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2011: January | February | March | April

2010: January | February | March | April | May | June | July | August | September | October | November | December

2009: September | October | November | December

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April 2011

04/21/2011 – The Price of Silver’s Rising: This Time, There Are No Scapegoats

04/20/2011 – Despite The High Price of Corn, This Commodity is Saving You Gas Money

04/19/2011 – Why Amazon Won’t Give You a Free Kindle

04/18/2011 – Can Platinum Revive Zimbabwe?

04/15/2011 – While Brazil Prez Tangos in China – Hard Work at Home Undone

04/13/2011 – Does Nintendo Have Another Hit on Its Hands?

04/12/2011 – Why Publishers Can’t Stand Google’s Universal Library

04/11/2011 – Three Oil and Natural Gas Companies Filling Japan’s Energy Gap

04/08/2011 – Why Great Golfers Are Great Investors

04/07/2011 – OPEC Needs Higher Oil Prices

04/06/2011 – Will ALU’s LightRadio Solve America’s Bandwidth Problem?

04/04/2011 – Corn Prices Pop and Investors Set to Make Great Grains

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March 2011

03/31/2011 – The Real Message Behind Rising Copper Prices

03/30/2011 – The Pepsi Challenge Loses its Fizz

03/25/2011 – AT&T Offers to Buy T-Mobile

03/23/2011 – Asian Nations Stockpile Oil as The Libyan Crisis Intensifies

03/22/2011 – “Mine” Your Way Through the Commodities SuperCycle With These Two Plays

03/21/2011 – Japan’s Earthquake Rattles Global Supply Chains

03/18/2011 – Why Liquefied Natural Gas Has a Strong Future Ahead

03/18/2011 – What You Need to Know About Oil Right Now

03/16/2011 – The Spotlight Shines on Natural Gas, As Japan’s Nuclear Fallout Continues

03/15/2011 – What Japan’s Nuclear Crisis Means for Investors

03/14/2011 – The PC Desktop is Dead, Long Live Apple’s Post-PC World

03/11/2011 – Starbucks: A Beacon of Consumer Sentiment

03/11/2011 – When LinkedIn Goes Public, Here’s Why You’ll Want To Be on Board

03/10/2011 – Five Takeaways From Warren Buffett’s Annual Letter to His Shareholders

03/09/2011 – Microblog Growth Indicates Chinese Internet Users Adapting to Censorship

03/08/2011 – Why Online Retailers Should NEVER Cross Google

03/07/2011 – How a Drug Worth $600 Million Today Could Soon Be Worth $4 Billion

03/04/2011 – The Corn Crop Won’t Offer Relief to Rising Food Prices

03/04/2011 – Why Copper is My Number One Energy Investment Idea

03/03/2011 – Has Silicon Valley Lost Its Edge?

03/02/2011 – Who Needs Offshore Oil Drilling Anyway? Not These Guys…

03/01/2011 – Two Countries Bucking the Investment Outflow Trend in Latin America and Asia

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February 2011

02/28/2011 – America’s Energy Future is “Blowin’ in the Wind”

02/25/2011 – The Bright Spots in the Dividend-Yielding World

02/25/2011 – The Other Driving Force Behind the Middle Eastern Unrest

02/24/2011 – Apple vs. Google: The Fight for Digital Media Supremacy

02/23/2011 – America Blows Past Germany in the Export World

02/22/2011 – Jobs for Americans and Pink Slips for the Chinese

02/18/2011 – If the Sky’s the Limit… There’s an App for That

02/17/2011 – Are You Ready for Triple-Digit Oil Territory… Again?

02/16/2011 – Smart Grid Storage: Juicing Business for Lithium Battery Makers

02/15/2011 – The Tech Trend That’s Crushing the PC

02/14/2011 – Peak Oil is Long Gone… And the World is Still Asleep at the Energy Wheel

02/11/2011 – Buying Homes with Cash… Gold Edges Closer to Currency Status

02/11/2011 – Brazil is Set to Become a Top Oil Producer

02/04/2011 – The Triggers for Egypt’s Political Unrest… And the Investment Opportunities That Spring From it

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January 2011

01/29/2011 – How to Play Rising Food Prices

01/28/2011 – Rising Oil… Emerging Market Inflation… Gold & Silver… Dow 25,000

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December 2010

12/29/2010 – Why Amazon Should Be on Investors’ Wishlists in 2011

12/20/2010 – When is FDA Rejection a Good Thing? When Your Shares Catapult 81% Higher in Two Months

12/07/2010 – The Twin Threat to Amazon’s Retail Crown

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November 2010

11/23/2010 – Corporate America Charges to a Third Quarter Earnings Record

11/11/2010 – Currency Manipulation Tops G20 Agenda, As China’s Trade Surplus Soars

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October 2010

10/21/2010 – U.S. Airlines Pick Up a Tailwind as British Airways Cabin Crew Hit the Ballot Box

10/05/2010 – Japan Hooks Up the Defibrillator and Prepares to Jumpstart Its Economy

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September 2010

09/24/2010 – A Tale of Three Slumber Parties

09/16/2010 – Bank of Japan Steps In as Yen Hits 15-Year High Against U.S. Dollar

09/03/2010 – FOREX Trading on Fire: The Factors Behind This Market’s Massive Global Surge

