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  1. What Will Go Up? • January 27, 2006

    Dear Capital & Crisis Investor, Since the first modern exchange opened for business in Amsterdam in the 17th century, investors have been asking themselves the same big question: “What will go up?” Back then, Joseph de la Vega, a businessman and writer, roamed the bourse, perhaps speculating on the shares of the Dutch East India Co. [...]

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  2. Surging Sugar Prices Push Imperial • January 20, 2006

    Dear Capital & Crisis Investor, Word gets around. It seems our little venture is getting some attention. I’ve been invited to appear on Forbes on FOX to talk about a couple of stock picks. The show will air on Saturday at 11 a.m. EST on the FOX News Channel. I’ll be in the “Makers & Breakers” [...]

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  3. The Switzerland of the Atlantic • January 13, 2006

    Dear Capital & Crisis Investor, This week, let’s tackle a few reader questions… First up, a reader asked about following what the better mutual funds are doing. He wrote, “I have a question. I like to watch what my favorite mutual funds are doing with a stock. I noticed that as of Nov. 30, 2005, KEELEY Small [...]

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  4. ** SELL ** Orient-Express (OEH:nyse) for a 109% Gain! • January 12, 2006

    Dear Capital & Crisis Investor, You can look at investing as essentially a long-term arbitrage between the public and private markets. Sometimes, the publicly traded stock is cheap compared with private market values for similar assets. Sometimes, the private market is cheap compared with the publicly traded stock. You buy into the cheap market and sell [...]

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  5. More on the Arab World's Gated Community • January 6, 2006

    Dear Capital & Crisis Investor, Hope you had a Happy New Year. Over Christmas, I was immersed in family gatherings. And so, one evening, I found myself alone in the same room with my father and father-in-law. Inevitably the topic turned to stocks. My father began by giving me hell about White Mountains (WTM:nyse), which is [...]

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  6. More Precious Than Gold • January 1, 2006

    At Grant’s Fall Investment Conference, one of the presenters put up a visual showing the price of oil compared to water. At the time, the numbers were $11.91 for a gallon of Evian water versus $1.47 for a gallon of oil. This, he meant to show us, demonstrates how undervalued oil is. But I took [...]

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