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Chris Mayer

Chris Mayer is managing editor of the Capital and Crisis and Mayer’s Special Situations newsletters. He also is a contributor to the Daily Reckoning. Graduating magna cum laude with a degree in finance and an MBA from the University of Maryland, he began his business career as a corporate banker. Mayer left the banking industry after ten years and signed on with Agora Financial. His book, Invest Like a Dealmaker, Secrets of a Former Banking Insider, documents his ability to analyze macro issues and micro investment opportunities to produce an exceptional long-term track record of winning ideas.

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Seeking Profits in This Emerging Market

Apr 12th, 2011 | By | Category: Commodities, Featured, Investing Strategies
I grew up in the 1980s, and in some ways I never left it. I still wear Ray-Ban Wayfarer sunglasses. I still enjoy those big hair bands like Guns N’ Roses and the bluesy rock of Stevie Ray Vaughan. And I still get a kick out of watching re-reruns of ...read more

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Why This “White Rock” Will Become the Next Hot Buy

Apr 4th, 2011 | By | Category: Commodities, Featured, Investing Strategies
There is no substitute for it. It is crucial to the world’s food supply, for which it serves as a fertilizer. And most of the world’s mines are in decline. Foreign Policy magazine recently called it “the gravest resource shortage you’ve never heard of.” Demand for the rock is growing as ...read more

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Get Rich in the Land of the Blue Sky

Mar 14th, 2011 | By | Category: Featured, Investing Strategies, Macroeconomics
The story of Mongolia’s resurgence is mouthwatering for investors for a very simple reason. Mongolia is rich in natural resources… and it sits next to the world’s most voracious consumer of those resources, China. Beneath Mongolia’s rugged mountains and slumbering sands lie huge untapped resources of copper, coal, gold, uranium, iron ...read more

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Great Investments in Unlikely Places

Mar 7th, 2011 | By | Category: Featured, Investing Strategies
Some of the most compelling investment ideas are found in the unlikeliest of places. For example, in the wake of Russia's financial crisis in 2008 and given all that we know about the problems in Russia, I think most investors then would not have given it much of a chance. If we ...read more

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Your Low-Risk Way to Book Gains

Feb 14th, 2011 | By | Category: Featured, Investing Strategies
A couple of weeks ago I talked about what I consider one of the market’s best-kept secrets… I was talking about thrift conversions — As I am sure you remember, a thrift, or a savings and loan, is a special kind of bank. It is a bank owned by depositors.  When ...read more

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How to Spot the Best Investments of the Next 50 Years

Feb 8th, 2011 | By | Category: Featured, Investing Strategies, Macroeconomics
Some of the most successful companies of the last half-century all had one thing in common. And I am certain that the best investments of the next half-century will also share this trait. It’s pretty simple and intuitive, yet I wonder why more investors don’t focus on it. I’ll use a ...read more

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How I Made 38.2% Gains with “Thrift Conversions”

Jan 19th, 2011 | By | Category: Featured, Investing Strategies
I’m going to share with you something that I have put a good deal of my own money into. In fact, I have more money invested here than in anything else — about 40% of my personal investment account at the moment. Last year, I made 38.2% in these low-risk special ...read more

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How You Can Profit from Company Acquisitions

Jan 7th, 2011 | By | Category: Featured, Investing Strategies, Macroeconomics
There have been a number of acquisitions lately that tell us some important things. One of them is that corporate insiders are willing to pay a lot to get growth these days. The prices of some of these deals are rich, as I’ll show you. It also says something important about our ...read more

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Using Insider Sales to Profit in 2011 and Beyond

Jan 3rd, 2011 | By | Category: Featured, Investing Strategies
Many people wonder where they should start looking for growth potential in this ever-changing market. What I often do is look for extremes… I look for areas of the market where the rubber band seems stretched. These are usually good places to look for making money as you play the snapback of ...read more

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How You Can Profit from Investing in Africa

Nov 29th, 2010 | By | Category: Featured, Investing Strategies
Markets make opinions, the old saying goes. So it is hard to maintain old views on Africa as a place to avoid in the face of so much evidence to the contrary. A few snapshot images from the past few weeks should help you think differently about the continent. There has ...read more

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