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Chris MacIntosh

Insider Weekly: The Knock-On Effect Of Rising Rates

Welcome to this week’s issue of the Weekly. Here’s a sunset from Lake Havasu, Arizona. Turns out they have an annual hot air balloon festival, which your fellow Insider member Patrick attended recently. Damn! Aren’t’ we so lucky to live on such a gorgeous planet? In This Week’s Musings and Observations: Bond

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Chris MacIntosh

A High Payoff Trade From A Boring Old Lump Of Metal

Recall in May of last year Moody’s downgraded China. The financial media immediately loaded their shopping carts with predictions of catastrophe, extrapolating the worst collapse in history. THIS was it. 2008, remember, was still as fresh in their minds as the smell of their early morning coffee. The path ahead

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Chris MacIntosh

Insider Weekly: Where The Next Financial Crisis Will Come From

Welcome to this week’s issue of the Insider Weekly. I don’t know where to start on sunset photos. So many absolute stunners… In This Week’s Musings and Observations: The bull market isn’t over until the bears toss in the towel Bull call spreads on GE Ultra long-term spreads on ING, Aegon, and

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Chris MacIntosh

Insider Weekly: Collateral Damage Of Rising Rates

Welcome back to what is our second issue of the Insider Weekly. It’s a new day in New Zealand (the first in the world to wake) as the sun rises over the Coromandel Peninsula and the Hauraki Gulf, a couple of hours drive from where yours truly lives. It’s been wonderful

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Chris MacIntosh

The Next Commodity To Pop

The world’s stampeding towards a different energy future. One the beardies have been campaigning for. A “greener” one. It’s already presented you with many great opportunities (see our cobalt and rare earths Alerts for updates if you’ve forgotten, or are new around here and finding your way), and I expect to continue to do

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Chris MacIntosh

Insider Weekly: A Smorgasbord Of Investment Themes

Welcome to 2018! I’m not going to call this note it a Weekly because it’s not really. Instead, it’s going to be all over the show, so consider yourself warned. It’s also going to drag up debris from the past and try to make sense of what may lie ahead

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Chris MacIntosh

Insider Weekly: Yet Another Contrarian Sign

Welcome back! I’ve got quite a bit for you this week. And thank you to Insider member Michael for this stunner from Idaho. Before I even get into the weekly deals I’ve something I want no…must share. This, my friends, is the US 5-year, which I dare say has just broken out… and

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Chris MacIntosh

Insider Weekly: A Sector You Should Keep Your Eye On

Welcome back! Summer has arrived with a vengeance. No really. The back of my neck is ruby red to prove it after I took the family out on the boat water skiing on the weekend. I’m actually the only one who’s completely crap at standing up straight on those damn

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