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August 2010

08/27/2010 – The Boldest Prediction I’ve Heard All Year

08/17/2010 – What European Crisis? German GDP Growth Hits a Quarterly Record

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July 2010

07/28/2010 – This Industry’s Rebound Points to a Recovering U.S. Economy

07/22/2010 – Flying in Farnborough

07/14/2010 – Ladies and Gentlemen: The 17th Member of the Circle of Hell

07/07/2010 – A Lesson on Cost-Cutting… From Greece

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June 2010

06/25/2010 – The “Open Skies” Deal Remains Cloudy… But Airlines Are Enjoying a Huge Turnaround

06/18/2010 – The World’s Biggest Food Fight

06/08/2010 – The Busan Ultimatum

06/07/2010 – The 69,000 Discrepancy

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May 2010

05/28/2010 – When One Vote is Worth 15 Billion Euros

05/18/2010 – How to Short the Euro as it Heads for the Abyss

05/07/2010 – All Hung Up

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April 2010

04/23/2010 – The International Monetary Fund’s One-Two Punch to  the Financial Sector’s Guts

04/16/2010 – How Do You Solve a Problem Like China?

04/08/2010 – Destination: Zero

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March 2010

03/31/2010 – Twelve Months – and Counting – for Japan

03/26/2010 – The “Oil of the 21st Century”… And How “Blue Gold” Can Make You Rich

03/16/2010 – The Investment U Conference: Take Your “Virtual” Seat On the Plane to San Diego

03/11/2010 – Hug a Tree… Bag Some Profits

03/05/2010 – 50 States… A $300 Billion Black Hole… And 10 Years “Lost”

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February 2010

02/24/2010 – The FDIC’s $20.9 Billion Problem

02/13/2010 – Berkshire Hits the (Rail)Road and Bags Burlington

02/03/2010 – It’s Britain’s Fault… And We Want Our Money Back

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January 2010

01/28/2010 – Investing in This Industry’s Downside is A No-Brainer

01/20/2010 – Is China Following America Into a Real Estate Bubble?

01/13/2010 – The Blueprint for the Auto Industry’s Revival: Detroit Needs to Reinvent Its Wheels

01/12/2010 – Put this Commodity at the Top of Your Wish List

01/06/2010 -Can The Battered Auto Sector Mount a Real Recovery In 2009?

01/05/2010 -Word’s Leaking Out on This Market…

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December 2009

12/29/2009 -Will the “January Effect” Prove Faithful This Year?

12/22/2009 -Rethinking Foreclosure: Is There a More Sensible Way?

12/15/2009 -The Center of the Stock Market Universe… Revealed!

12/11/2009 -The Next Technology Boom: Why Innovation Will Blast Us Out of the Recession

12/09/2009 -Oil Prices Retreat as Key Players Abandon the Market

12/08/2009 -Bernanke Just Squashed the Gold Rally, Now What?

12/07/2009 -Cash for Clunkers: Fail

12/04/2009 -Avoid Making “Amateur Mistakes” in This Bull Market

12/03/2009 -Breaking Down the Disparity Between Oil and Gold Prices

12/02/2009 – The Recession’s Silent Killer…

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November 2009

11/28/2009 -Where’s That Cracking Sound Coming From?

11/26/2009 – The Post-Thanksgiving Effect: Big Gains in the Week Ahead?

11/24/2009 – We Apologize for Interrupting the Gold Rally, But…

11/23/2009 -Despite What the News Tells You, Crude Oil Prices Set to Fall

11/20/2009 -406 Days Until This Market Crashes…

11/17/2009 – The Biggest Threat to America’s Relationship With China

11/16/2009 -Brazil is Set for An End-of-Year Economic Samba… Here’s How to Join The Dance

11/15/2009 -Warning: Expect Economic Aftershocks

11/14/2009 -Biotech Stocks: The Market’s Best Bargain Right Now…

11/13/2009 -Dendreon’s Reached Orbit… Now Who’s Next?

11/12/2009 -Is Warren Buffett Signaling a Housing Recovery?

11/02/2009 -With All the Cash Gone… Now What?

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October 2009

10/28/2009 -The Healthcare Debate: We’ll Stick to Earning Profits

10/27/2009 -New York or Bust: We Pledge to Follow the Money…

10/22/2009 -Look Who Just Showed Up to the Takeover Party

10/21/2009 -CEOs: Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is

10/19/2009 -Dow 10,000: Buy it, Or Sell it?

10/15/2009 -We’re Squeezing the “Recovery” for Every Penny

10/13/2009 -Did You Hear That Big Thud?

10/09/2009 – When Freshwater Meets Seawater, Look Out!

10/08/2009 -Why the Gold Rally Has Some Feeling Cheated

10/05/2009 -What to Make of the Rising “Fear Index”

10/02/2009 -The Frontline of the Global Recovery

10/01/2009 -A Sector Where Few Dare to Go…

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September 2009

09/30/2009 -Why I Won’t Pay a Penny Over $70 for Oil

09/29/2009 -What’s the “Fair Price” of Gold?

09/28/2009 -The United States is the New Tanzania? Ugh…

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