Kara Crawford at kara@traderplanet.comadmin@traderplanet.comhttp://www.traderplanet.com/TraderPlanet.com offers its popular content for commercial syndication via RSS. The feeds include backlinks for the full articles and automatically assign author attribution, which is required. To syndicate these RSS feeds on a commercial Web site, TraderPlanet.com, LLC requires the execution of standard linking agreement. Contact Kara Crawford at kara@traderplanet.com for further details.en-ushttp://www.traderplanet.com/commentaries/view/67432-virtue_rewardedhttp://www.traderplanet.com/commentaries/view/67432-virtue_rewarded<p> </p><p>Superficially, the two leading English-speaking financial center countries are pursuing vastly different policies. Yet both the Pound Sterling and the US Dollar are falling fast. This requires an explanation.</p> <p>To start with our own money, the dollar is off because thanks to the barely credible deal not to engage in competitive devaluations reached by the G20 countries in South Korea over the weekend, foreign currencies manipulators will have to stop buying dollars to push down their currencie...</p><a href='http://www.traderplanet.com/commentaries/view/67432-virtue_rewarded'>Read More at TraderPlanet.com &#187;</a><p align=center><a href=http://www.traderplanet.com/tradertube/index/815/?a=1071><img src=http://www.traderplanet.com/themes/trader_plain/gfx/murphy.gif border=0 /></a></p> Vivian LewisVivian LewisMon, 25 Oct 2010 16:56:48 +0000http://www.traderplanet.com/commentaries/view/67204-southern_cross_golden_crosshttp://www.traderplanet.com/commentaries/view/67204-southern_cross_golden_cross<p> </p><p>Every vote counts in the British Airways Face of Opportunity Contest, whose voting period was extended to November 19. There is still time for her friends, enemies, customers, colleagues, and relatives to vote to send Vivian to Australia to find a local stringer . Up to 250 companies selected as BA Event Prize Finalists will fly free from New York to London and beyond. Vote as many times as you want at http://www.faceofopportunity.com/gallery but no more than once a day. It's free.</p><p> </p> <p>Today th...</p><a href='http://www.traderplanet.com/commentaries/view/67204-southern_cross_golden_cross'>Read More at TraderPlanet.com &#187;</a><p align=center><a href=http://www.traderplanet.com/tradertube/index/834/?a=1070><img src=http://www.traderplanet.com/themes/trader_plain/gfx/wyckoff.gif border=0 /></a></p> Vivian LewisVivian LewisFri, 22 Oct 2010 16:34:49 +0000http://www.traderplanet.com/commentaries/view/67044-the_gingham_dog_and_the_calico_cathttp://www.traderplanet.com/commentaries/view/67044-the_gingham_dog_and_the_calico_cat<p> </p><p>As countries to to force down their currencies with quantitative easing or intervention on foreign exchange markets-- or even inflation busting rate increases—I am reminded of how futile it can be. Here are extracts from a poem by Eugene Field I learned as a kid:</p> <p>The gingham dog went "Bow-wow-wow!" And the calico cat replied "Mee-ow!"</p> <p>The air was littered, an hour or so, With bits of gingham and calico...</p> <p> </p> <p>But the gingham dog and the calico cat Wallowed this way and tumbled that,</p> <p>Employing ...</p><a href='http://www.traderplanet.com/commentaries/view/67044-the_gingham_dog_and_the_calico_cat'>Read More at TraderPlanet.com &#187;</a><p align=center><a href=http://www.traderplanet.com/tradertube/index/815/?a=1071><img src=http://www.traderplanet.com/themes/trader_plain/gfx/murphy.gif border=0 /></a></p> Vivian LewisVivian LewisThu, 21 Oct 2010 16:58:17 +0000http://www.traderplanet.com/commentaries/view/66853-insidious_insidershttp://www.traderplanet.com/commentaries/view/66853-insidious_insiders<p> </p><p>A buddy, Sylvie, in Paris now, writes: “Paris is rather stressful at the moment, my revolutionary ardor seems to have left me...” I think she is reacting to the "pagaille" being led by high school students who are younger than we were in May 1968, the last time French youths took to the streets. </p><p>The logic of the juveniles building barricades and burning cars to protest delaying the retirement of older people from 60 to 62 is that it will prevent jobs opening up for younger people. This is an...