In the current edition of the
Investment U Weekly Update, Investment Analyst and Host of
The Oxford Club's Market Wake-Up Call, Steve McDonald, runs down the key issues affecting the global economy - and your investments. (Click the image to play.)
This week, you'll find...
- Return of the Giant Stocks!!
- Is Gold Setting Up for Another Run?
- The "Slap In The Face" Award: The Fattest SITFA Ever...
You can check it out in
this video.
Bill Bonner: Exclusive Footage It's not often that Bill Bonner, the founder and chairman of Agora Publishing, agrees to appear on video.
But Bill's identified some massive problems with America's financial markets. In fact, he calls this set of problems "the fattest, juiciest financial bubble that's ever existed."
Click here for this rare message from Bill - a warning of the crisis, and a unique way you could sidestep the fallout...
Here are the top stories that were featured in our
Investment U Daily this week...
The Thing That Makes America Rich The founding principle of
Investment U is that if you want to be a better investor, you need to better understand the time-tested principles of investing and how they apply to today's markets.
That starts, however, with comprehending the nature of business in a capitalistic society...
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Last Call for Treasury-Bond Holders: Get Out Now The Wall Street Journal made an interesting observation recently, "Treasury bonds are priced for the end of the world."
It was a news article, not an opinion piece. But it happens to be the viewpoint of virtually every investor with half a brain - or a modicum of common sense. A few months ago, for instance, the world's best-known investor, Warren Buffett, wrote in his annual letter to shareholders, "Right now bonds should come with a warning label."
Yet I routinely talk to investors who
still don't get it...
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The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Investors Learning of the passing of Stephen Covey this week, I dug out and re-read my dog-eared copy of his influential book,
The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People. This book was a bestseller for five consecutive years and spawned a company with revenue that reached $160 million last year.
I think part of this self-help book's wide influence was its crossover appeal to business executives hungry for simple and powerful strategies.
And some of the book's habits can be applied to investing...
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3 Steps for Not Losing it All This weekend, I met the father of one of my daughter's friends. Like dogs sniffing each other, we each asked, "What do you do?"
After I told him about
Investment U and
The Oxford Club, he was very excited to talk about the market. That happens a lot. And I'm always happy to do so. Usually, the other person wants a stock tip or reassurance that the market isn't going to tank.
But not this guy. He knew his stuff. He was a former options trader on the Pacific Exchange...
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Demystifying the Cloud
by Gary Spivak
Research Analyst, Investment U
When I started in IT in the mid-1980s, all computer applications ran on the mainframe - a large computer that was efficient and well-managed.
I recall watching "in horror" in the late 1980s and early 1990s as individual departments began to embrace "client-server" computing, where a "server," which was equivalent to a large PC, began to run critical applications.
There were some benefits - better graphical user interfaces and greater control - but distributing the computing power to hundreds of locations was destined to be a maintenance nightmare...
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Be sure to check out some of the other investment stories that we've published this week on our website at:
www.InvestmentU.com 
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