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Commodity Bull Run Not Over Yet: Jim Rogers 2008-10-06 15:46:47 Jim Rogers
interview on NDTV
The legendary commodity expert believes the recent correction in commodity prices is normal and the bull run is not over yet. He says if history is any guide, the bull market can last long.
Renowned global investor Jim Rogers has a knack for knowing the direction of investment winds. Jim Rogers started [...] Read more:Commodity
Disintegration of Global Financial System in Days 2008-10-06 12:06:25 London’s Telegraph.co.uk reported that unless there is immediate intervention on every front by all major powers, the global financial system is in extreme danger. Earlier today, the Dow fell 1000 points, the Nasdaq is currently down by 117 and the S&P 500 is down by almost 64. Crude oil is below $90 a barrel in [...] Read more:Financial
, Global
, System
U.S. Senate: Go Ahead, Make My Day (Trader happy) 2008-10-02 17:40:18 by David Kelsen
REPEAL THE 39-cent EXCISE TAX ON WOODEN ARROWS MADE FOR CHILDREN!
Support your local Rum Distiller, - - Samoa - “Show me the money”
Forget wanting to be a star, let’s all go produce a movie. I’m sure the producers of dogs like The Dark Knight, Ironman and Indiana Jones can breathe easy now that [...] Read more:Senate
, Trader
Many vulnerable lawmakers said ‘no’ to bailout 2008-09-30 10:06:13 By Laurie Kellman, Associated Press Writer
Two-thirds of most vulnerable House members vote ‘no’ to $700 billion financial bailout
WASHINGTON (AP) — Two-thirds of Congress’ most vulnerable members — Republicans and Democrats alike — chose to protect their seats on Election Day rather than follow their party leaders and vote for an unpopular economic bailo
Fed battles credit crisis 2008-09-30 10:02:31 Fed triples supply of 84-day cash loans to U.S. banks and expands currency swaps with other central banks.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve and other countries’ central banks announced new steps Monday that makes billions of dollars available to squeezed banks here and abroad to battle a worsening credit
crisis that threatens to unhinge the [...]
$700 Billion Dollar bailout plan finalized, House to vote on Monday 2008-09-28 18:07:10 Lawmakers have finally reached an accord on the bailout package. An exhausted looking Hank Paulson emerged from a marathon session in the Capitol at 12:30 am, Sunday morning, to announce that they had reached an agreement on a proposal to give Paulson broad authority to organize one of the biggest government interventions in the [...] Read more:Billion Dollar
, Dollar
, House
, Monday
A Memo Found in the Street 2008-09-28 16:38:30 By BARRY L. RITHOLTZ
Uncle Sam the enabler.
To: Washington, D.C.
From: Wall Street
Re: Credit Crisis
Dear D.C.,
WOW, WE’VE MADE QUITE A MESS OF THINGS here on Wall Street: Fannie and Freddie in conservatorship, investment banks in the tank, AIG nationalized. Thanks for sending us your new trillion-dollar bailout.
We on Wall Street feel somewhat compelled to take at [...]
Commodities Boom, Dead Ahead! 2008-10-30 17:25:08 Popular perception dictates that commodity prices will plummet as a result of an economic slowdown. What did they miss?
It is believed that the financial crisis will lead to an economic slow down, which will bring down the price of commodities. Certainly we’ve seen evidence of economic slowdown and we’ve also experienced commodities prices dropping over [...]
USA Today: More companies may end 401(k) match 2008-10-30 15:31:25 by Chris Woodyard, USA Today
As the economic slump deepens, more companies are expected to join General Motors in suspending matches of contributions to their employees’ 401(k) retirement accounts.
GM last week became only the latest on a list of well-known companies trying to conserve cash to weather the downturn by halting 401(k) account matches.
Also among [...] Read more:USA Today
Whiskey and Gunpowder: What Now? 2008-10-30 12:08:15 by James Howard Kunstler, Whiskey
and Gunpowder
The flight to the so-called safety of the dollar has resulted in a deflationary pullback in prices across the board…but it is probably just the prelude to a killer wave of hyperinflation. Jim Kunstler works wonders with metaphors below and makes it all clear.
It’s fascinating [...]
MarketWatch: King Henry Paulson says: ‘Buy banks!’ 2008-10-28 12:20:54 By Paul B. Farrell, MarketWatch
ARROYO GRANDE, Calif. (MarketWatch) — “Considering how hard I work to make what I have, I don’t understand why I’m so dumb with money” said Andy Rooney on “60 Minutes.” His admission came after a segment about the mysterious $55 trillion of credit default swaps that are traded in a [...] Read more:banks
, Henry
, Paulson
Markets: See-Saw from Hell 2008-10-27 15:52:40 Wild-eyed men in wrinkled, striped shirts with sleeves half rolled up vein-popped forearms carrying sweat-stained clipboards, frantically running up and down the financial beachhead as a volatile tide rolls violently up the shore then recedes farther and farther back.
What goes up must come down - then back up - then back down…. Today’s market, [...] Read more:Markets
Wallstrip: What Now? 2008-10-27 12:40:55 Everyone loves the blame game, but what needs to happen now?
