Baltimore – (TFN): The dollar is a dangerous entity these days. Never has there been such a globally important currency with as much political and financial manipulation.

The distortions from reality are mind-boggling, yet all of us depend on the status of the simple fiat for our financial wellbeing.

The person with the most skin in the dollar game is, no doubt, President Obama. The nation’s economy hinges on the fate of the greenback and the White House knows it. That is why it is doing anything it can to slow the slide.

Even if it is entirely psychological.

Today, reports are flowing from Washington that show Obama may have plans to use up to $210 billion in TARP money to lower the nation’s ever-increasing deficit.

It is creative accounting at best and a $210 billion bribe at worst.

While the average Oprah-watching, Crocs-wearing American won’t take a second out of their do-nothing

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A new type of ETF is becoming popular, offering alternatives to traditional sector funds in targeting different types of companies.

(Editor’s Note: The following is an excerpt from an article in the Exchange-Traded Funds Report in July. Subscribers to ETFR can read the complete piece here.)

Specialty-sector ETFs—also called “thematic” ETFs—have emerged as a major force in the ETF industry.

These ETFs run the gamut of investment possibilities, but have one thing in common: They look past traditional size and sector designations to carve out new investment areas, often driven by a single investment thesis.

Clean energy, infrastructure, nuclear power—by our count, there are now more than 40 of these unique ETFs on the market, with more than $10 billion in assets under management.

Investment manager Van Eck Global has been one of the most successful companies in carving out a foothold among specialty ETFs. Its Market Vectors Gold Miners ETF (NYSE Arca:

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Regal Entertainment Group (NYSE: RGC), a leading motion picture exhibitor owning and operating the largest theatre circuit in the United States, announced today that tickets are on sale now for X Games 3D: The Movie in Digital 3D. Regal Entertainment Group will offer this Digital 3D presentation at 213 locations across the country utilizing RealD 3D cinema systems. This special engagement is available at Regal Entertainment Group theatres for one week only August 21-27.

CEMEX, S.A.B. de C.V. (NYSE: CX) announced today that it has completed its previously announced refinancing of the majority of the Company’s outstanding debt. The refinancing

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[Editor's Note: If you're new to the commodities-investing arena, and are uncertain about the landscape - or even if you're an "old hand" at natural-resource stocks, but want some insights into the new profit plays and new players - consider hiring a guide: Money Morning Contributing Editor Peter Krauth , a recognized expert in metals, mining and energy stocks, is also the editor of the Global Resource Alert trading service, which ferrets out companies poised to profit from the so-called “Secular Bull Market” in commodities. A former portfolio advisor, Krauth continues to work out of resource-rich Canada, which keeps him close to most of the companies he researches. Against the growing global financial malaise, Krauth says that commodities are among the most-profitable and least-risky investments available, and notes that this may well be the most powerful bull market for commodities we’ll see in …

Four ETFs Profiting From Green Energy

Tony Daltorio, The Investment U Research Team

It doesn’t take an genius to see the writing on the wall for green energy.

Governments around the globe from the United States to Europe to China are clearing the way for investors to make some “green” while investing in green-energy technologies.

Clean energy technology has been a universal component of government stimulus packages around the globe. Here in the United States, President Obama continues to focus the spotlight on clean energy with many visits to such projects around the country. Over $100 billion from the administration’s stimulus package has been designated for the advancement of clean energy technologies.

Congress is currently trying to cobble together perhaps the most far-reaching climate and energy legislation ever. The legislation would not only initiate a “cap and

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China’s New “Manifest Destiny”

Tony Daltorio, The Investment U Research Team

During my years of experience in the markets, I have found that the consensus opinion on Wall Street is often misguided, incorrect and downright wrong. Today the Wall Street “herd” is moving in the wrong direction again – they’ve missed the real story on China.

The conventional wisdom on Wall Street that China is an export-dependent, coastal-river-delta-driven economy no longer matches the realities in China. China’s economic growth is increasingly being driven from within.

And we need only to look at our own history to understand how…

In the nineteenth century, the United States relentlessly expanded across the North American continent and fulfilled its “manifest destiny.” Over this time period, the United States economy underwent a transition from export-oriented growth to a greater reliance on inner economic

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Van Eck Global’s Market Vectors unit has set itself apart by targeting underrepresented niches in the exchange traded fund market. It hit a homerun with its Indonesia Index Fund (IDX Quote), introduced Jan. 20.

Most investors didn’t realize this fund existed until a few weeks ago, when word got around that Indonesia has been one of the best-performing markets in 2009. The fund has rallied 69% since its inception, tripling the 22% gain of the Morgan Stanley Capital International EAFE Index.

Some analysts don’t think the run is over. JPMorgan Chase(JPM Quote) upgraded the country on May 18, advising clients to expand their holdings. The Asian country’s 4.4% gross domestic product growth in the first quarter lifted expectations. The resource-endowed country has benefited from more stable commodity prices.

The country, along with other Southeast Asian nations, learned a valuable lesson from the region’s

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Coal was one of our best performing sector groups in latter 2007 through summer 2008. While much of the focus of late has been on natural gas, the coal stocks have been ripping in even larger magnitude. I was a bull on coal over natural gas (although the market in its student body left trading simply moves all commodities together) because of the portability of coal over natural gas. We were early on this theme as the market was so focused on oil stocks at the time, and made a lot of money [Dec 6, 2007: Coal Stocks Quietly in Bull Market] I wrote a bevy of pieces about this 1.5 years ago… but again, the market is not very granular nowadays; it likes big sweeping themes that are simple: i.e. commodities good.

I have a litany of posts on just about

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April 29, 2009 Stock markets spiked higher early and added to the momentum after the Fed non-announcement. However, there was plenty of profit-taking from the highs of the day into the close. Typically a Fed-day yields heavy volume but that wasn’t the case today as volume remained relatively light. Breadth was extremely positive. Markets never make sense and this is when hindsight kicks-in to provide logic. You get terrible GDP data (dare we say “worse than expected”) and you’d think well, that’s it for this rally. But, the bulls still have the tape. They looked inside the numbers and spun low inventory data as bullish since businesses will have to restock. Or will they? That’s not for us to say. Furthermore, it’s the end of the month and time to get out the green ...

The rising market is not convincing, as I cast an eye on gold once more.

Call it a quirk or call it smart or call it crazy ... and it's been called all of the above, but I and many others LOVE gold. I've never been able to quite get it off of my mind or out of my portfolio. And right now, with equity markets rising, and with gold now at around $870 an ounce and me being nowhere NEAR convinced about a forthcoming bull market, I'm looking at gold again.

Not that you should listen to me, or anyone else who's entertaining the idea of trying to time this—or ANY market. (Exhibit A is my ill-advised November 2008 buy of XLF, the Select Sector SPDRs Financials ETF). The market COULD easily be back on track and headed to 15,000. But I'd say that consensus still has this as

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