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Château Brian

You never know what to least expect the most.

About Me







My Interests

Chance
Choice
Chocolate

Whole Foods!
Raw Foods!

Market
Blogs and Websites

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Favorites:
Jim Puplava's Financial Sense Newshour
Financial Sense Homepage
John Hussman's Weekly Market Comment
Barry Ritholtz's The Big Picture
Ticker Sense
BCA Research

Technical Analysis:
Louise Yamada's Technical Perspectives
Brian Shannon's Alpha Trends
Tim Knight's Tech Analysis

Commodities:
Kitco Metals
BaseMetals.com
Commodity Trader

Gold:
321 Gold
Kitco
The Privateer Gold Charts
James Turk's Gold Money
Franklin Sander's Gold Price
Adam Hamilton's Zeal Essays

Energy:
321 Energy
The Oil Drum

Global Political Risk:
Ian Bremmer's Eurasia Group

Music:



Drive Like Jehu, The Setting Suns, My Bloody Valentine, My Brightest Diamond, Band of Horses, Calla, Adam Franklin/Toshack Highway, V.A.S.T., The Doves, The Dears, 30 Seconds to Mars, Quicksand, Swervedriver, Interpol, Muse, Morcheeba, Midlake, Sigur Ros, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Yes, Joy Division, Jawbreaker, Jets to Brazil, Jawbox, Fugazi, Shudder to Think, SoulSide, GVSB, Strokes, Descendents, Soundgarden, Alice 'n Chains, Jeff Buckley, Rufus Wainwright, Jurassic 5, Black Star, De La Soul.

Movies:

Kung Fu Panda, The Darjeeling Limited, Girl on the Bridge, Memento, Lost in Translation, Dirty Pretty Things, Mulholland Drive, Igby Goes Down, Love and Death on Long Island, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Talk to Her, Surviving Desire and most Hal Hartley films, Tune in Tomorrow, Amelie, Donnie Darko, Heathers, Smoke, Coffee & Cigarettes, Thunderheart, Dune, and, yes, Ace Ventura.

Television:

Arrested Development
The Daily Show with
Jon Stewart
The Colbert Report
Fast Money

Books:

The Castle of Crossed Destinies, The Crying of Lot 49, The Defense, The Gambler, Jacques the Fatalist and His Master, Hunger, Immortality, Istanbul: Memories and the City, Lolita, Midaq Alley, My Name is Red, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Season of Migration to the North, Snow, The Spell of the Sensuous, The Thousand and One Nights, Under the Autumn Star, The Varieties of Religious Experience . . .

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Auster, Baricco, Baudelaire, Beckett, Borges, Conrad, Hamsun, Hesse, Kawabata, Kundera, Nabokov, Neruda, Mallarmé, Marquez, Pamuk, Perec, Pessoa, Poe, Rimbaud, Stevens, Valéry, Woolf . . .

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Joseph Campbell

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technical analysis of stocks

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Heroes:

Dr. Muhammad Yunus
Dr. Jim McCarty
Dr. Gerald H. Smith
Dr. Joel Fuhrman

My Blog

Historic Shift in Global Gold Demand

According to The CPM Gold Yearbook 2007, 2006 registered a historic average price for physical gold, second to 1980's highest average price. What's more significant is that more gold is curr...
Posted by Château Brian on Mon, 30 Apr 2007 06:24:00 PST

England's Big Brown Bottom

From The Sunday Times April 15, 2007   Goldfinger Brown's £2 billion blunder in the bullion market Chancellor ignored advice on sell-off   Holly Watt and Robert Winnett GATHERED around ...
Posted by Château Brian on Mon, 16 Apr 2007 06:29:00 PST

John Hussman on "The 'Money Flow' Myth and the 'Liquidity' Trap"

Hussman is one of my favorite market writers. I don't pretend to understand what he often calls "the geeky math," but I love it that he teaches the basics and explains away the myths. "Global liq...
Posted by Château Brian on Tue, 13 Mar 2007 07:59:00 PST

America's Actuarial Nightmare

David Walker, U.S. Comptroller on 60 minutes (audio). Audio file is on the right side of the page, second listing. Click the first button and a player will pop up. ...
Posted by Château Brian on Tue, 13 Mar 2007 07:49:00 PST

Gold Knows, by Barry Ritholtz

Gold Knows A great post by Barry Ritholtz of www.bigpicture.typepad.com http://bigpicture.typepad.com/comments/2007/02/bernanke_vs_g ol.html Friday, February 23, 2007 A grudge match of epic propor...
Posted by Château Brian on Sun, 25 Feb 2007 05:46:00 PST

Please take my name off your list.

It's 10:45 on a Saturday morning and I get a call from "Unavailable." I take it just to see what kind of advertiser is calling at that hour. Me: Hello Caller: Hello, a female voice replies. (At a gue...
Posted by Château Brian on Sat, 16 Dec 2006 08:17:00 PST

U.S. Mint bans melting pennies, nickels

from: businessweek.com By MARTIN CRUTSINGER WASHINGTON Given rising metal prices, the pennies and nickels in your pocket are worth more melted down than their face value -- and that has the governmen...
Posted by Château Brian on Thu, 14 Dec 2006 09:57:00 PST

The Demise of the Dollar and the Age of the Amero

History shows that fiat currencies evntually return to their true value, zero. That's right, long term history has shown over and over that the tendency of fiat currency is that it becomes valueless. ...
Posted by Château Brian on Tue, 12 Dec 2006 02:29:00 PST

Cheers, ma Dears in Denver

It's that time again! Time to fly west, because the west is the best. I leave on Sunday. I don't know how long it's going to take to get my bite together, but I can tell ya that my cranial doc is doin...
Posted by Château Brian on Fri, 01 Dec 2006 04:34:00 PST

Two Impromptu Poetry Prompts with Two Prompted and Promptly Penned Poems

Today at one of the cafes I frequent some friends were writing poetry using three-word promts and a time frame of three minutes. There are no rules for including the words or rhyming or anything. Just...
Posted by Château Brian on Sun, 01 Oct 2006 04:00:00 PST