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I'm a value investor, so I generally don’t spend much time on currencies, but I think this is a case where shorting Japanese yen makes a lot of sense. |
It may work against you for a while, but in the long run, I think it could turn out to be the trade of the decade. |
Again, I think the U.S. dollar might benefit in the short run, but don’t overlook that China and Japan are the largest foreign holders of U.S. debt. If Japan becomes a net seller of U.S. debt and their debt starts competing with U.S. debt, then that's going to be negative for our economy because we are going to have hi... |
The big question, once they start selling, is how fast will they sell their U.S. debt. If they sell it very fast, maybe because they have to, it's going to drive our interest rates higher. If it's something that develops over a long period of time, it may not drive our interest rates as much as you would think. |
TCR: But ultimately, if they hit a real bump in the road, they’re going to have to start selling. |
VK: Exactly. Plus, the Japanese government bonds will start competing with our bonds. In the past the Japanese people were able to consume the government debt internally, down the road the government is going to have to start selling its bonds to the same people who are buying our bonds, and instead of paying 1-2%, the... |
TCR: Which would be devastating for the Japanese economy, given the scale of their debt. |
VK: Absolutely, At that point, they are going to have a very high inflation because they’ll be forced to print a lot of money. |
TCR: Not a very positive outlook but I think very useful. You’ve written a book about managing a portfolio in sideways markets. What's your advice to investors at this point? |
VK: I just finished a book titled The Little Book of Sideways Markets. It is a follow-up to Active Value Investing I wrote in 2007. My research leads me to believe that the U.S. markets will continue their sideways journey over the next decade, much as they did in the previous decade. |
In such markets, the traditional buy-and-hold approach doesn’t really work, so you need to modify your approach, starting with the idea that you want to become a buy-and-sell investor. You want to buy stocks when they’re undervalued, but when they become fairly valued, you want to sell them. |
Secondly, in the absence of good stocks to buy, you should be willing to hold more cash. I'm not an advocate of trying to time the market but rather saying that if you look at the market and you don’t see stocks that meet your criteria, just hold more cash. The opportunity cost of holding cash is a lot lower in this en... |
Third, you want to favor stocks with a high dividend yield. You don’t want to buy stocks just because of the dividends, but if, everything else being equal, you can find stocks that have an above-average yield, that’s going to become very important in this environment because in the past dividends accounted for 90% of ... |
Fourth, you basically want to increase your margin of safety. If a value investor typically looks to buy a dollar for, let's say, 70 cents, I would recommend start looking for dollars selling for 50 or even 40 cents. That's point number four, and it's extremely important. |
The book walks readers through the fundamentals of investing in sideways markets, and I think it will help most investors do well in what will be an otherwise challenging environment. |
TCR: When is the book out? |
TCR: We look forward to reading it – and maybe having a separate conversation on those concepts in a future edition of The Casey Report. |
VK: That would be great. |
Following linked article shows photos of China demolishing new buildings, to re-build again, another way of keeping their false economy pumped up. |
"...The most useful predictor of a nation's long term global power is this: population/(Government spending as a fraction of GDP). There is likely an exponential term in there somewhere, but this is the simple version..." |
Follow the sub-links within the two links above, in order to dig into the substance and math of my analysis. |
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SAN DIEGO - The average price of a gallon of self-serve regular gasoline in San Diego County recorded its largest daily increase since July 15 on Friday, rising 3.8 cents to $2.378. |
"Pump prices in coming days will be affected by the summer blend of fuel, although that blend is not even being sold yet," said Jeffrey Spring, the Automobile Club of Southern California's corporate communications manager. |
