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January 21, 2008
In six weeks, my book Confessions of a Wall Street Insider, A Zen approach to making a fortune from the coming global crisis will be available at Amazon.com and barnesandnoble.com. However, if you wish to purchase it before it is available on those two sites, you may do so right now at http://www.lulu.com/content/1844087. In fact, you can even preview the first 10 pages for free at that website.
In the meantime, here’s a brief description of the book’s contents below:
Disenchanted with the sales oriented environment of Wall Street firms, J.S. Kim left the corporate world to launch his own companies, SmartKnowledgeU™, an investment research & education firm, and Blue Ocean Investing™, an investment consulting firm. Before leaving the corporate world, J.S.’s diverse work experiences included managing money for some of the richest people in the world at Fortune 500 companies and developing healthcare programs for some of the poorest Americans at a community healthcare corporation.
Since leaving the corporate world and no longer clouded with the deception of Wall Street firms, J.S. Kim’s proprietary investment strategies have led to amazingly accurate calls including calling for gold to hit $850 by the end of 2008 in September of 2007 (gold reached $850 an ounce on January 3rd, 2008, only three days off of J.S.’s prediction!). In October, J.S. predicted that a recession would hit the United States. Furthermore, in November of 2007, at a Crisis Investment workshop at the Pan Pacific in Asia, J.S. called for triple-digit down days in the U.S. Dow Jones Industrial
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January 21st, 2008
November 23, 2007 - The coming dollar crisis, like the Asian Currency Crisis in 1997, and the U.S. Great Depression of 1929, will catch the overwhelming number of investors off guard and unprepared as it destroys wealth worldwide. However, during crises, there is always great opportunity. The less than 1% of the investment population who is savvy will build great fortunes during this time.
As with previous economic crises, governments always try their best to hide any brewing crisis. This is why seemingly rosy economic outlooks can seemingly turn desperate overnight. Think of the month prior to the great depression when U.S. stock markets were at an all time high and unemployment, at less than 1%, was at an all time low. Then the bottom dropped out of the market. How could great wealth and security literally be destroyed overnight and blindside so many investors?
The dollar crisis that has finally reached its tipping point has been developing for at least the past decade. Learn not only how to preserve your wealth, but how to build great wealth when this crisis begins. Learn more about the workshops in Los Angles and Orange County next month, December 10th and December 11th, 2007 regarding how to make a fortune from the coming dollar crisis.
November 23rd, 2007
October 25, 2007 - Here’s another story that belongs in the “More Worthless Manufactured Key Economic Indicators Released by the Government” statistic. Out of Washington D.C. at 10 AM this morning, this story was released
WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) - Sales of new homes (in the U.S.) rebounded in September from summer sales levels that were much weaker than previously reported, the Commerce Department reported Thursday. Sales increased 4.8% to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 770,000 from a revised 735,000 in August. Previously, August’s sales had been reported at a 795,000 pace. September’s sales were slightly higher than the 758,000 pace expected by economists. The three previous months were revised sharply lower, which means the housing market was much weaker in the middle of the year than previous believed. Sales of new homes are down 23.3% in the past year.
Now the consensus was for new home sales to come in around 760,000 to 780,000 which was about spot on as the reported figures came in at 770,000. Now that would have been a decline from previous month figures at 795,000 and more bad news for the housing market. So how do you spin bad news into good news that the sheep herd will follow? Read more …
October 25th, 2007
23 April 2007 - Hello, just a quick note today about a change in the format of our newsletter. I noticed that some of you have signed up multiple times for our newsletter, probably thinking that you were not “signed up” when you did not receive your weekly newsletter. Instead of sending out a weekly newsletter, we will be sending out a bi-weekly or a monthly newsletter only, depending upon global market conditions and significant developments in global stock markets. Furthermore, we will be changing the content of our newsletter to exclusive content not offered anywhere on our blog. So for more regular updates on global market conditions and investment education tips, please access our blog. For special content, please refer to our bi-weekly/ monthly newsletter. If you are not signed up already, our newsletter, for the time-being, is still free. You can register either by following the link on this page or by directly visiting our homepage.
April 23rd, 2007
Q: Who’s Right in the Mark Cuban/ David Stern NBA Feud?
Time once again for our non-investment Friday blog. For those not familiar with my Friday blog, every Friday, I essentially blog about non-investment related topics, often business related in some sense, but sometimes not at all.
Recently, David Stern fined NBA franchise Dallas Maverick’s owner Mark Cuban U.S. $100,000 for criticizing NBA referees on his blog, blogmaverick-dot-com. For those unfamiliar with this feuding duo, David Stern is the reigning commissioner of the National Basketball Association and Mark Cuban is the outspoken billionaire owner of the Dallas Mavericks who made his fortune during the dot.com boom by selling Broadcast.com to Yahoo. I like Cuban for a lot of reasons. (1) He’s probably the only billionaire that the I could hang out with and feel at ease with; (2) He’s got a big mouth; and (3) He’s bitingly sarcastic.
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December 8th, 2006
Q: Welcome New Readers From???
This is a continuation from a previous casual Friday blog in which I mentioned my goal was to attract readers from 100 different countries. In the past two weeks, readers from 21 new countries and 4 new territories have accessed the ZOI blog as follows:
Denmark, Ghana, Iceland, Hong Kong, Pakistan, Armenia, Oman, Slovenia, Romania, Macedonia, Costa Rica, Guinea, Tanzania, Ecuador, Czech Republic, Guatemala, Lebanon, Cote D’Ivoire, Togo, Tunisia, Bangladesh, Taiwan, Virgin Islands, Mauritius, and the Mariana Islands
The ZOI blog has now attracted readers from 75 separate countries, so I’m still 25 countries short. Below is the map that shows all the readers from just the previous day, with the largest centres of readership indicated by the larger circles.
