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When Mr. Market Takes No Prisoners

klucas@taipangroup.com (Kent Lucas, Editor, Taipan's Safe Haven Investor ) — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 12:00:00 +0000

Mr. Market often takes no prisoners on a downswing – creating attractive opportunities to cheaply purchase stocks that were unnecessarily penalized. While it’s an ambiguous and dangerous market...

Bulls Take Shrapnel as Sovereign Debt Risk Explodes

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 05:00:00 +0000

Taipan Daily scoops Bloomberg... Europe faces “Lehman-style” implosion... rotten floorboards under the housing market, and more. Does former SEC Chairman Arthur Levitt read Taipan Daily? How about...

Should You Learn How to Go Short?

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 12:00:00 +0000

Many investors get by without knowing how to short. There are risks involved, and shorting is a very different beast than going long. Nonetheless, there are reasons to learn... Well, here we go...

Armed and Dangerous

alass@taipangroup.com (Adam Lass, Senior Editor, WaveStrength Options Weekly) — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 12:00:00 +0000

Don't even think about protesting Washington's tax hike, 'cause they will shoot your *** off. I have three interesting items on my desk today, each relating in one way or another to Washington’s...

Monetary Plumbing and Pressures in the System: Readers Respond

Wed, 03 Feb 2010 12:00:00 +0000

To better understand inflation, think of money like water moving through a vast and arcane plumbing system. As with real pipes, there are many inputs as to what makes pressure go up or down. One...

A “Must Know” Strategy for Investing in Volatile Markets

klucas@taipangroup.com (Kent Lucas, Editor, Taipan's Safe Haven Investor) — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:00:00 +0000

This week, Safe Haven Investor editor Kent Lucas looks at “dollar cost averaging,” a tried and true approach to investing in these volatile times. For the past few weeks, there has been a lot...

Is Inflation Directly Tied to the Money Supply?

Mon, 01 Feb 2010 14:42:08 +0000

Some argue that increased money supply (freshly printed dollars) automatically translates to inflation. This is not exactly true, and it’s important to understand why. How do you define inflation?...

2010 Will Be the Year of Political Risk

Fri, 29 Jan 2010 12:00:00 +0000

The bracing headwinds of political risk now threaten to become a full-force gale. Any one of five “hot spots,” or an unholy combination of them all, could roil markets in 2010. Political Risk: The...

The Action to Take While Washington Talks

alass@taipangroup.com (Adam Lass, Senior Editor, WaveStrength Options Weekly) — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 12:00:00 +0000

Washington may talk about pulling in all those dollars, but it will never actually happen. Here’s how to protect yourself from all the blather. It’s all about talk versus action, what a body does,...

Are U.S. Treasuries a Buy?

Wed, 27 Jan 2010 12:00:00 +0000

Are U.S. Treasuries a buy at current levels? It sounds like a nutty question... and yet there is an actual case to be made. Should you be buying U.S. Treasuries? It sounds like a nutty question at...