Archive - 2014 - Blog entry

Personal sovereignty is a ‘State of Mind’ long before it is a state of being.

Everyone knows the dollar is unstable, and falls alarmingly over long periods. And yet we still presume to use this paper to measure the value of gold! Amazing.

£9.48 in 1973 would have the same spending power as £100 today. The rising cost of retail goods means someone who was a millionaire 40 years ago would need £10,553,000 today to enjoy the same spending power.

Beware the Ides of Farce!

Today, far too many people put all their faith in deceitful politicians and bankers to tell them the truth and consequently are dreadfully misinformed.

Also:  Americans Overwhelmingly Oppose US Intervention in Ukraine, Syria, Iran … Or Anywhere Else

I clearly have a very hard time reconciling a U.S. stock market making new all-time-highs almost daily, especially in the face of what most economists consider to be a weak domestic economy with negligible growth prospects.  Moreover, when you layover the thoroughly stalled and certainly weaker overall global economic picture, it’s even harder to rationalize.  Finally, throw into the mix the gravity of threatening geopolitical tensions between the U.S. and Russia, the two nations with the largest stockpiles of tactical nuclear weapons on earth, and the market actually welcomes it.  Something majorly does not add up, well, to this Idiot anyways.

South Korea stands out as a buying opportunity amid the indiscriminate emerging markets sell-off.

In neo-con space, no one can hear you when you scream...

Wall Street can clean up junk well enough, but it can't make it go away.

A near-term outlook for the dollar against the major foreign currencies.  

Big Bubble Brutally Bursts ... Bringing Bankruptcies, Bond Busts

While Big Oil, consumer groups, lobbyists, lawmakers... are mudwrestling over the export ban, exports of “petroleum products” are soaring.

The Spirit of Civilization...

Videos covering: low volume market rallies, the "be the house and not the gambler" approach to trading options, thoughts on an upcoming market correction, and some option trade ideas.