Hey, let's hate each other politely... #1 vs #2 view is trivialized here. In reality followers of view #2 (or those acting in the name of it)...
I've been long AMD till the Core2 release by Intel. AMD had better core microarchitecture for a number of years and was slowly but steadily...
Did I say anywhere that printing money is a good thing ? It is in fact a path to disaster although a prolonged one and therefore politically more...
I think those calling for a prolonged RE downturn grossly underestimate Fed paper money printing ability...
Gold is good but we need to diversify to other hard assets as well. Gold is not broad / efficient enough market and as such can be subject to wild...
I am holding on to equities but adding 20-30% of every upward move to the hedge ('07 - early '08 puts on multiple indices) plus adding some gold...
Hydroblunt, Can you reason your dislike towards nuclear ? Modern reactors are light years ahead on safety compared to Chernobyl RBMK. Certainly...
Information theory tells us that predicting an event with 50% probability conveys 0 (no) information :D
The interesting question remains if US investors will be essentially triple taxed on canroy dividents. Currently if you exceed the limit on US...
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2006/10/31/2187043-cp.html
With all due respect to what have been said here the housing bear may not last much past 2007. When the economy officially hit the brakes in few...
Long term RE bear may not materialise if the gov takes hyperinflation path at the onset of a recessin. Few years of 10% annual inflation will...
France, Japan and Russia operate commercial fast reactors (Japan single fast reactor is temporarily closed due to coolant leak accident). France...
I think recession is coming but I put 70% prob. that it is going to be stagflation and not Jap style deflationary recession.
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