Wall Street and Washington have teamed up to save the housing market. The government gave out $8,000 new homebuyer credits, reduced the Fed rate to nada, and bought up 80% of the mortgages.
Wall ...
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Two days ago, Iran successfully test-fired long-range missiles. According to the BBC, “The Revolutionary Guards tested the Shahab-3 and Sajjil rockets, which are believed to have ranges of up to ...
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Lots of fools have been sitting on the sideline badmouthing this market, saying it’s not real and it will simply have to crash. Well, it may be true that this market isn’t “real” but the gains spend ...
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
4.
Dollar Down, Asia Up
(Matching tags: Crisis Trader,China Investments,Christian DeHaemer,U.S. Dollar)
The trading theme of the week is “international trade” as all of the prominent global leaders flock to Pittsburgh, Pa., for the Group of 20 meeting.
According to the Associated ...
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
5.
Three Reasons to Be Happy
(Matching tags: Employment Rate,Crisis Trader,Christian DeHaemer,Housing Sector,Economic Growth)
I’m sick of it. This country has been crying in its beer for far too long. Sure, we are going into debt. Sure, a lot of us lost half our net worth as our 401(k)s became 200.5(k)s and our houses were ...
Thursday, September 17, 2009
... Christian DeHaemer , who is here to tell you why “buy and hold” is such a bad idea (and what you want to be doing instead). If you have any questions or comments, send ‘em here: justice@taipandaily.com ...
Thursday, September 17, 2009
7.
Gold Break Out!
(Matching tags: Euro Currency,Debt Problems,Crisis Trader,Christian DeHaemer,Gold Investments,Economic Growth,U.S. Dollar,Currency Investments)
The U.S. government’s slick little plan to “save” the economy by destroying the dollar is working like a charm. The U.S. dollar is now at a 2009 low against the euro. And believe me, ...
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Futures on the major indexes are up as I write this. Gold is below $1,000. Oil is below $70 and the dollar has rebounded. The old bugbear of a double-dip recession is as prevalent as ever as we head ...
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Barrick Gold is the world’s largest gold producer. It got that way by being a conservative player. For the past 21 years it has locked in its revenue stream by hedging against the future price ...
Wednesday, September 09, 2009
10.
Mining Boom in Mongolia
(Matching tags: Gold Investments,Christian DeHaemer,Crisis Trader,Mining Industry,Copper Production,Mongolia Investments)
It’s time to build a bandwagon, because Mongolia will be the fastest-growing economy on earth for the next 10 years. It is abundantly rich in minerals because of poor production during the communist ...
Wednesday, September 02, 2009
Over the past year the Shanghai Index has been up 102% – a remarkable run in anyone’s book. Yesterday, in a move that suggests it has run too far, too fast, it gave up 7% in the ...
Tuesday, September 01, 2009
12.
Dow 10,753: Bank it; Done
(Matching tags: Economic Growth,Commodities Investment,Stock Market News,Crisis Trader,Durable Goods,Christian DeHaemer)
The general consensus back in December of 2008 was that the global manufacturing base was shutting down. The commodity super cycle was dead, and only a fool would buy oil at $34 and gold companies that ...
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Mexico is running out of oil and may pump as little as 2.6 million barrels a day this year, down from 2.8 million barrels a day.
According to Bloomberg, “Mexico’s output is slumping as production ...
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Three Reasons the Housing Bust Isn’t Over
There are many analysts out there who were partying like two little pigs in a stick house when housing starts ticked up last month. The worst may be over, ...
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
15.
Heimlich Saves Author
(Matching tags: U.S. Dollar,Crude Oil,Gold Investments,Commodities Investment,Christian DeHaemer,Crisis Trader)
I’m writing you today from a seat high above the Miracle Mile in downtown Chicago. We’ve had beautiful weather so far for the annual Taipan Publishing Group Conference. The Midwest girls are having a lovely ...
Friday, August 14, 2009
Cheap, Abundant, Clean-Running Fuel...
New technology that allows natural gas producers to drill sideways through shale rock and retrieve natural gas means that U.S. reserves have climbed 58% over ...
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
For the past five years China has been locking up its oil supply by signing long-term loan agreements for oil with Brazil, Russia and Indonesia. It is also buying outright every oil producer it can ...
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
18.
Four Reasons To Buy
(Matching tags: Crude Oil,Economic Growth,Commodities Investment,Christian DeHaemer,Crisis Trader)
Here’s how you can make triple-digit gains as the economy turns the corner…
It never ceases to amaze me that the stock market prices in good news well before the news comes out. Since March the equity ...
Friday, August 07, 2009
As the dollar falls, all other investment assets have been going up – including gold, oil and even equities – here’s how to get your share…
Readers of Crisis Trader have had a heck of a good year. I ...
Wednesday, August 05, 2009
According to stockcharts.com:
The Head and Shoulders bottom is referred to sometimes as an Inverse Head and Shoulders. The pattern shares many common characteristics with its comparable partner, ...
Tuesday, August 04, 2009
Clean, Plentiful And Cheap… The Only Energy Solution
In January 2008, I saw President Obama as he stumped through Baltimore. His speech, as most politicians’ speeches are, was a laundry list of giveaways. ...
Friday, July 31, 2009
A few weeks ago a group of suicide bombers set off bombs in two hotels, killing seven people. Today it was announced that both luxury hotels are back in business with 70% occupancy rates.
The attacks ...
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
23.
Six Reasons to Own Brazil
(Matching tags: Currency Investments,Crude Oil,South America Investments,Christian DeHaemer,Crisis Trader)
... leader in oil extraction.
Sincerely,
Christian DeHaemer Crisis Trader
P.S. Emerging markets have a long history of getting hit the hardest and bouncing back the fastest in any global financial crisis. ...