</p><a href='http://www.traderplanet.com/commentaries/view/66853-insidious_insiders'>Read More at TraderPlanet.com &#187;</a><p align=center><a href=http://www.traderplanet.com/tradertube/index/744/?a=1072><img src=http://www.traderplanet.com/themes/trader_plain/gfx/firman.gif border=0 /></a></p> Vivian LewisVivian LewisWed, 20 Oct 2010 17:09:02 +0000http://www.traderplanet.com/commentaries/view/66670-readers_question_our_safety_and_allocationhttp://www.traderplanet.com/commentaries/view/66670-readers_question_our_safety_and_allocation<p> I replied to questions from NA of New Mexico, being shared with you:</p> <blockquote><p>Writing as <em>Global Investing</em>'s editor, you get the editorial we:<br />1) We do not focus particularly on emerging markets; we focus on anything from outside the USA which you can trade through a USA brokerage, meaning a) all  American Depositary Receipts b) Canadian stocks , c) yankee bonds, d) closed end and exchange traded funds invested principally outside the USA and e) foreign bank preferred shares.<br />We do <i>not </i>cover any mutual ...</p></blockquote><a href='http://www.traderplanet.com/commentaries/view/66670-readers_question_our_safety_and_allocation'>Read More at TraderPlanet.com &#187;</a><p align=center><a href=http://www.traderplanet.com/tradertube/index/744/?a=1072><img src=http://www.traderplanet.com/themes/trader_plain/gfx/firman.gif border=0 /></a></p> Vivian LewisVivian LewisTue, 19 Oct 2010 20:47:41 +0000http://www.traderplanet.com/commentaries/view/66496-shooting_stars_and_common_sensehttp://www.traderplanet.com/commentaries/view/66496-shooting_stars_and_common_sense<p> </p><p>Sometimes the fun of technical analysis is the terminology. Today we are told that “a shooting star formation” is why gold is modestly on the skids. Like the “Hindenburg blimp” and the “Death Cross” this sounds more exciting than poring over charts.</p> <p>Common-sense from an experienced investor means that even without getting bored by charts and channels, you know that trees don't grow to the sky.</p> <p>Without ever having to worry about the 200-day average crossing the 40-day channel, you were told b...</p><a href='http://www.traderplanet.com/commentaries/view/66496-shooting_stars_and_common_sense'>Read More at TraderPlanet.com &#187;</a><p align=center><a href=http://www.traderplanet.com/tradertube/index/834/?a=1070><img src=http://www.traderplanet.com/themes/trader_plain/gfx/wyckoff.gif border=0 /></a></p> Vivian LewisVivian LewisMon, 18 Oct 2010 16:04:18 +0000http://www.traderplanet.com/commentaries/view/66254-currency_warshttp://www.traderplanet.com/commentaries/view/66254-currency_wars<p> </p><p>Send me really far away, to Australia. Your editor is trying to find a new Australian reporter and you can help. Her submission in the <i>British Airways </i>2010 Face of Opportunity Contest for small businesses is now live. Wisit the contest voting page to view and share her submission now. Voting ends Oct. 21. Vote often, vote early. Proposals with the most votes will become Event Prize Finalists and move on to the next round of judging. Up to 250 winning companies will fly free from New York to ...