Stock Market: When Do I Buy a “Buy”?
The stock market is a big place, you can’t buy everything, how do you determine whether you should even consider a particular investment recommendation?
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Economic Trends
Long-term trends grow from short term trends. We attampt to determine the short term trends and where they are pointing.
Job Security
In a changing economy, it is important to be confident that your job is secure before you make long-term investments. The future is not certain and if you lose your job you will require liquidity or you could end up in financial ruin. The key is to have at least 6 months of living expenses socked away in liquid assets before you invest in less liquid things like real estate, timber or privately held businesses. Although stocks are more liquid in a sudden downturn like we experienced in 2008 liquidity can be severely impaired (if there are no buyers) or you may be forced to liquidate at a significant loss. Warren Buffet is famous for maintaining massive amounts of cash waiting for just such an opportunity when he can name his price and everyone else is so strapped for cash that they have to accept his offer.
Gadgets for Hedging Financial Risks
In the age of the Internet, nearly every day there are new ways to ensure that you can stay on top of your financial information. From mobile phones to text messages to software that tracks the value of money, your portfolio can be digitized and monitored with nothing more than a click of the mouse
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Natural Disasters That Have Created Investment Opportunities
Every cloud has a silver lining, and in the case of some natural disasters, there have been great opportunities to take advantage of financial markets after the worst damage has been done. Often when the old has been swept away and new modern construction takes its place an area can be revitalized and get a whole new lease on life.
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How International Law Can Affect Your Investments
International law affects a multitude of countries, in a variety of ways. When deciding on where to invest and what to invest in, it is important to see which international laws and treaties are upheld by the country where the investments will be made. Here are a few specific things that should be kept in mind.
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Is the Dollar Really King?
In addition to saving yourself time and worries by mostly ignoring public information, learning to discern the difference between good and bad information can lead to better decision making, in your everyday life, and in your investments. As a case in point, during the conference here, someone in the audience asked a question about quantitative easing. Doug Casey took hold of the microphone and replied along the lines of, “People need to stop using constructs such as ‘quantitative easing.’ Those are just terms that politicians have come up with to obfuscate the truth. The proper term for quantitative easing is currency debasement, plain and simple.”
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Can You Trust Internet “Intelligence”?
Can you trust the information? One of the major problems with the internet… you never know the real source of the information or how reliable it is.
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Is Recent Action in Silver Bullish or Bearish?
Investors are quietly accumulating physical silver and silver ETF’s, while holdings in gold ETFs have plummeted. Meanwhile, the price of silver is drifting slightly lower. What does it mean and how can you profit? In today’s article Jeff Clark, Senior Precious Metals Analyst for Casey Research will look at these factors and where they are pointing.  ~Tim
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Cyprus Banks and the Rise of Neo-Feudalism
Even though the Central Bank of Cyprus is showing the world – in stark naked detail – how governments will deal with their debt problems, there is no general panic. Panicos Demetriades the governor of Cyprus’ central bank goes about his business… like Ben [Bernanke] and Mario [Blejer head of the Argentine Central Bank]… ripping
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Stock Market Basics
Bulls and Bears Whenever the stock markets set new highs, a whole universe of business pundits and supposed experts pontificate on the meaning and consequences of the records. Some are bears that predict a coming collapse; others, the bulls, point out reasons the market will go even higher. Whoever is right, the fact is that
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