The Dollar, Deficits and International Trade

Posted on January 25, 2007

The Dollar, Deficits and International Trade (for the Yacht-less) Trying to make a topic like this understandable is only slightly less daunting than explaining the meaning of life, but I recently had an insight about this topic that I want to pass along, so here goes . . . I’ve been thinking about all this since the dollar began plunging against the value of most other

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Covering Your Shorts

Posted on August 1, 2006

Covering Your Shorts The term “covering your shorts” sounds sort of nasty, kind of like something my 16 year old son might come up with, but shorts are just investments that go up as a market goes down. Covering means getting out of a short investment. An investor who thinks the market is high and will be headed lower can borrow certain number of shares

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The Great Tug of War: Inflation?

Posted on December 23, 2005

The Great Tug of War Since interest rates began to rise in February, everyone, at least everyone who follows the markets, thinks that inflation is the next big thing. It may be. But, hey, I’m a contrarian. When I notice “everyone” doing the same thing it makes me think that something else is likely to happen. Last month I wrote about both deflation and inflation, and

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