November 18, 2009
By Gary Grimes
Please understand that this article is about more than safeguarding your money; it’s about saving you headache and heartache. It’s about giving you peace of mind.

Before I explain, please allow me to ask a few questions:

Have you given much thought about the money in your banking accounts lately? Do you know if it’s safe?
Have you thought about what might happen if your bank fails?
Did you know you could be left in the lurch for days, weeks, even months before you get your money back from the FDIC?
What happens if the FDIC can’t cover your funds?
How do you find a safe bank to protect your deposits right now?

I hope you’ve given these questions some serious thought.

I have to be honest: These questions were about the farthest things from my mind until about a year ago, when …

By Gary Grimes

The following article is adapted from market analysis by Elliott Wave International Chief Commodity Analyst Jeffrey Kennedy. Now through July 22, Jeffrey Kennedy’s daily, intermediate, and long-term forecasts for up to 18 markets are free via EWI’s FreeWeek. Learn more here.

Wave patterns are like beautiful women, classic cars and great art – you know them when you see them.

EWI analyst Jeffrey Kennedy drives this point home during his live Elliott wave trading tutorial. It’s my favorite of his tips for trading with Elliott waves.

“Trade the pattern not the count,” Jeffrey says.

If you don’t recognize a pattern at a glance, don’t trade it – plain and simple. After all, your wave count can be wrong; the pattern cannot.

Does that mean you must know the exact wave count at a glance, as well? No. Simply spotting a pattern …

Artfest International, Inc., an online portal that brings together artists, investors, decorators, designers, private collectors and art galleries, recently announced that the company’s wholly owned subsidiary, Charity Sports Distributor, Inc., has signed a letter of intent with CBS College Sports Network, a 24-hour cable network dedicated to college sports, to operate online college sports memorabilia auctions during this year’s college football season.

Under the terms of the agreement, Charity Sports Distributor will provide authentic custom framed alumni player autographed memorabilia for CBS college partner teams including Auburn, Iowa, Florida State, South Carolina, TCU and UCLA. The online auctions will be held on a bi-weekly basis on CBS College Sports Network’s online auction home page and through the applicable athletic department’s home page. CBS College Sports Network has over 30 million subscribers and is available in 80 million cable and satellite homes across the country.

Edward Vakser, chief executive officer of Artfest

Ten questions on silver with David Morgan

Submitted by cpowell on 02:44PM ET Friday, December 5, 2008. Section: Daily Dispatches From Precious Metals Monthly Northwest Territorial Mint, Auburn, Washington http://www.preciousmetalsmonthly.com/

The well-traveled and prolific David Morgan has contributed to Northwest Territorial Mint Precious Metals Monthly in the past and has achieved recognition for his insights into the silver market and investing in general. As a follower of the silver market for more than 30 years, he is the author of “Get the Skinny on Silver Investing,” and his Web site, http://www.silver-investor.com/, is a leading source for serious investors. If you add yourself to his free e-mail list, the first thing you will receive — for free — is the “Ten Rules of Silver Investing,” written several years ago for “The Global-Investor Book of Investing Rules: Invaluable Advice from 150 Master Investors,” published in the United Kingdom.

Millennium Biotechnologies Group, Inc, (OTCBB: MBTG) announced that renowned non-alcoholic beverage industry veteran Ken Sadowsky has joined its board of directors. Sadowsky was also a principal in Atlas Distributing of Auburn, Mass. for many years, where he made his name in the industry.

Sadowsky served on the board of directors of Energy Brands, Inc., makers of Glaceau, VitaminWater, SmartWater and FruitWater, from 2000 to 2006. Glaceau was later was sold to Coca Cola for $4.1 billion.

He is currently the executive director of NIDA, an association of independent distributors from Maine to New Jersey. This group is different from the government group NIDA, National Institute on Drug Abuse.

“As a prominent beverage distributor in the northeast,” a Millennium Biotechnologies news release stated, “he has been credited for foreseeing the market shift away from carbonated beverages with his early adoption of such brands as Snapple Beverages and SoBe.”

“We are actively restructuring our board of