Weekly Links

Darwin vs. The Fed. Guess Who’s Losing…

September 22, 2011

So, a few weeks ago, I publicized my crusade against US Treasuries whereby I was shorting naked call options on the 3X Leveraged ETF for long duration government debt.  That’s a mouthful. In essence, with rates at record lows, driving mortgage rates to never-before seen levels, I figured that was it.  With our debt problems […]

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My Credit Card = DENIED!

July 30, 2011

I learned something new tonight. I was out picking up some Indian food (which was very disappointing by the way – new management=new crappy cook…but I digress) and my credit card was declined when I went to pay for the food.  I said, “that’s impossible, I just used it ten minutes ago for another errand”.  […]

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Sunday Reads: It’s Getting Close Edition

July 17, 2011

We’re now less than 2 weeks from when Uncle Sam apparently runs out of money to spend if the debt ceiling isn’t increased (here was my prediction on the debt ceiling vote from 6 months ago – to too far off, huh?).  Anyway, equities continue to basically shrug off a potential disaster, figuring there will […]

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Pandora’s Box: Slammed Shut… And Other Weekend Reading

June 18, 2011

In a week that saw Pandora’s IPO launch to much fanfare and then come crashing down, there are some legitimate questions around some of the web companies going public now – and whether retail investors are buying into “hope” rather than actual future profit potential.  It will be interesting to see if Groupon can even […]

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Weekend Reading – US Treasury Bond Default Edition

May 28, 2011

When you hear something in the mainstream media so often, you actually start to believe it.  We’ve heard over and over again that the US has NEVER defaulted on its debt obligations and to do so now would be unprecedented.  This debt ceiling vote issue’s been swirling around for months now, but just recently, I […]

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Best of the Week: Silver’s Gone Parabolic Edition

April 28, 2011

After over a year of constant media attention and advertisements geared toward gold (It’s the End of America!, The world is crashing!, the dollar is collapsing! and so on), the real story all along has been silver.  As I outlined several times along the way, (here), (here), (here) and more, silver has been outperforming gold […]

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