Your stocks are crashing and your real estate value is eroding all at the same time. Even commodities are tanking. These are some of the greatest ways Americans have accumulated wealth up until now. So what’s a trader or investor to do? Learn to trade the “recession proof� market – the Curre...

Welcome to the euro rollercoaster! If you want to see recent volatility in action, then you need to look no further than the euro (EUR/USD spot FX currency pair). This thing has been all over the map lately. Just since December, this pair has gone from 1.25 all the way up to 1.47 and back down into ...

Geithner reenacts Jim Carrey’s Fun with Dick & Jane! Traders and investors alike have been waiting for Geithner’s speech. It got delayed once, so investors just knew that when he stepped up to the mic that he’d really have something to say. However, what he ended up doing was opening up mo...

Oh the woes of New Zealand ! The way I see it, this little country has at least five things going against it right now that I think will continue to weigh on its currency. So let’s talk about these factors that are weighing down on the country all at once and you will see what I mean. First of all...

While there may be many promises of “change� happening in America …one thing that is definitely “changing� is the relationship between China and the U.S. Why is this increasingly important? There are a few reasons but a couple of important ones off the top of my head are: Just a few short ...

I know this is a hard one to believe, being that we are obviously in the middle of a deflationary period, but savvy institutional players are already starting to position themselves for inflationary times ahead. Inflation! Have I lost my mind? Actually, no... Let me explain what I mean. Former centr...

Where has the integrity gone in America ? Where are the guys that really look out for the best interest of the corporation, its employees and shareholders? They seem “few and far between� don’t they? One of the ones that disgusts me the most right now is the former CEO of Merrill Lynch. To me,...

When one of my relatives was in their 30's, they read a book on weight loss that said if you want to get “skinny�, then do what “skinny people� do. At the time, I was very skinny. So they followed me around for a month and ate when I ate, at the amount that I ate and stopped eating when I st...

Gone are the days where you can sit back…no nothing about the stock market and let your company and government take care of you in retirement. No, corporate and state pension funds are getting entirely too risky with your “present� and your future. And guess who it costs? YOU! State government...

You know, in every environment there is something that prospers….even in recessions. However, many times people just think of defensive stocks like make up companies or alcohol or cigarette companies, food companies, etc. However, when stocks tank and corporate America slows down, the unemployment...