How to make money when the market starts falling again

Posted by Matt in October 21st, 2009 | no comment

Published in Financial, Amp, Bear Market, Biggest Losers, Cap Bear, Current, Emerging Markets, Funds Money, Herd, How To Make Money, Laggards, Leverage, Market Rally, Micromanaging, Momentum, Money Market, Ryurx, Sectors, Small Caps

The current bear market rally is going to start falling again soon. So how can one make some money off of the fall?
You need a list of funds that short the market – make money when the market goes down. Check out this table of leveraged bear funds. If you don’t want leverage then you [...]

Everything You Know About China Is Wrong | Newsweek

Posted by Matt in October 19th, 2009 | no comment

Published in China, Asian Contagion, Assumptions, beijing, Boom, China Economy, Conventional Wisdom, Driven Growth, Economic Management, Financial Crisis, Financial Storms, Forecasters, Generations, Global Crisis, Global Financial Crisis, Helmsmanship, Momentum, Myths, Newsweek, Private Sector, Recession, Supertanker

The conventional wisdom is that China is steaming through the global financial crisis by building on the momentum generated by its 30-year boom. Indeed, ever since it sailed through the last big global crisis—the Asian contagion 10 years ago—Beijing has been feted for uniquely steady helmsmanship in financial storms. So perhaps it’s natural for forecasters [...]

Bad Economy Could Cause China Crackup

Posted by Matt in December 1st, 2008 | no comment

Published in China, Economy, Challenges, Currency, Dollar, Economic Development, Economy China, Extent, Financial Crisis, Global Economic Growth, Global Financial Crisis, International Financial Crisis, Jintao Hu, Journalist, Momentum, Partner, Ruling Communist Party, Will Hutton, Writing On The Wall, Yuan

Don’t believe me? Here is what President Jintao Hu said over the weekend at a party meeting:
“In this coming period, we will starkly confront the effects of the sustained deepening of the international financial crisis and pressure as global economic growth clearly slows. … Whether we can turn this pressure into momentum, turn challenges into [...]

What are the Chances of World War III Happening Soon?

Posted by Matt in September 17th, 2008 | no comment

Published in War, Anger, Bias, Brink, Catalysts, climate change, Disasters, Doom, Faces, Global Crises, Global Media, Milestone Events, Military Superiority, Misinformation, Momentum, Opposing Forces, Pearl-Harbor, Polarization, scenarios, Third World War, World War Iii

People normally do not think of doom scenarios until they happen. This was true of Pearl Harbor and 9/11. Repeated warnings and mounting evidence were ignored in the highest places. In this same way, nobody thinks of the possibility of World War III until perhaps it suddenly blows up in our faces, if it will.
This [...]

Why the Kremlin Is So Scared of Ukraine

Posted by Matt in July 2nd, 2008 | no comment

Published in Russia, Unhelpful, Centuries, Contrary, Current, Deterioration, Historians, Ivan Iii, kremlin, Magnetic Attraction, Momentum, Relationship, Repulsion, Rock Bottom, Russia, Sharp, Tsar Ivan, Ukraine

Russia and the West are losing each other yet again. The magnetic attraction and repulsion between the two has been going on for centuries. Indeed, historians have counted as many as 25 of these cycles since the reign of Tsar Ivan III.
In the past, however, the Kremlin’s sharp anti-Western turns were reversed — usually out [...]