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End of Warren Buffet Era?

Warren Buffet is a skilled communicator in all aspects of life. Communication is the real key of leadership and has been key to Buffet’s long term success. Along with having the right investment strategy at the right time. However, in an age of rapid change and a restructuring of the world investment order Buffet’s buy and hold strategy may not produce nearly as good results in the future.

Warren communicates openly and frankly with his investors and makes sure that he can communicate effectively with the managers of a company before he buys it. In a global market that level of communication may be difficult to emulate when you may be interested in buying stock in a company located half a world away and immersed in an entirely foreign culture.

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taipan | June 22nd, 2008 | Continued

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America Motoring to Disaster

America has been motoring towards disaster ever since its economy was structured around the automobile and cheap energy supplies. Now that energy is no longer cheap disaster is imminent. Like the airlines, the American business and lifestyle model is broken with oil above $125 a barrel and probably headed higher, perhaps much higher, as peak oil all too soon kicks in with a vengeance.

Gasoline prices at $4.00 a gallon have started to force Americans to cut back on their driving. Even middle class families are having a tough time making ends meet with rising gas prices, rising food prices, double digit increases in the cost of health care, stagnant incomes, and falling house prices occurring all at the same time. So some effort at energy conservation is finally underway.

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taipan | May 28th, 2008 | Continued

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Hammering Hank Paulson Wall Street Reformer

The former CEO of Wall Street’s largest investment bank, Goldman Sachs, now US Secretary of the Treasury, has proposed new legislation that would be the greatest Wall Street reform act since the Great Depression.

The short take on Mr. Paulson’s bank bailout plan is that the Federal Reserve Bank would become an extremely powerful entity, not that it’s not already, but it would become even more powerful with almost unlimited powers to regulate the nations financial affairs, banks, brokerage firms, hedge fund industry, you name it.

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taipan | April 3rd, 2008 | Continued

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Masters of Wall Street Universe Exposed

These days the masters of the Wall Street universe are exposed for what they really are, grossly overpaid overly aggressive master salesmen who usually make bad managers.

But never worry for their future. The top people who brought to the world the securitization of mortgages and all sorts of wild derivative instruments may be out of work for the moment, or barely hanging on, but most will go on to other positions taking a considerable amount of their plunder with them. One thing that they know very well is how to take care of themselves.

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taipan | March 30th, 2008 | Continued

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How Bad Will the Mortgage Crisis Get?

If you are like most investors you are probably beginning to wonder just how bad will the mortgage and financial crisis get?

I’ve been saying for some time that the developing financial crisis that started in the mortgage market has been underestimated by many people, including most certainly those who are supposed to have some good ideas about such matters — the economists.

The problem with many economists these days is that they are working for people who order forecasts that must in some way fit in with their hopes and expectations. For example, an economist who is working for say the NAHB, National Association of Home Builders, doesn’t want to lose his job or contract over some dang economic forecast that is a bit too pessimistic. The poor fellow must try to balance out what his own research shows against what his bosses wants to hear.

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taipan | March 30th, 2008 | Continued

About this Site

Taipan is the nickname for the owner and publisher of the Taipan Investor financial series of blogs. Taipan is an American who lived and worked in  Asia for over twenty years.  It was in Hong Kong that the nick name Taipan was born.

There are blogs that cover the forex market, stock market, real estate market, and the commodities markets. Since politics have so much to do with the investment world Article Discovery Politics Blog covers the political scene and world events. With the world financial markets in so much turmoil these days, and with the expectation that the turmoil will continue for a long time,  Taipan is going to be a very busy fellow trying to cover world markets.

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America Ill Prepared For High Energy Prices

Energy prices are continuing to increase as the global demand for fossil fuels increases and our limited refining capacity is regularly disrupted by hurricanes and flooding. A major part of America’s current predicament is that America has not taken energy conservation seriously and has not planned ahead well. For example, part of the problem with high gasoline prices in the US is the lack of refining capacity. It has been over 30 years since a new refinery facility has opened in America.

Alternative fuels will only give a partial answer to our use of energy and to high energy prices. Energy prices are rising fast all over the world and likely will keep on increasing due to strong demand, especially from Asia. Even with such a strong incentive to move towards alternative energy there are important uses for oil that are difficult if not impossible to substitute.

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14Jun2008 | taipan | 0 comments | Continued
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Prime Minister Putin Boom Times in Russia

The Russian economy under Putin is characterized as a transition economy since the fall of the socialist system in the beginning of the 1990’s.

In principle the Russian economy is a market economy adhering to the basic freedom of enterprise and market based pricing mechanisms but the characterization of a transition economy refers to the many features that constitute the inherited socialist institutions still influencing the economy’s operation. Putin as Prime Minster is expected to call the shots in Russia just as forcibly as during his eight year highly successful term as President.

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5Jun2008 | taipan | 0 comments | Continued
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Bernanke Rings the Forex Market Bell

The Chairman of the US Federal Reserve Bank, Ben Bernanke, rings the forex market bell at a speech he made yesterday by satellite TV to an economic conference in Barcelona Spain. Helicopter Ben finally spoke out about the sad condition of the US Dollar and said the following:

“In collaboration with our colleagues at the Treasury, we continue to carefully monitor developments in foreign exchange markets. The challenges that our economy has faced over the past year or so have generated some downward pressures on the foreign exchange value of the dollar, which have contributed to the unwelcome rise in import prices and consumer price inflation. We are attentive to the implications of changes in the value of the dollar for inflation and inflation expectations and will continue to formulate policy to guard against risks to both parts of our dual mandate, including the risk of erosion in longer-term inflation expectations.

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4Jun2008 | taipan | 0 comments | Continued
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Mortgage Housing Economic Crisis to Get Worse

Those investors who think that the worse of the mortgage, housing, and economic crisis are already behind us should consider the following report.

According to a new report from the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight the prices of homes sold in the first quarter of 2008 posted a record decline.

Home prices fell 3.1% from the first quarter of 2007, the largest decline in the purchase-only index, which excludes refinancings, since the federal agency began keeping records 17 years ago.

First-quarter prices dropped 1.7% from the fourth quarter, the largest quarterly dip ever.

“It’s not going to be the largest decline on record for long,” said Peter Schiff, president and chief global strategist at Euro Pacific Capital.”Prices are going to keep falling until we get to the equilibrium, which is much, much lower. This is only the beginning.”

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22May2008 | taipan | 0 comments | Continued
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