Bear with me through the off-color Angela Merkel jokes up to about minute 2:30 of this clip from The Colbert Report...  "This dog is either asleep after a long day of commuting, or he spoke out against Vladimir Putin."  Classic.

div"span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"It's the book to end all books. Until I write another one/span" - Stephen Colbert on the publication of his book , span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"I Am America, And So Can You./span/divdivbr //divdivWe'd say it alternatively, "span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"It's the upgrade to end all upgrades. Until we release another one/span"./divdivbr //divdivExactly./divdivbr //divdivAnnouncing v2.3.5 in beta release.  Here is the link to download this tested, but still beta version:  /divdivspan style="font-family:Times New Roman;"span style=""a title="blocked::http://static.trade-ideas.com/TIPro/Setup_2.3.5.Exe" href="http://static.trade-ideas.com/TIPro/Setup_2.3.5.Exe"span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"static.trade-ideas.com/TIPro/Setup_2.3.5.Exe/span/span/ao:p/o:p/span/spanbr //divdivbr //divdivAs readers of the blog know, we offer this special invitation to beta-test Trade-Ideas Pro Version 2.3.5 ahead of other subscribers and its formal release sometime soon. It is our intention to show our gratitude for your support and use of Trade-Ideas./divdivbr //divdivspan class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;""/span/spanspan class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"Finally a reason to become literate/span/span/spanspan class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: ...

Here at "A Dash" we are always interested in things that become part of the conventional wisdom with little supporting evidence. To find the right terminology for this concept, we turned to a leading source, Stephen Colbert on "truthiness."  Here is the Wikipedia definition: Truthiness is a term first used in its current satirical sense by American television comedian Stephen Colbert in 2005, to describe things that a person claims to know intuitively or "from the gut" without regard to evidence, logic, intellectual examination, or facts. It is important at the outset to be very, very clear about our intention.  We are not saying that the CW is wrong, just that the evidence does ...

Stephen Colbert hawks his bestseller, I Am America (And So Can You!), with the pronouncement, "When you make the first one this good, you don't have to write another one."  We agree.  He's talking about his book of course, but it's just as easy to substitute with the phrase 'decision-support trading tool', right?  That's what we thought about Trade-Ideas Pro v2.1 when we launched it way back on May 30, 2007."It's the book to end all books. Until I write another one"Exactly.  Announcing v2.2 (the beta).  Here is the link to download this tested, but still beta version:  http://www.trade-ideas.com/Samples/Setup_2_2_2_Beta.exeAs readers of the blog know, we offer this special invitation to beta-test Trade-Ideas Pro Version 2.2 ahead of other subscribers and its formal release sometime soon. It is our intention to show ...

With Matt Badiali

Q: What are your current recommendations for silver plays, including low, medium, and high risk? – B.C.

A: I think precious metals are a pretty low-risk investment in general right now. We’re on the brink of a global inflation crisis.

I’m no economist, but I know inflation when I see it. The price of oil is incredibly high. Oil affects the price of everything. Plastics are made from oil. Trucks, trains, and boats that move goods from point A to point B burn oil products. No matter what it is, if you bought it, you paid an “oil tax.”

That’s not an American phenomenon, that’s worldwide. High oil prices mean price inflation on a global scale.

Take a look at Asia, where Indonesia’s inflation rate is 10%, the Philippines’ is 10%, and India’s is 12%. Those countries are indicative of much of the developing world, where food and fuel

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