Ned W. Schmidt

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• Agri-Commodity Prices: A New High!

  Published 10 March 2014 | viewed 0 times

  The Agri-Food Price Index hit an all time record high for the week ended 7 March. This index of Agri-Food prices is rather comprehensive in…

• Boneless, Skinless, Chicken Breasts: Yuch!

  Published 18 February 2014 | viewed 0 times

  One of our greatest fears is being forced, for economic reasons, to consume dry, boneless, skinless, tasteless chicken breasts. Beef is the proper food for…

• 2014 Y-T-D: Gold 1 Fantasies 0

  Published 07 February 2014 | viewed 0 times

  As we welcomed the beginning of 2014 the advice from "gurus" was rather straight forward. Gold was going to $1,060. At the same time the…

• 2014: Gold Up 70% or U.S. Equities Down 40%?

  Published 09 December 2013 | viewed 0 times

  As we to prepare for the arrival of a new year, 2014 for those not keeping track, we should take time to consider reality. One…

• Grow It, And They Will Eat It

  Published 28 October 2013 | viewed 0 times

  "Build it, and they will come" has been the motivation for many dreams. Baseball fields, restaurants, and other follies have sprouted from belief in this…

• U.S. Shutdown: Gold Fuel

  Published 07 October 2013 | viewed 0 times

  The shutdown, albeit it temporary, of much of the U.S. government has drawn both fierce and mixed emotions. On one hand are those that believe…

• Sell Gold, Buy Stocks: Really Dumb Idea

  Published 06 September 2013 | viewed 0 times

  With delusions running rampant, the investment community gave into the pressures for conformity in June to embark on another one of their ongoing errors of…

• Case of the Missing Corn

  Published 19 August 2013 | viewed 0 times

  200 million bushels of corn suddenly disappear. Could the mystery of the disappearing corn be rich material for Erle Stanley Gardner? Probably not. Most of…

• Big U.S. Corn Crop: Feeds The World for 2-Days

  Published 18 July 2013 | viewed 0 times

  Source: AgriMoney(2013) That North America is to have a bumper corn harvest this coming Fall seems to be well known. U.S. corn harvest in September/October…

• The Magnificent Seven, of Grains

  Published 18 June 2013 | viewed 0 times

  Our Magnificent Seven of Grains are perhaps not as exciting as those in the Seven Samurai or the cinematic classic The Magnificent Seven(Yul Brynner, 1960),…

• Follow The Money: Buys Hogs, Sell Goog

  Published 06 June 2013 | viewed 0 times

  Does management of Shuanghui International Holdings understand the future better than most? Or maybe, the Street and its army of overpaid analysts and gurus never…

• Dollar Indices: Research Rubbish?

  Published 23 May 2013 | viewed 0 times

  Investors rely on indices to help understand how a market is moving, and perhaps even how it might move in the future. Technical analysis of…

• Corn: Too Cold or Wet Yet

  Published 01 May 2013 | viewed 0 times

  Let us start by remembering the most important aspect of Agri-Commodities. They are not produced in a factory. Corn, today's example, is produced by placing…

• Hold Stocks and Sell Gold: Really Dumb Idea

  Published 17 April 2013 | viewed 0 times

  Above chart demonstrates in part why Goldman Sachs recommendation to sell Gold, and presumably to continue holding equities, may be another one of the dumb…

• Stocks? Should Have Bought Breakfast!

  Published 20 March 2013 | viewed 0 times

  Breakfast is said to be the most important meal of the day. Thus far in 2013 breakfast has been not only that, but one of…

• Second Place is First Loser

  Published 19 February 2013 | viewed 0 times

  Our headline came from the T-shirt of a young soccer player. Her opinion of coming in second in a tournament was quite clear. For her,…

• Chicken or the Egg?

  Published 06 February 2013 | viewed 0 times

  No, we do not have the answer to that age old question, and nor do we plan on writing any further about the collapse of…

• Fantasies Should Be About Sex

  Published 25 January 2013 | viewed 0 times

  Fantasies are what make our days more tolerable. Buying a lottery ticket is a sure path to thoughts of how to spend the winnings. We…

• $200 Billion of AAPL(s) Missing?

  Published 17 January 2013 | viewed 0 times

  Approximately $200 billion of AAPL's market value is now missing. One day it was there. The next, poof, it was gone. AAPL was the Street's…

• We Will Accept Their Apology

  Published 07 January 2013 | viewed 0 times

  All us crazy Gold bugs are ready to accept the apology of gurus and strategists that have filled the airways and internet with the unrelenting…