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  1. The Adventures of Carl Crow • May 29, 2009

    “No matter what you may be selling, your business in China should be enormous, if the Chinese who should buy your goods would only do so.” – Carl Crow, 400 Million Customers Dear Capital & Crisis Reader, How many entrepreneurs have sat and thought, “If only the Chinese would buy my product… Heck, if [...]

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  2. The Waxman-Markey Fallout Hits 5 Industries • May 22, 2009

    Waxman-Markey could be the most expensive thing to hit our economy since the financial crisis struck. Agriculture, steel, refineries, trading desks...find out which stocks will be hit hardest. More notes from a wild week and earnings from our favorite shipper.

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  3. Why You Are Better off With Owners • May 15, 2009

    “My experience as a money manager suggests that entrepreneurial instinct equates with sizable equity ownership.” – Martin Sosnoff, Silent Investor, Silent Loser Updates: POT, LUK, APL, CNQ Dear Capital & Crisis Reader, One of the many problems with today’s market is the fact that the people running companies are not owners. A typical [...]

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  4. Fattening up on a Spectacular Rally • May 8, 2009

    “Leverage is what causes people real trouble in this world. You don’t want to be in a position where someone can pull the rug out from under you or, emotionally, where you pull it out from under yourself.” –Warren Buffett, at the Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting Updates: BAM, L, NFG, GPOR, APL Dear [...]

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  5. How Gold Will Top $2,000 per Ounce… and Might Top $5,000 • May 1, 2009

    Download PDF “The value of gold, as the only true ‘hard currency,’ is coming to the fore, as evidenced by the investment choices of some of the world’s most seasoned investors.” — AngloGold Ashanti Ltd. chief executive officer Mark Cutifani For the first time in a couple of decades, some of America’s most successful, big-name investors are buying [...]

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  6. Swine Flu Fallout • May 1, 2009

    “Good Time Charley tells me that there is nothing in this world as good for a touch of the grippe [flu] as rock candy and rye whisky, as it assassinates the germs at once.” – Damon Runyon Updates: FLS, NWPX, PICO, MEOH Dear Capital & Crisis Reader, Well, just as were settling in and [...]

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