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I read an interesting article by Robert Kiyosaki, If you do know who Robert is he is the super star author that others want to be like, it’s been on the New York times best seller list for over 5 years, selling millions and millions of copies.

When Robert speaks people listen, that’s why i found this article interesting. Robert is prediciting that the market is slowly crashing.

On Feb. 27 of this year, a 9 percent market sell-off in China sent ripples of fear through stocks markets across the world. In the United States, the Dow’s one-day plunge of 416 points was the steepest decline since the market opened after Sept. 11, 2001.

So the question is: Should stock investors be worried? As you might expect, some say yes and some say no.

Robert thinks this is a sign of things to come, while i don’t disagree i don’t necessarily see this as the final end all and be all. The market has had a big run up from late 2006 to early 2007 and there was a lot of money made, thus equaling smart investors were profit taking, and even smarter ones were shorting the market.

Robert also says

To get a truer picture of comparative values, compare the Dow to the price of gold. When the purchasing power of gold is compared to the purchasing power of the Dow, the Dow appears to be crashing.

That means the average investor will need at least a 15 percent annual return on their stocks or mutual funds just to stay ahead of the U.S. dollar’s purchasing power erosion — that is, just to break even.

In my earlier Yahoo! Finance columns, I used history to forecast the future by comparing the dollar to gold and oil over a 10-year period. Here’s the data:

1996

2006

Percent Increase

Table updated 3/21/07.

Table updated 3/21/07.

It is important to note that Robert does have significant positions in both Oil and Gold, but he has disclosed this in previous articles as well.

Overall this article raises a lot of issues, and investors should be concerned for the long term, but for the next 1-3 years the market is still heading up.

Enjoy the ride.

This is in follow up to the last post i wrote about the US falling apart financially, check it out here

There is a good article i saw over at CTV on a way to ease the strain on health care systems around the world, and thus potentially avoiding a huge problem.

The report goes into why we need to work together in teams to diagnose and manage diseases.

The report titled, “Why Health Care Renewal Matters: Lessons from Diabetes,” used type 2 diabetes as a case study to look at whether the country’s health system is effectively helping Canadians manage chronic conditions.

It suggests that what is needed is a shift from a focus on finding disease and fixing it, to preventing chronic conditions, then ensuring that those diagnosed with the diseases know how to manage them.

The report says such a shift in focus would have a “profound, positive impact on the lives of Canadians,” while also helping ensure the sustainability of our health care.

While i feel this report is a good first step, there is a long way to go for where we need to end up. Eventually i think all governments will realize that it is cheaper to prevent diseases like diabetes and heart disease by using preventive measures i.e. offering incentives like paying for gym memberships or subsidizing them to a certain point, and maybe a similar program for vitamins and sports or naturopaths.

Something like this is needed, but it has to be done by a major G8 nation to show that it works, but like many things in life as with this one as well, it’s going to take a leap of faith. Even if the government took a step like this tomorrow there wouldn’t be any conclusive results for years if not decades, what politician is going to run on that ticket?

The hope is though with a nation facing a massive slow down due to a crippled health care system i think the government will start having to look into alternatives.

So i was watching 60 minutes this evening and one of the stories caught my eye, it is what we have been preaching for a year now and the reason this blog was started. Read (What Were All About Post)

David Walker is the US Comptroller General and he is doing an Al Gore across America. This may have been the best report i have seen on this subject. It is an essential video to watch.

The one thing that was not addressed in the video was that the US is not the only one facing this issue, other countries facing this issue is the UK,Germany, Australia, France and the one with the biggest exposure is Canada. With 85% of exports going to the States and it’s own Canadian Pension Plan Underfunding as well as a medical plan that is underfunded, Canada faces the biggest risk out of all industrialized nations.

Last Time i checked these were the G8 nations.

United States

Japan

Germany

United Kingdom

France

Italy

Canada

Russia

Out of these countries at least 5 of them are exposed to the baby boomer crisis, and the underfunding of medical and social programs. Last time i checked when the top 5 countries in the world start going into an economic decline i think they call that a depression.

Everything is not doom and gloom though, look out for our up coming posts on how to benefits from a depression and strategies to make money when the economy collapses.

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So today is Wednesday and i’m bored, after the day the markets had yesterday all you can do is sit back and have a laugh, so i was introduced to a new service called today by a friend of mine Alisa called My Heritage, it’s a very cool service which allows you to map out your family tree amongst other things.

While doing some research on this company i found out that it was founded by Gilad Japhet who use to manage BRM Technologies’ anti-virus research unit until it was acquired by Symantec. My Heritage is actually based out of Israel and has a single goal of which is “Our vision has been to make it easier for people around the world to use the power of the Internet to discover their heritage and strengthen their bonds with family and friends”. A very noble goal to say the least.

The best part about My Heritage is the integration into other sites, i.e facebook, myspace, friendster and many more, the easier they make this the more viral there product will be, and let me tell you i can guarantee this is going to be a very viral product.

This is the viral part, the have one section on the sight called Face Recognition - Celebrity Matches, which basically takes a picture that you upload and then it looks in their database of celebrities and tries to find the best matches, while no means is this system 100% accurate it is pretty fun and this is the component that will make this site viral, think of all the myspace monkeys and facebook junkies telling there friends how the internet thinks they look like J-Lo or David Beckham or even god forbid Britney Spears.

Well i had to give this a little test so i figured who could i use that people would know so we could all judge the results? Then it hit me…… John Chow people all over the net recognize him and then we could all judge the results to see the accuracy.

So i uploaded this photo of John Chow

And now the magic happens, this is where My Heritage really shines, it goes and looks and looks to see who this guy looks like.

