I have fond memories traveling around northern Mexico during the 1950?s. My grandfather used to drive us across the border into Baja in his pickup truck, the back loaded with camping equipment, water, fishing poles, rifles, and shotguns. There was no border control. To eat, we only had to wait for the tide to go
In case you missed it, the second hand animal market has crashed. Forced to slash budgets by cash starved municipalities, the nation?s public zoos have been paring back their collections of living exhibits. The Washington Zoo is trying to offload a 7,000 pound hippopotamus; while the San Francisco Zoo is short some tigers after one
?The market always gets it right,? said Jim O?Neill, the chairman of Goldman Sachs International, who coined the term ?BRIC?.
When the Dow crashed 514 points in a single day a few years ago, the market lost a staggering $850 billion in market capitalization. High frequency traders were possibly responsible for half of this move, but generated a mere $65 million in profits, some 7/1,000?s of a percent of the total loss. Are market authorities
Come join me for lunch for the Mad Hedge Fund Trader?s Global Strategy Seminar, which I will be conducting in New York, NY on Tuesday, July 2, 2013. An excellent three course lunch will be provided. A PowerPoint presentation will be followed by an extended question and answer period. I?ll be giving you my up
Global Market Comments April 23, 2013 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (MAY 8 LAS VEGAS STRATEGY LUNCHEON), (PROBING FOR A BOTTOM IN GOLD), (GLD), (IS THIS THE FINAL BOTTOM FOR APPLE?), (AAPL), (GOOG), (JCP) SPDR Gold Shares (GLD) Apple Inc. (AAPL) Google Inc. (GOOG) J. C. Penney Company, Inc. (JCP)
Come join me for lunch at the Mad Hedge Fund Trader?s Global Strategy Update, which I will be conducting in Las Vegas, Nevada on Wednesday, May 8, 2013. 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
Thanks to last week?s Armageddon type crash in gold prices, implied volatilities on options in the SPDR Gold Trust Shares (GLD) have rocketed to five-year highs. This is in sharp contrast to equity index option implieds, which are just a few percent above six year lows. Therefore, the deep in the money option strategy in
Apple has been one of the great conundrums of the investment industry this year, the stock falling through the floor of any standard valuation model. With the shares at $395 the stock is discounting a 12% drop in earnings per year for the next several years. Either something terrible is about to happen at Steve
?Japan has gone from Paul Volcker to Ben Bernanke overnight,? said legendary hedge fund manager, Stan Drukenmiller.