"Los Angeles fuel wholesale prices jumped 51 cents on Wednesday, mainly because of futures investments for March gasoline. Also, refineries are having distribution problems with the summer blend of gasoline." |
Regulations require most Southern California gas stations to switch to selling summer blend fuel by April 1. The summer blend gasoline reduces air pollution in warmer temperatures and is more expensive to produce. |
Winter blend gasoline begins selling on Nov. 1. |
Friday's increase ends a stretch of 49 decreases in 50 days, totaling 72.3 cents, dropping the average price to its lowest amount since April 7, 2009, according to figures from the AAA and Oil Price Information Service. |
Despite Friday increase, the average price is 6.7 cents less than one week ago, 40.7 cents lower than one month ago and 82.5 cents below what it was one year ago. |
Portland didn’t break any high temperature records on Monday mostly due to cooling winds from the Columbia River Gorge. But unseasonably warm and dry weather helped Astoria, Eugene and Salem either tie or break their high temp records for March 18. Tuesday will offer another shot at topping some warm weather records in... |
Tuesday’s high will be 69 again at the Portland airport, shy of the record of 71. Windy conditions will continue near the gorge and in east Portland. With some high clouds expected to filter in by late afternoon, areas along the coast could hold a few degrees below yesterday’s highs – but still well above seasonal aver... |
Gradual change begins Tuesday night as the high pressure that’s held in place since about Saturday moves east. Low pressure and a new cloud-filled system will move into California by Wednesday and some wrap-around moisture could move into the southern parts of the Willamette Valley. All areas will see increasing clouds... |
Thursday’s high will cool to 63 under mostly cloudy skies. Most of the moisture with this system will move east and not allow for much shower activity in the valleys, according to the National Weather Service. The best shot for rain will be Friday when a stronger and wetter system arrives from the coast. |
Southern California’s wet winter weather has caused a “super bloom” of poppies in the valleys near Canyon Lake. Officials had to close the trails due to high volume of people coming to see the display. |
[MUSIC] The full screen button for applications on your Mac has moved with the release of the OS-10 Yosemite. You will no longer find located upper right corner in the applications window. The full screen button has actually replaced the green maximize button found next to the red close button and orange minimize butto... |
After being challenged by Sammy Faze of the Drinkingbird and Billy Sunday to make a cocktail using grass, Brett Lichnerowicz of Luxbar did some urban foraging in people's yards "with or without their permission" to find some for his experiments. "There's so many varieties of grass—there's ryegrass, fescue grass, sweetg... |
Żubrówka bison grass vodka was a natural choice for the liquor, which Lichnerowicz combined with lemon juice, for brightness, and rhum agricole (cane-juice rum), to add "a fig jam essence." He also made a tincture at home with "another kind of grass that may or may not be legal in the state of Illinois," adding a few d... |
When it came to naming the drink, though, Lichnerowicz had some trouble narrowing it down: after considering candidates like Mowin' and Flowin', Greengasm, Enviralicious, Chuck Grassley, Blade Runner, and Grassmaster Flash, he finally settled on Through the Looking Grass. |
Combine all ingredients except the beer and pour over ice into a Collins glass; top with beer. |
Who's next: Lichnerowicz has challenged Jenn Fink of Pub Royale to create a cocktail with apple cider vinegar. |
Watch Jenn Fink of Pub Royale create a vinegar cocktail with a bite. |
Challenged to create a cocktail with squid ink, Sammy Faze of the Drinkingbird embraces its oceanic elements. |
A drink infused with shredded gum brings a bartender back to his childhood. |
Challenged to make a drink with marine algae, Roger Landes of MFK pairs it with bourbon. |
Absinthe has nothing on Zubrowka, also known as bison grass vodka. |
Hormel Foods (NYSE:HRL) revealed better-than-expected second-quarter profit on Wednesday, led by sales of Jennie-O Turkey and international growth. |
