Dear rss free blog,
Apologies
for running that anti-American imperialism tirade from our now-former
Russia contributor on Monday. He quit because although I did not put
his name on his rant, some might have guessed who he was. Moreover,
he was annoyed at my editorial corrections and because I did not give
him a chance to clean up his own copy, which he called “typical
American perfidy”. We are looking for a new Russian contributor.
Since
I read Russian we can use work from a native speaker which I would
edit for English. Short-term I am not too anxious to take
Russky positions.
The latest news from Poland is that two USA
oil-shale gas companies will be developing Polish fields. This will
give Poland and its neighbors an alternative to Kremlin-tainted
natural gas from Russia’s Gazprom.
As Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin turned off the Gazprom spigot to
pressure Ukraine’s dissident government, its customers are anxious to
find alternative supplies.
Already
in the USA, the price of natural gas has plummetted thanks to
supplies extracted from shale. In Australia, they are collecting
methane from coal mines. Breaking the mini-OPEC for natural gas run
by Russia will come, not as a result of US imperialism but because of
market forces.
While
you cannot now run a vehicle on natural gas liquids, soon the two
hydrocarbons will be priced in tandem. More on this for paid
subscribers below.
Meanwhile,
to offset the Russian rant, some good news about the USA from today’s
New York Times. Firstly, Sen. Orin Hatch, a Mormon from Utah,
has written a Chanukkah carol he is trying to get Barbra Streisand to
record. Hatch is a song-writer as well as a seriously right-wing
Republican senator whom liberal Barbra might not like to work with.
By the way, Mormons think that Jews are Gentiles.
Secondly,
a mosque has opened in the purlieus of the wreckage of the World
Trade Center in NYC. It is of liberal Sufi rather than rigid
Saudi-financed Salafi persuasion. The site was deliberately chosen to
mark reconciliation. Inshallah, may it succeed.
In
northern Virginia, the Greater Dulles Mosque already shares its site
with a Jewish synagogue. Maybe a Shul will share the WTC site?
It looks like the US Senate will not require that future
government-mandated health insurance programs make women pay for
their own abortions. Twenty years down the road, this should cut the
appallingly large number of Americans in jail, the grown-up unwanted
babies of today.
Don’t
just read about Tiger Woods. Focus on the real news. Is this a great
country or not? Reading The New York Times for a week
gives you more information than a person living in Shakespeare’s day
got access to in his whole lifetime.
Speaking
of too much information, I managed to garble the websites I sent you
to yesterday. Here is the corrected information from Covestor,
my partner:
To
send readers directly to your profile page, use this
link:
http://cv.im/models/profile/vivian-lewis
There
is a direct link from your page for them to open up an account. To
send them directly to our on-line client take-on (where they can
easily sign up and get started), send them to
https://cv.im/open-account/start
I
am still struggling with the format to load my positions which Covestor clients can replicate. It will take a few days because the
system is awkward and I am klutzy.
What I am trying to create: a cheaply replicable diversified
global portfolio of yield instruments investors can buy for a sum
lower than what a single bond would cost. My target is ten positions
and a yield over 5%.
We
were offered a chance to translate our google listing for Spanish,
Chinese, and Japanese search engines. Our team of expert global
journalists discovered that in Spanish and Japanese,
www.global-investing.com
is well ranked without having to translate.
I
expect that the Chinese are less keen about my newsletter because I
published word of the blockage for “technical problems” of
international news sites during the Tibetan upheavals last spring,
when I was in China. China controls what Google and its Chinese buddy
Baidu show.
More
for paid subscribers follows. Note that the new yield portfolio tracking service is aimed at really small investors with $5000 or $10000 to invest to try to restore their depleted retirement accounts. If you want a diversified set of stock ideas including growth stocks and a speculation or two, you should sign up for the full newsletter.
