Archive for: the daily reckoning

Opportunity in Ecuador

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...

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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...

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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...

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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 –...

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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...

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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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House Passes Protectionism Measure

On my way into work this morning the radio was playing one of my fave Pink Floyd songs, “Comfortably Numb,” which also happens to be a fave phrase of mine…...

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How to Manage Risk in Your Portfolio

There are many strategies for making money in the market. Very few of them work all of the time. Put another way, the vast majority of them work almost none of the...

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Which Way for Stocks? Bonds Give a Clue

Sherlock Holmes sometimes solved great problems just by lolling around in his smoking jacket and puffing at his pipe for hours. In “The Man With the Twisted Lip,”...

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How the Housing Recovery Affects Household Wealth Recovery

Last Friday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average tacked on 13 points, boosting its gains for the week to 145 points…and its gains for the last three weeks to...

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Gold – All About the Dollar?

Gold is suddenly all about the dollar again. Or so you might think. The race to debase only looks set to raise gold’s global appeal still further… After...

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Chinese Dollar Torture

Recently, the US Treasury Department released data showing an 11% decline in official Chinese holdings of US government bonds during the past year. For US dollar...

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