A 50% profit increase in Jennie-O Turkey and 10% and 9% improvements in grocery products and specialty foods, helped offset a sharp 25% decline in the company’s refrigerated foods segment. |
Grocery products, which include its Spam brand, gained on lower pork and beef input costs as well as demand for Spam and MegaMex. Earnings in the refrigerated business, which includes deli meats under the brands Hormel and Natural Choice, fell on weak pork operating margins despite higher sales. |
The packaged meat manufacturer reported earnings of $127.9 million, or 48 cents a share, compared with a year-earlier $109.6 million, or 40 cents. |
The results were ahead of average analyst estimates of 42 cents in a Thomson Reuters poll. |
Revenue for the three months ended April 29 was $2 billion, up slightly from $1.96 billion, narrowly below the Street’s view of $2.05 billion. |
“This is a good example of our balanced business model in action, as we were able to increase earnings in four out of five segments.” Hormel CEO Jeffrey Ettinger said in a statement. |
Hormel said it believes weak pork margins will be pulled up by strong results in other segments. It also forecasts higher sales as it continues advertising Hormel and Spam. |
The company backed its full-year guidance in a range of $1.79 to $1.89 a share. Analysts are looking for a profit of $1.81. |
Heat a medium skillet over high heat until very hot. Add the vegetable oil and swirl to coat the bottom. Season the lamb loin generously with salt and pepper and add it to the pan. Sear the lamb until well browned on all sides and medium rare inside, about 8 to 10 minutes. Transfer to a cutting board, cover loosely wit... |
In a large bowl, toss the greens, cucumber, tomato wedges, onion and olives with about 1/3 cup of the vinaigrette (or more to taste). Arrange a mound of salad on each serving plate and top with slices of lamb. Garnish with the feta cheese, if desired. |
Kuldeep Yadav recently attained a career-best rank of No. 2 in T20 International ranking for bowlers. |
Team India wrist spinners Kuldeep Yadav and Yuzvendra Chahal have taken to Twitter to share their joy on returning to India following gruelling tours to Australia and New Zealand. Yuzvendra Chahal recently posted a picture clicked by left-arm fast bowler Khaleel Ahmed, which also shows him, Yadav and wicket-keeper Rish... |
India recently completed a long tour of Australia and New Zealand where they registered convincing wins. In Australia, Virat Kohli's men remained unbeaten in all the three formats as the T20I series ended 1-1 after a washout at the MCG. |
Following the T20Is, India defeated the hosts in a historic Test series, winning it 2-1. This was India's first-ever Test series win in Australian soil in 70 years. Virat Kohli not only became the first Indian captain but also the first Asian captain to win a Test series Down Under. |
Continuing the dominance, India also won the ODI series 2-1 where veteran wicket-keeper batsman Mahendra Singh Dhoni was the top run-getter for India and was adjudged player of the series. India registered their first bilateral series win in Australia. |
Following the successful tour of Australia, India expected a stiff test from Australia's trans-Tasman rivals New Zealand. However, Kane Williamson's side were outplayed by Virat Kohli's men as India registered a convincing 4-1 win in the ODI series. |
But New Zealand outclassed India 2-1 in the T20Is as India sans Virat Kohli and Jasprit Bumrah (both rested) lost a hard-fought third T20I by four runs. |
India host Australia in an upcoming two-match T20I series that commences on February 24 in Vishakhapatnam. Following the T20Is, India will also play a five-match ODI series that begins on March 2 in Hyderabad. |
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Terms coined by engineers almost invariably are taken over by marketers, whose use of that nomenclature is, to put it mildly, more relaxed. The tendency is even more pronounced when the technology is as intrinsically confusing and evolving as rapidly as it is in the wireless sector. |
The next move of wireless is said to be into the 4G realm, which common wisdom says is either Long Term Evolution or WiMax. The situation is a bit fuzzy, however. There is, it seems, a corollary to the rule that marketers will take over technical terms: Once they take ownership, marketers will start claiming that their... |
T-Mobile USA is claiming to have "America's largest 4G network," while Sprint Nextel says it is making available the nation's first network of that type. Sprint Nextel, which is using a network built by Clearwire, claims that T-Mobile's 4G network is a 3G network in disguise because it uses High Speed Packet Access Plu... |
