Ned W. Schmidt

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• Agri-Food Thoughts

  Published 28 May 2010 | viewed 0 times

  While still having hopes for the Icelandic volcano, we must accept for now the disappointing reality that a great calamity will not be generated by…

• Rhodium Trading Thoughts

  Published 26 May 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 19 May 2010 | viewed 0 times

  A crucial component to many processes is the catalyst. It really has nothing to do with the process, but the presence of the catalyst acts…

• Gold Thoughts

  Published 04 May 2010 | viewed 0 times

  Greece may not be enough. Further economic bodies may be needed for the funeral pyre of Keynesian economics. While one after another nation demonstrates the…

• Agri-Food Thoughts

  Published 26 April 2010 | viewed 0 times

  What a disappointment! We had high hopes for the Icelandic volcano. Not since preparations for the Millennium Bug has our mood been so upbeat. A…

• Agri-Food Thoughts

  Published 12 April 2010 | viewed 0 times

  While out this week shopping at your favorite food store, do something for one of your grandchildren. Use that fancy cell phone to take a…

• Agri-Food Thoughts

  Published 29 March 2010 | viewed 1,289 times

  "Fla. jobless rate reaches record 12.2 pct in Feb" is the headline from an Associated Press report of 26 March. In short, one out of…

• Gold Thoughts

  Published 22 March 2010 | viewed 1,085 times

  A time existed when accepted thinking was that the Earth was flat. As it was not, that thinking made for some difficulties. One matter made…

• Agri-Food Thoughts

  Published 15 March 2010 | viewed 1,767 times

  THE benchmarks chosen by a nation say a lot about the future that nation will have. In the U.S. we seem to have chosen as…

• Gold Thoughts

  Published 08 March 2010 | viewed 2,326 times

  The Greeks are learning the tough consequences of worshiping a false god. For years they sought the blessing of Keynesianism, only now to find it…

• Agri-Food Thoughts

  Published 01 March 2010 | viewed 1,667 times

  We continue to periodically hear, or read, the word commodities flow from the mouths, or the keyboards, of those not very well informed. By now,…

• Gold Thoughts

  Published 22 February 2010 | viewed 2,345 times

  The calendar date is now sufficiently far enough in the future from the injection of massive amounts of liquidity by the world's central banks in…

• Agri-Food Thoughts

  Published 15 February 2010 | viewed 2,364 times

  We admit to having been gullible at points in our life. Yes, we have believed stories that on reflection made very little real sense. That…

• Gold Thoughts

  Published 08 February 2010 | viewed 2,563 times

  The great blizzard that rolled across the eastern United States this past week should have served as an icy funeral pyre for the Global Warming…

• Agri-Food Thoughts

  Published 01 February 2010 | viewed 2,518 times

  The North American Agri-Food harvest is either complete, or almost complete. We say that as much of the corn crop remains still in the field…

• Gold Thoughts

  Published 18 January 2010 | viewed 2,305 times

  In the 1930s, as the world was deep in economic depression, Keynes put forth some ideas on remedying the situation. Before any determination of the…

• Agri-Food Thoughts

  Published 11 January 2010 | viewed 2,085 times

  What needed remembering this past week as a goodly part of the Northern Hemisphere sat frozen was that all that cold was a mirage. This…

• Gold Thoughts

  Published 04 January 2010 | viewed 2,963 times

  We must applaud the leadership of the Federal Reserve. That group is certainly attempting to be more efficient. Why wait till later in the year?…

• Agri-Food Thoughts

  Published 30 December 2009 | viewed 2,541 times

  Living in Florida, as this author does, often comes with minor problems. As one of the biggest batches of cold, snowy winter storms ravages North…

• Gold Thoughts

  Published 22 December 2009 | viewed 3,422 times

  With our last comments of the year 2009 we pose the all-important question. How did Gold Bugs do in 2009? Well, as the chart below…