Just a quick follow up to JohnJ and his great advice on commodity ETF's.  These trading vehicles are starting to make more and more sense for the self directed trader by being able to diversify your rick across an entire asset class instead of one specific stock.  Enjoy!

Nowadays, many traders are looking to exchange traded funds and are trying to take advantage of these funds because they do, in fact, make for great investment vehicles that can actually deliver a ver ... Read More

I have been doing a lot of reasearch lately on how best to put some money back to work.  It looks like ETF's have come quite a long way in the last year or so.  I wanted to share this article with everyone written by a Harvard grad.  Hope it helps.

If you are interested in investing in commodities than you can invest in a commodity mutual fund! Many people are not aware that commodities as an asset class has a lot of potential especially in the 21st century. It ... Read More

Among all of the happy talk in the media, all the green shoots and the ever rising stock market, it is nice to see Deutsche Bank come out with such a happy forecast.  Gee, only about half of the mortgages in the U.S. will be upside down by 2011.  That is about double what the current rate is for you sports fans keeping score at home.  Really, check it out.  We couldn't make this up.

I guess that means since bad news is good news these days that we can expe ... Read More

There is no doubt that inflation is unfavorable to development. At some stage in times of inflation, both consumers and firms are adversely affected. In fact, inflation can absolutely cause an expansion in the poverty incidence of a nation and indirectly cause elevated unemployment rates. There are several proposed methods in order to solve the challenge of inflation. Basically, these solutions require government intervention. Finished are the days when the prices and the tide of the economy ... Read More

And I think you know what we mean when we say "tool".  Old Dennie boy was up to his antics again last night.  He was calling out all of the bloggers who dissed his "recession is over" call as mean spirited, bitter, recluses basically because they disagreed with his idiotic call.  He issued a challenge I guess to a few of these writers to come on his show and "debate" him on his call. 

Evidently only one person took him up on his offer, a gentleman named " ... Read More