Unearth Big Gains from the Commodity “Supercycle”

Consider that your computer could contain up to 38 separate chemical elements and that all of those elements needed to be mined and refined. Everything from cell phones to housing supplies requires massive amounts of raw materials.

Our modern lifestyle encourages us to buy the latest products, all made with increasing amounts of technology – and more raw materials.

But industrialized nations aren’t the only players clamoring for these commodities. Developing nations around the world are pounding the table for more of everything. They want what the industrialized west has had for years. And they want it now.

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Understanding The Credit Crisis… Through The One Eternal Truth of Investing

The credit crisis has been with us for 14 months. But it is only now that it is turning into a full-fledged panic.

Mutual fund outflow numbers show that shareholders are yanking money out of both stock and bond funds. So many investors have jumped into T-bills that the yield has dropped below one half of one per cent. (In their rush to safety, they are guaranteeing themselves a substantial negative return after taxes and inflation.)

When I was interviewed on Oprah & Friends last week, one caller asked whether I agreed with this theory that the economy and stock market are…

Buy the Titanic and Double Down on the Hindenburg

Last week, I suggested you ignore Washington and "the bailout," and do what great investors such as Warren Buffett do in times of crisis – buy stocks.

Based on reader response, you would have thought I recommended investing in the Titanic, and doubling down on the Hindenburg. My email inbox was full of remarks from people who thought I had lost my mind.

        "There are idiots out there saying [the credit crisis is] ‘no problem’…you know who they are!!!"

I think he means me…

But this kind of reaction isn’t out of the ordinary. In times of intense fear – such as this week…

The Infrastructure & Energy Sectors: The 2 Best Places to Put Your Money

As a degreed electrical engineer, I’ve always been fascinated with energy and infrastructure. Watching a huge bridge being built over a river, a tunnel being bored through a mountain, or an offshore oil rig drilling tens of thousands of feet down gets my heart pumping.

Projects like those truly are a testament to the ingenuity of man, and they’re necessities in any country with a growing economy. Right now, however, dwindling fossil fuels and crumbling infrastructure here – and the lack of it elsewhere – are huge problems in need of solutions.

Massive amounts of capital will be required to solve them…