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Not sure I agree with that. Smith is a very good defender.
I'm sure that Popovich would love to have Smith on his team.
The issue with Smith vs. Monroe (if it comes down to that) is Drummond=20, Smith=28, Monroe=22. It's going to take some time here. You don't get rid of Monroe unless it returns a really great pick or player (like K. Leonard)
Good point about age. Plus, I know you love Win Shares. If you look at the Win Shares / 48 minutes of our regulars: 1. Drummond .179 2. Monroe .111 3. Singler .091 4. Jerebko .088 5. Jennings .079 6. KCP .058 7. Stuckey .054 8. Bynum .046 9. Smith .020 This statistic estimates the number of wins a player contributes. The league average is 0.100. Josh Smith ranks 389th in the NBA. (Trey Burke ranks 390th at .019.) I wonder if any suckers would take Smith off our hands.
Well. Burke is 2nd in the rookie of the year standings right now.
Behind Oladipo and MCW? Has there been a weaker draft class?
Check out MCW on ur ws/48 list.
So the 2 guys the Pistons singed this past offseason combined don't even equal the league average for shared wins?
I just realized that I have 0.7 more offensive win shares for the Pistons this year than Jerebko, Bynum, Harrellson, Mitchell, Villanueva, Billups, Datome, Siva, and Smith.... COMBINED!
So, let's start with the GM hire. The most important hire. ...It'd be nice if Tom Gores knew enough about basketball to spot the next great NBA GM, but I don't think he is ~ traditional or new-school analytics. I don't think he's got the knowledge to do it. I think we need to go after an established, top-notch GM. It seems Gores is genuine about spending what it takes to build a winner. He was outspoken about spending last summer (albeit mislead), and he seems to be serious about going after T. Izzo.. someone who'd cost about $5 mil/season. ...The avg NBA GM salary is $1.4 mil/season. The top-5 GM salaries are: (*according to reports of so-so authority) P. Jackson, P. Riley, K. O'Connor, D. Morey, S. Presti. Jackson($12mil/season) and Presti's ($3mil/season) salaries are the only ones publicly known, of that group. ...If you're asking me, this is a big deal. The top GM in the game, R.C. Buford (San Antonio) isn't even top-5 in salary. Someone making $3mil/season is top-5 in salary. Some dude who's never coached an NBA game in his life is probably going to be offered a contract in the $5mil/season range. GM's are the single most important employees in NBA organizations. GM's are grossly underpaid. It's something that a shrewd, knowledgeable owner could and should take advantage of. -Buford in San Antonio. Duncan's about to retire. Ginobli's about to retire. Parker's getting up there in age. Splitter, Diaw, Leonard, Belinelli, Mills. Is this much of a core moving forward? I'm sure the ownership is great in SA. I'm sure the fans are great. I'm sure it's a great place to live. Etc. But a lot of what made things great there is about to be gone. Think a doubling, a tripling, hell, a quadrupling (would still be less than what P. Jackson gets) of salary would be enough to entice him? Quadrupling!? Hell. It's got to, right? -Presti in Oklahoma City (from the Popovich/Buford/SA tree). He's not Buford. But I'd definitely be interested in him. Second/third choice. -Pritchard in Indiana (from the Popovich/Buford/SA tree). He's not Buford either. But I'd definitely be interested in him. Second/third choice. -Morey in Houston. The father of modern-NBA analytics. Hasn't worked out all that well thus far in Houston, and he's a clear fourth/fifth choice, but I'd at least be interested. -Nelson in Dallas. He's been around, for a long time. He's had some success, too. He'd be a fourth/fifth choice for me. The point is. There are talented dudes out there, Gores. It's the most important investment you'll make in the franchise. Spend the money you want to waste on Izzo right, here. Find a top head man. Support him, 100%. Have him support whoever he hires as coach, 100%. Then we've got something.
Not sure you can simply pay any of those guys since they would have contracts in place. And what reason would any of them have to leave? I don't know if money is their driving force unlike many players. If you want someone who knows how to clean up a teams contract nightmare and build a great team look no further than Donnie Walsh. For some recent history he cleaned up the mess left behind by Zeke in New York and had the team on the up and up until James Dolan demanded he get Melo and then built this current Indiana squad. He is only employed in Indiana as a consultant at the moment so maybe you could sway him to join the Pistons. You could do much worse than Donnie.
Guys like Jennings and Smith need a system. It's blatantly obvious. If left to their own devices and decision-making... well we've seen the results. But if installed in a functioning system I think we can see great things. Which means who we hire as the next coach precedes anything else in terms of importance.
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Usually larry demands that the roster is purged of knuckleheads. That could be a problem due to the legal contracts that we have entered into.
Okay, I figured it out. What the Pistons need to do is bring in Rudy Gay. Then have Jennings, Smith, Gay, Siva, KCP, and Datome chucking up bricks, and guys like JJ, Mitchell, and Drummond grabbing the misses. That's how you create a perimeter offense without guys that can shoot and a post game without having guys that have moves. This GM stuff is easy, I don't know why you'd want to violate league policies by trying to buy another one out.
I think it's relatively easy for GM's under contract to get out of their current contracts and accept more lucrative offers. I'd put the full-court press on Buford, Presti and Pritchard. One of the three will have a price. That's where you outspend your competition, Mr. Gores. Or, conversely, you could reach out to L. Brown, J. Sloan or even G. Popovich about the GM job.
My pecking order for GM's is.. 1) G. Popovich; 2) L. Brown; 3) R. Buford; 4) S. Presti; 5) K. Pritchard; 6) J. Sloan.
