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  1. Portfolio Updates: Specialty Steel, Shining Silver and Gleaming Gold • April 29, 2009

    Dear Outstanding Investments Reader: Watch your e-mail for the next monthly issue. It’s due out later today. In the next issue of Outstanding Investments, there’s a recommendation for a great midtier mining company. This mining firm produced just shy of 1 million ounces of gold in 2008. The company has a plan [...]

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  2. Reader Letters About Windmills, and Comments • April 21, 2009

    Dear Outstanding Investments Reader: You’re always welcome to send e-mails and ask questions. Just use the e-mail address OI@agorafinancial.com. As you probably know, I’m restricted from giving out “personal” investment advice in response to e-mails. But I read what people send to me, and I appreciate your comments. Lately, I’ve had some pretty [...]

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  3. Tax Day, Letters, Portfolio Updates • April 15, 2009

    Dear Outstanding Investments Reader: Happy April 15! No, I’m not talking about the 97th anniversary of the sinking of the RMS Titanic after it hit an iceberg. I’m talking about filing your tax forms with the Internal Revenue Service. Ours is the modern world, not the fading Victorian era. By now, surely, your tax [...]

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  4. Is the Wells Fargo Wagon A-Coming? • April 14, 2009

    Dear Outstanding Investments Reader: I was down in Baltimore last week, attending editorial meetings at Agora Financial. It was a pleasure to see my colleagues and share thoughts with them. I have a lot to report, and I’ll send you a few extra updates over the next few weeks. Stay tuned. Also be [...]

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  5. Three Things You Ought to Be Doing Right Now: Gold, Gold Miners and Energy Producers • April 7, 2009

    Dear Outstanding Investments Reader: I’m down in Baltimore this week, attending editorial conferences at Agora Financial. It’s always a pleasure to get together with my colleagues. It’s almost as much fun as meeting readers at the Vancouver Wealth Symposium. My brother and sister editors and I correspond quite a bit via e-mail. [...]

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  6. No April Fool’s Jokes – Just Portfolio Comments and News • April 1, 2009

    Dear Outstanding Investments Reader: Farewell to the first quarter of 2009.  For most of the quarter, the weather was cold and the stock market fell.  Still, as Bill Bonner likes to say, “The cure for a depression is a depression.” That is, according to Bill, “a depression requires a fundamental restructuring of [...]

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  7. How You Can Tap Into the World’s Richest Gold Reserve • April 1, 2009

    This metal is buried two and a half miles below the earth's surface… where temperatures can reach 120 degrees and "solid" rock faces literally burst outwards into the mine shafts due to the immense pressure from above…

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