On my recent trip to Oregon I met with venture capital investors in NuScale Power, which is trailblazing, the brave new world of ?new? nuclear. Their technology has been pioneered by Dr. Jose Reyes, dean of the School of Engineering at Oregon State University in Corvallis. This is definitely not your father?s nuclear power plant.
Yesterday, I wrote about the Nevadan wrinkle in the housing crisis where distressed homeowners are letting their horses go wild to make their mortgage payment. Now neighboring California is facing a Chihuahua glut, where evicted homeowners are handing over their pets to animal shelters. The diminutive Mexican canine enjoyed a boom in popularity in recent
Come join me for lunch at the Mad Hedge Fund Trader?s Global Strategy Update, which I will be conducting in San Francisco on Friday, October 26, 2012. An excellent meal will be followed by a wide ranging discussion and an extended question and answer period. I?ll be giving you my up to date view on
I am looking to hear from the readers who have enjoyed the most profitable trading experience following my Trade Alerts in 2012. I am interested in learning about the specific trades you placed, the amount of money you made, and how the service has enhanced your trading experience. The winner will receive a free one
Come join me for lunch for the Mad Hedge Fund Trader?s Global Strategy Update, which I will be conducting in Washington DC at noon on Friday, October 19, 2012. 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
Given the sudden uptick in trade alerts I have been sending out to my Global Trading Dispatch subscribers, some 60 since August 10, I have been inundated with requests for how to execute these. So I thought I?d take some time today to expound on the basics of order execution 101. There are three basic
?It?s an ugly contest; do you want the dollar, the euro, or the yen,? said hedge fund legend, Ray Dalio of Bridgewater Associates.
I can just imagine how Ben Bernanke?s announcement of QE3 went down at Mitt Romney?s campaign headquarters in Massachusetts last week. Doors slammed, heads pounded against walls, and hair was torn out. You can almost hear the whoosh of resume?s flying down to conservative think tanks on Washington DC?s ?K? street as campaign workers scramble
?The nice thing about gold is that it has no PE multiple. Because it earns and yields nothing, gold is a speculation on the systematic debasement of currencies by central banks,? said Jim Grant of Grant?s Interest Rate Observer.
Come join me for lunch for the Mad Hedge Fund Trader?s Global Strategy Update, which I will be conducting in Las Vegas, Nevada on Friday, September 28, 2012. 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, bonds, currencies, commodities,