Ok, this is a way long shot, but here are my Democratic and Republican ticket nominations. I say it is a long shot because my gut is telling me something and that is what I will follow on. Democratic: John Edwards Republican: Mike Huckabee Gotcha on that one, no? In October 2004 I said it would be...

I was asked by redddweb the following question: > The last few posts of yours sounds as if your market sentiment is bearish. How do hedge against these risks, as well as dollar fall, inflation, etc; I would love to see a blog entry on facing these challenges(invest in gold? it too is at all time...

Becky from CNBC had a talk with Warren Buffett and how Buffett is a bit pessimistic. Becky's interpretation is an excellent example of how media changes focus and does not interpret properly. Specifically Becky keeps talking about the following comment: > I made by far the best buys I've ever made...

Hi folks, starting in the new year I am going to be launching a new website called HappyAsAHippo.com. On this new website I am going to do a couple of things: - Calculate the HHCPI (Happy Hippo CPI). We all hear about inflation, and how low it is, but yet we feel wrong. What I am going to do is use...

This post is a bit of hard post for me because it is going to sound ultra-bearish. So if you want to avoid a really bearish blog entry, then this is the one to avoid. If you want to know why I am bearish, then this is the blog entry to read.  I want to add a disclaimer here. I don't really know if...

I listened to some commentators talk about the Hugo vote, and they said something along the following lines: > This shows that Hugo is a human, and not a dictator. It is not that bad, etc, etc, etc... How conciliatory he is... He will not change... He will do more of what he is doing now, and will...

As we all know there has recently been pressure on China to appreciate their currency because of the trade imbalances seen in Europe and America. As well, other East Asian countries are running into problems with their markets because China’s currency is doing so much better then theirs. Here is a...

I could not get my mind around this deal. Why would a sovereign fund invest in CitiGroup? Why catch a falling knife? There had to be something else going on, and I kept wondering. So I did my research on the Internet attempting to get all of the possible perspectives out of this deal. I have a...

At Housing Panic there was a blog entry that talked about how bad the situation is, and how Goldman-Sachs is saying things are bad. I don't trust Goldman Sachs further than I drop a ball without throwing. I have seen too many times when things that seemed biased (eg rating changes, etc). What...

Today's German IFO was out and it was not as bad as was thought. And right now it would seem that the Germans don't mind the higher Euro. It galls me that the German commentator said the reason why the Germans don't mind is because they hedged properly, and others did not. The German CNBC...