By Robert W. Merry U.S. President Barack Obama’s Aug. 31 Oval Office speech on the end of U.S. combat operations in Iraq had many purposes: to claim a measure of credit for largely fulfilling one of his major campaign promises; to thank those who have served and sacrificed in the cause; to spread the balm [...]
Sad because of the trees killed to print the magazine. You know how these days, magazines that used to cost hundreds of dollars per year, or those that came from overseas would sometimes cost over $1000 per year, are now being sent to you for free? If you’re a rational participant in business, you’d understand [...]
I’ve been watching IVAN develop their technology for gas extraction from oil sands and shale rock. It’s heavy oil without the same environmental harm and carbon footprint left from present HTL technologies especially hydro-fracturing. Their technology is 100% self sufficient from steam re-capture, hence an almost ZERO CARBON FOOTPRINT. Ivanhoe owns proprietary technology which they’re using to build a sustainable [...]
By Scott Stewart and Nate Hughes Over the past decade there has been an ongoing debate over the threat posed by electromagnetic pulse (EMP) to modern civilization. This debate has been the most heated perhaps in the United States, where the commission appointed by Congress to assess the threat to the United States warned of [...]
Unbelievably powerful upward momentum in US stocks this month, during a usually lackluster September? I’ve always said a real bull market doesn’t take a break during the summer, unlike all the summers over the past decade. In 2006, when we posited that with builder stocks having been cut in half from their recent highs in [...]
The ego is a particularly strong component of the human mind and we are naturally prone to certain egocentric tendencies. All traders and investors must work to understand these tendencies: Egocentric memory: the natural tendency to forget evidence and information which does not support our thinking and to remember evidence and information which does. Egocentric [...]
Remember, it’s times like these when fortunes are made. Contrarian traders have to buy when most market participants think their stocks are going to be worthless, and sell when these participants think they’ve missed the boat. Now is the time for the former so get your buy orders ready, and let’s make some money.
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