February 28, 2007 – On our home page of our website, I have posted these sentiments about what I term the Peak Investment Crisis: “As of the 4th quarter of 2006, the fact that it hasn’t started yet is a tribute to how crafty global governments have been in hiding from the public the factors [...]

February 28, 2007- Just a short addition to my last post. If you have NOT yet established positions in any gold stocks, with the world spot price of gold down another $11 an ounce from yesterday’s New York close, this is a great opportunity to do so as gold stocks are being dragged down by [...]

February 28, 2007 – If you have been reading my blogs consistently, there is 0% chance that you should have been caught unprepared by the recent correction of the Chinese markets by more than 9%, and the associated 3%-4% drop in the U.S. markets. Certainly losing 9% in one day would have been no fun [...]

February 25, 2007 – Here is a story that was running in the U.S. markets last week out of San Francisco: “The Securities and Exchange Commission has begun a broad investigation into whether Wall Street bank employees are leaking information about big trades to favored clients, such as hedge funds, in an effort to curry [...]

February 23, 2007 – There is something known as martial art’s intuition. Every martial artist that has sparred has experienced this intuition. You know when your sparring partner is going to throw a punch or deliver a chick before they do so. This intuition even translates outside of the dojo in being able to accurately [...]

February 23, 2007 – I remember nine months ago when gold was trading about $570 an ounce how many people that I told to buy gold stocks did not buy because some of the big names like Stephen Roach, the Chief Economist of Morgan Stanley, were receiving lots of media attention for their comments about [...]

February 21, 2007 – One of the most important determinants of building wealth during your educational life would have been a solid course in the history of education. Why? Because a solid understanding of the roots of institutional education would enable you to realize that most education puts you in debt at the same time [...]

February 8, 2007- Occasionally, I’ll revisit prior blog entries and provide a very quick update. Several months ago, I said that I would avoid buying stocks of Chinese banks. Despite the recent comments of a top Chinese politician that the Chinese stock market was manifesting the signs of a “bubble” ready to burst, China’s economic [...]

February 16, 2007 – In martial arts, there is the concept of mu shin ryu, which loosely translated means “abandon the mind.” In almost every blog, I speak of how martial arts concepts can make you a better investor. In this instance, it is not the application of this concept, but the recognition of this [...]

February 15, 2007 – There are 7 habits that highly effective investors engage in regularly that separate themselves from the thundering sheep herd. These 7 habits, in fact, often lead to highly effective investors acting very differently from the average investor not because he or she believes in contrarian investing, but because the highly effective [...]

February 12, 2007 – If you look at this chart for Newmont mining (NEM) as of February 9, it illustrates that large institutional money is still not on board with gold yet and in addition, for this reason, this a solid anchor for your gold portfolio. How do I know from looking at this chart [...]

February 8, 2007 – Most professional athletes suffer from young person’s disease – invincibility. They feel as though short-lived careers will happen to the other “guy” or the other “girl”, not him or her, and consequently fail to adequately manage their finances during their often, very short-lived, prime-earning years. Of course, there are always exceptions, [...]

February 7, 2007 – Let’s take BHP Billiton, the world’s largest, diversified mining company, to illustrate the point of this blog entry. For the past couple of months, when BHP Billiton was trading below $40 a share, and it stayed below $40 a share for a long time, I told several friends that were looking [...]