Ned W. Schmidt

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• Agri-Food Thoughts

  Published 14 December 2009 | viewed 2,615 times

  The Global Warming Scam may finally be on its way to well-deserved oblivion. Take your pick of discrediting events, the snow storms that hit the…

• Gold Thoughts

  Published 08 December 2009 | viewed 2,731 times

  Chairman Bernanke is in the process of being reconfirmed in his role as Chairman of the Federal Reserve. While some criticism of the Federal Reserve…

• Agri-Food Thoughts

  Published 30 November 2009 | viewed 2,452 times

  Over the Thanksgiving holiday driving I-95 in Florida provided some insight into the state of at least some segments of the U.S. economy. I-95 is…

• Gold Thoughts

  Published 23 November 2009 | viewed 3,130 times

  Well, we may have a little deja vu all over again. What is the commonality between oil at $140 and Gold at more than $1,100?…

• Agri-Food Thoughts

  Published 16 November 2009 | viewed 2,580 times

  Bounty is the child of shortage. The grandchild of bounty is also called bounty, and begets again shortage. When those generations are born with fanfare,…

• Gold Thoughts

  Published 09 November 2009 | viewed 3,329 times

  Wow, the light bulb finally went on last week. Perhaps we have never truly understood investing. Bank of England in the 1990s was selling Gold…

• Agri-Food Thoughts

  Published 02 November 2009 | viewed 2,592 times

  As time is moving rapidly toward the end of the calendar, thoughts tend to go to that which was accomplished during the year. Perhaps this…

• Gold Thoughts

  Published 26 October 2009 | viewed 3,081 times

  October 2009 has developed into a truly glorious month. For the first time in history the average monthly price for US$Gold will exceed $1,000. Certainly…

• Agri-Food Thoughts

  Published 19 October 2009 | viewed 2,572 times

  This past weekend while reading Barron's we were delighted to find that another researcher had discovered Agri-Food investing. However, the recommendations were fairly indicative of…

• Gold Thoughts

  Published 12 October 2009 | viewed 3,206 times

  With $Gold now trading firmly above US$1,000, at least on a temporary basis, all are joyous that the Gold Bugs have won. The paper equity…

• Gold Thoughts

  Published 28 September 2009 | viewed 3,238 times

  Suppose one was a football coach, whatever kind of football you like. You have a play that has been used in every game in the…

• Agri-Food Thoughts

  Published 21 September 2009 | viewed 4,021 times

  Bump and grind economic numbers might suggest that the Western economies, including the U.S., have seen the worst of the economic slide. Despite that appearance…

• Gold Thoughts

  Published 14 September 2009 | viewed 2,963 times

  Well, the U.S. has another debt problem in the making. This one has been visited before on a regular basis. The U.S. is running out…

• Agri-Food Thoughts

  Published 07 September 2009 | viewed 2,772 times

  For more than a decade investors have been misled. Was the misinformation intentional? Was the misinformation simply due to ineptness? Whatever the cause, the business…

• Gold Thoughts

  Published 31 August 2009 | viewed 3,408 times

  Investors should be taking some clues from the thinking of American voters. Their view, as documented by the respected Rasmusen polling organization, is rejection of…

• Agri-Food Thoughts

  Published 24 August 2009 | viewed 2,219 times

  Years have passed since investors seemed to pay attention to anything other than the latest short-term, but irrelevant, number of the day. Perhaps the ESPN…

• Agri-Food Thoughts

  Published 10 August 2009 | viewed 2,426 times

  Sometime people do learn from history, though the number that intentionally do so are few. Perhaps one of the largest groups of people that seem…

• Gold Thoughts

  Published 03 August 2009 | viewed 2,802 times

  According to the diligent statistical elves of Barron's Market Lab, the amount of U.S. Treasury Gross Public Debt outstanding is $11.611 trillion. A year ago,…

• Agri-Food Thoughts

  Published 26 July 2009 | viewed 2,537 times

  Some, and perhaps more than we imagine, economic sectors are immune to the failing economic policies of the Obama Regime. Those industries being driven by…

• Gold Thoughts

  Published 20 July 2009 | viewed 2,531 times

  Failing economic policies of the Obama Regime are setting the stage for the next significant rally for $Gold as massive debt monetization becomes necessary. Before…