All Posts Tagged With: "speculators"
Investing in Options Speculation
Sensible Speculation and Super Leverage
I was very fortunate to join my dad, Steve Sarnoff, as co-editor of Options Hotline in 1995, and I worked closely with him for four years. If you aren’t familiar with my dad, he’s an author…
9Sep2008 | The Penny Sleuth | 0 comments | ContinuedLovable, Moronic Capitalists
We’re still here, listening to presentations by various financial analysts…trying to make sense out of things…and reporting to you directly from the floor of the Vancouver investing conference.
Up on stage, our old friend Paul van Eeden is explaining why the…
27Jul2008 | Daily Reckoning | 0 comments | ContinuedVisitors from the Planet Thrift
Oh dear reader! This morning, we are practically panting…
The world economy is slowing down. The global financial system is falling apart.
The whole situation is a mess…a disaster for investors…a catastrophe for homeowners…a Waterloo for the financial industry. But it is…
17Jul2008 | Daily Reckoning | 0 comments | ContinuedAre “Speculators” Causing the Oil Price Rise?
“How much of the oil price rise is due to speculation?”
Blaming “speculators” for rising oil prices is nothing but cheap demagogy.
Speculators are speculating because there is something about which to speculate. (Let me thank my sixth-grade English instructor for teaching…
9Jul2008 | Energy and Oil | 0 comments | ContinuedOil Speculation: It’s the Energy, Stupid
With the price of oil doubling in the past year, there are more fingers being pointed than solutions being offered. Unfortunately, one of the biggest “culprits” garnering much of the blame has been the oil speculators. Congress has decided to…
9Jul2008 | Whiskey and Gunpowder | 0 comments | ContinuedSpeculators, again
Another week, another round of blaming “speculators” for high oil prices.
The latest luminary to weigh in is the former Saudi Arabian oil minister Sheikh Ahmed Yamani. (Yes, he’s still alive.)
He says the situation today is far different than it…
8Jul2008 | Desidooru Saloon | 0 comments | Continued

















































