Recently I wrote part 1 of this article in the hope that with the coming of a new presidential administration we can start to think rationally about dealing with what is a tricky adversary. Tricky because it is clear that China is an existential threat to human liberty worldwide but also a great...
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The bullish British pound trade ideas was a winner!
I had recommended buying the British pound at 1.2700 against the US dollar in successive columns in the past two weeks. Sterling is at 1.3200 as I write, the trade is already...
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Global Investing
The epic political dramas of last week (Aunty Theresa’s Brexit plan was rejected by the House of Commons but she managed to survive a no-confidence vote by a narrow margin)...
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Blain’s Morning Porridge
In the headlines this morning: https://morningporridge.com/stuff-im-watching I’ve just seen the surest sign economic apocalypse lies around the corner: Holiday sales in the UK...
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Blain’s Morning Porridge
In the headlines this morning: https://morningporridge.com/stuff-im-watching I got up early to see the Super Blood Wolf Moon this morning. It hung in the western sky, a baleful...
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Blain’s Morning Porridge – 18th January 2019
In the headlines this morning: https://morningporridge.com/stuff-im-watching Wow… we passed the middle of the first month of the New Year, and the world hasn’t blown up. Phew…...
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Blain’s Morning Porridge
In the headlines this morning: https://morningporridge.com/stuff-im-watching There is little point commenting on yesterday’s Brexit shenanigans – except to note the degree of...
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Making money in a potential CBS-Viacom merger deal!
Merger mania in Wall Street media shares was a profitable theme for me in 2018, particularly since I owned 21st Century Fox shares well before Walt Disney made its epic bid for...
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Making money with software shares in 2019
I have gone gaga on software shares since 2013, when Satya Nadella redefined Microsoft – and tripled the valuation of the Evil Empire of Redmond in the next five years. True,...
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The Euro could well rise to 1.23 by end 2019!
The Euro has been a disaster since its birth in 1999. Its monetary pathologies led to youth unemployment rates of 50 – 60% in Greece, Spain and the Italian Mezzogiorno. It gave a...