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Is Everything You Learned about the Great Depression Wrong?
What if I asked you to forget everything you ever learned about the Great Depression?
You’d say I was crazy.
But hold on for a moment and consider a slightly different perspective. A perspective that you won’t find in too many history books. And, quite frankly, a perspective that could allow your portfolio to be much better positioned for the years ahead.
After all, with everything going on the world and the repeated references to the “worst downturn since the Great Depression,” learning the lessons of history is probably more crucial to your investment success than ever before.
Nobel Laureate Peal S. Buck…
11Aug2009 | Q1 Publishing | 0 comments | ContinuedGold and the Casino Capitalism House of Cards
Source: John Katz, Stock Research Portal
Members of the G20 have announced they will, as necessary, reflate their economies to create liquidity, unfreeze credit and restore global economic growth. But can reflation, whether through fiscal expansion, money printing or “quantitative easing,” be introduced without accompanying inflation? John Katz, analyst, writer and blogger for www.thegoldwatcher.com addresses this question in the following article and asks, “will this all end with a house of cards collapse?”
‘Over the past 35 years it has seemed as if everyone in finance has wanted to be someone else. Hedge funds and private equity wanted to be as cool as…
10Apr2009 | The Gold Report | 0 comments | ContinuedWhy These Two Investment Fears Aren’t Genuine Threats
As I write, I’m here at The Oxford Club chapter meeting at the Intercontinental Hotel in Managua.
When we’re not eating tortillas and sipping margaritas, my colleagues and I – along with about 60 Oxford Club members – are surveying the global economy, making assessments about what lies ahead for world stock and bond markets.
However, two of the greatest fears voiced here are not genuine threats to your financial well-being, in my view. You’re probably hearing these opinions, too. So let me give you my take on them.
The first fear, especially among folks with a particular political viewpoint, is that the incoming Obama…
26Jan2009 | Investment U | 0 comments | Continued
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