If you think the game isn’t rigged against you, read no further than this obscure report of 2005 I’m about to reveal.

It’s the best example I’ve seen of a media bias against emerging markets. The reason I point it out? So many people do “headline investing” that it could be costing you thousands in untold profits.

The basic flaw in relying on Big Media is that it’s reactive by nature. The so-called news from Big Media is the most flagrant exercise in self-importance America has ever witnessed. Big Media serves you leftovers with the arrogance of a world-class chef.

Big Media masks its sloth and ego by giving you heaping portions of fear, urgency and sappiness instead of original in-depth reportage. Big Media is a masquerade ball.

Now we’re about to rip away the mask… Continue Reading »

Andrew Mickey of BreakAway Investor wrote a piece about why Russian President Vladimir Putin is the world’s most dangerous man (you can see it here).

Mickey makes a darn good argument to support Putin’s infamy. He accuses Putin of playing “a deadly game of resource roulette.” That Putin is ready to plunge a “red dagger into America’s financial heart.” And that Putin is “already in the early stages of a strategic strike on the United States economy, the likes of which could cripple our nation for decades.”

I have no argument with Mickey’s take on Putin. But I can’t believe for a moment that Putin is the world’s most dangerous man. Because the most dangerous man in the world is clearly Alan Greenspan. Continue Reading »