' The oil era will end in 30 years, as it is replaced by alternatives, offshore, and tar sands,' said Ahmed Zaki Yamani, the former Saudi oil minister, who invited me on his private jet for a trip to the kingdom so I could conduct an exclusive interview during the seventies.

Featured Trades: (DR. GEORGE FRIEDMAN OF STRATFOR), (HEDGE FUND RADIO), (RSX), (FXI), (EPOL), (TUR) Market Vectors Russia ETF Trust iShares MSCI Turkey Investable Market ETF iShares MSCI Poland Investable Market ETF iShares FTSE Xinhua China 25 ETF 1) Dr. George Friedman of STRATFOR on Hedge Fund Radio. China is in serious trouble. That is the [...]

Featured Trades: (WHEAT), (CORN), (SOYBEANS) PowerShares DB Multi Sector Commodity Trust Teucrium Commodity Trust Corn 2) Grain Prices Are Spiking Everywhere. Now the grains are literally on fire. News reports over the weekend of wild fires triggered by historic draught conditions in Russia and the Ukraine, consuming vast swaths of wheat have sent prices flying. [...]

'The whole US market is pretty much low quality these days,' said Richard Bernstein, of Bernstein Capital Management.

Featured Trades: (CHINA), (FXI) 1) China's PMI Sets Market a Flutter. Several decades ago, a kid selling greeting cards door to door (yes, that's how old I am) stopped by my office. When I said no, he suddenly burst into tears and threw a handful of samples up in the air, which then wafted back [...]

Featured Trades: (RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE) 2) Don’t Hold Your Breath for Residential Real Estate. Every few weeks I get a warm and fuzzy feeling when I see my old house for sale in the Wall Street Journal. I’m sure you’ve seen it. It’s the 8,500 square foot, four bedroom, seven bathroom white elephant perched on [...]

Featured Trades: (JACK WELCH), (GE)   3) An Evening with Jack Welch.  I met Jack Welch last night, the legendary retired CEO of General Electric (GE). ‘Neutron’ Jack gets the credit for boosting the market cap of GE from $13 billion to $400 billion in 20 years, turning it into a Wall Street darling in [...]

'Cleantech, greentech, and energy technology has to be the next great global industry. China gets it,' said Pulitzer Prize winner tom Freidman, author of Hot, Flat, and Crowded.

Featured Trades: (CHILE), (ECH) iShares MSCI Chile Fund ETF 1) Chile is Looking Hot. Want to invest in an extremely well managed country with almost no debt, budget surpluses, an appreciating currency, and the price for its dominant export commodity going through the roof? Then, Chile is the place for you. It is an old [...]

Featured Trades: (CHL) 2) A Busy Signal at China Mobile. People often ask why I bother to produce this newsletter. Sure, the private jets to the Kentucky Derby, the free tickets to heavyweight fights in Las Vegas, and the endless dinner invitations in every major city in the world are all nice. But for me [...]

Featured Trades: (XOM), (USO) United States Oil Fund ETF 3) Pick Up Big Oil While it is Still Cheap. I have always been an unfashionable person. I was still wearing my bell bottoms and mutton chop sideburns well into the eighties, and even today people laugh at my yellow power ties which are 30 years [...]

'If you don't believe in global warming, fine, that's between you and your beach house,' said Tom Friedman, a columnist for the New York Times.