by Rafael Rosa on February 5, 2010
On Thursday (Feb. 4th 2010), markets across the world sunk lower as sovereign debt problems spread fear and panic among investors. The graphs below shows how red was the color of the day. Click on images for full-sized graph As expected, the safe haven currencies (U.S. dollar and the Japanese Yen) skyrocketed as investors looked [...]
by Rafael Rosa on January 21, 2010
It’s “different in China”. The phrase sounds awfully familiar to the widely used “it’s different this time”. Investors are always looking for a “new normal”; however, the truth is that real fundamental change rarely happens. As history shows, people tend to commit the same mistakes over and over again. Investment guru Jim Rogers believes that [...]