Archive - Mar 3, 2011 - Blog entry

With crude prices bid up so much, traders are left with a dilemma - to be in the crude oil trade, players basically either have to take delivery, or rollover.

"That central banksta yid Ben--Sure makes a mean PONZI CALL!"

"Public pensions may be attracting the headlines, but the unraveling of private-sector pension security poses a much greater long-term challenge, even if it lacks a pyrotechnic confrontation to galvanize the media."

If you haven’t already taken steps to protect yourself from a US Dollar collapse, you need to start RIGHT NOW. Both Gold and Silver will perform well in the coming months. However, their performance will pale compared to other, less well know inflation hedges.

Why?

Everyone knows that Gold and Silver are the most obvious inflation hedges out there. And to be blunt, anyone who invests in these two assets will likely do very well in the coming months as inflation erupts in the US. However, to make truly ENORMOUS gains from inflation you need to find the investments that are off the radar... investments that the rest of the investment world hasn't discovered yet.

It’s common knowledge that stocks return an average of 6% a year (at least going back to 1900). However, Elroy Dimson, Paul Marsh and Mike Staunton from the London Business School recently revealed that when you remove dividends, stocks’ gains drop to a mere 1.7% a year (even lower than the return from long-term Treasury bonds over the same period).

For decades, the entire globe has been blessed with very cheap oil and this has resulted in a massive economic boom.
But times are changing.

Yesterday at Apple Inc.’s (NASDAQ:AAPL) live press event in San Francisco, CEO Steve Jobs unveiled the much anticipated second version of the iPad (iPad 2), which will begin shipping March 11th. Despite Jobs’ recent health concerns (he is still on medical leave), the man behind the most innovative technology company in the world right now was determined to unveil the iPad 2 on his own, and looked relatively healthy while doing it according to several attendees, saying that “we’ve been working on this product for awhile, and I didn’t want to miss it.”
The iPad 2 is a very impressive gadget – much like its predecessor – and should push the company further ahead in the tablet race (Apple owns 90% of the tablet market share selling approximately 15 million devices in nine months during 2010), making it that much more difficult for competitors to catch up in the near term. Here are some highlights of the iPad 2:

Banzai7 salutes the master!

“For me, the question is clear. Do we want land records in America to be governed by major banking conglomerates on Wall Street or the people and laws of the United States of America?”

Food prices will skyrocket, and billions could die. Global warming is leading to significant changes in world weather patterns that will cause droughts in some of the largest food producing areas, causing massive famines. Pack your portfolios with agricultural plays like Potash (POT), Mosaic (MOS), and Agrium (AGU). An exclusive interview with Dr. Paul Ehrlich of “The “Population Bomb.”

GBPUSD continues to remain in the strong zone, consistently moving higher with 67% of traders short the pair, EURUSD is painting a very similar picture. Retail trader positioning still remains fairly extreme with most retailers LONG the USD. Action over the last few weeks has been very much contrary to that opinion. The Euro Rate Decision 7:45am EST and ECB Press conference 8:30am EST often have dramatic impacts on the EUR, it will vital to keep an eye on these developments