March 30, 2007 – I’m writing somewhat of an educational series now on why the only person you can depend on to build wealth is yourself. Although I’ve blogged about this before, I was reminded of this topic because when oil passed the $66 a barrel mark this week, all of a sudden, the $100 [...]

March 21, 2007 – Everywhere global stock markets have rebounded whether in China, Australia, Europe, or the U.S. , short positions have decreased dramatically, and the bulls are back in full force. However, there are still two scenarios that every investor should be wary of, one that is very likely, and one that is near [...]

March 20, 2007 – “It’s the Wild West,” says Noritaka Akamatsu, the World Bank’s lead financial economist in Hanoi. This Is her description of the Vietnamese stock markets today In 2007. Perhaps we should say it is the “Wild Wild East”, the modern version of yesteryear’s Wild Wild West. Currently, there are an estimated 150 [...]

March 13, 2007 – In a Special Bulletin that I sent to SmartKnowledgeU members only last week I wrote, “If you go back and check archived news in the U.S. financial media you will actually find stories of financial journalists who wrote about the correction in the U.S. markets being a one-day event. I noted [...]

March 13, 2007- Sometimes the U.S. Congress is foolish. In order to cover up the inadequacies of the federal reserve and poor fiscal policy, Congress wants to impose tariffs on Chinese goods, and in doing so, supposedly make U.S. goods more competitive against Chinese goods. Tweet More on this topic (What's this?) Don’t Fall for [...]

March 11, 2007 – I’m sure you know of people that are perpetual bulls. These are the people that no matter what the situation in the global markets are always telling you that things are positive. Perpetual bulls tend to inhabit certain positions – Chief investment advisors at global firms, editors at investment newsletters, and [...]

Q: Has Your Blog Name Changed? Just a quick note. We decided to change our blog title to “The Underground Investor™” from “Zen of Investing” because we noticed that someone unaffiliated with our company is constructing a website with the title “zen of investing” in the URL, presumably to capitalize off of our regular blog [...]

March 9, 2007 – This week, in Kaeho’s Corner, my blog entry is going to focus on a particularly zen topic. O’ Sensei, the founder of Aikido scripted many lessons cumulatively that were thought to embody the art of peace. Here is one of those lessons: “The key to good technique is to keep your [...]

March 7, 2007 Yesterday, just like clockwork, we received the bounce in global markets that always follows strong corrections. European, Asian, U.S. and Canadian markets all experienced a nice bounce in their respective stock markets. If we look at the Gold Bugs HUI index below, it is not uncommon for a reversal to occur after [...]

March 6, 2007 – Here’s an update regarding gold. I believe the big drop in gold prices that we saw last Friday was largely due in part to speculators at hedge funds that were forced to cover their positions in an appreciating yen (which they use to leverage their hedge funds) and in a weakening [...]

March 4, 2007 – It’s funny how I continuously see articles originating out of the U.S. financial media that slam foreign markets as being dangerously risky, a crap shoot, and so on, yet never speak about the weaknesses of the U.S. markets. When foreign markets correct, it’s always due to their “greater risk” but when [...]