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• Rising Grain Prices Bond the US with China and Allies Alike

  There are no signs of aliens coming to destroy us, but even so there are scenes from the 1996 movie ‘Independence Day’ developing in real life. It started with successive years of drought in ...

• Start a Hedge Fund in Currencies Now!

  You need not indulge in any unduly aggressive investing to deal with dollar, Euro, and RMB market conditions of 2008. A bank would typically employ an army of specialists to decide on ...

• Lead Your Bank from Sub-Prime Greed to Meeting All Your Credit Needs

  You need to be a trained sculptor, or an art critic, to appreciate the frail figure at Dupont Circle, Massachusetts Avenue & 21st, in our capital. However his writings of nearly 100 years ago ...

• How Australia Beats Alan Greenspan through Future Fund, and You Can Too

  They care for the environment, love sports, and have sent troops to Iraq. You may not be impressed with the apology to their native citizens, unless you are an Aleutian, but Australians are ...

• Back to Business Management Basics to Survive in Today’s Stock Market

  Does Ambac deserve a bail-out? Are assurances of dollars enough to prevent writedowns? How much exposure can stock or a bond take based on credit ratings anyway? Why do regulators allow ...

• Fed Economic Projections and Your Stock Strategy

  2008 no longer looks as bright to the Fed as it did last October. It has lowered its GDP growth rate estimate, and raised the figures for unemployment and inflation. The figures are not as bad ...

• Make Housing Stock Your Stock Market Hedge Fund

  Emotional reports of foreclosures and sub-prime crimes by wealthy executives have dominated stock market news for some time now. Could months of indignation have clouded our judgments of the ...

• Use the 3B=ADM Formula for Stock Market Success

  Could there be more than what skeptic observers make of Richard Branson flying one of his Virgin aircraft on a bio-fuel blend? The flamboyant entrepreneur from across the Atlantic has defended ...

• Invest Your Stimulus Check in the Right Stock for Lasting Pleasure

  Word is out that the stimulus may last the economy one night or less. There may be little that you can do to make the government cut spending; why gripe anyway, if a check will shortly be in ...

• What Does Cuba Hold for Your Stock Yield?

  Who knows when Fidel’s retirement will get the economy of Cuba moving again? Some stock market quarters have begun to buy everything with the word ‘Cuba’ in its name, but some of these stocks ...

• What Should Foreign Stock Market Players Do When The US Is Unwell?

  Should we care? Why can’t global types use online trading and leave each stock market to its own devices? Well, that is not how markets operate anymore.

• Should Today’s Trader Sell Stock for Gold?

  Real estate and apartments could be better! At least one Guru Trader has said that trading is like gambling, but could that be a curve ball? Many stock market web sites offer to train novices; ...