Roly

The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century by George Friedman

America will come out of this depressen much stronger.
It needs about 10 years to change the old economy into a green sustainable new economy.
Reason: Americas population is still growing, China (one child per family policy) and Europe are shrinking and the old and older getting people cost more and more money. That means the young working people have to finance the costs of the retireees (2 young pay for one old) plus the care and education of the children. Most of the European states will go bankrupt!
The americans only have to save energy and become independant from the Arab oil. Insulate the houses, construct cars tha make 50 miles per gallon or change to electric engines, etc. Trade Arab oil against US food, or let them drink their oil. America has plenty of fertile land and can produce enough food to feed the country. Food and water are the weapons of the future. China has not enough land to feed the population, they do not have enough clean water.
Roly

Revisiting the Dow's Late 1930s Rally

What goes up must come down..........and it will go up again.......
But from the peak in 1929 it took 25 years to reach the peak again, in 1954!
The lesson is: buy stocks only when you are young and have enough time and always take profit out when you have doubled.
Roly

Where Have All the Peak Oil Believers Gone?

Peak oil or not, it does not matter.
The problem is that the Americans have to buy and import it from unstable countries, and to buy just means to work for getting oil. If the car factories produce cars with much less fuel consumption or with electric motors, all the money that flows to the Arabs will stay in USA! And imagine all this bugs will create new jobs and work.
The solution is to save oil and to get rid of it. Where do you think Al Kaida gets the money from?? from the support of oil producing countries.
Its just as easy.
Roly

Three Biotechs Hitting New 52-Week Highs

The latest analyst report is from 14th Aug. LEERINK SWANN and the price target is 24$ to 27$.
Mr. John C. Lee please do mention the positive analysis too.
In my opinion Osiris is a big bet on stemcells and if you visit the website and do your own research you really can get excited, for me this is a stock that could go up to 50$ or more. See osiris.com and read some press releases e.g. 10.14.05.
And Karrin49, if you have bought 1000@14, why don't you sell 700@20 and wait and see.
Roly

Wind Power, Big and Small

Windpower will be the future, the only problem is how to store the electric energy, batteries are not the solution. But there are new ideas like compressing air and using the air later to drive the generators.
I like a small company and there windpower business in China: see: welwind.com
Do not bet against the engineers, there will be always a solution for a problem, but the solution must be better and cheaper. Windpower will soon be the cheapest energy, if the CO2 emmissions will not be free anymore.

Wind Turbines: The New Renewable Bull Market

Wind power will become competative and the technology is save. Electricity demand will grow, especially in emerging markets. China is and remains a growth story, the leaders have decided to invest in alternative energy. Coal needs transportation and logistics, the railroad capacities are at the limit in China. There are many windy regions in this big country, where windturbins can be installed. I was in 2007 in China and was surprised to see windturbine farms in operation and under construction in the region between Urumqui and Turfan.
So I invested in WELWIND ENERGY / WWEI.OB. I belive in the China story.
Roly

Osiris Therapeutics: Bone Regeneration = Big Bucks

Osiris is the only stemcell company, that sells a product, and the mesenchymol stem cells have a broad range of applications. Just go to the osiris website and check press release 10.14.05. It is amazing how these stem cells do work. (Why we don't know yet). It just takes time to go through the FDA approval process, but in 2012 we shall see the stock at >50$, of course if Osiris passes all tests. But the good thing, if Osiris gets the approvels for all products in the pipline, there are prices possible of up to 100$. This is a 6 times bagger.

Penn West Energy Needs to Show Investors Its Worth

Just short a good stock and write a bad story and make easy money from nervous investors.
It should be clear to everybody, that the 20th century with cheap oil is the past. Read the book about the oil peak! China, India and all emerging markets need energy and their people want to drive motor bikes and cars too. There are only a few region with easy accessable oil, this are the middle east, Nigeria, Sudan and these countries are unstable. Further more we have Mexico, Venezuela, Algeria, Russia and in these countries the output is shrinking!
So the only stable regions are Canada and USA. Where do you invest?
Oil prices will stay high, maybe we shall have a pull back to 75$, but I am sure we will see 200$ before we have realized what's going on.
China, India and emerging markets will buy all extra oil for their people, they want to drive motorbikes and cars too. India is going to produce a car for 2000$, China has a car for 5000$.
I just think a little bit in the future in 2010 PWE will operate still in a safe country, the world still will need energy, especally the US and Canada. So where are you going to invest: in Iran, Iraq, Venezuela, Mexico, Nigeria, Saudia or maybe better in Canada?
The dividends will grow, just wait and see.
Roly