Markets: Options Selling - A Different View 2008-10-21 12:49:56 The strategy of option selling has become increasingly popular with investors in recent years. For a long time, the term “unlimited risk” was enough to scare most investors away from selling options. But many are now realizing that this term can be misleading taken out of context and such a high percentage strategy should not [...] Read more:Markets
, Options
Markets: How does option writing apply to you? 2008-10-20 17:24:55 Here is some commentary from David Bedford, president and chief trader of Crescent Bay Capital Management. Also, please, always feel free to contact Integrity Futures Group with any questions: (800) 358 - 3205
Dave,
What is your opinion of this report concerning option
writers and how do you feel it related to you?
So what distinguishes one option [...] Read more:Markets
, writing
Bloomberg: Turmoil May Make Americans Savers, Worsening `Nasty’ Recession 2008-10-20 12:44:59 By Rich Miller
The U.S. may be on its way to becoming a nation of savers, whether Americans
like it or not.
With home and stock prices declining and credit hard to come by, consumers who have fallen out of the savings habit are being forced to curb borrowing and rein in spending.
That is bad news for [...] Read more:Bloomberg
, Recession
, Turmoil
10 oversimplified steps illustrating why the bailout is bad idea from a historical perspective 2008-10-14 16:40:29 And 8 easy ways to fix it
by David Kelsen
Here is the chain of events as it has played out over and over again, throughout history, because people just don’t pay attention.
A country incurs an expense it cannot fund organically
A country borrows from a source other than its own government to acquire the funds necessary [...] Read more:steps
Investment Rescue Plan 2008-11-17 12:39:36 A Winning Program in Managed Futures
Drew Stewart, President and CEO at Integrity Futures Group, LLC has known for a long time that managed futures would ultimately eclipse mutual funds as the Next Big Thing. That’s why five years ago he started his financial services firm brokering only professionally managed futures, utilizing the best commodity trading [...] Read more:Rescue
History Forgotten: The U.S. Dollar 2008-11-14 18:40:51 I am not an economist, just ask my wife. Yet, I’ve become a student of economics in simply attempting to understand the dismality our economic situation. It has been decades since our country was taken off the gold standard. That arguably illegal currency transition is positively contrary to the wishes of the constructors of our [...] Read more:Dollar
, Forgotten
, History
Does Wall Street Exist in an Alternate Reality? 2008-11-11 18:56:39 Robert Kiyosaki, author of “Rich Dad, Poor Dad”, estimates that only 15% of all Americans are active investors. His definition does not include those of us with 401(k) or IRA plans. If Mr. Kiyosaki is correct, then why should Wall Street
matter to the rest of us? Why does the government feel [...]
Bailout: Still Bailing - AIG Burns Through More Cash 2008-11-10 14:28:47 American International Group, Inc. posts a $24.5 billion dollar third quarter loss and receives more cash to throw into their seemingly insatiable money inferno. News of executives spending $440,000 at a luxurious resort days after the initial $85 billion bailout and then racking up an additional $86,000 on a hunting trip in the English countryside [...] Read more:Bailing
, Burns
Commodities: Bull Market for Decades 2008-11-04 18:29:34 “Commodities are going to be in a bull market for another decade or two. Whether oil is selling at $45, or $145, it doesn’t really matter to me- today. Ask me in 10 years- it will matter… I don’t have any trouble sleeping, because I know we’re in a long-term bull market.”
Jim Rogers, Interview RTL [...] Read more:Decades
, Market
3 of 4 Worst Bears in History led by Republican President 2008-11-03 15:46:17 I can’t think of an election year that didn’t claim to be the worst in history in regard to name-calling, fact distortion, misleading statements or words taken out of context. This season is no different in that respect. However, one thing that has changed is our ability to vet ( a popular word this year) [...] Read more:Bears
, History
, President
, Republican
Worst of the Recession 2008-12-10 17:20:24 by David Kelsen
Brian Bethune and Nigel Gault, economists for Global Insight, have predicted that the worst of the recession is upon us, according to MarketWatch. Bully.
Mssrs. Bethune and Gault won their second consecutive “Forcaster of the Month” based on predictions of 10 Key economic indicators. Payroll reports, housing prices, retail sales and industrial production among [...] Read more:Recession
NDX and Dighton Capital - In the News 2008-12-01 15:55:52 IFG has the good fortune of being able to utilize the talents of NDX and Dighton Capital USA. We knew each of these CTAs (commodity trading advisers) had stellar performance records, but it’s always nice to see them glorified by the media. NDX CEO, Phillip Herbert, was interviewed for Futures Magazine in November and Dighton [...]
Black (and Blue) Friday vs. Cyber Monday 2008-11-28 13:25:58 According to USA Today, nearly 128 million Americans will shop on BlackFriday
.
(November 28th, 2008) 10:30 am, PST and reports of shopper aggression are already hitting the news agencies and blogs. A worker in a Wal-Mart store in Long Island, New York was killed when stampeding shoppers broke down the doors and knocked him to [...] Read more:Cyber
, Monday
Obama’s Economic Dreamteam 2008-11-24 15:34:21 President-elect Barack Obama
announced his economic adviser dreamteam today. Tim Geithner was reported last week as replacing treasury secretary Hank Paulson in the new administration, other appointments were as follows:
Tim Geithner - Treasury Secretary
Timothy Geithner currently serves as president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, where he has played a key [...] Read more:Economic
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