It's been a rough few weeks for the Eurozone. Portugal is still in trouble, Spain will be back on the coals after its elections, and if I were a bond trader, I would be shorting Belgium, which has serious deficit and debt problems, runs for months at a time without a government and is in […]
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Occupy Wall Street Protests: Want To Really Clean Up Wall Street? Here's What Your Demands Should Be
Dear Occupy Wall Street Demonstrators, Let me start by saying that I applaud your initiative. Grassroots protests are the essence of democracy. And as we've seen with the Tea Party movement and the Arab Spring, nonviolent protests are a powerful way to effect meaningful change. Yet even though I'm 100% behind you in spirit, I […]
Copper Prices Update: Prosper As Copper Becomes the "New Gold"
The Statue of Liberty is one of the most recognizable American icons in the world.
And as she towers 305 feet above Ellis Island, what's Lady Liberty wearing? Copper – 60,000 pounds of it.
Clearly, copper's big in art. It's also a key metal that keeps the world economy humming. Copper consumption has grown at an average annual rate of 4% since 1900.
Gold Price Conspiracy: What Uncle Sam Doesn't Want You To Know
Is it really so preposterous to believe the United States and Europe would conspire to keep pole position in the global financial system?
I don't think so – and neither does China.
That much was revealed in a diplomatic cable recently uncovered by Wikileaks.
According to the 2009 cable from the U.S. embassy, China believes the United States and Europe have, as a matter of policy, suppressed the price of gold to discourage its use as a reserve currency.
And there's a pretty compelling case to be made for a gold price conspiracy.
Inverse Funds: How To Profit From Inverse Funds - Without Losing Your Shirt
So-called "inverse funds" are widely misunderstood and can be tricky to use, but these specialized investments have a place in most portfolios.
In fact, with U.S. stocks having zoomed more than 80% off their market lows, now could be the ideal time to add inverse exchange-traded funds to your portfolio.
But there's definitely a right way and a wrong way to use them.
So it's worth taking a closer look.
How to Invest: Finding Profits in Any Market
The traditional ways of saving money aren't enough anymore.
Over the past few years, it's more than likely that your portfolio took a huge hit… your house lost value… and all the dollars you have tucked away for a rainy day lost value with each passing day.
Whether you realize it or not, you're getting burned.
It's time to look at investing in a completely new way.
The old asset allocation models your stockbroker once promised would never lose money (How did that work out for you, by the way?) are the way of the past. The "growth stocks" aren't growing. The "value stocks" have lost their value.
You need a new plan. And we have it for you.
Here at Money Map Press, we use a 50-40-10 model that guarantees real growth from a solid base of investments and reduces your exposure to risk. To learn more about this strategy – and what the Money Map Report is recommending right now, click here.
Let's get started.
Dividend Stocks: How To Profit From The World's Best Investment Protection
Do you know what the ultimate investment protection is?
It's not gold, and it's certainly not Treasuries.
It's dividend stocks.
Companies that pay consistent dividends are in better fiscal shape than the U.S. government, and the payouts significantly outpace those of Treasuries. The advantage over gold of course is that the yellow metal yields nothing – it's simply a store of value.
And yet dividend stocks also protect against inflation, since profits for the companies behind them tend to rise alongside prices.
To understand the advantages dividends can provide an investor during a down market, just look at the implosion of the dot-com bubble in 2000.
U.S. Economy In Crisis: How To Prepare For The New 2012 Recession
just finished a battery of media appearances on Fox Business, Bloomberg, BNN and CNBC Asia, and without exception I was asked about two things: President Barack Obama's jobs bill and the U.S. Federal Reserve's "QE3."
The first thing investors and analysts want to know is whether or not the president's jobs bill will work. The answer to that question is "no" – not as it stands, anyway.
Coal Prices Report: What To Buy Before Coal Prices Climb
For most of the past 50 years, since the birth of environmental awareness, coal has been the "black sheep" of the power-production family.
Now, thanks to more efficient furnaces, better exhaust-scrubbing systems and other technological advances, coal is regaining favor in the world's energy markets.
However, the biggest factor in coal's recent price surge is steadily increasing demand for the fossil fuel – in power generation and steel-making – aided by rising costs for other types of fuel, like oil and natural gas.
The Mortgage Meltdown Was Big... The Coming Oil Crisis - EVEN BIGGER!
We are on the verge of another financial crisis even bigger than the real estate collapse.
This time, it's in oil. It's not a supply/demand problem, or a geopolitical one. Rather, the crisis stems from the rising inability to determine crude oil's genuine value.
A new round of speculation is growing, manipulating the energy markets. When no one can figure out how much oil should really cost, prices rise artificially… leading to catastrophic fallout.