Dawn Van Zant (April 29th, 2009) Writes:
Contrarian Profits (April 27th, 2009) Writes:
Welcome to Sopranos USA… Can the “junk-stock” rally last? Credit to get worse before it gets better… Feds’ “hair of the dog” recovery plan… Shockwave coming… Jim Rogers on why he’s not buying stocks… Introducing your new Notes tax expert, Raife Neuman… And more!
*** What kind of men have we entrusted to manage our economy? And whose interests do they serve? Get the answer to either of these questions wrong and you’re in for a rough ride as an investor.
*** Consider the facts surrounding the Bank of America’s takeover of Merrill Lynch.
Thanks to New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, we know that former Treasury secretary Hank “The Hammer” Paulson and Fed chief Benny “Two Fingers” Bernanke violated U.S. securities law by keeping the huge losses sustained by
...Contrarian Profits (April 23rd, 2009) Writes:
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Palermo Viejo, Buenos Aires, Argentina
The greatest economic disaster in recorded history (and how to profit from it)… Your market ”script”… Lessons on guerrilla investing… Banks switch sides… The best communications company in the world… 3 sectors you should own now… Your key to “permanent wealth”… A massive glitch in the administration’s matrix… Notes subscribers beat up on your editor… 1,159% gains as stocks go bust… And more!
*** “The current administration’s economic strategy could create the greatest economic disaster in recorded history,” says Porter Stansberry in today’s DailyWealth.
Not only is the administration planning on enormous deficit spending this year, but the current plan calls for increasing deficit spending for the next decade – spending that will more than double ...Contrarian Profits (April 17th, 2009) Writes:
Here comes subprime II… 3 toxic time bombs to come… The Richebächer legacy lives on… “Scamonomics” explored… Goldman bites the hand that feeds it… TARP loses 75% of taxpayers’ money… How to get $4,201 in your pocket by June 4… Banks’ top 4 accounting gimmicks… Short squeeze pushes market higher… John O’Neill on government’s deceit… James Dale Davidson: How to grab 19% yields on Treasurys (if you’ve got government connections)… And more!
*** Rob Parenteau, the editor of the reincarnated Richebächer Letter, warns that we are in for the second wave of these toxic mortgages ahead. The first time subprime mortgages reset at a higher rate was in 2008 and the subsequent flurry of defaults sent banks into a tailspin.
Well, get ready, warns Rob. We still have “Option ARM” and “Alt-A” loan resets
...Contrarian Profits (April 14th, 2009) Writes:
Notes from the Investment Underground
April 14, 2009
Palermo Viejo, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Richard Russell: Why this is a bear market correction… That latest outbreak of investor credulity… 25 biggest earnings-per-share movers and shakers heading into earnings season… Banks to be allowed to screw up indefinitely… The great “too big to fail” fraud… Bailouts costing $42,105 for each U.S. citizen… Bush-Obama tag team piles on debt at the rate of $60,000 a second… Bob Higgs on C-SPAN… China wises up… And more!
*** This Richard Russell quote is a must-read for investors thinking about buying back into stocks. Russell, now in his 50th year of publishing the excellent Dow Theory Letter, believes we are now witnessing a bear market correction.
The essence of Dow Theory has to do with VALUES. At the March low the price/earnings ratio for the Dow was 25.79 and the dividend ...Contrarian Profits (April 9th, 2009) Writes:
Why you should invest in pipeline companies… Wither Geither’s stress test results? Congress vs the Treasury… Check out of USA Inc with these four BRIC EFTs… How to survive the “Great Money Famine of 2009”… Three questions for Barney Frank… Congressional panel: Liquidate banks, fire top execs… PPIP FLOP… Geithner’s latest Orwellian manoeuvre… And more!
*** We’ve added a new section to Notes. It’s called “Must Reads” and it’s basically a list of the day’s must read articles on money-making and the markets. It’s at the very bottom of the issue. Tell us what you think: info@contrarianprofits.com. Don’t be shy. We’ve got thick skins.
*** We love DailyWealth. It’s quite possibly the single best free source of contrarian money-making ideas out there (apart from Notes, of course).
...Contrarian Profits (April 6th, 2009) Writes:
April 6, 2009
Why the economy is still heading for a cliff… All the king’s horses and all the king’s men can’t put the banks back together again… The madness of Sheila Bair… The government lies over banks are paper thin… Infighting at the Treasury… Why Citi’s CEO should go… Banks plunge… “Fake dividend” strategy exposed… Can mark-to-model save them? Selling OTM calls against your financial stocks… What happened on March 9… And more!
*** You’re reading this newsletter because you don’t believe the cheerleaders in Washington and in the mainstream press. You know it’s safer to know the truth about the economy than to believe the hype and the lies and the false optimism. You know that real money-making ideas can’t be found on CNN and
...Contrarian Profits (March 31st, 2009) Writes:
Tuesday, March 31, 2009Recoleta, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Team Obama talks bankruptcy… But he doesn’t really mean it… Politics continue to drive the economy… The most ruinous CEO in history… Deutsche Bank: This crisis is “far from over”… Bailouts reach $10.5 trillion and counting… Gold is where the smart money is right now… Money supply increases… And more!
*** Is Team Obama finally coming to its senses? Instead of keeping the fatally wounded U.S. auto industry on a drip feed of tax dollars, Obama is considering allowing GM and Chrysler to enter bankruptcy.
A headline in the WSJ reads “U.S. Threatens Bankruptcy for GM, Chrysler.” How backwards has the U.S. economy become when bankruptcy for a failed company is seen as government intervention? In a functioning economy companies go into bankruptcy when they fail. It’s just a
...Contrarian Profits (March 25th, 2009) Writes:
Tuesday, March 24, 2009Recoleta, Buenos Aires, Argentina
The 15-year depression is coming… Drink yourself to death! Martin Weiss’s deflationary outlook… A sucker’s rally with legs… Protecting your wealth from inflation… Jeff Clark: the S&P will go below 600… The truth behind China’s dollar holdings… Big government gets bigger… And more!
*** “This is the big one,” says Republican Congressman Ron Paul, who yesterday said the depression will last 15 years. It makes a nice change from all the hooting and wailing about a bottom being in for stocks.
“The U.S. government just won’t allow the correction the economy needs,” says Paul, citing the mini-depression of 1921, which lasted just a year. This was because insolvent companies were allowed to fail. “No one remembers that one. They’ll remember this one, because it will last 15 years.”
Paul
...Contrarian Profits (March 20th, 2009) Writes:
Foreigners gang up on the dollar… Ben’s bitter irony… A chartist’s view on the buck… Why the Fed’s “quantitative easing” is a game changer… Investing in the “poor man’s gold”… And more!..
[Your Notes editor will be spending the day in battling Argentine bureaucracy. (It’s a long story. But basically I am trying to get residency down here.) So, today I’ll be leaving you in the capable hands of Crisis Strategy Alert senior analyst Charles Delvalle.]
*** Is this the end of the buck?
Next week a UN panel will recommend that the world drop the US dollar as the reserve currency and instead use a shared basket of currencies.
This from Reuters:
Currency specialist Avinash Persaud, a member of the panel of experts, told a Reuters ...
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