Ned W. Schmidt

Contributor since: 26 Feb 2010

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• Gold Thoughts

  Published 07 March 2011 | viewed 0 times

  Kenny Rogers may not be widely known as a great philosopher, but one of his legendary songs carried a message well worth knowing. It goes,…

• Agri-Food Thoughts

  Published 27 February 2011 | viewed 0 times

  I said, "Scotty, Beam me up." However, the message was apparently garbled, and Scotty apparently beamed me back instead. Since it seems so much like…

• Gold Thoughts

  Published 18 February 2011 | viewed 0 times

  A Dog: Yellow Lab, Most registered 2009 AKC, per wikipedia.com To the right is a picture of a dog. In order to simplify this discussion…

• Rhodium Trading Thoughts

  Published 15 February 2011 | viewed 0 times

  RHODIUM TRADING THOUGHTS is about timely and profitable trading of precious metals. We do not believe every turn in the market can be called. Our…

• Gold Thoughts

  Published 03 February 2011 | viewed 0 times

  "Most of mainstream macroeconomics is dead. It's a zombie. They don't know they're dead yet, but they're dead." ~ L. Randall Wray, Bloomberg Businessweek, 17…

• Agri-Food Thoughts

  Published 25 January 2011 | viewed 0 times

  An old saying goes, "Lots of ways to skin a cat." Given the rise in Agri-Food prices over the past about four years that may…

• Rhodium Trading Thoughts

  Published 20 January 2011 | viewed 0 times

  Rhodium Trading Thoughts is about timely and profitable trading of precious metals. We do not believe every turn in the market can be called. Our…

• Gold Thoughts

  Published 17 January 2011 | viewed 0 times

  As everyone seems to know, and as you have read endlessly in innumerable reports, the Federal Reserve has expanded its balance sheet by more than…

• Agri-Food Thoughts

  Published 09 January 2011 | viewed 0 times

  ONIONS! Will the onion shortage in India bring down another government, as was the case in 1998? Onions in India are much like garlic in…

• Gold Thoughts

  Published 02 January 2011 | viewed 0 times

  We seem to have missed the celebration. Forget Christmas. Forget New Year's Eve. 23 December was the big day, and we should have all been…

• Rhodium Trading Thoughts

  Published 24 December 2010 | viewed 0 times

  RHODIUM TRADING THOUGHTS is about timely and profitable trading of precious metals. We do not believe every turn in the market can be called. Our…

• Agri-Food Thoughts

  Published 23 December 2010 | viewed 0 times

  Hopefully, those of you celebrating Christmas included lots of clothing in your gift shopping. Reason for that is giving or buying clothing is likely to…

• Gold Thoughts

  Published 16 December 2010 | viewed 0 times

  While this is not the last thought we will have this year, it is the last thoughts on Gold we will send to you in…

• Agri-Food Thoughts

  Published 08 December 2010 | viewed 0 times

  While preparing final copy of December issue of The Agri-Food Value View last week we thought that most of the relevant weather news had been…

• Gold Thoughts

  Published 30 November 2010 | viewed 0 times

  Really need to start drinking more coffee, perhaps. Must have fallen asleep and missed the demise of the U.S. dollar. For when we looked this…

• Agri-Food Thoughts

  Published 22 November 2010 | viewed 0 times

  Fortunately for investors the majority of the world does not allow either bumbling Bernanke or wealth confiscating Obama Regime to manage economic policy for them.…

• Rhodium Trading Thoughts

  Published 16 November 2010 | viewed 0 times

  Rhodium Trading Thoughts is about timely and profitable trading of precious metals. We do not believe every turn in the market can be called. Our…

• Gold Thoughts

  Published 14 November 2010 | viewed 0 times

  Rejection may be hard for most politicians to accept, but might be good for the nation and the world. Obama Regime's mismanagement of U.S. economy…

• Agri-Food Thoughts

  Published 05 November 2010 | viewed 0 times

  Readily acknowledged is that first action of new U.S. Congress should be to call for resignations of all members of the Board of Governors of…

• Gold Thoughts

  Published 29 October 2010 | viewed 0 times

  Some market participants may be treating 3 November, next Wednesday, as if it will just be another day. However, that day will reveal the results…