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Every asset class in the world has bounced 40% or more off its bottom. That is, except unloved natural gas. It seems that there is just too much of it.
According to MarketWatch:
U.S. natural gas ...
Thursday, July 23, 2009
25.
Big Gains for Gold
(Matching tags: Gold Investments,Commodities Investment,Christian DeHaemer,Crisis Trader)
Read to find out how you could make 1,000% gains when gold cracks $1,000!
The price of an ounce of gold is up 150% over the past five years. That’s about the best five-year return on any asset class. ...
Thursday, July 23, 2009
... the $1,000 make. It will break it on the first CPI report that shows real inflation.
Regardless, if the dollar keeps falling both gold and oil should go up regardless of inventory numbers.
Christian ...
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
The story of the global economy over the past 10 years is that China used an artificially low currency, the yuan, to sell goods to the U.S., which used artificially high liquidity to buy them. The Chinese ...
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
The Jakarta Stock Exchange in Indonesia has been one of the best-performing markets this year, more than doubling from 1,089 to 2,322.
Last night a suicide bomber in Jakarta tried to derail this ...
Friday, July 17, 2009
After falling from $70 a barrel last week, the price of oil has been balancing at $60 for the past three days. On one side of the teeter-totter is the pretty girl. She is the idea that the second half ...
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
30.
100 Dollar Oil
(Matching tags: Crude Oil,Commodities Investment,Christian DeHaemer,Crisis Trader)
Check out light crude for the past three months… Sweet!
I’ve been buying small oil companies all year long. The jump from $32 to $71 has made my readers very happy, with a number of triple-digit winners. ...
Wednesday, July 01, 2009
... the last thing this country needs is another tax and another reason to push jobs to China.
Publisher’s Note: Christian DeHaemer is the founder and chief editor for Crisis Trader, an investment trading ...
Friday, June 26, 2009
... your barber or taxi driver, you’ll know it’s time to start buying.
Publisher’s Note: Christian DeHaemer is the founder and chief editor for Crisis Trader, an investment trading service that makes ...
Thursday, June 25, 2009
... took out its support of $77.
Bye, bye MON, it’s been good to know you…
Publisher’s Note: Christian DeHaemer is the founder and chief editor for Crisis Trader, an investment trading service that makes ...
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
The post-World War II story in Asia is one of centralized authority, enormous growth and booming exports. Japan is the case study. Centralized planning and low-cost manufacturing turned a bombed-out ...
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
There is one thing about the market… it will always win. Last fall, when all the big banks were mired in debt, and we were told the world would come to an end if taxpayers didn’t pony up hundreds of ...
Monday, June 22, 2009
Yesterday, Japanese intelligence warned that North Korea was threatening to shoot a missile over Japan and across the Pacific toward Hawaii. The Nikkei average posted its worst week in three months ...
Friday, June 19, 2009
37.
Crude Oil Ticks Up
(Matching tags: Crude Oil,Christian DeHaemer,China Investments,Crisis Trader)
The price per barrel of crude ticked up today based on news that the World Bank declared that China’s massive policy stimulus should keep GDP growth in that country at a respectable rate. This in ...
Thursday, June 18, 2009
There is a big party going on in Russia. BRIC countries, along with Central Asian countries, are sitting down to talk over their problems.
Their number-one problem is that they have a lot of U.S. dollars. ...
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
I’ve been trading the Israel/Iran conflict for years. Every time things heat up… say, when the Iranians threaten to push Israel into the sea with their brand-new bomb or when Israel says there are no ...
Monday, June 15, 2009
They are lying to you: The headlines versus the reality
Three big economic numbers came out yesterday, that taken as a whole give us a glimpse into the second half of 2009. According to the headlines ...
Friday, June 12, 2009
Oil moved above $71.25 a barrel today, which is fantastic, because back in December when it was at $32 a barrel, I bought the heck out of it.
I spent a great deal of yesterday with MSNBC on in the ...
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
The difference between oil and natural gas is politics and speculation. While an overabundance of gas and a massive recession sent natural gas to just above $3 (down from about $13), oil fell from $147 ...
Monday, June 08, 2009
Untitled Document
A few months ago in my trading service, Crisis Trader, I made three basic bets: the dollar would fall, oil would go up, and small gold mining stocks would surge. As of this week ...
Friday, June 05, 2009
Are we at the end of the beginning, or the beginning of the end…
The initial jobless claims numbers came in today and there was some good news. Jobless claims fell by 4,000 to just 621,000 ...
Thursday, June 04, 2009
A V-shaped recovery “describes the shape of the market's performance in a recession and subsequent recovery when graphed,” according to WikiAnswers. This is the best type of recovery, as ...
Wednesday, June 03, 2009
Pending sales of existing homes climbed 6.7% in April. Bloomberg just reported “the number of Americans signing contracts to buy previously owned homes climbed 6.7 percent in April, the fourth increase ...
Tuesday, June 02, 2009
If Crisis Trader editor Christian DeHaemer is right, junior gold stocks could take the crown as performance kings over the next two years. Read on to find out why.
To begin, a quick clarification from ...
Tuesday, June 02, 2009
This is the fourth time in the past year that gold has attempted to break the psychological barrier of $1,000 per ounce. So far there has been no follow through.
This morning gold hit a three-month ...
Monday, June 01, 2009
Nymex crude oil futures began to climb took off during Thursday’s market. At time of print, they are at a seven month high above $66 a barrel.
The question raised on oil was whether or not the excess ...
Friday, May 29, 2009
“We consider this a declaration of war against us.” -North Korea news agency, KCNA.
North Korea’s dear leader Kim Jong Il is dying or dead. It has been speculated that the generals in charge of the ...
Thursday, May 28, 2009