One of these guys thinks he is a great GM, and the other 2 have never done the job. I don't think expertise in one domain automatically means expertise in another. I am not sure being a great coach is the same as being a great GM.
I agree. Look at Isiah Thomas....okay, bad example.
Zeke was a pretty good GM. With a bit of luck, he might be our next GM.
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Javi is one of the ones I'm rooting for to medal in Sochi!
WOW, what a great article about a guy who sounds really nice!!! I´m so happy for his success and that he is getting the attention in his own country and in Canada, too.
I would expect Fernandez to finish on the podium at this season's Worlds, he has improved his presentation, he has three quads in the long program and he usually skates very well in Canada.
Yes, he can do it.
The recognition is well deserved; Javier has worked hard.
I really like Javier and I am glad for him, but I must say that I don't want either Daisuke, or Chan to miss the podium. I just love Daisuke, despite his not so great programs for this season, and this is the first season when I really, really like Chan. And I don't really see Hanyu missing the podium unless he totally messes up both of his programs. Of course, it has happened before, and can happen again, but there is also a considerable possibility of Hanyu skating his record score gaining SP cleanly, and then just partially messing up his FS, but the lead after the SP being huge enough to still medal or even take the gold.
Sigh. Just not enough places on the podium for all the skater that I like.
Javi probably benefits from not having Skating Parents . . . because then he and Brian only have to worry about the skating.
Vomit-inducing cheesefest of an article but I am glad that Fernandez is finally getting the recognition he deserves.
It's incredible how much he's managed to achieve given the very sub-optimal training conditions he's had in Spain.
I love cheesefests! More, please, more!
I'm happy to hear that Javier is getting more press and publicity in his home country. Spain hasn't had much in the way of good news in the past few years so how even more exciting for Spaniards to have someone to root for at the international stage in a sport that's been pretty much unknown natively-speaking.
There's something I love about Javier but I don't know quite what it is yet. His smile? Whatever the case, I hope he puts on a great performance at worlds next week. I'll be rooting for him
He laughed when he thought back to his first days away from Spain, working with a Russian coach and being around Japanese skaters in an English-speaking country, but slowly, he made it work.
A love this kind of attitude!!! Well, he apparently is talented in skating and in languages, as his English sounded to me very good in the 2013 Europeans interview.
Yeah, maybe they should split it and give large medals* to skaters who place top 3 in the sp and in the lp to spread the medals around. That, or either also give medals for best jumps, best spins, best cohesive and artistically-performed choreography, and so on (in addition to the top overall championship medals).
*I know they already do have the small medal ceremony, but that really doesn't count much in the scheme of things.
Good luck to Javi! It will be interesting to see how things transpire for everyone in London, Ontario.
Good for Fernandez to get great publicity and recognition in Spain. Good for figure skating in the country. He is skating very well so I too think he will win a medal. Good luck to cutie Fernandez.
His success is extraordinary! He's like male Yuna but from Spain like she's from south Korea! Both really were first to win stuff in figure skating for their country. But maybe he's more impressive because south Korea is huge with speed skating so there was more awareness of skating sports.
I love that Javi skates in Spanish Nats every year.
Yeah, but Javier won't be making millions in endorsements like Yuna did, unfortunately...
Wait.... Do you mean that coach of his is not his father?
Sylvia suggested I cross post from the thrash can thread:
Philip Hersh's article on Javi
Go Javi!!! Now that he's a student of Brian Orser I truly believe he can medal at Sochi, as a hispanic I'm so proud of him!!!! Que viva España!


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Selling to Australians.
First...make sure the buyer is in fact in Australia,and why he would want to buy this way is beyond me,beause there are hundreds of early stangs here,all imported from the US,BUT he must have an "approval to import" form from thre Australian governement BEFORE he does any deals.No form ,no import.
Approval forms here
Use Paypal,he only gets your paypal address. No pay,no car ...simple.
Yes, I see no problem with that It just you cars ID number thats all.
You could walk around any car show and see them to, It just tells the guy about the car.
|Is it safe to give him the VIN number for the car? He says he needs it for shipping...
Mosstrooper, I agree it would be a no mess deal, But thats something the buyer would deal with. I think the buyer is trying to save some bucks. I remember hims saying something adout that.
Possible sale.
I would like to make one or two comments here.
As someone from the UK who has thought about buying from the USA I would like to say.
1) I would never expect the seller to take anything to do with shipping, handling, paperwork or any other thing connected with getting the car away from his driveway.
2) I would never expect to have to do any of these things myself.
Neither I, nor the seller has any experience of these matters and any attempt at do-it-yourself is bound to end in tears.
There are companies here in the UK who will bring anything to my door, all I have to do is tell them where it is, sign a contract, pay an upfront deposit and the agreed remainder when the car is on UK soil. The Company pays the seller in Dollars, pick up of the car, all the shipping and Taxes and bills me at the end. I don't have to know your Bank Details or any other personal details, and you don't have to know mine.
I see PayPal mentioned here.
This is becoming a bad word here, caused by buyers claiming the goods are not as described or damaged. PayPal refunds their money and they keep the goods, unless you are prepared to go and collect them. Australia seems a long way to me.
I'll keep you updated!
p.s. thanks killer, I forgot to edit that out!
Cool, Its all sounding good to me so far I don't have a problem with anything he or you said. I think your fine so far. The test is getting the deposit. Send a pic of the vin is no problem. A copy of the title I would just check with the dmv but still not a problem. Did you read the customs deal he going to need paper work to show owner ship. i still would call customs just to make sure. but still I'm not seeing any problem that can't be work out.
