Vinny’s Blog

Lot of people have difficulty understanding Derivatives and the ripple effects they can cause. So here is an attempt to explain what they are and the ripple effects they can cause.
Understanding Derivatives
Heidi is the proprietor of a bar in Detroit …
She realizes that virtually all of her customers are unemployed
alcoholics and, as [...]

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This is a simple but effective picture that shows how the QE works. You must have heard this word a many times in the news Quantitative Easing. Feds use this word quite often and each time they have money to throw around it’s called QE or Quantitative Easing.
This Graphics below that I picked up from [...]

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We have completed almost 9 months in 2010 and nothing big ( no big bad news) has taken place. So is it safe to assume that remaining months of 2010 will be calm and un-eventful as well ?
In the beginning of this year government announced ‘cash for clunker’ program then they announced tax credit for [...]

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confiscation of 401k and IRA accounts.

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So, there has been a burning news in the media recently. Whether Gulf states would be using USD or not for Oil Trades going forward. This is a devastating news for USD and as you can see markets reacted almost immediately Gold shot up to 1050.00 USD/Oz. right away. Even though this is not going [...]

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