Last week I had the pleasure of attending and presenting at the Oxford Club’s 21st Annual Investment U Conference in St. Petersburg, Florida. The main topic was the current retirement crisis. Baby boomers are reaching retirement in worse financial shape th...
Frank Holmes
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April 1, 2019
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Bob Moriarty of 321 Gold explains why he believes banks should be allowed to fail. In later 2008 during what is now referred to as the Great Financial Crisis, government and financial managers had an opportunity to reset a badly out of balance banking system....
Streetwise Reports
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August 7, 2019
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In less than a week's time, the Facebook IPO has gone from the most-hyped technology event since Google went public into "blame-storming" mode. Details concerning the stock's sudden drop, the market's inability to process orders, and the (mis)behavior of insiders are start...
Adam J. Crawford
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October 28, 2012
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Back in the Dark Ages, before cellular phones and the Internet, I was studying to complete the Ontario Securities course one afternoon when I came across the part discussing "asset allocation" and "portfolio construction." This section covered the recommended mix of bonds...
Streetwise Reports
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April 14, 2020
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In today’s stock market landscape, a sustainable competitive advantage determines exceptional returns. Real moats, whether through impenetrable software, new technologies, or revolutionary hardware, reliably shield sources of profit and regularly outperfor...
Armin Schulz
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7 days ago
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The Critical Investor delves into a lithium company's financing and its implications. It seems more and more likely that Standard Lithium Ltd. (SLL:TSX.V; STLHF:OTCQX; FRA: S5L) is displaying a serious commitment of giant JV partner Lanxess these days, with constr...
Streetwise Reports
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November 6, 2019
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One of the advantages of being a sexagenarian is that after forty years investing in stocks, bonds, commodities, and currencies you have a pretty good idea when something is not exactly "right." If you have lived a good, normal life and you still have decent control of ov...
Streetwise Reports
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February 10, 2020
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As the Fed turned dovish this year, not only did the short-term interest rates move down – the long- and very-long-term ones also declined. Why would this be the case? After all, the long-term rates are set by market forces, not through Fed’s direct decision… D...
Przemyslaw Radomski, CFA
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September 27, 2019
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Ahead of the Herd has been digging into why central banks are buying a lot of gold recently . What we’ve found is eyebrow-raising, to say the least. It may be the best reason you’ve ever read for wanting to buy gold. Take this headline fro...
Richard (Rick) Mills
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April 16, 2019
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At Ahead of the Herd we love gold (and promising junior gold companies) because gold holds its value through time. Owning gold is a way to preserve wealth against paper currencies which are subject to inflationary pressures and over time, lose their value. In the US there wa...
Richard (Rick) Mills
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April 19, 2019
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