Archive for October, 2008
Monday, October 27th, 2008
Apologies
You will have noticed that I did not write my blog for Thursday and Friday last week. Apart from my schedule, a turn of events in my personal life will mean that my first entry resuming the blog will be on Thursday Oct 30.
My apologies to all my readers.
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Thursday, October 23rd, 2008
Australian Tour
I am currently in Australia touring its various cities.
On Tuesday I was in Brisbane; yesterday I was in Melbourne (still am); and later today I’ll be in Sydney. Later today at 4:00 PM (Sydney time) I’ll be interviewed on CNBC ’s “Trading Matters with Oriel Morrisson” and on Friday and Saturday, I’ll be at the Sydney Trading […]
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Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008
Australia & The Financial Crisis
There are two countries that over the years have had a balanced budget and whose economies have been earmarked by saving both at a state and personal level: Australia and Singapore.
On that basis, I believed that these two would weather the coming storm the best.Imagine my surprise when I read the other day that Kevin […]
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Monday, October 20th, 2008
Are the Dominoes Falling?
Is the world heading for a deflation/depression? Have the probabilities increased or decreased? Tonight I’ll examine the benchmarks
In Words Are Capable of Precise Meanings, I mentioned the monthly closes that would increase the probabilities of a deflation/depression:
Gold a monthly close below $640.00
Crude a monthly close below $84.59
Both are basis the CSI Perpetual contract. Basis Dec, Crude’s benchmark […]
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Saturday, October 18th, 2008
A Natural Human Reponse
I am having a busy time of late: On October 15, I had to give a 2-hour presentation (preview) in Hong Kong and on October 17, I was a guest of Share Investor at their Investor Expo in Kuala Lumpur.What I am about to say about the audiences is my initial response only ; I […]
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Thursday, October 16th, 2008
Processing Information 2
I was watching two interviews the other day - one of Tim Morge (http://www.medianline.com/) and one of Jim Rogers (http://www.jimrogers.com/). Both were making the same point: the actions of the FED and the US Government led us step by step to the abyss that faced us a few days ago. Each step was taken in the name […]