Ned W. Schmidt

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• Agri-Food Thoughts

  Published 13 July 2009 | viewed 2,913 times

  While visions of economic stability and other fantasies dance in the heads of the elves at the Federal Reserve and those in the Obama Regime,…

• Gold Thoughts

  Published 06 July 2009 | viewed 2,794 times

  Global condemnation of the Obama Regime's failing economic policies continues to grow. India is now questioning their investment in U.S. dollar denominated assets. That nation…

• Agri-Food Thoughts

  Published 29 June 2009 | viewed 2,950 times

  The American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 (ACES), a 1,300 page yet to be written law based on clearly and widely acknowledged junk…

• Gold Thoughts

  Published 22 June 2009 | viewed 3,222 times

  Perhaps we should establish an official day of mourning for the loss of independent thinking now so widespread among today's journalists. In the U.S., independent…

• Agri-Food Thoughts

  Published 15 June 2009 | viewed 2,567 times

  The governments of China and Russia keep trying to get the attention of the Obama Regime. With a "Money Grows on Trees" attitude, those overtures…

• Gold Thoughts

  Published 08 June 2009 | viewed 3,148 times

  As the investment community celebrates the first bankruptcy of General Motors, a look around the world reveals the vast financial acumen of governments. We do…

• Agri-Food Thoughts

  Published 01 June 2009 | viewed 2,743 times

  May was the month when investors rediscovered both the beauty and the reality of commodity investing. With the fantasy of deflation fading into the background…

• Gold Thoughts

  Published 25 May 2009 | viewed 3,258 times

  That the U.S. dollar has serious problems should, by now, be obvious to even economists working for the Obama Regime. We probably cannot say the…

• Agri-Food Thoughts

  Published 18 May 2009 | viewed 3,195 times

  The road to deflation was a short one. It ran smack into reality. That reality is that the rest of the world does exist, and…

• Gold Thoughts

  Published 11 May 2009 | viewed 3,772 times

  Will the wealth destroying policies of the Obama Regime make the People's Bank of China full-fledged Gold Bugs? Chinese officials announce their purchases of Gold,…

• Agri-Food Thoughts

  Published 05 May 2009 | viewed 2,842 times

  Sufficient time has passed since the joyful bursting of the hedge fund bubble to allow for us to begin to assess what is rising from…

• Gold Thoughts

  Published 27 April 2009 | viewed 4,250 times

  How many gallons of water can one pump into a one gallon balloon? How high can one build a house of cards? In all such…

• Agri-Food Thoughts

  Published 21 April 2009 | viewed 3,554 times

  Where to put your next egg? That question receives a lot of thought by investors as the Bernanke/Obama Bear Market continues unabated. As always with…

• Gold Thoughts

  Published 14 April 2009 | viewed 3,938 times

  Grand and glorious global housing bubble came to an end not because it had caused so much money to be borrowed. It came to an…

• Agri-Food Thoughts

  Published 07 April 2009 | viewed 3,453 times

  Are investors still looking over their shoulders? Many seem to still being doing so. They are still focused on where the markets have been, rather…

• Gold Thoughts

  Published 31 March 2009 | viewed 4,225 times

  The world does not need a New World Money backed by government IOUs. We already have an ideal One World Money in the form of…

• Agri-Food Thoughts

  Published 24 March 2009 | viewed 3,051 times

  Trends may persist, but never exist eternally. Both parts of that little piece of wisdom provide useful guidance for investors. Trends, clearly, are an investor's…

• Gold Thoughts

  Published 17 March 2009 | viewed 4,191 times

  Ultimately, supply has to equal demand. That reality most of us accept. We can, for example, only consume the amount of adult beverage residing in…

• Agri-Food Thoughts

  Published 09 March 2009 | viewed 3,715 times

  You have already chosen a life apart from the mainstream. The site you are visiting is not part of the real world. Most of what…

• Gold Thoughts

  Published 02 March 2009 | viewed 4,203 times

  Two things happened in the 1960s. Most importantly, that decade ended. Second, consumers and investors began learning to not be fooled by governmental policies and…