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Make Sure You Get Your Cut of U.S. Government-Guaranteed Cash

2009-08-18T06:45:00.000-07:00

I call it the "Bailout Loophole." And, even though millions of Americans know nothing about it... It could easily be one of the best ways for you to cash in thousands of dollars in extra "bailout" income checks... each and every year that it takes America's economy to recover. Including as much as $17,500 or more for this year alone. This is perfectly legal. In fact the "loophole"

Is High-Frequency Trading Pillaging Your Portfolio?

2009-08-12T08:30:00.000-07:00

There's an underground investment world lurking in the bowels of Wall Street's biggest firms. It's a world that the vast majority of investors have never heard of ― and its participants could be pillaging your investment profits on a daily basis. That said, there's a way out for smart investors… I'll tell you what it is in a minute. High-Frequency Trading (HFT) is a not-so-new trend

Profit from the End of Cheap Oil with This ETF

2009-08-10T07:00:00.001-07:00

We're well on our way to $200 oil. Are you ready?Over the course of the next six months, major changes are going to shape our economy… The only one you should care about is the price of oil. Turn on CNN, Fox News or CNBC, and you're all but guaranteed to see a panel of "experts" who are betting on cheap oil. They're making a huge mistake. Now more than ever oil is poised to rocket back

Access to this Secret Meeting Will Land You a Fortune

2009-08-10T06:58:00.001-07:00

It all goes down on December 7... ... In what could be the most high-powered, most secretive meeting of the century. They'll assemble behind closed doors in a secured Copenhagen location... members of the Saudi Royal Family, high-ranking Israeli officials with ties to the Mossad... even former members of the KGB's inner circle. The purpose of this unprecedented summit? You might

Recover Your Portfolio with 3 Biotech Plays

2009-08-09T16:35:00.001-07:00

On November 30, 2007, I presented my thesis on why I thought biotechnology was the next big bull market. My thesis was simple: a month-and-a-half earlier, a woman named Kathleen Casey-Kirschling was the first baby boomer to file for Social Security benefits. Little did anybody know this marked the day that the 21st Century's biggest bull market began. The numbers are staggering. . .

Hunky Dory

2009-08-09T16:33:00.000-07:00

Whenever the herd mentality lines up along a compass point leading to "permanent prosperity," or a yellow brick road lined with green shoots, or something like that, I tend to see the edge of a cliff up ahead. We are now completely in the grips of the deadly diminishing returns of information technology. The more information comes to us about How Things Are, especially from TV, the

The Next Bubble To Burst

2009-08-08T08:41:00.001-07:00

It's every investor's dream: buy into a theme before any one else has caught on; ride it all the way up until it gets bubbly; sell to the suckers who bought at the top. It's like buying housing names in 2004 (as we did), only to sell and go short in 2007 (as we did). . . or oil prior to the rise to $147 (again, as we did). . . or even dot-coms before the bubble burst. Yep, we've

Regenerative Medicine Is the “Play of the Century”

2009-08-07T04:05:00.000-07:00

At the Agora Financial conference in Vancouver, I participated in a panel that attempted to name "the trade of the decade." Many of the recommendations involved commodity or resource plays. I suspect that these defensive recommendations are worthwhile. They may, in fact, protect investors from the worst of this downturn. I don't believe, however, that they are in any way trades "of the

Our Top Clean Energy ETF

2009-08-06T15:55:00.001-07:00

The S&P 500 just broke the 1,000 mark for the first time since November. With a price-to-earnings ratio of 65, the broadest U.S. benchmark is now about 225% over last year's premium of 20.That's too top-heavy for many skittish investors out there, especially since we've been inching higher and higher on low trading volume. But as you'll read here, a sell-off this month may mean a

Agora Financial Investment Symposium

2009-08-05T16:10:00.001-07:00

That's how much money you could have made investing $1,000 in a single recommendation offered at last year's Agora Financial Investment Symposium. A profit like that could pay for your Symposium seat… first-class airfare… a top-notch hotel… stylish transportation… great dinners out on the town… souvenirs for the family… And still leave you with plenty of cash when you head home. We

Oil and Molybdenum Are Poised for Future Gains

2009-08-05T08:09:00.001-07:00

The oil price is stubborn, like a two-year-old who refuses to eat his mashed peas. Despite all evidence that the market is well supplied, oil is over $70 a barrel again as I write. Taking the view out to the horizon, though, I think it will go higher and will drag the price of most commodities higher in its wake.Part of the reason for the rise is weakness in the dollar. People often say

Housing Numbers Err on the Bright Side

2009-08-04T16:10:00.001-07:00

Depends...If you need a place to live and want to own a house, why not? Prices in some areas are fairly reasonable. But if you're speculating, our guess is that you'll get a better deal if you wait.Why? For the many reasons we have given you in these Daily Reckonings. House prices may be firming in some areas - that's what the Case- Shiller numbers seem to show. But nationwide, they are

How to Make a Fortune From the Personalized Medicine Revolution

2009-08-04T09:01:00.001-07:00

Many of the big transformational technologies set to change the science of medicine are based on single simple concepts. These include stem cells and RNA interference. There is another transformational change coming, however, that involves a huge array of technologies. I'm talking about "personalized medicine."Currently, medicine is, to a large degree, a "one size fits all" proposition.

