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Bank Crises Economic Update Video

by Wes Bridel on October 29, 2010

in Economic Updates

A bank crises is brewing that could end up being worse than the 2008 banking crises.  This economic update is intended to quickly catch you up on what is happening in the banking sector that most people are ignoring to their peril.  It is part six of a six part series [...]

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Gold & Silver Economic Update Video

by Wes Bridel on October 25, 2010

in Economic Updates

Gold & Silver are enjoying a decade long bull run.  Recently, they’ve hit monstrous new highs.  Will it last?  This economic update is intended to quickly catch you up on the most important factors of the last month which affect the gold and silver markets and is part fourof a six part [...]

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The more people you touch with your investment dollars, the better!  The capital that the Lord has given you to steward has an effect in the world.  We spoke Friday about speculating in Financial Companies, but deeper questions that you might ask yourself when looking at any opportunity are… Who will your capital affect?  How [...]

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Investing in Financial Companies

by Wes Bridel on October 8, 2010

in Stewardship

Investing in financial companies is a very intriguing way to protect against inflation.  We’ve been discussing asset management in a crazy economy.  We last looked at Treasury Bonds, How to defend against inflation with them, and How to short them.  Today we’ll look at this out of the box method that many of the world’s [...]

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Treasury Bonds are how the US borrows so much money.  We’ve been discussing asset management in a crazy economy.  In the last post in this series, we’ve shown how inflation and rising interest rates affect Treasury Bonds.  Today, we’ll get into an example and see how it affects you.

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International Investing for Safety & Security?

by Wes Bridel on September 20, 2010

in Stewardship

International investing is foreign to most Americans.  We’ve been discussing asset management in a crazy economy.  In the last post we looked at commodities as an investment.  As we said, most US investors only invest in US Markets.  The advantage to this is that they inherently know US markets and companies better.  The disadvantage is [...]

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Economic Update & Reasons we see a stock market crash soon are the two primary topics discussed in today’s economic update video as we continue our periodic series.  The stock market crash looks eminent at this point.  We mentioned [...]

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Are Commodities an Excellent Investment?

by Wes Bridel on September 13, 2010

in Stewardship

Commodities are a key consideration for any portfolio.  We’ve been discussing asset management in a crazy economy and Friday looked at investing in food.
Thought we had already discussed commodities in recent posts?  Well, that’s true.  However, metals such as gold & silver also function as money.  Energy, such as oil, natural gas, and coal, are [...]

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Canadian Oil Sands, Disasters & War

by Wes Bridel on September 3, 2010

in Stewardship

Are the Canadian Oil Sands the best investment opportunity of our lifetime?  When you consider the possibility of wars in the Middle East and government intervention across the globe (as well as disasters like the BP oil spill), they just might be!  We’ve been discussing asset management in a crazy economy.  In the last 3 [...]

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Asset Management in a Crazy Economy

by Wes Bridel on July 23, 2010

in Stewardship

Asset Management is difficult in a crazy economy.  We’ve been talking about the possibilities of deflation and hyperinflation. So if difficult times are ahead, which asset classes are the ones which will best safeguard and grow what you have been giving to steward?  We don’t know!  Please understand that this blog is meant to help [...]

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