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The Kindle Edition of the John Thomas Bio is Out

Amazon has published a Kindle eBook of the autobiography A Life Well Lived – Part I: 60 Years of Memories of the Mad Hedge Fund Trader. The book is offered for sale at a bargain price of $9.99, and I am told it was a best seller on the recent Alaska cruise of Cunard’s Queen […]

A Cheap Hedge for This Market

The S&P 500 is now at an all-time high of 7,000 and is showing definitive signs of rolling over. So financial advisors, pension fund managers, and cautious individuals have been ringing me up asking what the best way is to hedge the heady 84% gains of the past three years. You can forget about buying […]

The Ultra Bull Case for Gold

I am constantly barraged with emails from gold bugs who passionately argue that their beloved metal is trading at a tiny fraction of its true value, and that the barbaric relic is really worth $5,000, $10,000, or even $50,000 an ounce (GLD). They claim the move in the yellow metal we are seeing is only […]

The Market Outlook for the Week Ahead, or A Black Swan a Day

I’m writing this letter to you from Buenos Aires, the capital of Argentina. It was a grueling nine-hour flight down here from Miami. I slept through both meal services, so I landed starving. Here in the Southern hemisphere, the summer solstice has just passed, so it doesn’t get dark until 8:00 PM. The people are […]