Keep us up dated would like to see how this all works out.
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Ok I read the complete deal.
One I would not do the shipping he has got to arrange it.
If he has the vin he can have it check out there are company that do title search Or you can got down to the DMV and have them do one and he could see the print out and could problem tell about sell a car to a foreign buyer
but not a good copy of the title.
and last all that has to be done at custom be for they will release it to be ship anyway.
I would never give your license out. I'm sure custom can solve a lot of you concerns and so could you bank.
So if you think about it you have a lot of hoop to jump through before you do any thing else
1. call customs
2.talk to your bank
3.talk to the dmv
4. set up the deal so you feel good about what you doing. it you car its you terms.
Well Ive done this before and your right it is on you checks an it is how you tranfer funds from one account to anouther but I not sure if it workes the same way over there now the guy is telling you if you don't feel wright he's willing to do paypal. I don't see anything missleading in that.The other thing you can do is go down to you bank and show them the e-mail and ask them if this is correct. you still got a ton of detail tell you get to that point. He's still got a lot of question about the car I would working on that first . I would tell him I want to make sure you happy first with what you see and then we can talk money shipping I think I would ask him if he is going to have anyone inspect the car. to back up your clams. in the mean time you can check with the bank call custom so on an so Don't let this guy rush you. So slow down take it step by step. Go to the customs web site talk to your bank get inform before you talk to this guy. yea its a deal not tell the fat lady sings.
Doc's right. Don't give out all of your info. Money is one thing but identity theft is another. Not that this guy isn't on the up and up, but with a copy of the title, he can have another made and you just stole his car. With your bank account info, he just cleaned you out. And with using an anonymous e-mail mailer (there are programs out there) he could look like he is from Ozland but in all actuality, he could be just around the corner from you. You have to decide on your own to what degree of trust you want to stop at. Personally, I would want his phone number and spend a few bucks and talk to him on the phone. Secondly, if he can PayPal you the deposit, he can PayPal the rest of the money. Or as someone stated, a cashiers check by snail mail. It sounds as if he doesn't trust you but you are supposed to trust him. Scams happen this way everyday. You are selling and he wants to buy. Put the burden of trust on his shoulders and if he wants it so badly then he will have to trust you. Anytime that you make deals over the internet, things can get iffy. And if you don't sell items like this on a regular basis, then you don't have the knowledge as to what can go wrong. And if you ship it overseas, and the deal goes sour, then is he going to ship the car back to you? I very seriously doubt it. And even if you hold the title until he gets the car and you get the rest of the money....well he wanted a copy of the title to begin with, so what would keep him from having a duplicate made? And would you travel to Australia at your expense to get things straightened out? You wouldn't know where to start.
If he wants the car so badly, then supply him with any picture that he wants. Remember.....you are the one that advertised it for sale. He did not advertise as wanting to buy a Mustang convert. Supply him with any picture, get a deposit, let him make the shipping arrangements, if you have to show that you have a clean title, then get an attorney to make up a legal letter stating the title is clean, get the rest of the money, a drop off the car wherever it needs to be shipped from. You are selling, you should not have to do all of the legwork that goes along with it. Once all of the money clears, then you can send him the title and the car will arrive shortly after that. It's no different than on EBay. If you send a personal check, they hold off shipping for ten days until the check clears, then you get the merchandise.
All this fool needs is your SSAN and Birth Cert..and guess what ? He's you and your screwed..
Let's recap..
My Ex~wifes Knew less about me at divorce..What's this guy want a DNA sample too?
With the information he wants you to send, I suppose I could get a Car titled in my name just about anywhere in the world..before it ever arrived at the docks..and all for the cost of shipping and a 10% Deposit..
Truthfully, I'd pass on this idiot..you can sell the car to someone else in the states for about the same price..and keep more in your pocket then it will cost to deal with this fool..
What is the deal about shipping? It would seem he thinks you are paying for that by his email? True or not? For that alone I'd blow him off..ship is his problem..
If you want to do a deal, Tell him this is how this is gonna shake out.. have a mutual bank picked as an escrow holder for a period of 10 days (or until the funds CLEAR) Then the bank sends the funds to your account, and the title and notarized bill of sale are sent to him and shipping can begin (they can preload..but not ship or leave the dock prior to that date..unless released by the bank)
Any other way and it's gonna cost you major bucks in fees..and don't forget also..you get an IRS flag on this transaction here..you will have to pay taxes on that also (transactions over $10,000)
The latest and greatest Scam is Forged Cashier's Checks..the Check hits your account, you send the Vehicle..title ET&AL..ten days later the Check comes back as forged..Treasury Agents are knocking on your door..your out 45 grand..and the Car..and no way to catch up with this guy..
OR you can offer him a reduction of half his airfare to the states to BRING you cash (not a check..)..and leave with the car and title ...
Blow him off..more trouble than it's worth..
I just reread the Emial post..Is this deal 45 grand, or 45 hundred? ..If $4500, it's not worth the trouble..I thought it was 45 grand..
There's no reason to give anybody your account info like that, although what he asked for is nothing that's not printed on a standard check (account and routing number, full name and address of bank).
Are you comfortable paying the service fee from paypal (3% I believe) on your money? If so, just have him send the entire payment that way!
Find out what city he's from and find what money transfer services are available. There's no reason he can't use just a regular cashier's check or money order either. IN that case you'd just wait for said item to clear and take the money.
