Entries by DougD

November 18, 2009

Global Market Comments November 18, 2009 Featured Trades: (CALIFORNIA DEMOCRACY ACT OF 2010), (VCV), (NCP), (NVX), (LITHIUM), (SQM), (CVX), (BIOFUEL), (XOM) 1) I finished my indoctrination on how to overthrow the government last weekend. Specifically, I attended a grass roots meeting of activists in Berkeley, California planning to collect 450,000 signatures by April to put the

November 17, 2009

Global Market Comments November 17, 2009 Featured Trades: (BAC), (GOLD) 1) I don't care how many times you ask me, I'm not going to replace Ken Lewis as the new CEO of the Bank of America (BAC). I will not accept if nominated and?? I will not serve if elected (sorry General Sherman). Sure, it

November 16, 2009

Global Market Comments November 16, 2009 SPECIAL CHINA ISSUE Featured Trades: (FXI), (DBC), (DYY), (DBA), (PHO), (BYDDF), (BIDU), (SOHU), (NTES), (SINA)1) I have long sat beside the table of Mckinsey & Co., the best management consulting company in Asia, hoping to catch some crumbs of wisdom. So I jumped at the chance to have breakfast

November 13, 2009

Global Market Comments November 13, 2009GLOBAL RISK CONTROL ALERT!Featured Trades: (SPX), (RWR), (FRI), (VNQ), (COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE)1) If I've told you once, I've told you a thousand times, stay out of those crummy neighborhoods, where the street corners are crowded with high priced stocks of dubious moral character wearing stiletto heels, fishnet stockings, miniskirts, and

November 12, 2009

Global Market Comments November 12, 2009 Featured Trades: (SUPER FREAKANOMICS), (BERLIN WALL)2) I spent a delightfully entertaining evening with University of Chicago economics professor Steven Levitz and journalist Stephen Dubner, authors of the wildly popular Freakanomics, and the just released 'frequel' Super Freakanomics. I love these guys, because they do the same thing as I

November 11, 2009

Global Market Comments November 11, 2009 Featured Trades: (VETERANS DAY)1) There's a short letter today. I'll be putting on my tattered and faded Marine Corps desert camos, pinning on my captain's bars, and attaching my Purple Heart, Southwest Asia Service Medal, decorations from the Kuwaiti and Saudi governments, and my good conduct medal, all earned

November 10, 2009

Global Market Comments November 10, 2009 SPECIAL PAUL TUDOR JONES ISSUE Featured Trades: (GOLD), (EEM), (TAIWAN), (EWT), (TBT)1) I have worshipped at the altar of? the legendary Paul Tudor Jones for the past 25 years, since he was a client of mine at Morgan Stanley. A once savvy, boy cotton trader from the South, I

November 9, 2009

Global Market Comments November 9, 2009 Featured Trades: (OCTOBER NONFARM PAYROLL), (TRADE SCHOOL), (RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE) 1) Ouch! Another 190,000 jobs went down the crapper in October, taking unemployment rate to a new 27 year high of 10.2%. Add in discouraged job seekers, and that puts the jobless rate at gut churning 17.5%, and over

November 6, 2009

Global Market Comments November 6, 2009 SPECIAL DEMOGRAPHIC ISSUE Featured Trades: (EEM), (VNM)1) Desperate homeowners counting on a 'V' shaped recovery in residential real estate prices to bail them out better first take a close look at global demographic data, which tells us there will be no recovery at all. I have been using the

November 5, 2009

Global Market Comments November 5, 2009 Featured Trades: (FCX), (BIDU), (FXC), (USO), (BERNIE MADOFF), (IAN BREMMER)1) I almost stepped on a rattlesnake last night. I finish up most days slinging on a 60 pound pack and clocking 1,000 feet of climb on nearby Mount Diablo. But since my days drag on as I search for

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