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Three Marketing Giants Adjust to the New "Post-Crash" Reality

alass@taipangroup.com (Adam Lass, Senior Editor, WaveStrength Options Weekly) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:00:00 +0000

What do your local 7-Eleven, a major toy maker, and the U.S. Treasury have in common? Never let it be said that America cannot adapt to changing circumstance. After 18 months of recession (and...

An Overly Full Measure of Faith and Credit

alass@taipangroup.com (Adam Lass, Senior Editor, WaveStrength Options Weekly) — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:00:00 +0000

Impending national bankruptcy is no reason to expect Washington to stop spending at full tilt. As I sit to write to you today, the market is up for the third day in a row. This brings a bit of...

The Best Trader in the World Is Wildly Bullish on Gold

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:00:00 +0000

The “Michael Jordan of trading” is now table-poundingly bullish on gold. And the Reserve Bank of India may have just made him look like a prophet... John Paulson (no relation to Hank) is widely...

Fake GDP May Have Been One Ruse Too Far

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 13:00:00 +0000

For months, Washington and Wall Street have been slathering lipstick on a giant pig. Thanks to the latest GDP report, investors are beginning to see past the lipstick. Per the usual, this piece is...

What Will Obama Do to Stop Big Oil From Popping His Bubble?

alass@taipangroup.com (Adam Lass, Senior Editor, WaveStrength Options Weekly) — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 12:00:00 +0000

$80 Oil? So what! What will the White House do when it hits $120? “Oil down to $80!” A year ago, that headline was impressive, because crude futures had been hanging out around $144 a barrel, and...

Rodney Dollarfield Doesn't Need Respect

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:00:00 +0000

The U.S. dollar is doing a fair impression of the late Rodney Dangerfield – it gets no respect. But the buck doesn’t need respect to rally hard in the wake of a major squeeze... A reader writes, I...

Is the Dollar Finally Turning the Corner?

alass@taipangroup.com (Adam Lass, Senior Editor, WaveStrength Options Weekly) — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 12:00:00 +0000

The dollar bulls’ chicken dance is about to come to a crashing end. For the past few days, the dollar bulls have been all full of “P&V” (a technical term I learned from my Irish granddad). We’re...

Is Barack Obama the Next Jimmy Carter? (Part 1)

Tue, 19 May 2009 05:00:00 +0000

Could America be headed for a replay of the 1970s? More specifically, could America’s much-feted president wind up as the next Jimmy Carter? I read twenty or thirty books a year on average. A ...