That said, this guy does sound a little backward. Just be cautious and put yourself first in the transaction. Dont give anybody anything until you have cash in your hand (I.e. a cleared check amount). At this point I think you can assume that you're not going to get that, and that this is a sham.
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As material science advances, the familiar often becomes foreign. As Paola Antonelli described in the MoMA show "Mutant Materials" back in 1995, materials continue to cross known boundaries of behavior, upsetting our expectations about the ways in which they are supposed to perform.
Rice University researchers have discovered a new form of silicone that meets this description. Although the material is known to be flexible and rubbery, it can be made tough when subjected to repeated stresses in a particular state. When silicone is in a so-called liquid crystal phase, which is in-between a solid and liquid, it will gain increasing strength under repeated pressure. The scientists determined this unusual behavior results from the reorganization of molecular chains from random to organized coil formations.
"The molecules in a liquid crystal elastomer are like rods that want to point in a particular direction," said polymer scientist Rafael Verduzco in a university press release. "In the starting sample, the rods are randomly oriented, but when the material is deformed, they rotate and eventually end up pointing in the same direction. This is what gives rise to the stiffening. It's surprising that by a relatively gentle but repetitive compression, you can work out all the entanglements and knots to end up with a sample where all the polymer rods are aligned."
Verduzco and his team anticipate the toughened silicone to be applied to a wide variety of products, ranging from electronic displays to self-healing polymers. Since silicone is biocompatible, the material offers a promising substance for human tissue engineering—particularly since the toughening response mimics the reaction of human muscles to stress.
Blaine Brownell, AIA, is a regularly featured columnist whose stories appear on this website each week. His views and conclusions are not necessarily those of ARCHITECT magazine nor of the American Institute of Architects.


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You may like VZ Grips or Sarge's Grips for your 238.
Once mine proves itself reliable I will most likely get some VZs for it. I have several pairs of VZ grips on my 1911s and Hi Power, they are probably my favorite next to the Hogue rubberized grips.


text: Good luck! I cant believe as cash strapped as CA is they would not slap a tax on CCW permits and give it a go. I assume residents would be willing to pay a little extra as long as it was not some huge punitive amount designed to make the permit out of reach. What say you Californians, would you pay and extra $50 or so on top of the usual application fee to be able to actually get a CCW permit. One thing politicians love is a good bribe, maybe you could bring that to their attentions.


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ObamaCare: We will fight in the shade.
posted at 12:07 pm on June 30, 2012 by Jorge Bonilla
I forced myself to observe a cooling-off period after Thursday's Supreme Court decision affirming ObamaCare, just to make sure that I didn't say anything in haste. At this point, I'm not entirely sure it's worked, but I'm done holding my peace.
I fail to see how today's ruling is anything other than awful for those of us who love this Republic, its Founding documents, and the Rule of Law. I get the urge to celebrate a win on the Commerce Clause argument, but not at the expense of expanding Congress' power to tax. The ruling strikes me as lawlessness on top of lawlessness, a big fat cherry on top of a Fast and Furious, Solyndra, and bailout sundae. If it's unconstutional, it's unconstitutional; throw the whole stinkin' thing out and be done with it…instead of finding reasons to keep this monstrosityafloat.
I keep reading that the one good thing to come out of this ruling is that ObamaCare is now codified as a tax, which means it can be repealed via reconciliation; that is, with simple Congressional majorities. That's nice, except that ObamaCare passed via reconciliation, so reconciliation repeal was already an option. I am comforted by the fact that there are still challenges to be heard. Next up, the religious freedom lawsuits.
Today, the statists won. But rest assured, this is not the end by any stretch of the imagination.
As long as this horrific piece of legislation remains on the books, we will fight. We will stand and fight the biased narratives, the culture of victimization, and the hostile occupation of our Republic and its founding principles. We will engage the statists, and their surrogates in media, entertainment, and academia. And should their lies and distortions threaten to blot out the shining sun of freedom, then we stand at the ready, and we will fight in the shade.
I leave you with the one thing that chief Justice Roberts and I agree on.
Members of this Court are vested with the authority to interpret the law; we possess neither the expertise nor the prerogative to make policy judgments. Those decisions are entrusted to our Nation's elected leaders, who can be thrown out of office if the people disagree with them. It is not our job to protect the people from the consequences of their political choices.
Originally published on 6/29/12 at El Tercer Riel (The Third Rail). Spanish-language version available here.


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Your Ticket to the
Only a few contrarian investors were smart enough to buy gold when it bottomed at $255/ounce in 2001.
I hope you were one of them, but the odds are against it.
But there's a new bull market emerging as we speak… one that has all the hallmarks of a "Super-Bull," dwarfing even gold's meteoric rise.
It's not a "secret investment" or a "little-known sector most investors have never heard of."
It's as sexy as a loaf of bread and as popular as Nancy Pelosi.
In fact, it's so in-your-face boring that almost no one's paying attention to it.
Just like gold in 2001.
But that will change soon…
Dear Fellow Investor,
From its bottom in 2001 to its recent peak in September 2011, gold has risen more than 640%.
And like my friend Brian, you may be slapping yourself because you didn't realize what was going on until that tremendous bull run was well under way.
Brian is an old high-school buddy I ran into at a reunion a few months ago. We hadn't really kept in touch, so he was surprised – and dismayed – to hear that I am working as a resource-investment specialist.
"That's just my luck," he groaned. "Damn, I wish I'd had contact with you when that gold bull started."
