Archive - 2011 - Blog entry

Retail traders are notoriously wrong at picking market direction/tops and bottoms. Most retail traders very naturally seem to adopt a counter-trend stance and this very accurate signals for individuals looking to trade against this group. This daily report is designed to help traders focus their efforts on higher probability pairs.

If you’re a gold or silver stacker you’ve likely tuned into GoldSeek Radio. This month the interviewer becomes the interviewee as The Victory Report speaks with the host of GoldSeek Radio: Chris Waltzek.

The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, which manages surplus contributions for the Canada Pension Plan, said Thursday its total assets were valued at a record $140.1 billion at Dec. 31, the end of the third quarter of fiscal 2011. And it's going on a shopping spree, buying global infrastructure and US commercial real estate...

The $70 billion dollar man would be wise to heed JFK's words ...

This just in...

The REAL lessons of the Egyptian revolution ...

The revolution IS being televised ...

What, exactly, would cause a highly paid executive to abruptly quit his job? The executive in question is Howard Atkins, former CFO of Wells Fargo (NYSE: WFC). In 2009, Mr. Atkins' total compensation was $11.6 million. That was up from $4.9 million in 2009 and $5.7 million 2007 – that’s not bad living by any standard. The folks over at The Street.com say it was for “personal” reasons. I will let them speculate on what those reasons may or may not be. I would rather take a look at some numbers. As I suggested in an earlier post, the Wells Fargo numbers look suspect when compared to its universal banking peers.

The wacky new game the whole market's been talking about...

Retail traders are notoriously wrong at picking market direction/tops and bottoms. Most retail traders very naturally seem to adopt a counter-trend stance and this very accurate signals for individuals looking to trade against this group. This daily report is designed to help traders focus their efforts on higher probability pairs.

It looks like the real thing,
tastes close to the real thing,
my fake plastic meal

Is Sack reading Zero Hedge? Is he reading me? If so, a few words back to him.

States in peril are cutting to the bone and lawmakers around the US are looking at new ways to prevent budget disasters by changing the rules for overburdened state employee pension funds...

Would someone kindly explain to me why we jeer those who fill the streets in Europe yet we cheer the Egyptians for doing precisely the same thing for essentially the same reasons?

True conservatives want a strong economy. But war is bad for the economy ...