo Credit: jackslife Advertisement: Real Estate Investing Forums Discuss real estate, network [more...]

Date: 2008-12-05 19:44:34

How To Make Money through Investment

Listen to this article As a result of the global financial crisis ravaging the world, it is pertinent to proffer solutions to this breakdown ... that could be spent on more fruitful activities, like making money). Look into equity mutual funds. Watch the fees. Look for good long term funds with low expenses. Index funds are a good starting [more...]

Date: 2009-01-11 16:22:00

Asia Telcoms Eye 3G, Beyond

Japan’s top mobile phone operator, NTT DoCoMo, wants to dial up more overseas business, while still seeing a tough market at home. Editor’s Note: Remember, you can check Geezeo balances on your phone! Random Posts Three Reasons Uncle Sam is Your Investing Partner (2) unexpected victims of gasoline price increases (0) Tech [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 16:00:33

McCain takes on the fundamentals’ ad

In response to the Fundamentals ad, John McCain appeared on six American TV shows yesterday trying to explain his use of the phrase “the ... and excess that has damaged their futures.” The Times of London reported today that McCain has called ... in recent months. Obama has called for greater regulation of investment banks, mortgage brokers [more...]

Date: 2008-09-17 11:31:48

Low Mortgage Rates to Spur New Wave of Defaults

Mr Mortgage is a 20-year mortgage banking veteran, specializing in wholesale and correspondent sales and sales/operations management and bringing ... as an independent finance and real estate sector analyst, consultant and ‘risk enlightener’ to investment ... month start to finish process. Fall-out will be extreme over the near-term as brokers and [more...]

Date: 2008-12-30 12:00:56

You asked for fiction

As the golden sunlight of a late Michigan afternoon poured into Bob’s neat but modest home in one of the oldest residential sections of Detroit, ... to investments he could control. The market was soaring, and Bob had taken his broker’s advice to move [more...]

Date: 2008-10-12 05:07:10

All signs point to explosive rise in the gold price: Part 1

“Downside protection and potential extraordinary upside participation” With more than 20 years of experience in the investment industry, ... s got to stimulate. Is it going to be enough and what will that mean for commodities? Or, if it doesn ... it was in ’02, but there’s less gold around, ostensibly because the rise in all the other commodities [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 16:28:26

STICK TO YOUR GUNS, PEOPLE!

From the front page in today’s Wall Street Journal comes, Big Slide in 401(k)s Spurs Calls for Change. Here’s a quotes (WARNING: some of this might make you mad): The stock-market rout has ignited a crisis ... automatically investing contributions in an index fund that holds stocks and bonds, with the mix [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 17:10:19

Paulson Bank Bailout in ‘Great Stress’ Misses Terms Buffett Won

Henry Paulson’s bank bailouts, done under “great stress” during the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, failed to win for U.S ... to buy stock at a later date. While he invested billion in Goldman Sachs in October, twice as much ... of the other bank bailouts. Paulson’s decisions to prop up the financial system included purchasing [more...]

Date: 2009-01-11 19:16:51

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