The top 10 countries and territories that visited us this past week were as follows:
United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Thailand, India, Spain, Australia, Singapore, Japan, & Hong Kong
And the top 7 cities/regions from this past week were as follows:
Ontario, Canada; Alberta, Canada; Bangkok, Thailand; London, UK; Singapore; Cataluna, Spain (region) & Maharashtra, India
November 30th, 2006
Q: What Blog Entry Needs No Question?
I guess that latest blog entry wasn’t so light hearted as is the norm with my casual Friday blog entries, so here’s a late addition that should make you smile. This blog entry has no question because the picture to the right says it all. Recently, at a global economic summit in Vietnam, U.S. President Bush, Russia President Putin, Chile President Bachelet and Canadian PM Harper all donned traditional Vietnamese garb for a photo-op. And they all look more ridiculous than Bruce Lee in a Cowboy hat with a lasso.
November 25th, 2006
Q: An Update on ZOI Readership?
Regarding my goal of obtaining readers from 100 different countries on a consistent basis, here is the update for readers of my blog from new countries for this week (though not all are consistent readers):
43. Peru
44. Latvia
45. Sweden
46. Venezuela
47. Austria
48. Republic of Malta
49. Libya
50. Portugal
51. Kenya
52. Democratic Repulbic of Congo
53. Hungary
54. Kenya
55. Netherlands
I’m now up to readers from 55 different countries. Maybe my request to you, the reader, to spread the word about my blog really did work because I really don’t expect to add 13 new countries every week. So thank you.
Here are the top ten countries regarding readership of my blog:
- U.S..A.
- Canada
- Switzerland
- India
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November 16th, 2006
Q: How to Take an Old Idea and Recylce it?
Time again for the casual Friday entry. Several weeks ago, for my casual Friday blog entry, I wrote about a photographer that started a project where he was attempting to photograph a child from all 194 countries in the world without leaving New York City. Just within the past two weeks, I’ve been checking the analytics for my blog and I was surprised to discover that people from 42 different countries have accessed my blog. So I’m starting a drive to gain readers on this blog from every country in the world as well. If you have friends that live in countries not on my list below, please help and spread the word!
Of course, by discussing international stocks such as Acergy of Norway, Soco International of London and HDFC and ICICI of India, my goal is to provide information about the best investment opportunities in the world without regard to boundaries or countries. I notice that whenever I blog about gold, that I receive hits from the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Kuwait and the Middle East.
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November 9th, 2006
Q: Why is the Friday Blog 4 Days Early?
As many of you know by now, every Friday, I post a light-hearted, non-investment topic related blog, just to give my blog a little more texture and substance. With the upcoming mid-term elections in the United States taking place tomorrow, I’m posting the blog entry I usually reserve for Friday three days early.
Here is a sobering thought. What if your vote doesn’t even count?
John Kerrey allegedly privately confided to his closest colleagues that he believed Bush stole the 2004 Presidential election. He confided that the differences in certain voting districts between exit polls and “official” results in which electronic voting machines were employed appeared to involve fraud.
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November 6th, 2006
Q: What Investment Film Do You Recommend?
As the weekend is approaching, I thought I would keep today’s entry very light. Saw a trailer today for what looks like an amazing film about a man, Chris Gardner, who traveled a textured and emotionally challenging journey from the depths of homelessness in the early 1980’s and sleeping in public subway station bathrooms in San Francisco with his son, to eventually founding his own institutional brokerage firm, Gardner, Rich & Co., and becoming a multi-millionaire. Will Smith, you’ve come a long way from the days of the Fresh Prince. Watch the trailer for the upcoming film The Pursuit of Happyness here.
October 13th, 2006
Q: Why Do I Ask for Comments?
To keep a pulse on investment topics that people would like to read, I glance at the analytics for my website quit often. I noticed that a reader in Namibia was reading my blog frequently and then disappeared. I noticed this week that new readers from Uruguay, Argentina, Turkey and Australia have joined. However, without feedback from you, the reader, I don’t know what information someone from the UAE is seeking versus someone in Brazil. So to that end, I would welcome comments and suggestions on any blog post via the comment boxes (and if you speak Spanish, you can post in Spanish as well as I can understand Spanish fairly well).
I recently started a discussion board on another site (not mine) about water stocks, and even though it’s been up for several days, only one person has posted a comment. But I guess that’s what contrarian investing and digging below the surface to find superior investment opportunities is all about. My topics are just not going to appeal to the wide masses liike a discussion about commonly-held stocks like IBM, Apple, or Sony would. But like I said, the Zen of Investing is not about discussing stories already analyzed to death in the mainstream media. I try to bring you stories that you won’t hear about in Reuters, the BBC, the Wall Street Journal or the London Times. So to that end, again, please feel free to post suggestions in the comment boxes! Thanks!
October 11th, 2006
October 8, 2006 -
In a previous blog, we mentioned that an abundance of perspective is a critical key to building significant amounts of wealth. Why? Because perspective is the only tool that allows you to sort out reality from the masses of junk contained in information that is circulated by the mass media today. In continuation of that theme, I have decided to provide a Down the Rabbit Hole reader’s list that contains many of the books that have widened my historical perspective and that were critical in the development of strategies that have exponentially increased my investment success. They are not traditional investment books with titles like “The Warren Buffet Way” and “How to Build a Seven Figure Portfolio”, so they may surprise you.
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October 8th, 2006
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