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Financial Bloggers Need To Get A Life!

Christian — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 10:06:03 +0000

Many complain about the mainstream media in how they miss points, and how they keep looking at the bright side of things without seeing the dark side. Well, Bloggers need to get a life. For the most part I have completely ignored blogs like Mish’s, and How I Made My First Million at 33, and so on. And I have completely ignored Jim Rogers who seems unable to make a trade. "I have no shorts for one of the first times in my life," Rogers, a co-founder with George Soros of ...

Will There Be Another Jackson?

Christian — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 18:09:31 +0000

So I was reading this New York Times article, and it said the following: But even if nobody achieves album sales on a Jacksonian scale, couldn’t he or she be an artist every bit as popular, every bit as loved, every bit as listened to? Probably not. The pop-idol field — like every field that can lead to super-fame — is more crowded than it has ever been, and the variety of routes to stardom keep growing. Oh give me a break! Want to know what lesson I learned in life? EVERYBODY, and ...

What Am I Investing In?

Christian — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 16:24:55 +0000

Oddly enough I seem to be getting quite a few requests asking, “so Christian what are you investing in?” Since the beginning of this year I have been advising my mother on her investment portfolio. Though she does give me quite a few good tips as well. She started investing again this year and her portfolio is up 95%!!!! For the past couple of years she quit, and this time she listened to me and my techniques. So how do you get returns like this? First buy when nobody else is ...

What If The US is Dropped as Reserve Currency?

Christian — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 23:44:07 +0000

I was asked by Bill: How would “the USD being dropped as the global reserve currency” factor into your recovery predictions? and why? First of all lets talk about the elephant in the room. Will the US be dropped as the global reserve currency? Yes! Will it be tomorrow? No! The USD will always have a certain amount of importance because so many things are based on the USD, with an example being South America. South America does a very large part of it commerce denominated in the USD. They would not switch ...

Microsoft Has Become a Zombie Corporation!

Christian — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 23:11:51 +0000

Disclosure: I had a Microsoft position which I unloaded at a slight profit due to the fact that I have lost complete faith in the current management of Microsoft. I was surfing the web and every now and then I like to check the website MSDN.Microsoft.com. I check it out because I write .NET code, and I use Office in my solutions. So that I don’t confuse people to like .NET and C# quite a bit, and I like Office 2007, but my love of Microsoft ends there. I use to be ...

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My Debt Discussion Continues (Velocity of Money) Important!!!

Christian — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 00:30:01 +0000

Chris wrote to me the following comment: Debt is the biggest issue facing us all. I found this video on YouTube which really opened my eyes to the importance of getting out of debt: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50bWUrKAbwU I am sure you will be as amazed as I was. Chris, sorry to disappoint you, but I was not amazed. Not because what he was saying was not true. In fact he is saying the truth, but the fact that he is misleading the truth. What he ...

Ah Yes Let’s All Panic And Pullback…

Christian — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 23:47:13 +0000

The market is oh so predictable… I kid you not. On April 6, 2009 I wrote the following email to Squawkbox Europe. Me I think this will last till around June before we start pulling back slowly with no major selloff. Just dribs and drabs as the market and economy begins to recover… So what gives, why is it that at the beginning of April I had a hunch? Why did I think we would go up till June? Answer is because the market is so predictable. I went back to the ...

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Am I Missing the Point With the “Debt is Bad Argument”

Christian — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 10:06:38 +0000

Bill commented (and I have had others say the same thing) this was not one of your better postings…I think you are missing the point about the debt-is-bad argument. I don’t think I am missing the point and I will explain my thinking. You see this “debt is bad” argument in my opinion is the latest attack by people to bring down the market. And while many think that this is a conspiracy I actually work at a hedge fund, and am running the order book. This means I need to make ...

What Is It With Peter Schiff and Taleb and Debt!

Christian — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 13:29:18 +0000

First up we have Nassim Taleb, who is crying wolf on how the government will fail us again. "The way to restart everything is restructuring, conversion of debt into equity, convince people that debt is not good," Taleb said. Gee Taleb, you are only 600 years late to the party! DEBT MAKES THE WORLD GO ROUND BECAUSE WE DON’T LIVE LONG ENOUGH! Here is Peter Schiff and his rant against debt. The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c Peter Schiff thedailyshow.com Daily Show ...

How The Republicans Might Completely Self-Destruct

Christian — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 16:26:22 +0000

It is interesting to see, but I think the Republicans might actually self-destruct. Remember that the Republican party was the result of the whig party self-destructing. Though the question is can the Republican party self-destruct? Sure it can, after all the Progressive Conservatives of Canada are no more, Conservatives of the UK are a shadow of a party, and the SPD (one of Germany’s oldest party) is self destructing. So what could be that watershed moment for the Republicans? The Fiat Chrysler deal. Indiana’s state treasurer, Richard Mourdock, has objected to the ...