My wife keeps a pretty simple journal. In it, she simply notes the best moment of her day (and occasionally a few other things).
Usually, these notes are simple ones. She’ll talk about opening up the first day of the Advent calendar with our kids, or a nice conversation we had while the kids were napping, or a breakthrough moment she had with a student (she’s a teacher).
Taken together, though, they establish a clear pattern. The moments that are continually important to her revolve... Continue Reading
Submitted ByBob OBrien
The year of the Ponzi…. I think Karen Finerman of CNBC's Fast Money said it best when the news broke in regards to Bernard Madoff’s $50 billion Wall Street Ponzi scheme, she stated that” if there was a year to admit you where running a Ponzi scheme 2008 was...
Submitted BySean Hyman
You know, it’s a nice thing to be paying $1.41 a gallon for gas these days. I almost feel like I stepped back in time. However, OPEC (Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries) wants to take a “time warp” forward.
You see, those nice prices that you enjoy at the pump...
Submitted ByAlex Stanczyk
Emergency Storage Food Among Products in Highest Demand
Anxiety and bearish outlooks abound wherever one cares to look today. There’s precious little a concerned citizen can do in reaction to global forces spinning out of control. But we all do what we can. At Safecastle, we’re particularly...
Submitted ByCharles Morand
I just got around to reading a new report by Merrill Lynch (link at the end of this article) identifying cleantech as "The Sixth Revolution" (the other five being: Industrial Revolution; Age of Steam & Railways; Age of Steel, Electricity...
Submitted ByCorey Rosenbloom
Adam Hewison of the Market Club released a new video entitled “Trends and Timing in the FOREX Market,” in which he describes how to analyze a FOREX chart and how to generate and confirm trading signals using the weekly and daily charts in conjunction.
Here’s a portion of the introductory...
Submitted ByAlex Stanczyk
Gold Facing Comex Delivery Squeeze as Traders Fear Counterparty Risks
Gold rallied sharply last week and was up nearly 9% despite continuing uncertainty and a very mixed performance in stock markets. The US dollar index fell some 4% on the week and it looks increasingly likely that the dollar may...
Submitted ByBiopact
Converting farm fields to energy crops can increase or decrease greenhouse gas emissions, depending on where – and which – biofuel crops are used, University of Illinois researchers report this month. The researchers analyzed data from dozens of studies to determine how planting new biomass...
Submitted ByAlex Stanczyk
Guns, Safes and Treasuries: America’s Top Sellers
Robert Morley, Columnist
From theTrumpet.com
December 2, 2008
Making money today is a lot tougher, but economic crisis breeds opportunities. The next big sellout items: bunkers, mattresses and Bibles.
I shouldn’t have been so shocked...
Submitted ByContrarianProfits
Last week’s gold rally has fizzled out. But Ed Bugos says we could be in line for very bullish move. Outside of Japan, countries are inflating rapidly, which is extremely bearish for paper currency. And the supply and demand fundamentals of physical gold remain bullish.
More from The Daily...
Submitted ByAlex Stanczyk
Jim Rogers Buying Gold: Bull Markets Has Years to Go, and Will Go Much Higher
Commodity Fundamentals Are ‘Unimpaired,’ Rogers Says
By Nigel Stevenson and Brett Foley
Dec. 5 (Bloomberg) — The fundamentals of commodities are “unimpaired” and prices will rebound when a lack of new supply...
Submitted ByTrader Mark
We have very excellent technical set ups in 2 of our 3 banking stocks - Regions Financial (RF) and BB&T (BBT). Both stocks had broken down when we had that bought of reality the past few months, and now have rallied back on the hope phase to come within spitting distance of some key resistance...
Submitted ByTrader Mark
Black chips win today, market down 2.5% from 3 PM to 4 PM. Need to adjust strategy it appears for the 3 PM Long-Short Hedge fund: whatever direction the market is going at 3 PM it will go 2-4x that direction in the last hour. I'd love to see a list of which hedgies are running and gunning these...
Submitted ByTrader Mark
Back in early October I wrote in [Oct 1: Nowhere to Run, Nowhere to Hide] how there simply was no asset class (ex US Treasuries and US Dollar), no sector, no country to hide in. Everything stunk, and in fact it got worse in the ensuing weeks. September, October, November 2008 might be the worst 3...
Submitted ByGary Tanashian
It's the world against poor old Uncle Buck. In July he crashed the party, global casino patrons stampeded to the exits and now he just wanders around aimlessly inside, from table to table wondering what it would be like to have friends, to be a player. He will never know because he is a...
Submitted ByTrader Mark
Speaking of "the playbook", this is appropriate. Ken Heebner is moving into the early cyclicals - we'll see if the timing is appropriate. As we saw a few weeks ago, Mr Heebner was going heavy into financials [Nov 14: Ken Heebner Moves into Financials Big Time] - that was a bit early as Citigroup...
Submitted ByTrader Mark
Genoptix (://www.bestwaytoinvest.com/quote/GXDX">GXDX) broke its 200 day moving average just over a week ago after being one of the last holdouts (holding above) .. that was at $31. In this market when you break support, you die a quick death - its now down to $26. This stock was over $41...
Submitted ByTrader Mark
Ironically there is a great role reversal as commodities/global growth have taken over what financials/housing/retail was in spring and summer 2008. That is, a very hated group that after being sold relentlessly enjoyed enormous short term bounces.We are now in day 3 of the "Obama will save us...
Submitted ByTrader Mark
We've been watching the dollar vs gold very carefully and the action the past few days has been interesting to say the least. The action today, if you trust the charts, could be signaling a complete change in character. We've been saying all this printing of paper will be a disaster for the...
Submitted ByTrader Mark
Goldman is out with a note this morning against some of the major names in the agriculture space. What they write is effectively why we are going to have a commodity issue in the years to come; lack of investment now will cause shortages when the bulls dreamed of recovery happens. We're seeing...
Submitted ByBrian Steeves
Recently lost their AAA rating by Moody's I believe AGO is screaming BUY.
Statement by Dominic Frederico, President and Chief Executive Officer of Assured Guaranty Ltd.:
“We are disheartened by Moody’s downgrade of the debt and insurer financial strength ratings of Assured and its subsidiaries,...
My wife keeps a pretty simple journal. In it, she simply notes the best moment of her day (and occasionally a few other things).
Usually, these notes are simple ones. She’ll talk about opening up the first day of the Advent calendar with our kids, or a nice conversation we had while the kids were napping, or a breakthrough moment she had with a student (she’s a teacher).
Taken together, though, they establish a clear pattern. The moments that are continually important to her revolve... 
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