John Thomas, The Mad Hedge Fund Trader is one of today's most successful Hedge Fund Managers and a 40 year veteran of the financial markets. He has one of the best performing newsletters and has just launched a new investment service for Investors and Traders.
Jeremy Grantham, of the esteemed Boston money management firm, GMO, LLC, is not a person who suffers fools gladly (click here for their site). I…
When I was at the New York Hard Asset Investment Conference weeks ago, every hour someone would stop by my table, mention the word “rhodium”,…
Any doubts that China’s Yuan is a huge screaming buy should have been dispelled when news came out that it had displaced Germany as the…
Better drag your leisure suits, bell bottoms, and Bee Gee’s records out the attic. The seventies are about to enjoy a rebirth. The nuclear industry,…
The call that a turn in the dollar was imminent by Brown Brothers Harriman’s Mark Chandler is looking more prescient by the day. September and…
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 am not of the “V” or “W” persuasion, but see a “square root” shaped economic recovery, a “V” followed by a long, bumpy, but…
The good news is that you no longer have to be crazy to buy gold. Until recently, certifiable believers chasing the barbaric relic were driven…
Ben Bernanke’s unprecedented announcement that he is buying $600 billion in medium dated Treasury securities is tantamount to the government ordering you to pour all…
Let’s put the economic policies the voters chose under the microscope and see what we got. It is not a pretty picture. The bottom line…
When I first visited Calcutta in 1976, 800,000 people were sleeping on the sidewalks, I was hauled everywhere by a very lean, barefoot rickshaw driver,…
Unfortunately, I know Blythe, California too well. This natural blast furnace is in a God forsaken corner of the state where I hunted jack rabbits…
Exelon (EXC) popped up on my radar a few months ago, when it bought the wind energy business from John Deere (DE) for $900 million.…
If you want to see how widespread the commodities boom has become, take a look at the lumber market, which has popped 47% since June.…
Those wondering what to do about their ag positions better take a look at the contract for rough rice, which has skyrocketed by 50% since…
I received some questions last week on my recent solar pieces as to whether I minded paying more money for “green” power. My answer is…
When I wake up at 4:30 am each morning to check the overnight markets and review the opening salvo of incoming emails, I often have…
There is a Gold Rush Underway in Iraq, with major implications for the rest of us. The success of the recent oil auctions in Iraq…
Who said quantitative easing wouldn’t work? The only problem is that you have to speak Bahasa, eat nasi goreng, and live South of the equator,…
There is a gold rush of a different kind going on in California, the solar variety. There is a stampede by 49 alternative energy projects,…