Ned W. Schmidt

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• Gold Thoughts

  Published 18 December 2007 | viewed 2,920 times

  Can financial system be in as big a mess as central banks' actions suggest? Year end is rapidly approaching, and accounting convention calls for all…

• Agri-Food Thoughts

  Published 11 December 2007 | viewed 3,592 times

  Want your wealth to grow? Then, own something that grows. U.S. exports of agricultural products this year to September were almost $62 billion. That represents…

• Gold Thoughts

  Published 20 November 2007 | viewed 3,595 times

  So, OPEC finally figured out what the western world has been doing to them. Oil producers have been swapping oil for green pieces of paper.…

• Agri-Foods Thoughts

  Published 13 November 2007 | viewed 3,167 times

  With the upcoming holidays, the eating season is arriving in a goodly part of world. From now till turn of calendar to 2008, food will…

• Gold Thoughts

  Published 06 November 2007 | viewed 3,600 times

  Dear Chairman Bernanke, I, and all the rest of the Gold Bugs, would like to thank you for your continuing effort to bail out the…

• Agri-Food Thoughts

  Published 30 October 2007 | viewed 3,997 times

  Preparing comments on any investment topic day before FOMC announces U.S. interest rate policy is probably a futile gesture. That the announcement comes on Halloween…

• Gold Thoughts

  Published 25 October 2007 | viewed 3,732 times

  This week's chart shows U.S. economy gradually sliding into recession. This indicator is the average year-to-year change of about twenty measures. Many are real measures,…

• Gold Thoughts

  Published 10 October 2007 | viewed 3,340 times

  Economic collusion? Bailout Ben Bernanke needed some help before September meeting on U.S. interest rates. He needed economic numbers to justify an interest rate cut…

• Gold Thoughts

  Published 26 September 2007 | viewed 4,152 times

  Bailout Ben Bernanke, Chairman of U.S. Federal Reserve, last week demonstrated the intellectual bankruptcy at that institution. No broad based economic need for a 50…

• Gold Thoughts

  Published 12 September 2007 | viewed 4,470 times

  U.S. trade deficit on goods and services for last month was reported as $59 billion. For another month $59+ billion of green paper was exported…

• Agri-food Thoughts

  Published 05 September 2007 | viewed 16,696 times

  Will Russian wheat embargo happen, causing global hoarding of wheat? Will wheat price double from already record prices? A fluke of weather along with economic…

• Gold Thoughts

  Published 29 August 2007 | viewed 4,382 times

  The question seems to have changed. No longer does the question deal with whether or not U.S. housing market has bottomed. It has not. Now…

• Trading Thoughts

  Published 26 August 2007 | viewed 3,855 times

  from THE VALUE VIEW GOLD REPORT TRADING THOUGHTS is about timely and profitable trading of precious metals. We do not believe every turn in the…

• Gold Thoughts

  Published 22 August 2007 | viewed 3,998 times

  With U.S. mortgage defaults up 90+% from a year ago, collapse of U.S. mortgage market is being felt around the world. U.S. housing starts have…

• Gold Thoughts

  Published 15 August 2007 | viewed 4,498 times

  Complete and total intellectual bankruptcy of Federal Reserve was confirmed this past week. Creation and collapse of two financial bubbles in eight years would seem…

• Gold Thoughts

  Published 08 August 2007 | viewed 4,086 times

  As U.S. mortgage market infrastructure continues in collapse, era of paper assets is fading into history. Last week's chart showed that Gold has provided higher…

• Gold Thoughts

  Published 01 August 2007 | viewed 4,258 times

  WE WIN! This week's chart is of ten year returns on $Gold (7.4% compounded annually) and U.S. paper equities (6.1% total return compounded annually). As…

• Gold Thoughts

  Published 25 July 2007 | viewed 3,236 times

  Let's see if we can sort this out. Bank One invests client money in leveraged CDO fund managed by Bank Two. Bank One lends money…

• Gold Thoughts

  Published 11 July 2007 | viewed 4,532 times

  Good news just keeps rolling in. Aircraft carrier Enterprise off on summer cruise to Middle East. Horton has collapsing home sales. S&P and Moody's analysts…

• Gold Thoughts

  Published 04 July 2007 | viewed 4,479 times

  Economists spend considerable time fantasizing about a world than only exists in theory. If they become really good at it, they can move on to…