Futures

• Got Gold Report Comments on Proposed SEC Short Sale Rule-

  
  Got Gold Report Comments on Proposed SEC Short Sale Rule S7-08-08

  By Gene Arensberg
  30 Jun 2008 at 02:10 PM

  ATLANTA (ResourceInvestor.com) — I’d like to comment on the Securities and Exchange Commission’s proposed naked short selling antifraud rule S7-08-08 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, issued in Release No. 34-57511. The Securities and Exchange Commission needs to crack down on illegal manipulative short selling.

  As Dr. Robert Shapiro pointed out in his May 8, 2008 comment, while naked short selling is presumed to be a small amount of the trading volume when compared to all volume of the exchanges as a whole, when the illegal practice is concentrated into thinly traded small and micro-cap companies it can make up a large portion of the trading activity in those issues, perhaps even a majority of all trades for those issues for extended periods of time.

• PAUL: Rising Energy Prices and the Falling Dollar-

  PAUL: Rising Energy Prices and the Falling Dollar
  Congressman Ron Paul
  June 9, 2008

  Oil prices are on the minds of many Americans as gas hits $4 a gallon, and continues to surge. How high can prices go? How can we solve these problems? What, or who, is to blame?

• The Global Inflationary Storm- I was reading an article today on Seeking Alpha where the author was talking about inflation. His point was, that the US continues to inflate (we are talking about monetary inflation here), and that all other countries are forced to inflate in order to maintain some semblance of world trade. This phenomenon has basically allowed the [...]
• Protecting Your Wealth From Government Confiscation- Hello dear reader, this will be a brief entry as I just returned from a trip to Dallas where I spoke at a leadership summit for gold distributors. My topic today is one of wealth protection. Many of our high net worth clients understand the necessity of protecting wealth by placing it outside the reach of [...]
• Shameless Plug for RLTR- Alex’s Notes: Little plug here for the company I was the CEO for once upon a time. I am impressed that they signed Disney. Now all they need is some revenue, and an uplist to a real exchange, and they might have something here. ReelTime to Offer Video on Demand Rentals From the Walt DisneyStudios [...]
• Jim Rogers: What Peak Oil Will Do for Cotton-

  The most recent issue of fortune has an excellent interview with Jim Rogers,

• What Asset Allocation Can Do For You?- Asset Allocation simply means distributing your money across various investment avenues in order that the poor performance of any one avenue or asset does not jeopardize the entire investment plan and yearly return. Asset Allocation is one of the basic premises of having an investment plan. As basic of an idea, it is one of the rarest traits in a financial plan. Would you even consider getting on a plane without a flight plan and the pilot not knowing where he is going? It is an obvious answer.
• Fed will cut rates again-

  More Rate Cuts to Come - and this belief will help carry the market higher

  The Fed has an academic focus - or at least was accused of being too academic. By that , critics meant it was uninterested in the turmoil of the real world of foreclosures and credit collapse. The action of the.50 % point cuts on Tuesday give a signal that the fed is aware and active in the real world.

  Now the " worry " and talk on CNBC will focus on the next Fed meeting and the direction of Fed bias.

• Gold bullion showing Dow a clean pair of heels-

  My bullish stance on gold is old hat by now, but that does not take anything away from my excitement to keep riding this profitable play.

• Gold: forwards and upwards-

  Just when investors started doubting the safe-haven status of gold at the time of the sub-prime mortgage debacle putting pressure on most financial markets, the yellow metal came to life and staged a spectacular $56 rally. Although not expecting anything as dramatic, I have for a while been advocating a strong emphasis on gold (see posting “Gold - more than a safe-haven play”, August 14, 2007).

• Smart money bets on surging gold price-

  When it comes to gold bullion and gold stocks, I need to confess that I started my investment career in 1984 as none other than a mining analyst. Ever since those days of calculating net present values on my trusted HP12C I have been intrigued by the shenanigans of the yellow metal and related stocks.

• Cara’s Thursday Report, Aug. 23, 2007, 9:12 AM-

  Market Chat

  One of my biggest complaints is that the sell-side has the playing field tilted in their direction. After the close yesterday, Bank of America bought a $2 billion convertible preferred share stake in Countrywide Financial (CFC), which they say was a bid to bolster the confidence of creditors and investors in the mortgage lender, something I had advocated.