Archive for February, 2008
Weekly Gold Chart Has Formed a Shooting Star… or Something
February 2nd, 2008WARNING: This is not a recommendation to buy, sell or hold any financial instrument. There was a change of circumstances between the time I wrote this post and the close of trading on Friday. Remember how grim things were looking for the dollar, and how well gold was doing? Don’t ask me how, why, who? […]
Third Undersea Internet Cable Cut in Mideast
February 2nd, 2008I spent some time this evening trying to get a better idea of what this information warfare campaign is all about. (Anyone who tells you that this is some sort of fluke is a f*@$^!& idiot, and that’s being kind.) Remember the Iranian Oil Bourse? This is from January 4, 2008: Iran Oil Bourse to […]
The 2007 International Privacy Ranking
February 1st, 2008The U.S., Britain, China, Russia: All have the worst possible ranking for privacy. Via: Privacy International: In recent years, Parliaments throughout the world have enacted legislation intended to comprehensively increase government’s reach into the private life of nearly all citizens and residents. Competing “public interest” claims on the grounds of security, law enforcement, the fight […]
The New American Gentry
February 1st, 2008I find it interesting that this meme is being driven simultaneously in the U.S. and Britain. (See the post below.) I wonder why? No, seriously. I’m not being sarcastic. I really do wonder why? Are stories like these peer-to-peer warnings for rich people? Get out of your urban bubble bombs before they implode? Via: Wall […]
The Hedge Fund Manager Who Bought a Farm
February 1st, 2008Via: Times Online: The cost of farm property looks likely to soar as traditional British “lifestyle farmers” are joined by multimillion-pound investors hurriedly moving their wealth out of stocks and shares and into farmland. Across the world, hedge fund managers, property developers and other investors are turning their eyes to places such as Russia, Argentina […]
UK: Secret Bank Rescues to Be Allowed
February 1st, 2008WARNING: This is not a recommendation to buy, sell or hold any financial instrument. Sterling holders, do you get it yet? (Some of the sterling holders on Cryptogon do. Sterling holders have made up the biggest component of BullionVault purchases in January.) Via: BBC: Chancellor Alistair Darling is to give new powers to the Bank […]
U.S. Dollar Falling Down; USDX Under 75
February 1st, 2008WARNING: This is not a recommendation to buy, sell or hold any financial instrument. “The strategic view still looks promising for dollar bears.” —A Look at the U.S. Dollar Index, January 17, 2008 Yeee HA! Lean over you pig. Leeeeeeeeeeaaaan! For dollar bears/foreign currency holders: It’s got to take out 74.50 on the downside, though. […]
Sold-to-Close: DIA Call Options Strike 133 @ .20
February 1st, 2008WARNING: This is not a recommendation to buy, sell or hold any financial instrument. How could it possibly go up? Right? With every media source saying we’re in recession and the world is ending, doom, etc… I mean, sure, maybe it is The End. But, then again, maybe not. … I have this thing about […]
