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My name is Ronan McMahon. I’m a real estate investor. I specialize in hunting down real estate in the world’s emerging economies. But right now, I’m looking...
A letter to Senator Scott Brown – The Fed’s Political Interference Must Be Stopped
The Honorable Scott Brown United States Senate 317 Russell Senate Office Building Washington D.C. 20510 Dear Senator Brown: I am a constituent who would like to...
The Inimitable Human Currency
“One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” – Henry Miller What are you worth? It’s a common enough question, but one seldom...
The Last Americanos
A disturbing bit of news emerged on the 29th of September. Meg Whitman’s campaign for governor of California was body-checked by a damaging news report just weeks...
Global Food Crisis: 6.8 Billion Served…and Counting
Paper is out; stuff is in. That’s what the markets are telling us right now. The dollar, that esoteric, floating abstraction upon which the financial world erects...
After China, the Fed’s Now the Largest Owner of US Treasuries
Just this week an inevitable milestone came to pass, the Federal Reserve surged ahead of Japan as the second largest owner in the world of US debt… second only...
The Mogambo Golden-Real Estate Project
Japan has taken an interesting approach to preventing people from accumulating so much debt that they default; The Wall Street Journal reports that Japan has a new...
A Tojo Moment
“This week, Tokyo’s central bankers rediscovered a modicum of their old mojo,” The Financial Times told the world on Wednesday. Typically, the FT reports the...
Government Workers: The New Upper Crust?
We’re on zombie watch… They’re everywhere…but especially here in the Washington metropolitan area. Zombies get their money from the government –...
Buying Gold Before the “Blow Off Phase”
An interesting graph of “a useful road map to any secular bull market” appeared in Casey’s Daily Dispatch. It was a graph showing how investment interest in...
How to Make Real Money in Real Estate and Other Investments
Dow…3 ounces! Our old friend Ronan McMahon has been keeping us up to date. Ireland is going broke, he says. The Irish foolishly borrowed too much money during...
Chinese Manufacturing Grows
The data cupboard’s results ended up being a bit better than expected, not by leaps and bounds, but certainly not the bottom of the barrel! The first revision...
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