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(Interviewed by Louis James, International Speculator ) L: Doug, we talked last week about what you called the trade of the decade, which was to short long bonds and go long on precious metals. These are the kinds of bets we make in The Casey Report and the International Speculator , but we have a whole...
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I send you Outside the Box each week not to make you comfortable but to make you think. Usually it is on some financial topic, but life is more than investments. Economics is not an isolated discipline (more like an art form I think) so we have to have a real understanding of the world around us. This...
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Richard Schwartz 's PRINCIPLES OF THE STOCK MARKET A learning, teaching, always evolving stock market letter and advisory service Eighteenth Consecutive Year of Publication ; Letter #1; September 18 th , 1990 Post Office Box 1236 · New Paltz, New York 12561 - U.S. A. · (845) 255-6894...
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04-06-2009
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COMMODITY VIEW . Oil Rally Begins. Elliott Wave theory, originally produced by R. N. Elliott in the early 1900s, and now carried forward by Bob Prechter, past #1 market guru, basically says Elliott waves or complete market movements come in threes. Well, to more accurate, Elliott says movements really...
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11-05-2008
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THE FIRST INFLATION SURGE IN 25 YEARS IS OVER. So, what now? First, let me give credit when credit is due. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and the Fed finally got one right. They’ve been promising us moderating inflation for a year or more and now with -30% lower crude oil prices and a big...
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09-12-2008
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Earnings and Mr. Bear Earnings Before Bad Stuff How Ugly Can it Get? A Lean Mean Reversion Machine Some Thoughts on Energy Oregon, Maine and a Wedding "The stock market is a voting machine in the short run and a weighing machine in the long run." - Benjamin Graham The voting part of the equation...
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YOUR ALTERNATE CLEAN, GREEN ENERGY WEEKEND UPDATE With not much stock market stuff to write about since I don’t want to recommend buying or selling this morning as we all should have our portfolios hunkered down and pretty much in place for a rocky and rough summer by now. Sure, stock market aficionados...
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07-25-2008
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MORE RECOMMENDATIONS ON MY NEW ENERGY SAVERS THEME On Friday, June 13 th , I began a new investment theme, what I called the Energy Savings (Savers) Theme . Essentially a new theme is when some macro force is seen as boosting a whole group of companies, not just one hot company with a new product. And...
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07-15-2008
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YOUR ALTERNATE CLEAN GREEN ENERGY UPDATE Finally! A Plan! The Pickens Plan. Kudos to Mr. Boone Pickens ! Yep, it finally came down to a long time oil man to propose a way out of our energy bind. Obviously, it’s only a first step and it has a lot of hurdles and a long way to go before implementation...
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07-09-2008
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IN THIS ISSUE: The Energy “Blame Game” Commodities Gain In Popularity Are Speculators Driving Prices Higher? Merrill Lynch Study On Speculators In Oil Futures So What Is Driving Commodity Prices Higher? “Let’s Shoot The Speculators” – by Robert Samuelson My Own Thoughts On The Role Of Speculators Finally...
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WHERE YOU SHOULD STAND TODAY. The Ideal Portfolio (another Schwartz View ). Yep, let me offer up one man’s view of what the ideal portfolio should be today and why: · Very minimal exposure to the stock market! This major, modern day margin call on institutional investors is causing havoc...
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06-27-2008
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UPDATE ON THE STOCK MARKET . Witten Friday, June 20th, 2008: 6:30 a.m. Looked to me like yesterday’s stock market rally was a knee-jerk reaction to China announcing it was going to raise oil prices by 17%. Crude dove on the news while stocks jumped. But if one thinks it through, is China raising...
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06-20-2008
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Whip Inflation Now Where Can We Get Help on Inflation? The Patient Died Anyway Inflation in Asia and Europe There Are No Good Solutions President Nixon instated price controls on the 15 th of August, 1971. Inflation was a little over 4% at the time. Price controls manifestly did not work (resulting in...
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IN THIS ISSUE: Ethanol: A Feel-Good Political Ploy No Solution To Current Fuel Woes Potential Negative Economic Impact No Benefit From Existing Infrastructure Other Types Of Ethanol Show Promise Conclusions – Ethanol Is Not The Silver Bullet Pondering My Retirement Introduction You don’t need me to tell...
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The Problem with the Euro Swapping out Commodities The Euro at Par with the Dollar Laguna Beach, Montreal and Las Vegas By John Mauldin Last week I wrote that we could see a drop in the price of oil as speculators seemed to be storing oil in very large tankers and "slow steaming" them to port...