If you speak French and want excitement, call this number,” said a flyer read by my friend and former mentor William Colby during WWII. That was how he was recruited by the OSS, which later became the CIA, once headed by Colby.
Global Market Comments September 15, 2023 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (FRIDAY, OCTOBER 6 FRANKFURT, GERMANY STRATEGY DINNER) (THERE ARE NO GURUS), (THE PRICE TAG FOR CLEAN COAL), (KOL), (UNG), (PGE), (BTU)
I wanted to get the low down on clean coal (KOL) to see how clean it really is, so I visited some friends at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California. The modern-day descendent of the Atomic Energy Commission, where I had a student job in the early seventies, the leading researcher on laser-induced nuclear fission,
Global Market Comments September 14, 2023 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (SEPTEMBER 29 ZERMATT SWITZERLAND STRATEGY SEMINAR) (THE BLOCKBUSTER READ IN THE HEDGE FUND COMMUNITY)
Come join me for the Mad Hedge Fund Trader’s Global Strategy Luncheon, which I will be conducting high in the Alps in Zermatt, Switzerland. The event begins at 12:00 noon on Friday, September 29, 2023. A three-course meal will be provided and there will be an open discussion on the crucial issues facing investors today
About a year ago, I received a call from a friend of Tony Robbins, the renown, six foot seven inch motivational speaker. He said he was looking for billionaires to participate in a future project. I answered that I wasn’t a billionaire yet, but that he should call me in a couple of years when
Global Market Comments September 13, 2023 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (SEPTEMBER 29 ZERMATT SWITZERLAND STRATEGY LUNCHEON) (TRADING DEVOID OF THE THOUGHT PROCESS) (SPY), (INDU), (TLT), (USO) (ON EXECUTING TRADE ALERTS)
From time to time, I receive an email from a subscriber telling me that they are unable to get executions on trade alerts that are as good as the ones I get. There are several possible reasons for this: 1) Markets move, sometimes quite dramatically so. 2) Your Trade Alert email was hung up on
Global Market Comments September 12, 2023 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (THE GREAT AMERICAN ONSHORING TREND IS ACCELERATING), (GE), (TSLA), (MURRAY SAYLE: THE PASSING OF A GIANT IN JOURNALISM) (THE LAST PEARL HARBOR ARIZONA SURVIVOR)
Onshoring, the return of US manufacturing from abroad, is rapidly gathering pace. It is increasingly playing a crucial part in the unfolding American industrial renaissance. It could well develop into the most important new trend on the global economic scene during the early 21st century. It is also paving the way for a return of
I was saddened to hear of the death of my close friend, the Australian, Murray Sayle, after a long battle with Parkinson's disease at the age of 84. Murray was one of the giants of journalism in the second half of the 20th century. He started by editing the newspaper at University of Sydney, where
Happy Birthday to Lou Conter, a Pearl Harbor survivor and the last crew member of the battleship USS Arizona sunk by Japanese bombs at its Hawaii moorings. He is a member of the Incline Village Nevada Veterans Club. My friend Lou is 102. The bombing of the USS Arizona was the deadliest event of the
“A man who is the master of patience is the master of everything else,” said George Saville, a professional soccer player.
Global Market Comments September 11, 2023 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (MARKET OUTLOOK FOR THE WEEK AHEAD, or THE BIG PULL FORWARD) (AAPL), (UUP), (TSLA), (USO), (BYDDF)
Somehow, the summer got moved this year. For here it is September, and the stock market is behaving like it is only July. July was different from normal as well, going straight up almost every day when it is usually asleep. This year, July acted like May, when you’re supposed to sell and go away.
Global Market Comments September 8, 2023 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (THE MAD HEDGE TRADER’S AND INVESTORS SUMMIT IS ON!) (HOW TO AVOID THE PONZI SCHEME TRAP) (TESTIMONIAL)
The Fed has stopped raising interest rates, inflation is falling, and tech stocks are about to catch fire! What should you do about it? Attend the Mad Hedge Traders & Investors Summit from September 12-13. Learn from 15 of the best professionals in the market with decades of experience and the track records to prove
Global Market Comments September 7, 2023 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (The Mad Hedge September Traders & Investors Summit is ON!) (THE LONG VIEW ON EMERGING MARKETS), (TESTIMONIAL)
The Fed has stopped raising interest rates, inflation is falling, and tech stocks are about to catch are fire! What should you do about it? Attend the Mad Hedge Traders & Investors Summit during September 12-14. Learn from 15 of the best professionals in the market with decades of experience and the track records to
I managed to catch a few comments in the distinct northern English accent of Jim O'Neil, the fabled analyst who invented the 'BRIC' term, and who was later kicked upstairs to the chairman's seat at Goldman Sachs International (GS) in London. Jim thinks that it is still the early days for space and that these