Blink, and You Might Miss a Million Trades

2009-08-03T16:09:00.001-07:00

The NYSE is "not a fan" of flash orders; London exchange heads are scrutinizing them as we speak.But most investors are still in the dark when it comes to the world of lightning-quick bulk trades.Here's what high-frequency trading and flash orders mean to you. . .High-Frequency Trading: Volatility in Microsecond Increments?It's a simple fact that volatility scares investors. . . We

A Piece of the Stimulus Pie

2009-08-03T08:27:00.001-07:00

Despite what you are most likely reading in the press, the folks getting bailout money are pretty sharp. They're very good at gaming the system. More about that in a minute. First, the Dow went nowhere yesterday. Gold fell $14 to $939. And Newsweek magazine announced, "The Recession is Over." Newsweek hedged its bets; adding that the recovery won't be a piece of cake. Elsewhere in the news

A Decade of Pain

2009-08-03T04:35:00.001-07:00

Heathrow Airport is a nightmare in many ways. It is so large it can take hours to get from one terminal to the next. Yet, when we came back from Vancouver on Saturday, we landed at 10:30AM. By 11AM we were in central London. We flew through the airport...got the express train. The whole thing took only a fraction of the time it takes us when we fly into Dulles at Washington.But London was in

Showdown With the Bond Vigilantes

2009-08-01T18:39:00.001-07:00

It's time for summer vacation in France. "You can forget about getting anything done in the month of August," said colleague Simone Wapler. "The French are busy with serious things...real things...like painting shutters and picking green beans...fixing curtains and making strawberry jam. They don't want to hear about economics or markets..."France begins its summer vacation today. We've

This Too Shall Pop, Part II; Byron King with a Requiem for Ben Bernanke

2009-07-31T04:14:00.001-07:00

Comes word this morning that the China State Construction Engineering Company has gone public. It's the biggest public offering - at $7.3 billion - in more than a year. It's also China's biggest homebuilder. And as soon as the shares hit the market yesterday they soared...closing 56% higher than the IPO price. At that price, it trades at about 40 times forecast 2009 earnings.Why would

A $600 Million Boost to Your Clean Energy Portfolio

2009-07-30T08:59:00.001-07:00

Algae oil is now the most promising source of alternative energy on the planet. But don't just take my word for it ― the world's biggest energy player agrees. ExxonMobil is the Big Oil player that's causing all the fuss. The company has thrown $600 million into a research partnership to study the potential of algae oil. Now, ExxonMobil will team up with human genome researcher Craig

A Worldwide Bubble in Everything

2009-07-30T08:57:00.001-07:00

The depression deepens."These are not layoffs...they're permanent job losses," said Barry Ritholtz yesterday morning in his presentation at the Agora Financial Investment Symposium in Vancouver. "These people are not going back to work anytime soon."That is the difference between a recession and a depression. In a recession people get laid off...and then they are called back to work when

Don't Trust Economists Over 30

2009-07-27T16:13:00.001-07:00

The new issue of The Economist magazine has a cover showing a book titled "Modern Economic Theory" melting into a puddle of what looks like chocolate-coated vanilla ice cream, and with the caption "Where it went wrong - and how the crisis is changing it," which refers to how nobody in their right mind trusts any egghead "economists" anymore, and even Paul Krugman, one of the worst of the

This is Where the Real Rally is...

2009-07-27T15:02:00.001-07:00

Bears are groaning and bulls are nervous. . . at least they should be. The recent U.S.-led rally is overdone, from both fundamental and technical perspectives. As Wealth Daily Editor Ian Cooper pointed out last Monday in his Trader's Pit blog and the Financial Times affirmed shortly after, the $6.7 trillion commercial real estate market looks as ominous as a rising thunderhead this

Greetings from Vancouver: Presenting the 2009 Agora Financial Investment Symposium

2009-07-25T21:30:00.001-07:00

Here's a line I heard several times at last year's well-named Agora Financial Investment Symposium: "A View From the Peak": "Any mountaineer will tell you the way down is the most dangerous part of the climb." This is a bloody truth. And last year we couldn't have nailed it any better. In fact, the conference occurred almost at the same time that the market topped and crumbled

Agora Financial Investment Symposium Day 1: Magic Salamanders,BUY GOLD and the Newest Normal...

2009-07-25T21:27:00.001-07:00

ACTG... 010001110001110...Does that sound like a bunch of gobbledygook? Or does it sound like the simple codes that let humans dominate the earth...?It's the latter. Weird, eh?And what about the fact that your DNA is a mere 1.23% different than a chimpanzee's? Or that bioengineered goats now produce milk that battles cancer. Or that a woman fully regrew her own trachea after a horrific bout

Agora Financial Investment Symposium Day 2:A Libertarian, Futurist and "Liberal Republican" Walk into a Bar…

2009-07-25T21:26:00.001-07:00

A battle of opposing philosophies brewed in the aether surrounding the Symposium.I knew it would come. Let me explain: A core disagreement mind-struck me when I saw today's list of speakers for the Agora Financial Investment Symposium. You can sum up the idea-rift this simply: can government prevent a future financial meltdown or not? As you'd expect, the conference room forms as much of a