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 a mountain peak, with a dramatic [...]

In order to enjoy your coming weekend, I thought you’d like a technical update of your positions, so feast your eyes on the two charts below. They say that a picture is worth a thousand words, so here is 2,000 words worth. If you have been negative on bonds as I have, these charts should [...]

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Hi John. We first heard your presentation in Sydney last year. Since then I have got off my butt and headed down the trading route, utilizing your trading newsletter that I subscribed to. I have gone from nowhere to trading calls and puts both buying and writing. Many of the ideas you have suggested in [...]

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Long-time readers of this letter are well aware of my advice to hold cash in the Chinese Yuan ETF (CYB) for the past four years. Those who followed my advice profited nicely. As of today, the Yuan is threatening to punch through to a new 20-year high. Who knew that the Yuan would be one [...]

When anyone starts lecturing you that the U.S. has the highest tax rate in the industrialized world, just turn around, walk away, and pretend you never heard them. This person is either ignorant about this country’s taxation system, or is deliberately trying to deceive you. According to a report released by the Internal Revenue Service, [...]

I know you spend all day trolling the Internet for the most entertaining video on YouTube every day. What, you don’t? I’m shocked, shocked. That’s OK, so I’ve done it for you. Click on the link below to watch a six minute animation explaining quantitative easing to a 12-year-old, using cute little cuddly figures. Is [...]