Everyone Out of the Pool?
By Rich Cash
“Men go mad in crowds, and come back to their senses slowly, one by one.”
Scottish Barrister author of ‘Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds’ wrote these words 270 years ago. They still ring true.
http://bivib.com/The-crowdinduced-emotions-make-traders-deviate-from-their-trading-plans-and-lose-money.html
Sigmund Freud wasn’t the first to uncover unconscious realms outside our awareness that can [...]

In Real Cost of Living Terms, How Are We Doing?

“Unlike the high-profile hedge fund and private equity guys, he’s more of a throwback, an old-school, publicity-averse deal maker,” said Peter Newcomb, a longtime editor of the Forbes 400, the annual list of the wealthiest Americans…

What have you done for us lately? was often [...]

Palladium (Pd) was named for Pallas Athena, the protector.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athena
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2a/Gandharan_Athena.jpg
Pd used to be considered Poor Man’s Platinum, before it went from $162.10 to $857.25 the last two years.
http://stockcharts.com/freecharts/gallery.html?s=%24PALL

Over longer periods, Palladium was rising and volatile, from under $50 to over $1000.
http://www.kitco.com/scripts/hist_charts/yearly_graphs.plx
http://www.kitco.com/scripts/hist_charts/yearly_graphs.plx
When Russian Palladium production foundered in 2000, Ford took a billion dollar bath stockpiling Pd for [...]

…and

PNPFF/PNP.TO Above 29 cents~

Colombian Israeli Energy Exploration with a Natural Resource Portfolio:

Buying Straw Hats in Winter

Our hat tip to Travis Johnson of StockGumshoe.com for this tiny Canadian Wildcatting Energy Company that could catapault Israel into the global energy elite:
http://stockgumshoe.com/2011/06/whats-byron-kings-27-trillion-israeli-oil-stock.html/print/
At first blush, Brownstone Resources/Ventures seemed almost like the long-sought and evasive cure [...]