Author: Chris MacIntosh

General Investing
Chris MacIntosh

Recency Bias: How Investors Are Going To Get Screwed – Again!

While indulging in a most delicious barbecued steak washed down by a lovely South African red a couple weeks ago a friend was telling me about a recent seminar he attended. As a senior executive at a Swiss private bank he regularly attends these things. The topic. “How to invest

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Immigration
Chris MacIntosh

An intractable problem – Incoming

There’s a problem coming though it’s likely not what you’ve been told. In a previous article “The Real Reason For A Refugee Crisis In Europe” we looked at the actions taken by western governments in order to fill the income gap on the Ponzi scheme of entitlements via mass immigration.

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Hong Kong, We Will Miss You

The Hong Kong of today won’t be the Hong Kong of tomorrow. Now, I know what some of you are going to say. That Hong Kongers are just money grubbing, fast moving, fast eating, efficiently evolved economic animals. There is a nugget of truth in that. It’s what happens when

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Pot Stock ETF’s Are Making History Repeat Itself

I’ve been thinking that at some point in the future I want to buy the snot out of pot stocks. Did I say in the future? Let me explain by taking you back to the 2000’s. Remember the mid 2000’s? Nokia was still “the bomb”, wearing bandanas was cool, and

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Financial Markets
Chris MacIntosh

As Gold Nudges Higher – What Michael Burry Predicted

When Michael Burry saw the impending housing crisis looming large, he went out and bought credit default swaps on subprime mortgages. What did he know that the broad market didn’t? He knew the structure of the housing market better than most because he did the homework. He dug through the

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Financial Markets
Chris MacIntosh

Seems Today’s Oil Stocks Were Yesterday’s Tobacco Stocks

From 1954 to 1999 this guy was on the cover of every magazine. He was also regularly featured in those ads you’d see just before a film kicked off at the cinema. And just in case you never read magazines or watched movies, he was on giant billboards, distracting you

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Dad, We Need To Talk

Not a week goes by when I don’t get a request to post an article on this site. You’ll notice that I never do so. Not because I’m an asshole, but because it’s too time consuming for me to vet who folks are, what they’re selling, and so forth. You’ll

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