Posts Tagged ‘ inflation ’

“The Single Most Important Investment Decision of the Coming Decade”

Nov 10th, 2010 | By | Category: Featured, Investing Strategies
Imagine a world where a cup of coffee costs $10… and the following year, it costs $12. Imagine nearly everything starts going up in price, year after year. Where I live, folks call that inflation. Sound far-fetched? Actually, it’s already started. Let’s start by looking at what’s happening to food prices. Corn ...read more

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How You Can Profit from the Impending Inflation…

Oct 29th, 2010 | By | Category: Featured, Investing Strategies
If Paul Revere were around, maybe he’d get on his horse and start yelling, “Inflation is coming! Inflation is coming!” I think it is coming. In fact, in many ways, it’s already here, just not yet widely recognized. The deflationists still hold sway in the bond market, where investors happily accept ...read more

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A New Age of Corporate Takeovers Could Soon Emerge

Sep 3rd, 2009 | By | Category: Featured, Investing Strategies, Macroeconomics
Inflation can do tricky things to markets. It creates distortions. In those distortions, an intrepid investor can find some big moneymaking ideas. I think we've got one opening up in oil and gas, and it is not without precedent in financial markets. In fact, it's starting to look a little ...read more

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Berknanke’s Big Bet

Mar 18th, 2009 | By | Category: Featured, Macroeconomics
Sunday, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke sat down with 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley for an interview on the state of the American economy. The interview was notable for two reasons – first, because interviews with the Chairman of the Fed were until now almost unheard of, and second, because Bernanke ...read more

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How You Can Win with Silver

Mar 17th, 2009 | By | Category: Commodities, Featured
Leaving your money under your mattress isn’t exactly the safest bet. It doesn’t take a mathematician to figure out that government stimulus plans, bank bailouts, and lower interest rates all add up to inflation. If more money is circulating due to new spending measures, the value of each dollar --including ...read more

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The Federal Reserve’s Reflation Infatuation

Nov 20th, 2008 | By | Category: Investing Strategies, Macroeconomics
Some concepts I can explain to my 9-year old son, Calvin, but economists with advanced degrees seem not to get it. Calvin, named after my favorite ballplayer (Cal Ripken, though my wife hates it when I say that. “We didn’t name him after Cal Ripken, we just liked the name!”), ...read more

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