In a sense, T-Mobile and Sprint/Clearwire are both wrong. The International Telecommunications Union, a United Nations agency responsible for setting global standards for communications technology, announced Oct. 21 that only two technologies-LTE-Advanced and WiMax 2-truly qualify as 4G. The ITU determined those could ... |
The story further says that the LTE being promised by Verizon Wireless and the Sprint/Clearwire version of WiMax use earlier versions of both technologies and "don't come close to the specifications laid out by the ITU." |
The reality is that the world doesn't easily fit into 3G and 4G categorization. Buzzle.com offers answers to some basic questions. The best overview, however, is a two-year-old but still very current Network World video featuring Farpoint Group's Craig Mathias. He goes through the very hard to follow history of 1G, 2G,... |
In a sense, the formalized definitions and expected speeds of various types of wireless technology don't matter too much. In the real world, the number of simultaneous users, the distance from a cell tower, the atmospheric conditions and other issues determine the speeds that end users will get. Determining throughput ... |
Liberals can get strangely honest on camera after an electoral defeat. On MSNBC Live with Stephanie Ruhle on Wednesday morning, the guests were two liberals, former Newsweek and New Yorker editor Tina Brown and New York Times columnist Frank Bruni. |
But Ruehl wondered if Donald Trump won because political correctness and a fear of social media ostracism causes voters to silence themselves about the burdens of government mandates like family leave and ObamaCare. |
During the daily segment on MSNBC’s Hardball entitled “Tell Me Something I Didn’t Know” on Tuesday, longtime British journalist and former Newsweek head Tina Brown touted the widely debunked claim that “over 100,000 women in Texas have tried to self-abort” since 2011 due to pro-life legislation. |
Appearing as a guest on Thursday's New Day on CNN, former Daily Beast Editor-in-Chief Tina Brown lavished praise on GOP presidential candidate Lindsey Graham, as she pined for him to make it onto the main debate stage, and three times gushed that the South Carolina Republican "rocked." She also rejoiced over Senator Gr... |
During an appearance on Monday’s CBS This Morning to promote her annual Women in the World summit, former Daily Beast editor-in-chief Tina Brown did her best to sidestep questions about the Clinton Foundation’s practice of taking money from foreign countries with abysmal women’s rights records. |
Tart-tongued Tina Brown is at it again. On today's Morning Joe, seeking to explain why Republicans are doing surprisingly well with women voters this year, Brown said: "they had their rabies shots." |
The conservative website Breitbart.com recently started running a controversial ad campaign featuring Nancy Pelosi’s head superimposed on the body of a twerking Miley Cyrus. Unsurprisingly, an April 8 piece by The Daily Beast’s Emily Shire complained that “Breitbart Twerks Pelosi With Credibility-Destroying Ad” without... |
Shire began her piece by declaring that the online web campaign was “The ultimate proof that Breitbart doesn’t deserve to be considered a legitimate political news site, regardless of its political leanings” before laying into the conservative organization. |
Brown replied: "Absolutely. I mean, there's no need to just go off and be bellicose. And then it's like, 'Now what?' Marco Rubio actually said, 'Now, you know, Secretary Hagel and Secretary Kerry should go immediately to Kiev.' And you think, 'Well, what then?' You know, you have to have this follow-up." |
A lack of exercise could be killing twice as many people as obesity in Europe, a 12-year study of more than 300,000 people suggests. |
University of Cambridge researchers said about 676,000 deaths each year were down to inactivity, compared with 337,000 from carrying too much weight. |
They concluded that getting everyone to do at least 20 minutes of brisk walking a day would have substantial benefits. |
Experts said exercise was beneficial for people of any weight. |
Obesity and inactivity often go hand in hand. |
However, it is known that thin people have a higher risk of health problems if they are inactive. And obese people who exercise are in better health than those that do not. |
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