Year: 2018

Achtung! With Germany’s State Pension Insurance

In more ways than one… But first, from Germany. Achtung!! Whoops! Germany’s state pension insurance hemorrhages millions in losses. Nasty! Why the losses, you may ask? Tough to make money due to negative interest rates. Who woulda thunk it? Someone tell the ECB. It’s a conundrum that now, nearly a

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Global Trends
Chris MacIntosh

How To Profit From The Inevitable Descent Of South Africa

Today’s missive comes to you from our head trader Brad McFadden. Enjoy! It isn’t hard to make money in markets if you have studied history for long enough. It just seems that humans do and think the stupidest of things. But often making money from such stupid behaviour does not

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Insider
Chris MacIntosh

Insider Weekly: Dollars, Please!

Hello, and welcome back! Tblisi, Georgia courtesy of member Steve. He’s busy getting a second passport there. We’ve our fingers crossed for him. This Week’s Musings and Observations: Dollars, please Offshore drilling picking up McArthur River uranium mine offline indefinitely The “Big Shorter” shorting Tesla Oil Service vs. oil producer

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Facebook Face-Plants And Rats Keep Jumping Ship

Greetings, This is a short summary of some interesting things that caught our beady eye this week. All of these have serious implications… otherwise I’d not consider them, but this is simply a lighthearted look. In case you missed it… How I was reminded of Trump’s foreign policy strategy from

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Insider Weekly: The Single Best $100 Oil Trade

Hello, and welcome back! Lake Oswego, Oregon. Hat tip to member Preston. And this one… Not a sunset but a sunrise. A few minutes after I took this, the sun burst over the top of the mountain last week. Mt. Ruapehu in my neck of the woods while skiing and

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Global Trends
Chris MacIntosh

Punch ‘Em In The Face! Do It Now, Do It Quick!

Vinny was a tall, skinny Dutch guy I’d met while backpacking around Canada when I was 18. We became firm friends and kept in touch for many years. I, toiling amongst the pointy shoes in the city of London, and he, managing a family business in Holland. This meant that

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RI Podcast
Jamie Keech

How To Deploy Venture Capital In The Resource Sector

“We find people who are very talented and we work with those people, and help out wherever we can. We focus the company on the core competency of that individual that we’ve partnered with… These people that we work with tend to have the same philosophy we have with respect

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Insider
Chris MacIntosh

Insider Weekly: Time To Get Long Agriculture?

Hello and welcome back. Sheesh… what a week. But first: LA sunset courtesy of Insider member Kasra. Magical! And then one that looks like a watercolour painting from subscriber Michael from Idaho. Taken in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. I’ve never touched drugs in my life, but I imagine this is

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