</p><a href='http://www.traderplanet.com/commentaries/view/66254-currency_wars'>Read More at TraderPlanet.com &#187;</a><p align=center><a href=http://www.traderplanet.com/tradertube/index/832/?a=1073><img src=http://www.traderplanet.com/themes/trader_plain/gfx/jobman.gif border=0 /></a></p> Vivian LewisVivian LewisFri, 15 Oct 2010 16:25:38 +0000http://www.traderplanet.com/commentaries/view/66104-trading_alerthttp://www.traderplanet.com/commentaries/view/66104-trading_alert<p>As is normal with our service, only paid subscribers get the trading alerts. </p><a href='http://www.traderplanet.com/commentaries/view/66104-trading_alert'>Read More at TraderPlanet.com &#187;</a><p align=center><a href=http://www.traderplanet.com/tradertube/index/624/?a=1067><img src=http://www.traderplanet.com/themes/trader_plain/gfx/dinapoli.gif border=0 /></a></p> Vivian LewisVivian LewisThu, 14 Oct 2010 17:04:13 +0000http://www.traderplanet.com/commentaries/view/66105-trading_alerthttp://www.traderplanet.com/commentaries/view/66105-trading_alert<p>I feel the need for more exposure to Australia and here's how. We will buy back QBE, the insurance and reinsurance leader there. As I wrote yesterday to SR, I do not think the Australians have let the insurance sector turn into a casino like AIG. The time to buy QBEIF and any firm heavily into reinsurance is during the hurricane season. With the latest hurricane blowing over Cuba I think we can take the risk. After a destructive season, the insurers manage to impose higher rates. Then, as tim...</p><a href='http://www.traderplanet.com/commentaries/view/66105-trading_alert'>Read More at TraderPlanet.com &#187;</a><p align=center><a href=http://www.traderplanet.com/tradertube/index/815/?a=1071><img src=http://www.traderplanet.com/themes/trader_plain/gfx/murphy.gif border=0 /></a></p> Vivian LewisVivian LewisThu, 14 Oct 2010 16:59:42 +0000http://www.traderplanet.com/commentaries/view/66106-ninth_decile_and_dr_helphttp://www.traderplanet.com/commentaries/view/66106-ninth_decile_and_dr_help<p>\</p><br /><p> </p><p>A good name is hard to keep or lose. Therightside@moneyweek.com has emerged on the internet from the UK to push foreign exchange and penny stock trading. It is not related to our former bankrupt and disgraced partner which disappeared offshore two years ago owing me and my subscribers money.</p> <p>The new entrant is regulated by and published from Britain by <i>Agora Inc.</i> of Baltimore MD, whose Bill Bonner was the co-founder of this newsletter 21 years ago. More from Bill below.</p> <p > </p><p > </p> <p >From today's <i>Lond...</i></p><a href='http://www.traderplanet.com/commentaries/view/66106-ninth_decile_and_dr_help'>Read More at TraderPlanet.com &#187;</a><p align=center><a href=http://www.traderplanet.com/tradertube/index/832/?a=1073><img src=http://www.traderplanet.com/themes/trader_plain/gfx/jobman.gif border=0 /></a></p> Vivian LewisVivian LewisThu, 14 Oct 2010 15:42:22 +0000http://www.traderplanet.com/commentaries/view/65944-fingerspitzengefuehl_forecasting_winshttp://www.traderplanet.com/commentaries/view/65944-fingerspitzengefuehl_forecasting_winsMark Robinson writes in The Investors Chronicle today: <blockquote><dl><dd>The Chinese State Reserves Bureau is supposedly sitting on a $1.5bn paper profit after it bought heavily in physical copper reserves after the metal's price slumped in the wake of the financial crisis. Last week's copper price at $8,347 per [metric] tonne is within 7% of its all-time high , so it represents a canny hedge by the Chinese if nothing else.</dd></dl><p>Given that China is now the biggest end-user of the metal, it is unlikely that the CSRB ...</p></blockquote><a href='http://www.traderplanet.com/commentaries/view/65944-fingerspitzengefuehl_forecasting_wins'>Read More at TraderPlanet.com &#187;</a><p align=center><a href=http://www.traderplanet.com/tradertube/index/834/?a=1070><img src=http://www.traderplanet.com/themes/trader_plain/gfx/wyckoff.gif border=0 /></a></p> Vivian LewisVivian LewisWed, 13 Oct 2010 16:21:36 +0000http://www.traderplanet.com/commentaries/view/65780-trading_alerthttp://www.traderplanet.com/commentaries/view/65780-trading_alert<p>Trading alerts are only available to our paid subscribers. Join them to see what we are doing.