I was asked by redddweb the following question:
The last few posts of yours sounds as if your market sentiment is bearish. How do hedge against these risks, as well as dollar fall, inflation, etc; I would love to see a blog entry on facing these challenges(invest in gold? it too is at all time high )

Redddweb was not the only one who asked me a question along the same lines. I have been getting a few emails asking people "what’s next?" As I have said in the past most …

Becky from CNBC had a talk with Warren Buffett and how Buffett is a bit pessimistic. Becky’s interpretation is an excellent example of how media changes focus and does not interpret properly. Specifically Becky keeps talking about the following comment:
I made by far the best buys I’ve ever made in my lifetime in 1974.

Hi folks, starting in the new year I am going to be launching a new website called HappyAsAHippo.com. On this new website I am going to do a couple of things:

Calculate the HHCPI (Happy Hippo CPI). We all hear about inflation, and how low it is, but yet we feel wrong. What I am going to do is use online resources to calculate a price index each and every day. The price index will measure two things; what people are actually spending, and what inflation there is. That value will …

This post is a bit of hard post for me because it is going to sound ultra-bearish. So if you want to avoid a really bearish blog entry, then this is the one to avoid. If you want to know why I am bearish, then this is the blog entry to read.  I want to add a disclaimer here. I don’t really know if the market will go down, but what makes be ultra bearish is that the pieces are not adding up. For the past three weeks while writing …

I listened to some commentators talk about the Hugo vote, and they said something along the following lines:
This shows that Hugo is a human, and not a dictator. It is not that bad, etc, etc, etc… How conciliatory he is… He will not change… He will do more of what he is doing now, and will not change…