Entries by DougD

December 3, 2009

Global Market Comments December 3, 2009 Featured Trades: (DUBAI), (EEM), (EDZ), (JOB OFFER), (HEDGE FUND RADIO)?1) Who did Dubai's emir, Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, think he was kidding? He launched one of the biggest construction booms in history, erecting the Burj Dubai, which at 161 stories is the world's tallest building. He built artificial

December 2, 2009

Global Market Comments December 2, 2009 ANOTHER SPECIAL GOLD ISSUE Featured Trades: (GOLD), (GLD) (HARD ASSETS INVESTMENT CONFERENCE) 1) Welcome to the new gold standard! There was a time that to own gold you had to be a 'gold bug' and believe in the myriad urban legends that percolated in the underground. Fort Knox is

November 25, 2009

Global Market Comments November 25, 2009 Featured Trades: (HEDGE FUND RADIO), (PLATINUM), (PGM), (PTM) 1) On Hedge Fund Radio this week I?ll be interviewing the legendary hedge fund manager, Bill Fleckenstein, who will give us his 2010 view of stocks, bonds, commodities, currencies, and of course gold. ?Fleck? is a 25 year industry veteran holding

November 24, 2009

Global Market Comments November 24, 2009 Featured Trades: (PCY), (LQD), (TM), (TM), (BEN BERNANKE) 1) I spent an evening chewing the fat with James Lentz, the president of Toyota Motor Sales, USA, (TM) who let loose some incredibly insightful views on the long term future of the global economy. I have been following Toyota for

November 20, 2009

Global Market Comments November 20, 2009 Featured Trades: (LUMBER), (TBT), (ZIMBABWEAN DOLLARS), (GOLD), (SILVER) (HEDGE FUND RADIO)1) Sometimes I think I?m the only guy who follows lumber futures. But they are a great ?tell? on the direction of wide swaths of the economy. Today, I?m not alone. Chart watchers have gone apoplectic because they think

November 19, 2009

Global Market Comments November 19, 2009 SPECIAL BOND MARKET ISSUE Featured Trades: (EUROPE), (JGB), (JNK), (PHB), (HYG)1) The US is turning into Europe. Think backbreaking taxes, chronic high unemployment, government involvement in everything, less innovation, and much lower growth, in exchange for a social safety net, more debt, and better coffee. That is the message

November 18, 2009

Global Market Comments November 18, 2009 Featured Trades: (CALIFORNIA DEMOCRACY ACT OF 2010), (VCV), (NCP), (NVX), (LITHIUM), (SQM), (CVX), (BIOFUEL), (XOM) 1) I finished my indoctrination on how to overthrow the government last weekend. Specifically, I attended a grass roots meeting of activists in Berkeley, California planning to collect 450,000 signatures by April to put the

November 17, 2009

Global Market Comments November 17, 2009 Featured Trades: (BAC), (GOLD) 1) I don't care how many times you ask me, I'm not going to replace Ken Lewis as the new CEO of the Bank of America (BAC). I will not accept if nominated and?? I will not serve if elected (sorry General Sherman). Sure, it

November 16, 2009

Global Market Comments November 16, 2009 SPECIAL CHINA ISSUE Featured Trades: (FXI), (DBC), (DYY), (DBA), (PHO), (BYDDF), (BIDU), (SOHU), (NTES), (SINA)1) I have long sat beside the table of Mckinsey & Co., the best management consulting company in Asia, hoping to catch some crumbs of wisdom. So I jumped at the chance to have breakfast

November 13, 2009

Global Market Comments November 13, 2009GLOBAL RISK CONTROL ALERT!Featured Trades: (SPX), (RWR), (FRI), (VNQ), (COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE)1) If I've told you once, I've told you a thousand times, stay out of those crummy neighborhoods, where the street corners are crowded with high priced stocks of dubious moral character wearing stiletto heels, fishnet stockings, miniskirts, and

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