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  1. Outstanding Investments: Energy Markets • September 29, 2006

    The energy markets are turning around here and it looks like all the bearish talk and aggressive selling may have moderated. All of that lofty "risk premium" has been sucked out of the crude price, and as…

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  2. Outstanding Investments: A New York Minute • September 27, 2006

    It's a bit funny. I've traveled to at least a dozen countries, lived in four and seen many a stunning metropolis -- London, Chicago, Edinburgh, Sydney, Prague, San Francisco, Budapest and Vienna, just to name a few.

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  3. Outstanding Investments: Corn Is King • September 22, 2006

    Well, I apologize for the brief hotline last week but I had to run and do a TV thing with Chris Mayer about the opportunities in trading water, more like the infrastructure of water, very interesting.

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  4. Outstanding Investments: Sharp Elbows • September 20, 2006

    Natural gas is a commodity with very sharp elbows, as a few hedge funds have recently discovered. Not long ago, a $450 million fund called MotherRock (don't ask) blew itself up playing natural gas on the short side.

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  5. Outstanding Investments: Keep An Eye on the Markets • September 15, 2006

    My apologies, but I am off to go head to head with Chris Mayer on CNBC today to discuss water futures and investments.

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  6. Outstanding Investments: Derman’s Moth • September 13, 2006

    Emanuel Derman, a pioneer in quantitative finance, has accidentally discovered that his refrigerator is a "perfect cage" for moths. The discovery was made at lunchtime, when Mr. Derman opened the door of his fridge to find a moth inside.

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  7. Outstanding Investments: Looking At The Markets • September 8, 2006

    Well these short holiday trading weeks are almost always twice as busy and this week has been no exception.

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  8. Outstanding Investments: Dead Parrots and Doomed Institutions • September 6, 2006

    Recently, we talked about "iterative refinement." This week, we began by adding two quick points to that discussion.

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  9. Getting Tactical • September 1, 2006

    Outstanding Investments September Issue: Getting Tactical

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  10. Outstanding Investments: The End Is Near… the End of Summer, That Is • September 1, 2006

    Greetings from downtown Manhattan. I am here today with none other than Black Bear of The Secret Order of Jurojin. Many of you got the privilege of hearing Black Bear speak at the Vancouver Wealth Symposium.

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