Like most investors, Brian had his money tied up in blue chips, index funds, and other "conservative" investments… and most of them tanked in the big crash in 2008.
"I was watching my portfolio shrivel away," he said, "while gold was going up and up and up. Now it's around $1,700 per ounce, way too late to get in. And even if it does go to $2,000, as some people say, that would only be, like… a 17-percent gain. I feel like an idiot."
While my colleagues and I here at Casey Research think gold could climb much higher than $2,000, I could certainly understand Brian's predicament.
So I took him aside and let him in on what I believe is the next great bull market – one that has barely started, but that may well enter the history books as "the Super-Bull of the 21st Century."
In a few minutes, I'll tell you all about it, too, but I have to warn you…
This is not an investment you want to talk about at your next cocktail party. If you do, expect your friends' eyes to glaze over and beautiful women to walk away from you with looks of thinly veiled boredom.
No one will find this investment fascinating. And you won't even earn bonus points for its novelty, because it's not new at all.
And as the last straw, the underlying commodity I'm talking about is not even particularly cheap right now.
In a word, this is the most boring investment sector on Earth.
Except to those who understand its vast potential.
Wait a couple years, and you'll recognize them quite easily – by the big, smug grins on their faces.
After you read this report from cover to cover, you will be one of those "in-the-know" people.
Before I go on, though, let me briefly introduce myself…
Juiced Up – and Proud of It
| Marin Katusa
Chief Energy Investment Strategist, editor of Casey Energy Dividends
My name is Marin Katusa, and I'm an addict.
There, I said it, and I'm not apologizing. Because my particular addiction has not only changed my own life for the better, but the lives of many others as well.
In my early twenties, I taught post-secondary math and calculus in Vancouver, Canada. But after a few years, I realized my passion was not in teaching. So I followed my real passion and interests – resource investing – and put my math and analytical skills to work in this field.
After I got my first taste of the resource business, I was hooked. Ever since, I have pursued unique profit opportunities in the sector with a single-minded passion that some have called obsessive.
From my humble beginnings, I developed into a successful angel investor with a huge network of contacts in the industry.
In 2006, I got interested in European shale gas, four years before the mainstream media picked up on it. One early-stage shale gas company in particular caught my eye, Cuadrilla Resources – so much so that I not only recommended it to my high-net-worth subscribers, friends, and family… I also became a major financial backer and the largest individual investor in the deal.
My subscribers invested at the same time and for the same price I did: C$0.25 per share in May 2008. Less than one and a half years later, we sold in a buyout at C$1.80… for a gain of 620%, in one of the worst resource markets of the past century.
I like to get right in the middle of things, especially with companies whose success I wholeheartedly believe in. In 2007, I became one of the original four directors of Copper Mountain Mining Corp. (T.CUM). Within five years, the company grew from a tiny, private company to a small copper and gold explorer… to Canada's third-largest copper producer.
Today, rich investors like renowned resource broker Rick Rule and Keith Hill of the Lundin Group are asking for my advice. I'm often invited as a speaker to major resource conferences throughout North America, and I'm a regular commentator on the Canadian Business News Networks. I've been featured in articles by The Globe and Mail, Forbes, International Business Times, and many other well-known publications.
And on top of that, as Casey Research's chief investment strategist for energy, I provide my insights on the fast-moving energy markets – as well as the most undervalued stocks and funds with great upside potential – to tens of thousands of subscribers.
But enough about me – it's time to let you in on the amazing mega-opportunity, the Super-Bull of the 21st Century. Drum roll, please…
— Oil —
I told you it wasn't exciting nor sexy nor popular. And you know what:
That's exactly how you recognize an emerging bull market.
It's a sector, commodity, or asset that is so taken for granted and that everyone looks at with such contempt (if anyone is looking at all)… that it has nowhere to go but up.
Of course that isn't true for each and every asset. Two essential factors have to come together for any commodity to enter a boom cycle…
High Demand + Low Supply = Rising Prices
Let's start with the demand side.
China's Insatiable Thirst for Oil
China, with its population of more than 1.3 billion and its growing middle class, has become the world's #1 energy guzzler – now consuming 20.3% of global energy supplies.
On March 12, 2012, Bloomberg reported that "Increased domestic consumption, plus additional imports for strategic storage, has pushed up [China's oil] imports to 6 million barrels per day in February. At that rate, the 2012 import bill for crude will be $250B, approximately equal to the US trade deficit with China."
For years, the Chinese have been fiercely competing for oil with the United States… and they are snapping up the valuable "black gold" wherever they can find it.
In December 2011, Afghanistan's government signed its first contract with China's state-owned National Petroleum Corporation to exploit oil and natural gas in a northwestern region.
On top of the fact that Asian imports of crude from West Africa are at record highs, China is also buying surplus production from Saudi Arabia:
"On average, Saudi exports went up by 200,000 barrels per day and this went to the East, overwhelmingly to China," said one of the sources, a senior executive with the trading arm of a U.S. oil company.
– Reuters, Feb. 7, 2012
But if there's such a huge global demand, what about alternative fuels?
Like it or not, oil is still the number-one fuel worldwide, and a viable replacement is nowhere in sight.
Alternative Energies Don't Work
"Going green" is all the rage, but the sad truth is that in their current state of development, nearly all renewable energies are nothing but financial sinkholes.
Wind – Over-Hyped and Overblown
In March 2012, Professor Gordon Hughes of the UK's Global Warming Policy Foundation published a report stating that wind power is "a technology that is not very green" but "very expensive and inflexible."
