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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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Pounded

Chris Grande — Thu, 06 May 2010 19:48:24 +0000

5.6.2010 When the market goes up steadily for 12 months in a row with only one small hiccup (February), I knew that the next move would be sudden as I’ve mentioned in past articles. Not sure what happens tomorrow but interesting points to take away from today: 1. As the Euro currency and region gets [...]

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Fleck – How Can They Call Themselves Professional Money Managers?

Chris Grande — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 03:43:31 +0000

1.28.10 Bill Fleckenstein gave a great interview with Eric King of King World News: Fleck on KWN One of the best lines (paraphrasing)- “how could anyone who held financial stocks claim to know what he was doing?…How can they be managing money?” great stuff – enjoy! See Bill’s regular articles on MSN by clicking the [...]

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Grant: “Do you know how good you have to be?”

Chris Grande — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 09:55:44 +0000

6.9.09 “Do you know how good you have to be to not make a mistake leveraged 20 to 1?” Jim Grant commenting on Morgan Stanley being leveraged 40:1 before the credit markets crashed This video is a good reflection on the credit crisis of last Fall. Here is Part 3 of a fun and informative [...]

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Grantham – Efficient Market Hypothesis is “Dangerous”

Chris Grande — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 21:02:39 +0000

6.5.09 From one of the truly great rational money managers in the world, here is an interview with Jeremy Grantham of GMO in Boston on “what to do now.” Video Enjoy! Chris Grande Grantham – Efficient Market Hypothesis is “Dangerous” is a post from: Chris Grande

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Spectacular Dylan Ratigan Interview

Chris Grande — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 09:31:38 +0000

4.22.09 Here is an excellent interview with Dylan Ratigan (of CNBC) on the problems US citizens have with the poor job our politicians have done in this financial crisis as they allowed (and like profited from) the total raping of our financial/banking system by some financial executives. He contends that we must start with FULL [...]

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Monday Thoughts – Bank Numbers Are Awful

Chris Grande — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 15:38:39 +0000

4.20.09 Amid all the reporting about the big banks being profitable, a number of other reports are popping up as analysts dig deeper in the numbers. Bank of America had larger profit numbers but the reserves they are taking for expected credit losses are quite large – read HERE. Credit losses are growing at a [...]

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Monday Thoughts – Commodity Prices

Chris Grande — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 23:06:44 +0000

4.13.09 A strong underlying current of the recent market/economic rebound has been the rising prices of industrial metals and platinum group metals (PGM). Copper and platinum come strongly to mind for a couple of different reasons. Copper, because it is used for water pipes and electric wiring, two highly important needs in a new construction [...]

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Monday Thoughts – What About the Jobs?

Chris Grande — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 16:13:05 +0000

4.6.09 I was just listening to the Jim Rogers video (again) that I have on my front page. From time to time, you need to listen to wisdom to keep your head steady so this was a bit of a refresher. Listening to Jim say “why should healthy economies bail out the US?” And that [...]

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Monday Thoughts – Your Gov’t as an Auto Exec

Chris Grande — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 15:55:44 +0000

3.30.09 Even though I expected this market rally over the past couple of weeks, and that there were many good explanations and reasons this would happen, I am still shocked that people are behaving as if there is no economic collapse! Some people really think there will be a recovery soon. But there are frequent [...]

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