Posts Tagged ‘ great depression ’

Depression Then and Now: Three Eye-Opening Charts

Jun 30th, 2009 | By Chris Mayer | Category: Featured, International, Investing Strategies
“Planet Earth is probably the riskiest it has been since the day before the meteor landed in the Yucatan and wiped out most life.” -- Donald Coxe This is an eye-opener. Whenever I talk about the Great Depression and compare it with what is going on today, I get a lot ...read more

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How to Spot a Market Bottom

Mar 16th, 2009 | By David Grandey | Category: Featured, Technical Analysis
Typically, a market can only bottom two ways. The first is a double bottom pattern. There are a couple variations to this pattern: 1. A double bottom with a shake out low. 2. A First Thrust Up In order to give you a clue as to what these look like and what to ...read more

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Trammel Crow: Lessons in Real Estate Investing

Jan 26th, 2009 | By Chris Mayer | Category: Featured, Housing, Investing Strategies
“There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.” — Trammell Crow, real estate mogul Cycles are an inseparable part of the landscape of markets. Fortunes are often made in the valleys. I was thinking of this after I read several obituaries of Trammel Crow, who died this month. He ...read more

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Profiting from Payday Loans in 2009

Jan 16th, 2009 | By Jim Nelson | Category: Featured, Penny stocks
On an otherwise normal evening in 1964, a woman known as "Miss Witness" received a disturbing telephone call from alleged loan shark Frank Sacco. Here is her account of the call: "That evening, I received a phone call from him to look at my car and that 'it' would happen to ...read more

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Phil Carret: The Pioneering Investor Who Always Looked on the Bright Side

Jan 6th, 2009 | By Chris Mayer | Category: Featured, Investing Strategies, Macroeconomics
The Christmas tree is out on the curb, the ornaments carefully packed away for next year. We recover from the New Year’s party as the fog of it lifts from our heads. Our revels now are ended, as the Bard says. It is time to look ahead to 2009. Well, let’s ...read more

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Conglomerate Stocks: The Great Depression Success of American Home Products

Dec 9th, 2008 | By Chris Mayer | Category: Featured, Housing, Investing Strategies
Last Friday was the 75th anniversary of the repeal of Prohibition. It seems we can’t escape looking back over our shoulders at the 1930s. We teeter closer to the sequel no one wants to see: Great Depression II. We got horrible news on the job front last week. Unemployment climbed to ...read more

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Investing in Bad Markets

Oct 29th, 2007 | By Chris Mayer | Category: Investing Strategies
Some of what makes a great investor is baked-in natural talent, beyond imitation, in the same way countless hours of golf practice won't turn you into Tiger Woods. But some things you can copy. In fact, a few things are very easy to copy. Three of them include discipline in ...read more

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