A typical turbine generates power that is worth around £150,000 a year, but attracts subsidies of more than £250,000 a year. These subsidies are of course added directly to the bills of energy users.
–Hughes Report
If the British government's target for renewable power generation in 2020 were to be met by wind power, the cost would be £120 billion… nearly 10 times as much as the same amount of electricity generated by combined-cycle natural-gas plants.
Solar – the Green Parasite
Next to wind, solar is one of the most cost-inefficient energies on the planet.
- In 2011, 1,700 megawatts (MW) of solar panels were installed during the year – an increase of 89% over 2010. Now here's the shocker: All of the solar panels now installed across the United States combined produce only about as much electricity as a single coal-fired plant.
- The material in solar cells that conducts electricity is silver. With silver's meteoric rise in the last ten years, the metal now accounts for half of cell makers' processing costs (9 cents per 18-cent solar cell). Consequently, solar companies have seen their already-slim margins dwindle down to next to nothing.
The only reason that the US solar industry is making any money at all is because it is so heavily government funded. But that is changing as well.
- Over the last few years, the Obama administration spent $9.6 billion on solar and wind power through the Section 1603 Treasury Grant Program... but that program expired in January 2012. As an industry that is wholly dependent on subsidies – not on its own technological capabilities – left to their own devices, US solar producers are not going to survive.
What about corn ethanol, the much-touted "green" replacement for gasoline?
Ethanol: "Lack of Competitiveness"
When you consider that it takes more energy to make a gallon of corn ethanol than the energy output it generates, there's really no point in making it at all.
In October 2011, researchers from the National Academy of Sciences concluded that grain ethanol "could not compete with fossil fuels in the US marketplace without mandates, subsidies, tax exemptions and tariffs... This lack of competitiveness raises questions about the use of government resources to support biofuels."
I hate to say it, but corn ethanol, solar, and wind – all of them similarly heavily subsidized and all of them equally unfeasible – are like Paris Hilton: spoiled trust-fund kids that haven't really worked a day in their lives.
And who foots the bill for their exuberant lifestyle? You guessed it: "Daddy Taxpayer"… that's you and me.
Don't get me wrong – I'd love to meet all our energy needs from clean, green technologies. But not at any cost.
The only renewable energy that so far can compete with the efficiency of fossil fuels is geothermal – which has its own problems, among them a huge backlash from environmental groups and the NIMBY (Not In My Back Yard) crowd.
So, oil is here to stay for quite a while. And while demand is skyrocketing, the supply isn't getting any larger…
Global Peak Oil Is Here
You've probably heard of Peak Oil, so named by geologist M. King Hubbert, who in the 1950s graphed a bell-shaped curve of future oil decline.
Well, Hubbert was right.
- US oil production peaked in 1971 and has been dropping ever since.
- At the time North Sea oil production peaked in 1999, the UK was exporting 1 million barrels of crude per day. By August of 2004, it had become a net importer.
- Mexico's Cantarell oil field, one of the largest in the world, peaked in 2004 at 2.14 million barrels per day (bbl/d). In 2010, Cantarell produced 558,000 bbl/d, down 74% from its peak production level.
- For a while, the highly praised KMZ field adjacent to Cantarell made up for the downfall, but experts say that KMZ, too, may peak by 2013.
- And a WikiLeaks bombshell last year, published by the Guardian, showed that US officials believe Saudi Arabia may have overstated its remaining oil reserves by a whopping 40%.
Geologist Jeffrey Brown, creator of the "Export Land Model," believes that after a country's oil production hits peak, it will decline at a rate of 5% per year at the same time that domestic consumption increases by 2.5%.
According to Brown's calculations, that country's oil exports should reach zero within nine years, as it begins to keep available supplies for its own energy needs.
More and more experts are now suggesting that we've already reached Global Peak Oil.
The proof is in the pudding: Worldwide production has been largely flat for the last seven years – as you can see in the chart on the right.
Aren't There Any New Deposits Being Found?
Yes, there are (occasionally). But beware when the mainstream media touts new gigantic discoveries – like the deepwater oilfield off Brazil's shore found in 2008 that is supposed to contain up to 33 billion barrels and, as MSNBC stated, could be "the world's third-largest known oil reserve."
Those overly optimistic estimates usually turn out to be nothing but hot air. Later on, the number of barrels that are there and that are economically recoverable – or recoverable at all, for that matter – is almost always severely downgraded.
As Rex Weyler, executive member of the Vancouver Peak Oil campaign group, pointed out in a recent article:
When you read or hear about "10 billion barrels" of oil discovered somewhere... a third of that is probably not recoverable or entirely illusory. The recoverable portion will require a billion barrels of oil equivalent energy to produce... What is left, about five or six billion barrels, equates to about a two-month supply for humanity. Two months. We will not "run out of oil" because, simply, we will never get it all.
But what about the vast stretches of oil sands in the US and Canada that have been making headlines in recent years?
Basically the same thing. Oil shales are viscous tar sands, and it's extremely hard and expensive to produce usable oil from them. And while it takes 1 billion barrels of oil equivalent (BOE) to extract the recoverable portion of a conventional 10-billion-barrel field… for oil shales that number shoots up to 3 billion BOE.
There's no way around it: the "walk-in-the-park" stuff – the light, sweet crude that's easy to extract and easy to refine – is almost gone.
And this supply crunch does not even take into account any so-called "Black Swan" events, such as…
- Iran, increasingly pressured by the Western world, could block the Strait of Hormuz – shutting down the shipping lane for 90% of all Persian Gulf oil.
