"No warning can save people determined to grow suddenly rich" - Lord Overstone
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Gold •23 days | 2,368.70 | +35.30 | +1.51% |
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Platinum •10 mins | 944.40 | -1.30 | -0.14% |
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WTI Crude •3 hours | 77.16 | -1.12 | -1.43% |
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Gasoline •3 hours | 2.461 | -0.007 | -0.29% |
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Ethanol •23 days | 2.161 | +0.000 | +0.00% |
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Silver •23 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% |
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Silver • 23 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% | |
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Copper • 23 days | 4.530 | +0.111 | +2.51% | |
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Brent Crude • 2 hours | 81.13 | -1.24 | -1.51% | |
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Natural Gas • 3 hours | 2.006 | -0.035 | -1.71% | |
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Heating Oil • 3 hours | 2.420 | -0.052 | -2.08% |
Gordon Long
Contributor since: 26 Feb 2010
Biography
Mr. Long is a former senior group executive with IBM & Motorola, a principle in a high tech public start-up and founder of a private venture capital fund. He is presently involved in private equity placements internationally along with proprietary trading involving the development & application of Chaos Theory and Mandelbrot Generator algorithms.
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Extend and Pretend: Gaming the US Tax Payer
Today, April 15th, most of us grudgingly settle our annual obligations with the government tax authorities. But for how long will we keep doing this?…
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Extend and Pretend: Manufacturing a Minsky Melt-Up
A distracted and preoccupied amateur is no match for a determined, organized professional with a strategy. Though the collapse of the shadow banking system was…
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Extend and Pretend: Hitting the Maturity Wall
How long can the government continue to Extend & Pretend? How long can public policy endlessly 'kick-the-can' down the road without addressing the underlying causes?…
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Sultans of Swap: ACT III - The Getaway!
There are 7 stages to executing a successful sting operation. Whether this is the modus operandi behind the Sultans of Swap operating in the $605…
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Sultans of Swap: ACT II - The Sting!
There are 7 stages to executing a successful sting operation. Whether this is the modus operandi behind the Sultans of Swap operating in the $605…
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Sultans of Swap: Smoking Guns and the Sting!
There are 7 stages to executing a successful sting operation. Whether this is the modus operandi behind the Sultans of Swap operating in the $605…
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Sultans of Swap: Fearing the Gearing!
Ever imagine getting your tie caught in a mechanical set of gears (sorry ladies - but I will spare you). The results are nasty! Now…
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Sultans of Swap: Explaining $605 Trillion of Derivatives!
(The Bond Vigilantes are dead - RIP - Long Live the Sultans of Swap) Every parent has had that moment when their child asks them…
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8 Financial Fault Lines Appear In The Euro Experiment!
Niall Ferguson Financial Times Tremors were heard across Europe and around the world last week. There was little mistaking the clear fracturing sounds of the…
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UR All PIGS From HELL!
Whether you're in Central Europe, such as Ukraine or Romania, the Med countries such as Portugal, Italy, Greece, Spain, or from Hungary to the Baltic…
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America - Innovate or Die!
US innovation is plummeting faster than our Financial Markets did during the 2008 financial crisis! The future of America is presently in peril, not just…
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Extend and Pretend
SHOCK & AWE Beginning in October 2007, the world survived a Financial Crisis like no other in modern times. It was the first truly Global…
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