Well to my surprise it turns out John Chow is actually quite unique but dont fret ladies and gents, it did manage to find some results.

Drum roll please…………………………….

Now let’s go over the results, with the highest percentage and in first place we have

1. At a 68% match we have Gao Xingjian, if your asking who the hell is that? well go look him up in Wikipedia he is actually a Chinese Novelist who in 2000 won a pulitzer prize.

2. At a 64% match we have Tsui Hark he is the equivalent of Steven Speilberg in Hong Kong, at this point i seem to like the results, then something strange occurs

3. Also at 64% we have Song Hye-Kyo, she is a Korean model and actress, now no offence to John but this girl is cute and well i think there seems to be some error in the program, until i got the 4th result then i knew this was to good to be true, it was all the proof i needed.

4. At 58% and all the proof i need the man himself Kim Jong IL, at this point i realized that this software was not only accurate but also 100% correct, the man who throws stones at panda’s and other unspeakable acts is related to Kim Jong (or as i call him Kim John IL) IL himself.

5. If Kim Jong IL wasn’t bad enough apparently My Heritage thinks John Chow looks like Roberto Benigni the famous Italian director who gave that infamous oscar speech.

So all in all i would have to say that My Heritage is going to a great upcoming site and it will be all over the net in a few short months.

And the final conclusion is that John Chow has a 58% chance of being related to Kim Jong IL

After yesterday’s sell off the markets are starting to bounce back, the Dow is up 90+ point the NASDAQ is up 18+ point and the S&P is up 12+ points.

China is also up today in international markets, but you have to remember there is most likely going to be another couple of days of selling, the market doesn’t so quickly forget about a sell-off like it had on Tuesday.

So either tomorrow or the next week or two look for another significant move down, as the market corrects itself. This is going to be a good opportunity to buy for the long term as well. After the correction here comes Dow 15,000 Woo Hoo!

This is by far the best video i have seen to date about how information grows, i had to watch this 3 times just to get the data.

If you are considering joining a company or going back to school then you may want to watch this video, otherwise i would reccomend this video to EVERYONE!

Well it’s finally here, after months of waiting, and Kevin Rose’s prediction, we finally have seen the IPONE from Apple, if you don’t know what I’m talking about go check out the website, i know once you do you will be a fan and you must have it!

Here’s the link

Now as just a teeny tiny side not it’s interesting to see that Apple’s stock (aapl) hit an alltime high today, my predictions are simple, keep your apple stock, if you dont own some, then go buy some once it comes down a buck or two on some more options scandal nonsense.

The way you have to look at this is, if you had the chance to invest in Apple about 4 years ago when the IPOD was launched you would have made a ton of money, well here it is again it’s your turn to make a ton of cash.

P.S. Apple changed there name from Apple Computer to Apple Inc. Hmmmm strange could it be that Apple is focusing on more than just computing?……duh!

Apple is a buy!

Former US Vice-President Al Gore has done a great job of publicizing the affects of Global Warming, we here at the Coming Crisis.com believe it is the single biggest problem facing the world in this coming century.

The Chinese character for crisis is opportunity and danger, whenever there is danger there is opportunity to benefit.
With the impending crisis coming there are a few simple things that you yourself can do to benefit.

1. Like Real Estate the climate process is a slow process in terms of human life, most experts agree it will take around 50years for either the Greenland icecap or the south pole regions to melt, if or when this occurs there will be tell tale signs, first of all there is raw data that is data that is gathered from both sources, secondarily there will also be more floods in low lying areas as the water that is melting into the ocean will cause a global rise in water level.

How can YOU benefit, well if you plan on investing in real estate in these areas remember to keep a close eye on developments on the front of icecap melting, policy changes within industrialized nations(including India and China).

Another way you can gain from this is when of if it does occur wait for it to sink in, it will take around 3-5 years after cities start to flood. The best places to invest will be semi retirement low lying area’s that are high enough not to be affected by the estimated 20ft global increase in the water levels. Excellent places would be Mumbai, India, San Fransisco, New York, Vancouver,BC and the Netherlands.

The final thing you will want to remember is always always remember your demographics, when or if this starts to occur what phase are we going to be in?

Are the baby boomer’s going to be retiring?

Is the Echo Baby Boom going to be investing in there first or second homes?

Remember these are simple rules to follow when investing and to profit from Global Warming, it will also hedge your investments against catastrophic loss.

The last thing to keep in mind is whenever anyone is selling someone is buying.

P.S. i would love to read this post 10-15years from now and have everything wrong, but the sad truth is the way we are heading it is looking more likely than not.

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This week we are looking at a few different companies, one stock we closely follow here is Akamai Technologies Inc (AKAM)

they have some great fundamental numbers, with a 33PE (price to earnings ratio) and a 4 billion dollar market cap this company is positioned perfectly to profit from the next great internet boom, they handle internet traffic. e.g. March Madness, when the NCAA needed to stream video to millions of people who were watching on the internet they came to Akamai, which has solutions to help the traffic move smoothly. You should be looking to pick up some Akamai between $29-$26/share

The other company we are keeping a close eye on is Las Vegas Sands Corporation. The chart for them is looking good!

But we would need to see a pull back before we would want to get involved, if it breaks below $60 then pick some up anywhere between $60-$55 if we are lucky.

Again this company is great because of the leadership of Mr. Sheldon G. Adelson he is quite the man, this is one of the biggest bets of his life, he is basically risking all he has on the expansion of Macao, which is one thing we love to see, on the other hand he might pull a Kirk Kerkorian but with the way Macao has been preforming to date that is not the case.

So again these are just stocks we are watching and we will see in the coming weeks.

(Full disclosure as of this moment ComingCrisis.com, The author, or family members hold no position in the companies mentioned.)