A great business will always have clients and will always get paid, says Justice Litle. That’s why Key Energy Services (NYSE:KEG), the world market leader in maintenance of oil and gas wells, is in a great position. The company is growing rapidly and has a healthy balance sheet. Best of all, it is hugely undervalued at today’s price, meaning a chance for investors to triple their money.

This from Taipan Daily:

Key Energy Services (NYSE:KEG) is the largest rig-based well service company in the world.

You could say the main job for a company like Key is to “keep the oil & gas flowing.” Once a well is drilled, that well has to be maintained and serviced throughout its life. This is what Key does.

It’s a great business

One of the biggest fears today is that the US is entering a Japanese-like slump that could last a decade. But Justice Litle says we have learned the lessons from that crisis. This time, the government fears doing too little, but gives little thought about the risks of doing too much. And this is why we should be more scared of one day ending up like Zimbabwe…

This from Taipan Publishing Group:

The world is clearly afraid that “Great Depression 2.0” could be at hand. Downturns come and go, but the global economy as a whole hasn’t contracted since the 1930s. Some think it could happen again next year.

We hear less about it in the news, but there is another fear that keeps investors up at night – the off chance that America turns into Japan.

The private jets were the last straw. I speak of the chosen mode of transportation for the “Big Three” automaker CEOs last week. When the heads of GM, Ford and Chrysler made their trek to Washington, they did so in the style of fat cats. They should have flown coach.

I’m serious.

Flying coach would have been little more than a gesture, sure. But it would have said something at least. It would have shown that these knuckleheads aren’t completely tone-deaf. But they are tone deaf. They’re crap at the little things.

And in the end, it’s really all about the little things. When you add up all the little things, you get a big impact.

Take Honda, for example. Did you know Honda is in the soybean business? As Forbes tells it, “Honda couldn’t brook the sight of the shipping containers

Sara Nunnally says Middle Eastern states are using their petro-dollar Sovereign Wealth Funds to boost their international profile and reduce dependence on oil. She says “following the money” is a good way for investors to profit from this shift in global economic and financial power.

This from Taipan Publising’s emerging market blog:

Last Tuesday, I told Taipan Publishing Group subscribers in Taipan Insider that one Middle Eastern country was injecting massive amounts of cash into international markets.

That’s not really news nowadays, though, is it? Everyone’s heard of the $7.5 billion Citigroup (NYSE:C) bailout by Abu Dhabi back in November 2007.

But things have noticably been slowing down. When billions of dollars worth of investments get halved in value in less than a year, it makes you think.

Yet for some regions, this credit crunch is an opportunity of a lifetime.

Think about it. You’re an oil-rich nation with foreign currency

If you need more proof that the US lost the Cold War to Russia and China you need look no further than Venezuela, says emerging markets expert Irwin Greenstein, writing for Contrarian Profit. Hugo Chavez, president of Venezuela, inked two significant energy deals with China and Russia that will divert American oil to our former Cold War adversaries.

What further proof do we need that we lost the Cold War than to have China and Russia take over critical oil supplies right in our own backyard?

Americans like to believe that the 40-odd-year Cold War drew to a close in the late 1980s and the early 1990s. That’s when Ronald Regan was president and the Berlin Wall came tumbling down and the Soviet Union collapsed. (That led Dick Cheney to also tout Reagan’s famous fiscal theory that deficits don’t matter.)

With the …

Investors woke up this morning to a new era on Wall Street. The last two big investment banks, Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS) and Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MS), have abandoned their freewheeling, frat-boy days to become bank holding companies.The move puts them under stricter Federal regulation. More important, they will now look to more conservative sources of money - such as customer deposits - over highly leveraged trading bets.

What remains to be seen, though, is whether the shift could dam up a torrent of money flowing into emerging markets.

Back in the day, emerging markets were the place for investment bankers to wheel and deal. Asia, the Middle East and Latin America became increasingly reliant on this Wall Street money.

Since 2005, both the share and percentage of emerging-market investment banking saw dramatic growth. In 2005, investment-banking revenue from emerging markets accounted for almost $40 billion, or 16% of the global investment-banking revenue total. Those …

The headlines are dramatic. Short selling banned for 799 financial institutions. $50bn injected into money markets. Plans for a massive bailout fund to clear the system of bad debt and stabilize the housing market.

The Unholy trinity - the Federal Reserve, SEC and Treasury - has pulled out all the stops this time. But while US stocks soar, Justice Litle says the government’s bailouts are a death blow for the dollar.

This makes real, tangible assets highly attractive. Justice says the most profitable investments going forward will be energy, infrastructure, hard assets and non-US growth plays.

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In the short run, it’s not clear how things will play out - the markets are an absolute circus right now. (As if you needed someone to tell you that.) In the long run, though, we are seeing the reality of the Austrian Endgame unfold, here and now, right before our eyes.

I’ve been pounding …

The news that Washington is fast becoming the world’s biggest slumlord through the buyout of distressed mortgages helped send international markets skyward.

The biggest gains were in Russian stocks. And this could be the situation for quite some time, says emerging markets expert Irwin Greenstein, writing for Contrarian Profits.

The irony, of course, is that Washington and Moscow are now marching in lockstep with each other when it comes to their stance on market intervention. After a series of unprecedented bailouts, the US has effectively renounced the principle that markets are self-regulating.

This from Irwin…

Russia’s RTSI Index (RUS:RTS.RS) jumped 20.17%. That’s huge, especially in comparison China’s SSE Composite Index (Shanghai: 000001.SS), which gained 9.46% and the Hang Seng Index (HKSE:^HSI), which closed up yesterday 9.61%.

Meanwhile, the Dow closed yesterday with a gain of 3.9%.

That Moscow and Washington have both used massive bailouts to …

The ugly truth can sometimes yield beautiful profits, says Irwin Greenstein, writing for Contrarian Profits. But the truth exposed by the US government’s recent round of Wall Street bailouts is that the US actually lost the Cold War in terms of its free-market philosophy. Investors should adjust their portfolios accordingly…

For a while now I’ve been writing that if you can integrate a historic shift into your investment strategy you may come out ahead. The shift is this: that America actually did lose the Cold War.

This became apparent to me about a year ago when we saw the economies of our old Cold War enemies, Russia and China, continue to thrive as our own free market economy literally started to melt down.

Now with Washington bailing out AIG, it seems that our Cold War defeat is undeniable. The very same foreign-policy …