December 2009 MarketToday
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• Trade of the Year
  
  How has crude oil, our Trade of the Year, done this year. What will next years trade of the year be?
• Who Determines Interest Rates?
  
  Treasury removed the limits Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac for three years. Another slush fund, that allows the administration to put their fingers on the scales.
• Are You Going to Believe Me...Or Your Lyin Eyes?
  
  Senate Passage of Health Care, No Limit Poker at Fannie Mae, Can you believe it.
• Survive to Fight Another Day
  
  Always pull your money off the table, never lose your nest egg.
• Where are the Banks?
  
  Twas the night before Christmas.
• Climate Change Honesty
  
  Professor Richard Ludzen of MIT reveals the problems with climate change
• New Years Resolution
  
  Your best investment, a notebook to write down your reason for an investment.
• N. Korea Weapons Seized
  
  35 Tonnes of N. Korean weapons are seized in Bangkok China gets put on the hot seat by smaller developing countries. Gordon Brown goes home empty handed
• Re-Balance Your Portfolio
  
  Rebalance your portfolio to keep all of your positions roughly the same size. Copenhagen may fall apart, but don't get too excited
• Confab in Copenhagen
  
  World Leaders are flying into Copenhagen in jets to talk about lowering Carbon Bernanke is voted out of the Senate Finance Committee Televisions are dangerous, get them out of your house, quick!
• Iran Fires One Across the Bow
  
  Iran test fires the Senjii 2 missile FOMC meets, no change Iran sentences 5 to death in protests
• Boss; De Plane, De Plane
  
  Boeing 787 Dreamliner Flys today. XOM, buy it. The Copenhagen Climate Conference is wrestling with aid to developing countries.
• EIA Predicts Lower Oil Imports
  
  The Energy Information Agency does some fancy math and calculates we will need less oil imported in the future!
• Coming Nat-as-trophe
  
  Natural Gas may be the fuel of the future. We have plenty, and the price is poised to double in 2010
• Unintended Consequences
  
  Whatever we do causes something else to happen.
• KMP Pumps Profit
  
  Kinder Morgan Energy Partners pays tax sheltered dividends
• Emission Troubles
  
  Greenhouse gas emissions drive climate change discussions. Where are we and how did we get here?
• Emergency in Copenhagen
  
  Copenhagen Meetings for the Next Two Weeks. Climate Change is an Emergency that cannot be ignored.
• Lock in Your Price for Gasoline
  
  Gasoline makes up a large part of most family's budgets. Here is how to 'lock' in your price for next year.
• Why do You Invest?
  
  We invest to make a profit, with the smallest risk of loss possible. Bernanke testifies before the Senate Confirmation Hearing. Maobama holds a White House Jobs Summit
• Checked Your Crack Spread Lately?
  
  Crack Spread is the difference between the cost of crude and the gross profit on resulting refined products.
• The Stock You Should Own
  
  Everyone should own Bershire Hathaway
• Are CDS Poison

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