Contrarian Profits

The Top Ten ETFs for Decoupling 2.0

During the first quarter, Harvard University’s billion-dollar endowment fund engineered a dramatic shift in its endowment-fund investment strategy - boosting its stakes in some of the most prominent emerging market ETFs, including:

* $50.9 million in Vanguard Emerging Markets ETF (NYSE: VWO)
* $1.5 million more iShares MSCI Brazil Index ETF (NYSE: EWZ)
* $1.1 million more into in iShares FTSE/Xinhua China 25 Index ETF (NYSE: FXI)
* $877,700 into Van Eck’s Market Vector Russia ETF Trust (NYSE: RSX)
* $817,300 into iShares MSCI Mexico Index Index (NYSE: EWW)
* $390,400 more into iShares MSCI South Africa Index (NYSE: EZA)

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Can Apple Remain the Unique Innovator It Was, Without Steve Jobs?

Here’s my big, bold prediction: AAPL is heading south. Short AAPL (or buy a put option if you’re feeling saucy) and ride the sucker down to $83 a share.

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Why I'm Shorting Google

Here’s your suggested play: Sell Google short and use a point above the moving averages (like $340) as your stop loss to protect yourself.

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Enjoy the Strong U.S. Dollar While You Can

The government is printing money so fast that even cash isn’t a safe bet any more, says Daniel Zurbrügg. And even though gold has slumped during this crisis, the long-term outlook for gold investing remains attractive. Once institutional investors stop dumping gold holdings and the US dollar rally stalls, Daniel says gold will zoom back up to $1,000 an ounce and beyond.

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JP Morgan Analyst: Pre-Packaged Bankruptcy Best Solution for GM

Chrysler, General Motors and Ford don’t deserve a bailout; all three companies have bled billions of dollars in cumulative losses over the last 25 years and a rescue will only postpone the inevitable - bankruptcy.

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The Bottom's Within Sight - Barron's

I'm gonna throw some more doom & gloom on the plate and say the Dow is headed to 5,000 before Nov 15.

Bargain Buys For Patient Investors - Barron's

Oil guru Richard Rainwater recently bought back shares of Exxon (NYSE:XOM), ConocoPhillips (NYSE:COP), Pioneer Natural Resources (NYSE:PXD), BP (NYSE:BP) and Statoil (NYSE:STO) — all at rock-bottom prices.

Now is the time to buy oil. The third quarter of 2008 saw the largest drop in oil prices in 17 years.

Now with OPEC slashing its production outlook for the rest of 2008 and 2009, it’s unclear just how long prices will be able to stay under $100.

Market Safe Havens Rapidly Dwindling

Another way to protect yourself is to move quickly to secure your assets in European strongholds like Switzerland and Liechtenstein...

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Speculating on the Future

I speculate that investors will move quickly to secure their assets in European strongholds like Switzerland and Liechtenstein...

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3 Things America Needs to Do to Get the Economy Back on Track

If none of those 3 things come through, another option a savvy investor can do is move quickly to secure their assets in European strongholds like Switzerland and Liechtenstein...

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Taking Our Cues from Russia?

When the smoke clears, it may be that Russia is a better investment...

"The irony, of course, is that Washington and Moscow are now marching in lockstep with each other when it comes to their stance on market intervention. After a series of unprecedented bailouts, the US has effectively renounced the principle that markets are self-regulating."

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Current Market Turmoil: You Can’t Explain 'Stupid'

Stupid is as stupid does, but the smart money is on commodities anyway...

Unlike Stocks, Stupidity Can’t Wipe Out Commodities

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Financials Bailouts, Tempur-Pedic and Wine

It´s all so clear now. We need a Tempur-Pedic financial system that allows shenanigans, high jinks and back-alley dealing to happen without bothering anyone else. With increased government intervention, that´s exactly where things are headed.

The Great American Economy? Take a Closer Look

Take everyone over 15 in your household to see Addison Wiggin’s new movie I.O.U.S.A. at your local theater, says Investment U’s Alexander Green. Alexander says the documentary, which tackles the issue of the record $53-trillion U.S. national debt, is “an eye-opening experience” and “a wake-up call.”

The Biggest Threat to Your Financial Future: The $53-Trillion National Debt

The Great Consumer Crash of 2009

Excellent article. If you can find a theater showing it, check out the recently released I.O.U.S.A., which brings to the big screen many of your thoughts...

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