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Lifetime followers of the monthly nonfarm payroll report were more than a little amused by the Friday numbers, which could not have been more contradictory,…
According to my old friend, Rick Sopher, chairman of LCH Investments in London, the top ten hedge funds have earned $153 billion for their investors…
I think it was very interesting not to see what happened today, but what didn’t. The Federal Reserve announced that it would continue its purchase…
It is not my intention to ruin your day. But I may well do that if you read this piece. While traders pile on their…
I am one of those demented people who buys flood insurance when the sun is shining and sun tan lotion by the gallon from Costco…
The conspiracy theorists will love this one. Buried deep in the bowels of the 2,000 page health care bill is a new requirement for gold…
Have I seen This movie before? Two years ago, analysts were predicting default rates as high as 17% for Junk bonds in the wake of…
In the wake of gold’s panic inducing $30, one day sell off on Friday, players across the hedge fund universe are reassessing their relationship with…
If you want to delve into the case against the future of US Treasury bonds in all its glory, take a look at the November/December…
Last year’s sure thing is rapidly turning into this year’s sure loser. After bringing in a torrid 29% return in 2010, the barbarous relic has…
This is my favorite asset class for the next decade, as investors increasingly catch on to the secular move out of paper assets into hard…
I bet I’m the only guy you know whose wedding was filmed by the KGB. In the seventies, my friend, the TASS correspondent, Yuri, shot…
I always thought that a great strategy for a new hedge fund would be to only buy positions from existing hedge funds that were blowing…
Any doubts that it is a huge screaming buy should have been dispelled when news came out that China had displaced Germany as the world’s…
On my recent trip to Oregon I met with venture capital investors in NuScale Power, which is trailblazing, the brave new world of “new” nuclear.…
The Middle Kingdom currently has 12 operational plants generating 12 gigawatts accounting for 2.3% of the country’s power. Another 23 are currently under construction. It…
Now that we have figured out that Vietnam is a great place to invest, take a look at the Van Eck Groups Vietnam Index Fund…
After my entertaining repast with the head of our nation’s intelligence service, (See: Lunch with the CIA) I had to ask myself this question. During…
Lunch with the Central Intelligence Agency is always interesting, although five gorillas built like brick shithouses staring at me intently didn’t help my digestion. Obama’s…
After the Dow’s impressive 250 point blast off to the upside yesterday, my phone started ringing off the hook. Fundamental and technical analysts around the…