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Jim Rogers on the Next 10 Years

I've listen to Jim Rogers comments and read his pieces over the years. There is something that started to jump out at me and stop me from buying into what he says. He has a pulpit because he is rich so his voice and ideas can travel. However, Jim Rogers seems to hate and even fear diversity. The US is so powerful today because of its diversity and freedom and Mr. Rogers hates the US because of it. China will fail to be anything other than what it is today because of its internal hegemony. They are a factory for more developed countries. They have money because they have nothing else to do with it. Also, large national reserves don't mean diddly. Reserves are not the wealth of nations. If reserves were important the US would keep more. Also, China has plenty of debt. Do not let them fool you. I don't believe the Chinese powers that be will be wise enough to embrace societal changes like the US has during the last one hundred years. They will plateau and not have a clue why. The US national debt has paid for our great society( The US financed a great war and saved China from extinction) How will it be possible for the Chinese to gain so much without walking a similar path? The small group of people in the inner circle of the Chinese communist party will have to invent the free lunch, good luck.
As the US a free and diverse country evolves, why do people mistake that for decline?

Four Stocks Rewarding Investors with Dividend Raises

rpm is not a food company. is that a typo or a different error?

Flee 'Safety', Embrace 'Risk': The Case for Muni Bond Funds

awesome information in a very well written article, A+ !

thank you

Life Insurance Companies' Tobacco Investments: Profits over Health

it is time for us to stop being down on legal tobacco. these are companies.
if are sincere, ready, set, go! stop investing in all wine and spirits and beer. stop investing in gaming and entertainment. let us have total prohibition or none!

12 Indications That a New Bull Market Is Upon Us

hopefully the markets and the economy are connected.

12 Indications That a New Bull Market Is Upon Us

the markets are truly right on the fence about bull Vs bear. we need June to close bullishly on a monthly chart to say, bull market. let's see what the month of June has in store for the markets

Best Investments for Rising Oil

i missed the authors disclosure.
what does the author hold?

The Undefinable, Unstoppable Bull Market of 2009

as i look over the charts of market indices it looks like a bull to me. the trend lines all are up. just a few days ago they were headed lower. a few more closes above the trend will be bull confirmation

GM Common Stock Is Worth More than You Think

whenever i read at seeking alpha, i also read the comments. most of these comments are just not nice

Flower Foods' Dividend and Sales Bloom

FLO comes up as one of my "bottom fish" , but right now does not seem like a time to put new money after bottom fish. March was a better time to fish. someone with a really long-term horizon and not fancying themselves a trader might go for FLO? then again, one might see 30% capital gain and the 3% dividend as 33% total return very attractive. someone might wait a year

The Undefinable, Unstoppable Bull Market of 2009

i work like a dog on my job.
and some days i quick steal a minute here and there to trade. i have done well with the strong market trend that started in 03/09. i have made money.
no government anything.
i can say one thing with absolute certainty, my money( read profits) is real.


On May 31 11:02 AM Burticus wrote:

> The spike in stocks in the last hour of the month is an obvious tape-painting
> exercise by the FedGov plunge protection team and their bankster
> cartel masters. Gubmint intervention and manipulation in FOREX,
> commodity, bond and stock markets has now become routing. Nobody
> and nothing paper/electronic can be trusted any more and no technical
> or fundamental analysis can be relied upon without considering the
> missing PPT internention piece of the puzzle.
>
> Following the massive decline in stocks through November and again
> in March, a "dead cat bounce" or bear rally is no surprise. They
> happened repeatedly in the first depression. Clearly, the current
> rally in stocks is not supported by any fundamentals, since the only
> good news these days is less-horrible news. There is not one positive
> fundamental economic or financial trend, except that the Asians may
> finally accept and take their dollar-paper lickin' and throw the
> western millstone off their necks.
>
> The missing piece of the bear/suckers' rally puzzle is the Illuminist
> plan for Big Sting II - completing the destruction and looting of
> Amerika and crushing its middle class in preparation for global political,
> social and economic control. Use the media propaganda machine, gubmint
> manipulation and Goldman/JP Morgan gangsters to pump up the Dow to
> 10,000. Lure the unwitting sucker-dupe sheeple (who actually work
> for their money and try save it by investing) into the market, allowing
> the insiders dump their paper in opaque OTC markets. Accelerate
> out-of-control gubmint spending and central bankster money-printing
> to doom the dollar, Treasuries and the broader bond market, closing
> off the sheeples' usual escape route. When the stock market is high
> enough, the bankster cartel will give the nod to their puppets in
> the Fed, gubmint and media, short everything, and send the stock
> market to new lows, plucking the chickens again on the way down.
> When there is widespread capitulation and blood in the streets, the
> insiders will buy up everything real, especially gold and silver
> (which will go on a moon-shot), companies at pennies on the dollar
> and farmland.
>
> Welcome to a fascist/socialist/comm... economic system under an political
> oligarchy by the elephant/jackass party! Sure, traders with good
> information and quick reflexes can profit in this type of market,
> but for your average working stiff, the only no-brainer safe investment
> will be physical gold and silver.
>
> Disclosure: Long physical silver & gold, CEF, steel & lead,
> non-perishable food and hangin' rope

The Undefinable, Unstoppable Bull Market of 2009

markets have changed and moved on. old types of characterization no longer apply like they used to. older forms of characterization are simply not useful. things are different because of globalization of capital. things are different because the guilt of trading has finally been shrugged off. buy and hold? wall street? yeah right. see the short-term trend for whatever the whole world has made of it, then go with the trend. for what ever reason, we have a bull on our hands.
if you disagree, take a pill and get over it or lose money.

Tobacco: Bad for Your Health, Good for Your Portfolio.

i've got a good position LO. they need to move their products overseas.

Tobacco: Bad for Your Health, Good for Your Portfolio.

i think i can, i think i can

Tobacco: Bad for Your Health, Good for Your Portfolio.

awesome.
41% in one year on the entire portfolio. a year like that when the market was being dissolved is awesome. if my entire holdings increase in value that much i will sell all and retire my career. i would then sit home in a bath robe and power etrade all day.