Dear Friend,
James Dale Davidson is attending a conference in London.
Instead of your weekly Abundance essay, James’s research team has assembled some important crisis alerts to keep you informed as the global meltdown continues.
These alerts outline three of the most important – and bankable - market trends to be aware of in 2009.
James will continue to [...]

The currency “trade of the decade” is a chance to make 42 times your money as the eastern European debt crisis slams the value of European currencies, such as the euro and the British pound.
This may sound farfetched. But when you unlock the secrets of 200x leverage, these kinds of profits can be made very, [...]

History Catches Up
There comes an inflexion point in every life when you recognize that your potential lies more in the past than in the future. Perhaps that is what is generally meant by “maturity”? Until that time, if you have an ambitious and expansive personality, you tend to see life the way “Youth” did [...]

Depressions and Depression
Listening to Barack Obama’s televised speech to Congress, I couldn’t help but get the impression that the president must have scored 800 on his verbal SAT. But he must have got scored no more than 200 on the math section. His sentences parse. But his sums do not.
As I sat marveling at Obama’s [...]

The ”Lost Decade” Nobody’s Talking About
My colleague Charles Delvalle sent me a chart yesterday. It shows that the U.S. has just experienced a “Lost Decade” of its own.

This shows that if you had put $1,000 in a Dow Jones index fund in 1997, you would be up about 5%. After inflation, however, you would be [...]

Want to Get a Bank Loan? You Better Learn to Speak Canadian
Canada has shown itself to be a pretty good manager of the financial system in ways we haven’t always been in the U.S.
- President Obama, February 19
In the February issue of Crisis Strategy Alert I explored the dirty little secret of [...]

Coming to a Neighborhood Near You – Cheap Chic
Be warned.
The fact that President Obama’s latest bank bailout plan was greeted by the steepest market sell-off during his administration tells a tale.
As I analyze in the latest issue of Crisis Strategy Alert , it is a complicated story with a simple conclusion: You can’t pour [...]

ALL STARS STRIKE OUT
The Strange Link between Mortgage Fraud, Baseball’s Steroid Scandal and the Unemployment of Manny Ramirez
"I used to console myself that baseball was recession-proof, but … this is something different from what we’ve ever gone through."

Bud Selig, Commissioner of Baseball

Unemployment is surging in the United States.
Indeed, the deluge [...]

If You’re So Rich, Why Aren’t You Smart?
The New York Daily News recently reported that Yankee’s superstar third baseman, Alex Rodriguez, was poised to spend $80 million on a 5,200-sq-ft penthouse at 15 Central Park West in Manhattan.
Allegedly, an important motivation for Rodriguez’s decision to buy this Taj Mahal in the [...]

The More Things Change…
‘Tis time, there must be a line of separation between honest Men & knaves, between respectable Stockholders and dealers in the funds, and mere unprincipled Gamblers.

Alexander Hamilton, March 2, 1792

If you still have cash in your wallet, you will recognize Hamilton from his picture on the ten-dollar bill. As [...]