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Jul 22nd, 2009 |
By Contrarian Profits |
Category: Top Story
The most important investment decision you’ll ever make is almost always overlooked by the average investor, says Simon Mellon of Bonner & Partners Family Office.
Tags: investment advice
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Jul 21st, 2009 |
By Contrarian Profits |
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The Fed is flooding the system with as much funny money as it can. US monetary base has shot up by over 100% this year. It’s the largest increase in 50 years by a factor of 10. This build up of freshly printed dollars threatens a dangerous inflation… but not yet.
Tags: bonds, Feds, inflation
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Jul 20th, 2009 |
By Contrarian Profits |
Category: Real Estate Investments, Top Story
You’re probably wondering why a bearish newsletter like Notes would recommend buying real estate. After all, we’ve just experienced one of the severest real estate crashes in history.
Tags: Contrarian Investing, House Prices, Industry Sector, Residential Real Estate, Securities Markets
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Jul 17th, 2009 |
By Contrarian Profits |
Category: Top Story
James Dale Davidson’s latest special report, “The Plague of the Black Debt,” went live to Notes readers yesterday.
Tags: Depreciation, Feds, Housing Market, Mortgage Rates, National Debt, Obama, Reserve Currency, Social Security Trust
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Jul 16th, 2009 |
By Contrarian Profits |
Category: Top Story
Warren Buffett’s storied investment vehicle Berkshire Hathaway Inc is now trading at somewhere in the region of 1.2 times its book value of $72,000 a share. This makes it well worth considering for value-minded investors.
Tags: BRK.A, BRK.B, Debt Levels, Defensive Stocks, Equity Indexes, Warren Buffett
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Jul 15th, 2009 |
By Contrarian Profits |
Category: Top Story
Equities “are now barely through an 18-year secular bear market,” says our favorite underground analyst David Rosenberg. As illustrated by the nearby chart, US stocks have a historical tendency to move in 18-year cycles.
Tags: bear market, commodities prices, Commodity Prices, Downturn, Oil Price, recession, Recessions, softs, Stock Prices
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Jul 14th, 2009 |
By Contrarian Profits |
Category: Politics & Economics, Top Story
Do you remember the first time you saw a rain drenched Peter Finch scream, “I’m as mad as hell, and I’m not going to take this anymore!”? We do.
Tags: Depression, Economic Crisis, Great Recession, inflation, President Obama, Stimulus, TARP, Unemployment Rate, US economy
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Jul 14th, 2009 |
By Contrarian Profits |
Category: Top Story
We stayed up late last night reading Dr Van K Tharp’s Safe Strategies for Financial Freedom. It’s a great primer on how attain financial freedom without busting a gut. And we thoroughly recommend it to anyone hoping to free up more time for themselves and live off their investments.
Tags: Fed Cuts Rates, Fed Funds Rate, Interest Rate, price-earnings ratio
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Jul 13th, 2009 |
By Contrarian Profits |
Category: Top Story
We are now in June 1930, according to trader/author Ron Coby, a friend and neighbor of one of our favorite underground investors Dan Ferris. (Ferris is a member of the Stansberry & Associates Investment Research team and editor of Extreme Value. ) Ron believes stocks are going to plunge – just as they did from June 1930 to July 1932 when the crash that began on October 24 1929 finally bottomed.
Tags: Consumer Credit, Corporate Bonds, credit crisis, Debt Default, Great Depression, Inflation Rate
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Jul 10th, 2009 |
By Contrarian Profits |
Category: Top Story
Trading legend Dennis Gartman is one of the most influential market commentators out there. He is what we like to call here at Notes an “investor’s investor.” That is, he’s a market veteran who speaks directly to other traders and investors.
Tags: Dennis Gartman, Dollar Bear, Gold Tips, Inflation Hedge, Parity
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