Paul Lamont

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• Belief in the Fed Heads South

  Published 17 July 2012 | viewed 0 times

  In 1720, British legislators considered the South Sea Company's proposal to privatize the national debt. While they debated this swap of debt (in the form…

• Stocks And Bonds: The Two Terrible Twin Investments in Depression

  Published 11 June 2012 | viewed 0 times

  As Benjamin Graham stated in the Intelligent Investor; "The extreme depth of the depression of the early 1930's was accounted for in good part, this…

• Waiting on the European 'Surprise'

  Published 05 March 2012 | viewed 0 times

  Last month, we compared the investment herd to the buffalo that were stampeded over the cliffs of the Great Plains by Native American hunters. Buffalo…

• Investment Flash: More Bearish Than We Were in Late 2007

  Published 17 January 2012 | viewed 0 times

  This is a free snippet from our January 9, 2012 Investment Analysis Report.   While we were Hyper Bearish expecting an Asset Fire Sale in…

• Buy U.S. Treasury Bills

  Published 29 June 2011 | viewed 0 times

  Fortune According to Fortune (citing IMF data), Germany's banks are now more leveraged than Lehman Brothers at the time of its collapse (Lehman: 31 to…

• Investment Flash: The Collapse of Leverage

  Published 11 May 2011 | viewed 0 times

  In March, with inflation fears in a frenzy, we argued that the only way to "inflation proof" your investment portfolio was to take the hype…

• Inflation-Proofing Your Investments

  Published 02 March 2011 | viewed 0 times

  With interest rates over 15% in 1981, Harry Browne and Terry Coxon penned Inflation-Proofing Your Investments. They began: "It's obvious now that inflation isn't a…

• Quantitative Easing: Torching the Recovery

  Published 01 November 2010 | viewed 0 times

  Investors Burned by Bernanke's QE Demonstrations While Chairman Bernanke has his theory on quantitative easing, we suspect QE will turn out more like this Turkish…

• The Perils Of Complacency

  Published 19 August 2010 | viewed 0 times

  ***This is an excerpt from our July 31st Investment Analysis Report.*** "Investing solely for 'income,' investing merely 'to keep capital employed,' and investing simply 'to…

• Bernanke Fails His Own 'Two Lessons Learned' from the Great Depression

  Published 09 June 2010 | viewed 0 times

  ***This is an excerpt from our February 28th 2010 Investment Analysis Report.*** As Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke recalls in this video (at 2:20); "I…

• Stash Cash for Next Flash Crash

  Published 07 June 2010 | viewed 0 times

  ***This is an excerpt of our May 31st Investment Analysis Report.*** Back in February we stated: "As the chart of the Crash of 1987 below…

• 'Day Traders 2.0' Will Tank Your IRA

  Published 14 April 2010 | viewed 0 times

  A constant theme in the Investment Analysis Report has been to expect the market to move in the opposite direction of the positions of day…

• Investment Flash: Sharp Sell-Off Develops Into A Crash

  Published 31 January 2010 | viewed 4,781 times

  "'What he really needs now is a recovery strategy. Statistically, it's been proven that big lottery winners wind up poor in a relatively short time…

• Investment Flash: Global Margin Call

  Published 13 January 2010 | viewed 5,875 times

  As we reported last month, individual investors are "pouring money into mutual funds that buy foreign stocks, especially in emerging markets such as China and…

• Acapulco Cliff Dive

  Published 30 September 2009 | viewed 5,128 times

  Two years ago in The Return of Capital, Not The Return on Capital, we stated: "...as an indicator of a major trend reversal, 'Tens of…

• Speculative Disaster

  Published 01 September 2009 | viewed 5,398 times

  On February 28th in Panic Selling Will Lead to a Sharp Bounce we stated, "investors should be positioning themselves for a countertrend rally...We do not…

• What The Bankers Know

  Published 05 July 2009 | viewed 7,051 times

  "Cash was, is, and always will be - king. Always have cash in reserve. Cash is the ammunition in your gun. My biggest mistake was…

• Next Phase In The Crisis

  Published 01 June 2009 | viewed 6,769 times

  The recent stock market rise is lulling investors back to sleep. Ulysses and the Sirens. Herbert James Draper. WikiCommons. ***More For Clients and Subscribers*** Bailouts…

• The Suitcase Farmer

  Published 08 April 2009 | viewed 4,948 times

  April 1, 2009 Last month in Panic Selling Will Lead To a Sharp Bounce, we stated: "Bearish sentiment is everywhere. Investors have finally realized what…

• Heroes And Villains

  Published 04 February 2009 | viewed 3,560 times

  In June of 1966 (similar to the warm sunny days of summer in 1929 and 2007), Brian Wilson produced the Beach Boys' single "Good Vibrations."…