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Is It Time for Capital Preservation Mode?

I like the many quotes you posted in your article. A particular favorite of mine is also...: "The one thing we learn from history is that people don't learn from history."

High Gold Prices: It's the Oil, Stupid

This article is spot on. While I would like to keep the focus on the stocks mentioned, the geopolitical factors are just too big to ignore. I am long PBR. If you are fortunate enough to make your way down to Brazil (Sao Paulo and Rio) you will see that Petrobras is literally everywhere. Most of their gas stations are equipped to fuel gas, NG, and diesel.

Geopolitically, the US cannot wean off the dependency of foreign oil. You must understand that the middle class has already been sacrificed in order for the status quo to remain in Wall Street and Washingtion. Ron Paul is a great man but no chance of being able to audit the Fed. Those truths, if or when revealed, will destroy the economy as we know it. The truth is the US has already been checkmated by the world, we just don't have the vision to see it yet. We'll dig ourselves a bigger hole in the meantime. The rise of Obama was political genius. The rise of a black man, from immigrant parents, coming from the left after we experienced 8 years of Bush, the protypical power, Southern, white, from big oil republican with essentially no daylight between agendas. Neocons still run the executive branch and the senate. If war with Iran ever comes to fruition then our soliders in Iraq will be sitting ducks. We will set them back while setting back ourselves with the only clear winner....Israel. If we could only have a normal alliance with them instead of having this "special relationship" where we look away at all the things the international community view as illegitimate...after all didnt they steal our nuclear technology? Sink the USS Liberty?... but i digress...how come we don't have this special relationship with the Brits? or the French? Didn't they help us during the American Revolution?

We will never be able to change anything in this country without a major revolution but don't hold your breath on that one. We'll become more socialized instead of more free....

How Stocks Perform After Being Added to the Dow

I'm guessing a pharmaceutical