International
Jan 12th, 2009 |
By Chris Mayer |
Category: Energy, Featured, International
Ukraine and Russia are at it again. This time, it’s turned especially nasty, as Russia cut off natural gas supplies to a host of European countries. Tired of relying on Russia, the EU will again look for alternatives.
Its eyes will wander to Turkmenistan.
Back in October, while the world was busy ...
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Tags: Natural Gas, Russia, Turkmenistan, Ukraine
Posted in Energy, Featured, International |
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Jan 2nd, 2009 |
By Chris Mayer |
Category: Energy, Featured, International
He won a decisive victory in the presidential elections and his party picked up a bunch of seats in Congress. The American economy is in the dumps and the mood is glum. The new president puts in motion sweeping new legislation and spending plans in an attempt to fix things…
I'm ...
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Tags: China, Infrastructure, Obama, stimulus
Posted in Energy, Featured, International |
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Dec 19th, 2008 |
By Chris Mayer |
Category: Energy, Featured, International
We may be on the cusp of a great global boom in the automotive industry. That may be hard to believe given all the ink spilled on the troubles at the mossbacked mastodons known as GM, Ford and Chrysler. But there are reasons to believe something big is afoot here ...
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Tags: auto industry, hybrid, lithium batteries
Posted in Energy, Featured, International |
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Nov 3rd, 2008 |
By Chris Mayer |
Category: Housing, International, Macroeconomics
The bell of American finance has cracked. It was a long time coming, as I’ll show you. The biggest change in the American economy in the last generation or so has been the rise of finance at the expense of making things. This seemed to work for a while, but ...
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Tags: American Finance has Cracked, Every Crisis Brings Opportunity, Financial Innovation, Investing in more Durable things, Mortgages in France, Post-finance US Economy, Worlds Biggest Economy
Posted in Housing, International, Macroeconomics |
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Oct 17th, 2008 |
By Dan Amoss |
Category: International, Macroeconomics
Congratulations on making it through yet another week of panic, margin calls, and forced selling! If you’re surviving, and you’re not down too much this year, you’re better off than most money managers.
Out of the thousands of hedge funds in existence, hundreds are closing up shop and liquidating, if the ...
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Tags: Credit Bubble, Hundreds are Liquidating, Investment Banking Industry, Liquidated in Violent Fashion, Margin Calls, Most Money Managers, Unfettered Deficits, Week of Panic
Posted in International, Macroeconomics |
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Sep 19th, 2008 |
By Chris Mayer |
Category: Commodities, International
Frank Holmes is the CEO of U.S. Global Investors, a money management firm honed in on the commodity bull market. I had dinner with him recently at the Blue Water Cafe in Vancouver. Over salmon and flying squid, as well as an excellent local ale, we again hashed out the ...
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Tags: Asian infrastrucutre, Asian retail sales, infrastructure materials, infrastructure megatrend
Posted in Commodities, International |
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Sep 17th, 2008 |
By Jim Nelson |
Category: International, Technology
There’s no question… China is getting richer. Its economy is booming. Its middle class is growing. But that doesn’t mean everything is going so smoothly. Take commuting for instance.
According to a UC Berkley study, urban population in China jumped from 80 million to 560 million in the past 30 years. ...
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Tags: China's public transportation, Chinese advertising, VisionChina, VisionChina Media
Posted in International, Technology |
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Sep 5th, 2008 |
By Byron King |
Category: Commodities, Energy, International
Western nations — the U.S., in particular — are now experiencing the bow wave of a profound change in the current and future availability of oil. According to recently published data, oil output from all major Western oil companies is on an ominous decline trend. Exxon Mobil, for example, announced ...
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Tags: Global Oil Problems, national oil companies, NOC, Western oil companies, Western oil supply, world's oil resources
Posted in Commodities, Energy, International |
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Aug 28th, 2008 |
By Chris Mayer |
Category: Commodities, Energy, International
Zanzibar, Dar es Salaam, Mombasa, Mogadishu, Mumbai, Mangalore…all trading cities along the fabled rim of the Indian Ocean. These eastern African cities thrived between the 12th and 18th centuries, with ships sailing in and out on monsoon winds. They will thrive again on the tailwind of a long-term bull market ...
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Tags: African oil supply, African trade routes, Congo oil sands, investing in Africa, Ryszard Kapuscinski
Posted in Commodities, Energy, International |
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Aug 4th, 2008 |
By Jim Nelson |
Category: Featured, International, Investing Strategies, Over the Counter Markets, Penny stocks
In 1936, one smart six-year-old purchased a few six-packs of Coca Cola from his grandfather’s grocery store for a quarter per pack and resold each bottle for a nickel apiece. With that initial 20% profit he made of each six-pack, the world’s richest man got his start in business.
Today, that ...
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Tags: investing in small-caps, opportunities in small-caps, small companies, Warren Buffett small-caps
Posted in Featured, International, Investing Strategies, Over the Counter Markets, Penny stocks |
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