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Global Market Comments May 17, 2013 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (HANGING OUT WITH CONGRESSMAN BARNEY FRANK), (THE MOST FUNCTIONAL WORD IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE), (AN EVENING WITH NOBEL PRIZE WINNER MICHAEL SPENCE) (EEM),(EWZ), (EWY), (EWT), (EWS), (EWH),(TF), (IDX), (EWM), (FXI), (EWJ) iShares MSCI Emerging Markets Index (EEM) iShares MSCI Brazil Capped Index (EWZ) iShares MSCI [...]

On of the highlights of last week’s SkyBridge Alternatives Conference was the blowout party on Wednesday night (click here for the blow by blow description). Seeking refuge from a band that was blasting my ears out, and fleeing the nubile young bodies that kept bumping up against me and spilling my margaritas, I sought out [...]

Passed on by a friend with my apologies: Well, it’s shit… That’s right, shit! Shit may just be the most functional word in the English language. You can smoke shit, buy shit, sell shit, lose shit, find shit, forget shit, and tell others to eat shit. Some people know their shit, while others can’t tell [...]

I have always been a sucker for a visiting Nobel Prize winner in economics. So when I heard that Dr. Michael Spence was passing through town, I was on the next BART train. Michael was here to promote his latest book, The Next Convergence; The Future of Economic Growth in a Multispeed World. Michael believes [...]

Global Market Comments May 16, 2013 Fiat Lux SPECIAL TESLA EDITION Featured Trade: (ONE THE TESLA MELT UP), (TSLA), (F), (FIATY), (PEUGY), (SCTY), (BBRY), (HLF), (NFLX), (FSLR) Tesla Motors, Inc. (TSLA) Ford Motor Co. (F) Fiat S.p.A. (FIATY) Peugeot S.A. (PEUGY) SolarCity Corporation (SCTY) Research In Motion Limited (BBRY) Herbalife Ltd. (HLF) Netflix, Inc. (NFLX) [...]

This was the short squeeze that was begging to happen. Five guys owned 50% of the company, including the visionary founder, Elon Musk. Of the remaining float, 45% had been borrowed and sold short by hedge funds. All that was needed to ignite a rally was for someone to say “Boo.” That is exactly what [...]

Global Market Comments May 15, 2013 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (JULY 19 FRANKFURT, GERMANY STRATEGY LUNCHEON), (TESTIMONIAL), (MY FAVORITE SECRET ECONOMIC INDICATOR), (RUNNING THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY TO BREAKERS)

Come join me for lunch at the Mad Hedge Fund Trader’s Global Strategy Update, which I will be conducting in Frankfurt, Germany on Friday, July 19, 2013. A three-course lunch will be followed by a PowerPoint presentation and an extended question and answer period. I’ll be giving you my up to date view on stocks, [...]

I suffer earthquakes, forest fires, floods, dubious neighbors, high taxes, corrupt politicians, and a bankrupt state government to live in California. It is all worth it just to run the Bay to Breakers every year, a five mile run from the San Francisco Bay to the Pacific Ocean, which has evolved into the world’s most [...]

It was with an enormous sense of pride and relief that I watched the last of my kids graduate from the University of California at Berkeley. Clutching his hard fought degree in political economics in hand, Robert posed for photos among friends, with thousands of beaming parents looking on. His mother died ten years ago, [...]