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The Future of Energy

Chris Grande — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 10:15:11 +0000

7.19.2010 Curious about how the energy industry will play out in the coming years? Will we wean off of oil or continue to be enslaved to black gold? Will some new technology take its place? Extremely well-respected resource investor Rick Rule lays out his thoughts on the coming years in energy in this excellent inteview: [...]

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LegalZoom Sued in California

Chris Grande — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 10:47:43 +0000

7.10.2010 A woman who botched the estate plan of her father using online legal documents firm LegalZoom is now suing the firm for deception and misleading statements: LegalZoom Suit From the article: The lawsuit claims that Ms. Webster and others like her relied on misleading statements by LegalZoom, including that LegalZoom carefully reviews customer documents, [...]

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6 Months Until Enormous Tax Hikes

Chris Grande — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 09:32:45 +0000

7.9.2010 If you think because you make under 250k (did you actually believe a politician??? wow you are easy…) that you’re going to escape higher taxes read the summary here: ATR – Tax Hike Summary Pre-plan accordingly – teachers, business owners, people with special needs children all affected. And this doesn’t count the foolishness this [...]

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Your Congress Just Approved a Budget – “Deemed as Passed”

Chris Grande — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 01:56:50 +0000

7.6.2010 Washington Examiner What does this mean? It means that there is no actual budget, but it allows Congress to continue to spend money without restrictions. A fictitious 1.12T dollar budget was passed as part of another bill – if they did not do this, they would have to wait until a real budget passed [...]

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Seth Klarman – 1929 Taught People a Lesson, 2008-2009 Did Not

Chris Grande — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 09:32:44 +0000

6.15.2010 Super successful/elusive Boston hedge fund manager Seth Klarman (Baupost Group) spoke recently at the Ira Sohn Conference (gathering of value investors – e.g. buffet types). In his excellent talk, he covered many topics including value investing, the economy, and various opinions. One interesting observation – he compared public reaction to crisis in 1929 to [...]

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Private Option Health Care Act – HR5444

Chris Grande — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 10:22:34 +0000

6.3.2010 For those of you that actually think the government can afford to give everyone unlimited health care so that Americans can lead horrible lifestyles and waste trillions in unnecessary health care, you can stop reading here. For those of you that know we are pulling a Greece, that the added STRUCTURAL deficit added by [...]

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How to Buy Gold and Silver

Chris Grande — Mon, 24 May 2010 19:56:30 +0000

5.24.2010 For those of you who have heard me mention buying gold and silver over the past few years or read my articles here suggesting it as a possible diversification of inflation risk, I thought I would share a few ways for regular people like us to buy gold and silver at reasonable markups. First [...]

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Ron Paul Give’s CNBC’s Becky Quick an Awesome (but gentle) Verbal Slap

Chris Grande — Wed, 19 May 2010 17:36:51 +0000

5.19.2010 The real treat in this video comes near the end. To quote: (in response to Congressman Paul’s concerns about excessive money printing and inflation) Becky Quick: ” Congressman you’ve been worried about it since 1971 though and if you were betting against the markets you would have lost a lot of money with that [...]

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Advice From Fred Hickey

Chris Grande — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 13:01:29 +0000

4.29.10 Fred Hickey, author of the High Tech Strategist (mail subscriptions only), member of the 2009 and 2010 Barron’s Roundtable, and New Hampshire resident, shares some insights in this short article: Hickey Enjoy! He is a thoughtful analyst and well worth listening to. Advice From Fred Hickey is a post from: Chris Grande

Advice From Fred Hickey is a post from: Chris Grande

Great Jim Grant Video

Chris Grande — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 06:56:54 +0000

4.26.2010 Jim Grant, publisher of Grant’s Interest Rate Observer, was a guest host on Bloomberg last week and he invited on a couple of very wise friends – here is the link: Bloomberg Very good discussion… Great Jim Grant Video is a post from: Chris Grande

Great Jim Grant Video is a post from: Chris Grande