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Looking Over My Shoulder It Takes an Entrepreneur The Line of Death Get a Job Not Everyone Can Run a Surplus Peak Oil or Peak Energy? – A Happy Solution New York, Cleveland, and Europe A consistent theme in this letter has been the connections between items that may seem to be far removed from...
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They say that natural gas is a more dynamic study in geopolitics than oil. Yes, petroleum is what makes the world go 'round. But, once you get it to a super-tanker, and you can ship it anywhere. Natural gas, of which the world consumes 3,000 billion cubic meters per year, is much harder (or more...
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Oil at $125 a Barrel, Gasoline at $5 David Rosenberg and Capacity Utilization Gary Shilling: Commercial Real Estate and Employment The Morality of Chinese Growth Another Birthday? What Happened to My Year? Athens and the Barefoot Ranch This week I am at a conference in Houston. I must confess that I...
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The Gulf Oil Spill Disaster From Unmitigated Disaster to Merely Disaster The Corexit Decision Some More Takeaways Time to Lift the Moratorium Getting the Balance Just Right Omaha, Carbondale, and San Francisco As I mentioned last Monday night in my Outside the Box, I did not make it to Turks and Caicos...
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It has been a busy day in Rome, doing the Vatican Museum, St. Peter's and the Trevi Fountain. But I have to find time to get you your Outside the Box and have I got a great one for you. David Galland of Casey Research was kind enough to let me use an interview he did with two of his energy research...
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There's a Slow Train Coming A Negative 2% GDP in the Third Quarter? Small Business Still Has Issues Italy, Paris, Vancouver, and San Francisco And a Forbes Cruise to Mexico Sometimes I feel so low-down and disgusted Can't help but wonder what's happenin' to my companions, Are they lost...
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A quick introduction for this week's Outside the Box. This is from my London Partner Niels Jensen, talking about the problems with long only commodity funds. This is something I discuss frequently but have not written about in some time. Quite simply, many of the commodity ETFs do not deliver what...
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Today I'm sending you a piece on Ecuador's recent move to change the terms of its contracts with oil investors to keep more of the returns in the state. As we watch the world's energy market, political details like this are essential to know. The article explores the geopolitical implications...
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With the current financial crisis, we have to be even more astute in locating worthy investment opportunities. I've written lately about choices we're facing as a country – but we have choices as individuals as well: choices that demand solid insight to make well-informed decisions and...
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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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04-27-2009
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Filed under: George Friedman, Energy, Oil, Stratfor, Government, Al Qaeda, Coal, Third World, Peter Huber, Green, Carbon, Torture, US Intelligence
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Forecast 2009: Deflation, Deleveraging, and the Stimulus Effect Muddle Through on Hold Lies, Damned Lies, and Government Unemployment Numbers Central Bankers of the World, Unite! Predictions 2009 La Jolla, Bermuda, and Europe Where are we headed in 2009? We will explore that in detail over the next few...
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John Mauldin
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01-10-2009
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Filed under: The Fed, Oil, Employment, Housing, Consumer Spending, Economic Forecast, Economic Outlook, Deflation, Bailout, Consumer Confidence, Deleveraging, Richard Russell, 2009, Forecast
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Dear Friends: The hottest media topic of the New Year is the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in Gaza. And as I was reading the New York Times on Tuesday, I came across this sentence in one of the articles that was staggeringly truthful and more than a little unsettling in its implications for me as an investor...
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John Mauldin
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01-08-2009
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Filed under: Middle East, George Friedman, Oil, Stratfor, Geopolitics, OPEC, Iran, Persian Gulf, Israel, Intelligence, Saudi Arabia, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Gaza
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Things That Should Not Be I'll Pay You to Hold My Cash Pushing on a String Free Money with that Credit Default Swap? Oil Does a Strange Contango Dance The Tragedy of Bernie Madoff Goodbye to the Ballpark There are things in today's markets that are simply astounding. They should not exist, yet...
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12-12-2008
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Filed under: The Fed, China, Recession, Oil, Interest Rate, OPEC, Credit Default Swaps, Bernie Madoff, Altegris Investments, US Treasury Bills, Contango
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A Thanksgiving Fire Drill The Financial Fire Trucks Are Gathering The Millennium Wave Thanksgiving, Moving, and New York "It will therefore be crucial that you see the world anew. That means looking from the outside in to reanalyze much that you have probably taken for granted. This will enable...
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11-26-2008
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Filed under: Recession, Globalization, Oil, Employment, GDP, Just One Thing, Economic Outlook, Energy Prices, Bailout, Thanksgiving, Ray Kurzweil
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The Headwinds to Growing Your Wealth The Wealth of Nations Housing: Are We at the Bottom? Alt-A is the New Subprime 3.5 million Unemployed and Counting La Jolla, South Africa and London This week we look at the housing market in some detail. When can we expect it to turn around? Part of the problem is...