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Could Wall Street be about to crash again?
This week’s bone-rattlers may be making you wonder.
I don’t make predictions. That’s a sucker’s game. And I’m certainly not doing so now.
But way too many people are way too complacent this summer. Here are 10 reasons to watch out.
1. The market is already expensive. Stocks are about 20 [...]
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Is a Crash Coming? Ten Reasons to Be Cautious
Posted by admin2 on August 15th, 2010
Its The Banks, Stupid — And Us, And…
Posted by admin2 on April 17th, 2010
We’ve heard much of it: Mortgage backed securities i.e. bonds, touted as spreading the risk for high-risk, would-be home owners to abet home owning, but relieving the lending banks of the risk of default by off loading that risk to the bond holders. Credit default swaps, called swaps after intense lobbying by the big banks [...]
Posted in Investments, Mortgage 
Tags: Credit default swaps, Mortgage, Mortgage backed securities 
No Comments »The Latest Gold Fraud Bombshell: Canada’s Only Bullion Bank Gold Vault Is Practically Empty
Posted by admin2 on April 8th, 2010
Continuing on the trail of exposing what is rapidly becoming one of the largest frauds in commodity markets history is the most recent interview by Eric King with GATA’s Adrian Douglas, Harvey Orgen (who recently testified before the CFTC hearing) and his son, Lenny, in which the two discuss their visit to the only bullion [...]
Goldman Sachs cleans up on the second Great Depression
Posted by Staff Writer on June 26th, 2009
The World Bank predicts that global economic growth will decline by 2.9 percent in 2009. That’s the worst year for the global economy since at least World War II. As measured by a comprehensive set of indicators, the global economy is on pace, so far, with the outset of the Great Depression.
Goldman Sachs, however, is [...]
Six Trends to Profit From
Posted by Staff Writer on June 2nd, 2009
We’re all familiar with the story about the frog. If you drop him in boiling water, he’ll jump right out. But if you put him in cold water and then heat it to boiling, he’ll adjust gradually to the increasing temperature, be lulled into inaction, and die.
It’s not true; the frog will eventually jump out. [...]
Is Your Home A Good Investment?
Posted by Staff Writer on May 27th, 2009
There’s the usual talk about what the latest Case-Shiller house price data mean for the next short term move in the real estate market. Has housing bottomed? If not, has the rate of decline slowed? And when will we see an upturn?
Human nature likes the short term. Which is why so little attention is paid [...]
Bad year for finance, good year for wine. Investors are looking at liquid assets to make a profit in difficult times.
Posted by Staff Writer on May 24th, 2009
We know the value of sitting back and enjoying a nice glass of vino. It’s just as well, as wine investment appears to be standing up against the ravages of the economic downturn.
With interest rates so low, investors looking to diversify their portfolios are turning to wine as a more profitable option. And the potential [...]
Why we love Jim Cramer
Posted by admin2 on October 28th, 2008
Besides Jim Cramer’s colorful character, we like his ability to take his vast knowledge of finance and investment, and put it in simple terms that most everyone can understand.
He’s also humble enough to admit when he doesn’t know something, and when he’s wrong.
We also appreciate his transparency in his advice, indeed he manages his charitable [...]
Confused about the stock market? Puzzled by Wall Street?
Posted by admin2 on October 27th, 2008
It can be overwhelming! Too many buzzwords, too many conflicts of interests between the people on Wall Street making editorial comments that sound like news, and selling their opinions of buy buy buy as facts, while the individual investors like you are left seeing the stock indices decrease, with the same people who stated buy [...]
Bubbles and crashes: does history repeat itself?
Posted by admin2 on October 16th, 2008
Knowledge vs. Action. Bookworms claim that knowledge is power, bullies state that action is power.
The smart people that we know have both: they take appropriate action with plenty of relevant knowledge; when it comes to personal finance and money in general that is the rule that we subscribe to, anything else is gambling.
There are some [...]