</p><a href='http://www.traderplanet.com/commentaries/view/65780-trading_alert'>Read More at TraderPlanet.com &#187;</a><p align=center><a href=http://www.traderplanet.com/tradertube/index/624/?a=1067><img src=http://www.traderplanet.com/themes/trader_plain/gfx/dinapoli.gif border=0 /></a></p> Vivian LewisVivian LewisTue, 12 Oct 2010 16:53:49 +0000http://www.traderplanet.com/commentaries/view/65781-the_economic_outlook_oy_veyhttp://www.traderplanet.com/commentaries/view/65781-the_economic_outlook_oy_vey<p> </p><p>The economic outlook: Oy vey. Stanley Fischer, the governor of the Israeli Central Bank, was interviewed by <i>Institutional Investor</i>. He thinks the world faces many problems:</p> <blockquote><p>“We have taken the major structural steps in terms of the various measures that have been proposed through the Basel Committee and through the Financial Stability Board to strengthen financial supervision and to strengthen the financial system.</p><p>“We still have not solved the process of systemically important financial insti...</p></blockquote><a href='http://www.traderplanet.com/commentaries/view/65781-the_economic_outlook_oy_vey'>Read More at TraderPlanet.com &#187;</a><p align=center><a href=http://www.traderplanet.com/tradertube/index/815/?a=1071><img src=http://www.traderplanet.com/themes/trader_plain/gfx/murphy.gif border=0 /></a></p> Vivian LewisVivian LewisTue, 12 Oct 2010 16:09:35 +0000http://www.traderplanet.com/commentaries/view/65603-columbus_machiavelli_and_ponzihttp://www.traderplanet.com/commentaries/view/65603-columbus_machiavelli_and_ponzi<p> </p><p>Happy Columbus Day. I want to write about another Italian, Machiavelli, today, specifically about conspiracy theories regarding the stock market not just in Rome, but in New York.</p> <p>Many Americans believe their brokers are cheating them, their fund managers are crooked, their investment advisors are on the take. They think the markets are rigged against them.</p> <p>Of course there are bad guys out there, Enron, Madoff, Bernie Ebbers, Ponzi .<br />   Other retail investors are still in shock over the 2008 ...</p><a href='http://www.traderplanet.com/commentaries/view/65603-columbus_machiavelli_and_ponzi'>Read More at TraderPlanet.com &#187;</a><p align=center><a href=http://www.traderplanet.com/tradertube/index/834/?a=1070><img src=http://www.traderplanet.com/themes/trader_plain/gfx/wyckoff.gif border=0 /></a></p> Vivian LewisVivian LewisMon, 11 Oct 2010 16:50:55 +0000http://www.traderplanet.com/commentaries/view/65397-ladies_who_lunch_from_the_queen_beehttp://www.traderplanet.com/commentaries/view/65397-ladies_who_lunch_from_the_queen_bee<p> </p><p>Your editor had lunch Thurs. with a much more powerful counterpart, Yanqing Yang, PhD, the deputy editor of <i>China Business News</i>, of Shanghai, one of the two top business magazines in China. Ms. Yang was on one of the two foreign trips she is allowed to take annually, stopping over in New York after a couple of days in Paris before heading to the International Monetary Fund-World Bank annual meeting in Washington, DC. We were introduced by Martin Wolf, chief economics commentator of <i>The Finan...</i></p><a href='http://www.traderplanet.com/commentaries/view/65397-ladies_who_lunch_from_the_queen_bee'>Read More at TraderPlanet.com &#187;</a><p align=center><a href=http://www.traderplanet.com/tradertube/index/744/?a=1072><img src=http://www.traderplanet.com/themes/trader_plain/gfx/firman.gif border=0 /></a></p> Vivian LewisVivian LewisFri, 08 Oct 2010 16:56:44 +0000