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Are you liking the new frugality trend?  Get used to it.  Frugality is “in” and here to stay – but not because the U.S. housing and credit markets collapsed and 30% of everyone’s savings have disappeared.  According to Jeff Rubin, ex-senior economist at CIBC World Markets, the growing scarcity in the world’s fossil fuels supply [...]

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May 26th, 2009: I couldn’t get to sleep last night because of this book.  (read part 1 of the review here) It just had me completely wound up in all the possibilities that exist for us to really take control of our lives.  The world is changing.  The old models of education, learning, teaching, publishing, [...]

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In the only video interview I know of with him – aired on CBC’s The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulous yesterday – Derek Foster revealed that he took all his money off the table at the beginning of February 2008.
Video Interview Available Here: http://www.cbc.ca/thehour/videos.html?id=1063578735
Four Pillars also has a good post out breaking the development right here, [...]

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So, what’s the moral of the Peter Schiff story?  Buy commodities and foreign dividend-paying stocks.  And consider investing through his company Euro Pacific Capital (no, this is not a paid series of posts).
Now that I’ve finished reading the Little Book of Bull Moves in Bear Markets, my sense now is that I’ve pretty much got [...]

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Well so far, I’m just about halfway through reading Schiff’s Little Book of Bull Moves in Bear Markets.  I have to say (as I mentioned the other day to someone on Twitter) that I’m pleasantly surprised that not all of it is stuff that I’ve heard Schiff talk about before.  I was a bit concerned [...]

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In my last post I noted how Peter Schiff’s analysis has much in common with those other great economic critics out there – Mac Faber, Jim Rogers and Ron Paul.  Little am I surprised, then, to see these giant names in his book.  Marc Faber wrote the Foreword and the back cover blurbs are written [...]

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This is going to be the first of a series of posts about Peter Schiff’s new book (well, it was new in 2008), The Little Book of Bull Moves in Bear Markets: How to Keep Your Portfolio Up When the Market is Down.
Peter D. Schiff is an independent market commentator, economic analyst, best-selling author, former [...]

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