- A natural disaster like another Hurricane Katrina could disable crucial oil refineries on the Gulf Coast for weeks or months.
- A military coup could overthrow a US-friendly government in an oil-producing country and stop oil deliveries to Americans.
Whichever way you look at it, the oil price has only one way to go… UP.
So, you're beginning to see why I'm so excited about oil… and why I recommend to my subscribers to get into this sector now while it's still early enough to make sizeable returns when the market really takes off… just like investors did who got into precious metals in 2001.
Let me tell you how I prime my subscribers for maximum success:
Grabbing Opportunities
Wherever We Find Them
I know it sounds preposterous, but my team of analysts and editors and I work pretty much around the clock to bring the best energy opportunities to our subscribers.
In fact, I spend more time per year sleeping on airplanes, on my way to vetting promising deposits around the world, than in my own bed.
All the in-depth research we do makes me so confident in the Super-Bull I've been talking to you about.
But our work is not just about oil. We closely look at all the energy sectors, from natural gas to coal and uranium to viable alternative energies. Wherever we discover new facts that tell us a sector is on the upswing (or very close to it), we tell you in detail about our findings, which companies are poised to gain, and how and when you should invest.
My monthly report, Casey Energy Dividends, is designed to…
- Give subscribers a real education in all things energy. We don't just hand you the latest "hot pick"; we tell you everything you need to know in clear, concise language – no broker-speak allowed. With every issue, you'll become a more sophisticated energy investor, able to form your own, educated opinions on the stocks we're following.
- Give you our honest assessment of sectors and companies. I refuse to peddle an energy sector or company just because everyone else does. In every edition of Casey Energy Dividends, we cover all the pros and cons of our "sector of the month" and the companies vying for investors' attention. We cut through the media hype so you don't have to. Sometimes my team and I, after having vetted a promising company, will decide that it's not yet ripe for the taking… so we put it on our watch list and alert you when the price is right.
- Make sure you keep the money you've made. As they say, a gain is only a real gain when you realize it. That's why, whenever one of our stocks rises considerably, we'll tell you to take a "Casey Free Ride" – that means take your initial investment off the table and let the profits ride, risk-free. Make no mistake, the energy sector is a volatile one, so we do everything to maximize the returns and minimize the risk.
- Identify the best-of-the-best mid- and large-cap dividend-paying energy companies. We're not just looking for companies that pay good dividends, we want our recommendations to have a track record and assets to support a dividend even if the market or commodity dips in price.
Kinder Morgan (KMI), one of North America's largest energy-infrastructure companies, is a prime example of the kind of opportunity we're looking for.
On December 13, 2011, we recommended KMI when it was selling for $29.20 a share. About 10 months later, on Oct. 8, it closed at $35.36 – a gain of 21.8%. And with the explosive growth of North American shale oil and gas industries – US oil production has risen 25% since 2008, and shale gas now amounts to 37% of the country's natural gas production, up from only 2% in 2000 – we expect it to continue to do well.
In addition to this solid gain, Casey Energy Dividends subscribers are receiving a dividend of $3.88 per share on KMI stock.
Another example is energy superpower Royal Dutch Shell, which we recommended on June 11, 2012, when share prices were $63.17. By early October, they were selling for $69.89, an 11% gain.
On top of that, we're enjoying 4.92% dividends.
Now, I know this all sounds good, but there's a trick to consistently profiting in energy that you need to be aware of…
No Guts, No Glory
Natural resource stocks are not bonds or mutual funds or CDs. They don't keep going up in a straight line, ever. But unlike the panicked investing masses, we don't sell a stock the minute its share price is falling.
We're in the market to realize gains, not losses.
In the end, many of our portfolio holdings that dropped 20% or 30% during one of the inevitable corrections turned into our greatest winners.
To invest in these stocks, you need some "intestinal fortitude." But if you follow our lead and hang on through the ups and downs, the potential rewards sure beat the measly yields you'd have to settle for from more conservative investments.
Of course, if you're brave enough to invest in an unpopular sector like oil – instead of running with the herd – you probably have all the guts you'll need.
Looking for the Nerds
The decision to invest in an unpopular vs. a popular asset is like deciding whether to hang out with the nerdy kids or the high-school quarterbacks: While the jocks are more fun to party with, the nerds are the ones who go on to become the Bill Gateses and Mark Zuckerbergs of the world.
"Oil Will Be the Driver…"
"What's unpopular? That's what we need to ask ourselves. And I think energy is unpopular. I think the whole energy complex is unpopular.... I think oil will be the driver.
"I believe that as much as 25% of the world's supply of export crude will come off the market in 5 years.... So think about some simple math; this is common sense: if worldwide export demand is growing to 3% compounded and worldwide supply falls by 25% (remember the prices are set on the margin), what do you think my outlook for the oil price is?"
– Rick Rule, founder of
Global Resource Investments
You see, every bull market has three stages:
- The Stealth Phase where no one pays attention to the lowly asset. Back in the early 2000s, financial pundits called gold a "barbarous relic," not to be taken seriously. Only the most fearless speculators, such as Doug Casey, got in at the bottom – and were being ridiculed for it.
- Next is the Wall of Worry Phase. Awareness of the asset's potential starts to rise, and gradually institutional investors like hedge funds start pouring in. People who aren't invested feel they've already missed the boat; people who are watch every dip, fearing that it may signal the end of the bull market.
- Finally the Mania Phase comes along. In spite of the naysayers, the price of the asset has kept going up, and now everyone is scrambling to get a piece of the action. When your neighbor, your cousin, and your coworkers start talking to you about oil investments, you'll know it's time to get out.
