All Posts Tagged With: "Investing"

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Digger’s Friday Triple Play

Doug Digger Eberhardt’s Top 3 Articles, Videos and Posts of the Week – Click on headline for full article

7Aug2009 | Doug Digger Eberhardt | Comments | Continued
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Modern Portfolio Theory’s Biggest Flaw

Modern Portfolio Theory had one major flaw from the beginning. The assumption that there is such a thing as a “risk-free” asset. It is the same flaw that exists for most portfolios today.

4Aug2009 | Doug Digger Eberhardt | Comments | Continued
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From Green Shoots to Drought? Making Economic Sense of Investing

But calling the exact top isn’t what’s important. Keeping and growing your wealth is. To do this, you must make sense of the economic data that are causing the green shoots and decipher for yourself whether they will blossom from here or wither and die from a potential drought.

3Aug2009 | Doug Digger Eberhardt | Comments | Continued
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Current Thoughts on the Stock Market: Caveat Emptor!

Government surplus efforts are presently working. Some are calling an end to the recession. Green shoots are sprouting. The stock market is breaking 2009 highs. Life is back to normal. All is well. Or is it?

28Jul2009 | Doug Digger Eberhardt | Comments | Continued
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Gold and the EURO Connection; Another Nail in the U.S. Dollar Coffin?

Another story was developing at this time; the EURO had bounced off its lows and become a much stronger currency. As the dollar was sinking from its high in 2002, and the uncertainty of what affect Central Bank sales would have on the price of gold, the EURO became the only other “safe haven” in the mind of those who were looking to get out of the dollar.

14Jul2009 | Doug Digger Eberhardt | Comments | Continued
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Challenging Financial Advisors on the Need to Diversify Into Gold

What financial advisor’s need to do is prepare their clients for the coming inflation as a result of all this government spending. What financial advisor’s need to do is diversify their clients into gold.

8Jul2009 | Doug Digger Eberhardt | Comments | Continued
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Gold: Why Doesn’t Your Financial Advisor Recommend It?

When it comes to your investments, diversification hasn’t worked. The “Buy and hold” strategy has become “buy and hope.” The one asset that could have helped stabilize your portfolio isn’t ever recommended by CNBC or your financial adviser. That asset is gold.

30Jun2009 | Doug Digger Eberhardt | Comments | Continued
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The Fed Is Relevant…. For Now…. However…..

Is the Fed relevant or do they cause more harm than good?
The answer is “yes,” they are relevant, as long as people still think the Fed is relevant. The real question that needs to be answered however, is how much longer can the Fed keep playing this game and pulling the wool over the People’s [...]

18Sep2008 | Doug Digger Eberhardt | Comments | Continued
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The Pickens Energy Plan vs. the U.S. Imperialism Plan

Pickens wants you to choose his energy plan whereby he will make millions.  The current U.S. administration wants you to support their energy plan of attacking oil producing countries.  Is this the lesser of two evils? No…, the U.S. actions are evil, but the rich know how to get richer.
T. Boone Pickens has a plan [...]

21Jul2008 | Doug Digger Eberhardt | Comments | Continued
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If It Smells Like A Recession…

The “only” thing that has kept this economy going is the housing run-up caused by the Fed’s manipulation of interest rates lower causing consumers to find new money via equity from their homes and now the only thing keeping it going is massive infusion of the money supply by the Fed which is propping up the stock market…again.

How long can the game continue is the only question….

7May2008 | Doug Digger Eberhardt | Comments | Continued