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  1. The Day After • September 30, 2008

    Dear Capital & Crisis Reader, Campbell Soup. Did you know that was only stock in the S&P 500 to finish in the green yesterday? The S&P 500 is a fairly broad gauge of the stock market. It’s broader than the Dow Jones industrial average, and it’s the benchmark I use internally to measure my performance against. If [...]

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  2. An Important Chart You Won't Want to Miss… • September 26, 2008

    “Always think like an owner.” – T. Boone Pickens, The First Billion Is the Hardest Dear Capital & Crisis Reader, I don’t feel so good at the moment. I have a fever and chills and am shaking like a leaf. But I will soldier on and do the best I can. Apologies if I seem a bit off. Obviously, [...]

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  3. An Idea for Crisis-Filled Times • September 19, 2008

    “If you crossed the street blindfolded, you’d probably be OK. But the consequences of being wrong are so great, it’s a bad idea.” — Bill Bonner, founder of Agora Dear Capital & Crisis Reader, The “financialization” of the American economy is an era coming to a close. It’s back to the basics of wealth creation, to the [...]

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  4. Market Craters Again… and Again • September 18, 2008

    Dear Capital & Crisis Reader, I’m out here in Normandy, France, at an old 18th-century chateau, late on Wednesday night. Every time I leave the country, the markets go in the tank. But seriously, I’m sitting here watching the market as if it were some drama reaching a climactic conclusion. We live in truly extraordinary times. I [...]

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  5. Commodity Sell-off Creates Opportunity • September 12, 2008

    “Have faith in your star and persevere until you win through.” – George MacDonald Fraser, Flashman and the Redskins Dear Capital & Crisis Reader, The S&P 500 is off 21% from its high in October 2007, but it sure feels worse.  For the investor who’s just getting started, there are a lot of more bargains out there now [...]

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  6. Crushed! • September 10, 2008

    Dear Capital and Crisis Reader, Yesterday’s action was incredible. Stock prices just melted before our eyes… a slew of oil and gas companies down 6-10%… whole schools of metals stocks down 11-15%… CVR Energy (CVI:nyse) down 23% on no news! The e-mails were buzzing around Agora’s editorial crew all day. This was the worst day we’d had in years, in [...]

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  7. "Land Banking": Discover This Old Secret for Creating Wealth • September 1, 2008

    “All a man has to do to get rich in America is find out where people are going, get there first and buy land.” – Gen. Douglas MacArthur Bob Hope, the great American comedian and Hollywood star, was actually born in England. He once quipped, “I left England at the age of 4 when I found [...]

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