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How to Return to a Gold Standard Without Disrupting Liquidity Needs

Follow the Yellow Brick Road... All you need to do is change the Fed’s mandate from targeting interest rates to targeting Gold. The Fed can easily keep the price of Gold within a tight trading range...

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The Major Mistake of Both Ron Paul and Paul Krugman

  Vis a vi Monetary Policy: The major mistake of the “Monetarists” like Krugman is that they believe Monetary stimulation stimulates growth. It doesn’t. All that it stimulates is stagflation. I’m a...

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The Natural Gas Revolution and How to Play It.

Update 7/17/12 – I saw Wilbur Ross, the famed Billionaire investor who made a lot investing in Coal and getting out with perfect timing, I’m assuming when the Nat Gas Revolution kicked in, he...

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Considering an Investment in Pandora ($P) in Light of Spotify, Rdio, and Songza

I really fell in love with Pandora a year or two ago. I think the market cap was treading around 2 billion. I told myself that if the Market Cap hit 1.5 billion, I’d make an investment. Well, I...

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The Biggest Problem the World Faces: No Stable Unit of Account

Here’s the best way to put it: Quantitative Easing (QE) is like saying that simply feeding a guy will make him exercise more. It doesn’t. It just makes him more fat (inflation). On the other hand,...

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The Government Was the Cause of the Financial Meltdown of 2008

There were three causes, and all were the government driven: The Congress – The Community Re-investment Act. This is what gets me: Everyone thinks it was lack of regulation that caused it. The...

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How to End Inflation Once and For All

In Response to this blog post “Why Coke Cost a Nickel for 70 Years” I wrote this comment: “Same reason the price of oil was basically the same from 1920-1970, even through the invention of automobiles...

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Why Netflix Will Become THE Global Distribution Channel for Filmed Art &...

(Editor’s note: I wrote this piece originally in response to this article from TheStreet.com:  Amazon vs. Netflix: Jeff Bezos Could Squash Reed Hastings Like a Bug) A) I’ve been an HBO subscriber...

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Why Netflix Inc (NFLX) Won’t Raise Prices and What Their Real Endgame Is.

I don’t think Netflix is interested in raising their subscription price or tiered pricing. I think they look at the subscription like Magazines and Newspapers in the pre-digital days looked at...

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The Current Fed Mandate Doesn’t Allow For Prosperity

What we need is not necessarily a gold standard, but rather a “de facto” gold standard where the fed keeps the price of gold within a tight range. That way there’s plenty of liquidity for growth, and...

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Nasdaq 100% Gainers

Saw this flash up on today’s Halftime Report on CNBC. Not sure what it’s referring to. 100% in what period of time? A year? Year to Date? Don’t know. What I do know is that stocks that gain 100% in a...

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