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What a wild summer it’s been and we’re just 2/3 of the way through it. What a wild year it’s been and we’re just 60% through it. Did you know that the DJIA has had but only one 5% pull back so far this entire
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I have a conundrum. I am a huge NFL fan, but as you know I can’t stand the idea of oligarchic team owners getting taxpayer assistance with their stadiums and their unbelievable not-for-profit(!) status which enables them to pay these ridiculous $20 million a year plus salaries for guys
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Let’s do a must-read weekend links fest. But, before we do, let’s think about this. You know what’s not news right now? * The Euro debt crisis, which isn’t solved yet. * The emergency subsidies and outsized profits based on profiteering and building imbalances in our nation’s
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Things sure are peaceful if not outright euphoric in the markets out there right now, so let’s continue our “be scared while others are greedy” line of thinking again today and hit on some must-read headlines to help us round out our analysis. First, be sure to check out
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Most people seem to fall into two disparate camps when it comes to gold and silver – 1. Goldbugs, who can cite a litany of well-reasoned and long-held beliefs explaining why gold and silver always have been and always will be a great holder of value. 2. Goldbears, who can cite
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What a time and place in these markets, eh? Do you sense that every major market in the world is coiled and about to either crash or spike any day now? Are we already seeing some of these major crashes and spikes presently? Let’s run through the gamut of
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The big news overnight is obviously the Japanese stock market crash following the recent Japanese stock market blow off top. Is the Fed QE the only thing keeping our own stock market up near the recent highs? Deep thought of the day – Every baby in the US is being reared
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In our age there is no such thing as ‘keeping out of politics.’ All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia. – George Orwell A few years ago before I took the job as an anchor on Fox, I was running
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Facebook’s popping and I’m sitting tight on it for now. Sellside analyst upgraded the stock and his report sounded almost as if he’s a TradingWithCody.com subscriber because it outlined many of our reasons for being long this stock. Those reasons, according to Jordan Rohan at Stifel
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I have to say, despite knowing how “out there” by conventional means much of Marketwatch’s and my own readership is, I am shocked at the results of our poll yesterday in which we asked, “Is the entire stock market (and the system it supports) completely corrupted?”. I take offense
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Don’t forget this week’s Live Q&A Chat at 2pm EST today. I spent the last week in Washington DC, tourist-ing, taking meetings, and talking to everybody rich or poor, powerful or powerless that I met. I discussed geopolitics, bailouts and economics with immigrants from Ethiopia and
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What are the major disruptive technologies, ie, Revolution Investment themes, that have made people rich over the last decade? 1) Internet sites – Yes, despite all the dot-com companies that went bankrupt and all the fortunes that were lost gambling on pie-in-the-sky ideas like Pets.com and Webvan, the dominant Internet