Food For Thought
Would a currency collapse help the United States more than hurt it in the long run? Obviously short-term it would be very painful! But think about this for a minute. The U.S. currency system is sort of like a promissory note to provide goods and/or services because it isn’t backed with […]
1 comment August 18th, 2007
For far too long the US and other Western Nations have been financing growth through debt. They’ve increased the amount of cheap capital available to consumers and that in turn allowed the citizens to bid up the price of homes (often the most pricey item consumers spend money on). As the price of […]
1 comment August 17th, 2007
No economic or currency system is flawless. There is a reason we use a fiat system, as we ran into problems in the past with other currency systems. However, I think it’s now coming to the point where we can see fiat currency isn’t all its cracked up to be. It all […]
5 comments August 16th, 2007
The Canadian dollar dropped more than 1.06 cents today due to uncertainty about whether the sub prime mortgage fiasco in the lending markets will spill over and affect Canada too. Many are expecting some more short-term weakness to continue and the dollar to fall lower. I myself believe it will continue to go […]
Add comment August 15th, 2007
We often lose sight of the fact that you can invest in many different ways. As soon as I say the word invest or investment, you immediately begin to think about stocks or the stock market. The truth is there are many different ways to invest. Sometimes using less well known […]
Add comment August 14th, 2007
This is the most overlooked thing I have noticed among people who invest. In my humble opinion, people should invest in industries and companies they know well. For example, a diesel mechanic knows the diesel industry well. He knows which engines are performing better, which engines have a lot of problems and […]
Add comment August 14th, 2007
Northern Dynasty Minerals [TSX-Venture: NDM; AMEX: NAK] is an exploration company that discovered one of the worlds biggest copper-gold deposits in Alaska. The discovery was made 380 kilometres from Anchorage and is named Pebble Project and comprises of over 22,582 hectares. Teck Cominco must be dumb founded! How did they let this slip […]
5 comments August 13th, 2007
We’ve all heard the saying, “content is king”. I think it safe to say Yahoo and Google are both Kings of the online world. With the latest sell offs in the investing market, I think now is a prime opportunity to think about buying shares in this online giant.
Here are some of the […]
Add comment August 13th, 2007
Before I had any readers on this site I was actually writing some fairly good investing content on a regular basis. I’m afraid my efforts were only ever read by my own eyes. As a result, I think now that I have at least 1 reader (I’m kidding, at least I hope so […]
2 comments August 8th, 2007
I’ve been making some investments for My Hedge Fund over at Investopedia. I’ve decided to go quite an aggressive route with the portfolio. Instead of ‘playing it safe’ like most investors tend to do, I will leverage myself using options.
The basic philosophy behind my portfolio design is this:
It is relatively easy to pick […]
5 comments August 7th, 2007