Right now, oil is in the Stealth Phase – just like gold was in 2001.
And if you get positioned now, you'll be happily selling your shares to the latecomers who called you crazy just a few years before… for multiples of the amount you paid for those shares.
Oil has all the hallmarks for becoming one of the biggest winners of the decade, if not the century. And if you become a subscriber to Casey Energy Dividends today, you'll catch the Super-Bull in the early stages (and be rewarded with regular dividend payments).
No Arms or Legs Required
You may think I'm in the process of selling you on some newsletter that costs hundreds of dollars. But that is not the case.
Unlike gasoline, which is bound to cost you the proverbial arm and leg in the near future, year-round guidance from the Casey Energy Dividends team comes at a very small price.
The regular list price for this one-of-a-kind advisory is $79 per year. You read that correctly.
But you don't even have to pay that much.
If you subscribe today, I'll give you a full year (12 monthly issues) of Casey Energy Dividends for only $39… that's half off the list price.
And as long as you remain a subscriber, you'll never pay more than that.
It gets even better. You have 90 days to test-drive Casey Energy Dividends, and if you aren't 100% satisfied, cancel within those 90 days, and we'll refund you every penny of the $39 you paid.
Just click below to get started right now.YES - I want to try Casey Energy Dividends!
Am I crazy? Why would I hand you an expert advisory chock-full of valuable information and actionable stock recommendations for the price of a magazine subscription?
Simple. My intention is to get you into an affordable energy service that allows you to dip your toes into the water and check the temperature… at virtually no risk. And of course I hope you'll stick around for the rest of this bull market.
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The new league, which sees a new focus on youth with teams limited to fielding a maximum of three outfield players over the age of 21 and one over-age goalkeeper, marks the start of an exciting season for Terry Burton's youngsters, who are also taking part the Champions League-style Under-19s NextGen Series for the first time.
The Gunners, one of 24 teams from across Europe to compete in the elite youth competition, have been drawn in a group with Marseille, Olympiacos and Athletic Bilbao. Burton's team kick off their campaign against Marseille on Wednesday, August 29 at Underhill Stadium.Copyright 2017 The Arsenal Football Club plc. Permission to use quotations from this article is granted subject to appropriate credit being given to www.arsenal.com as the source


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To the hosts of TWiV (I find the fact that you're called "hosts" of a virology-centered show endlessly amusing.):
Having been the weird kid reading Virus Hunters on the playground in elementary school, I've had an intense love for virology and epidemiology for as long as I can remember. Fast forward a decade and I find myself as a post-bac research tech with my mind drifting toward the possibility of grad school. I've been trying to study on my own in order to focus my brain toward a future of classroom education, but after a demanding day of trying to keep up with advanced-degree level work, it's hard to crack open a textbook and read about singledoublestrandDNARNAblahblah without my eyes glazing over. Let's not even get into what happens while reading journals.
I just discovered your podcast last week and since, it's been a constant source of entertainment (oh yes, I consider it the height of entertainment) during transit and the rote tasks of my day. I want to sincerely thank you for the work you do. I'm eager to listen to the rest of TWiV/ TWiM/ TWiP and I know that you're going to be great for the advancement of my education. (Heck, you already have been with the first ten podcasts!)
Every day that I arrive at work after listening to you, I feel inspired by the possibilities of research, which can be so demoralizing some days, and ready to throw myself into my own current research, despite it not being in my field of choice. Again, thank you so much. Your insight and knowledge are very, very much appreciated, as is your patience with my verbosity if you've made it this far down.
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John writes:
Dear TWIVers,
I was just listening to TWIV 122, and this made me think of two somewhat related questions.
First, you discussed a gene involved in innate immunity inside the cell (TRIM-5 alpha), which provides a natural defense against retroviruses, and which has some alleles that have been preserved, more-or-less, across species that diverged millions of years ago. You talked about a bunch of possible explanations, but one you didn't discuss involved endogenous retroviruses. I am curious if that could explain the preservation of some of these alleles in primates. (I should point out I'm not a biologist, but a computer scientist. So I may be misunderstanding things here.)
The way I imagine this working is that there's a population of ERVs hiding out in the genes of different species of primates, Some ERVs reawaken pretty regularly, so that in the average individual, it's not surprising to have the ERV showing up. In those species, the allele of TRIM-5 alpha that protects against them will be really common, because it provides a big fitness advantage. But it seems like there should also be some ERVs that reawaken only much more rarely--perhaps they need a helpful mutation, or some really unlikely sequence of events inside the cell, before they can come back out. And those would support balancing selection between alleles--if you have some ERV that only comes out once per generation, the value of an allele that resists it is based on how common that allele is in the population. If almost everyone else has it, you hardly need it--most likely, the retrovirus will never spread to you, and you're not at all likely to be the one individual per generation in which the ERV reawakens. The more rare that allele becomes in the population, the higher its fitness value to an individual, and so the more it is selected for--once-per-generation epidemics of some nasty retrovirus should keep some level of the resistance allele in the population. The more rare the events that allow the ERV to come back to life and start spreading again, the more rare you'd expect the allele that provides resistance to it to become, but it seems like that should still keep some level of the allele around. Imagine a once-per-twenty-generations epidemic of something as nasty as HIV sweeping though your population. When that epidemic comes out, the fraction of the population carrying the allele that gives resistance to it will very quickly jump from a small fraction to nearly everyone.
My question is, could this account for some of the preservation of these TRIM-5 alpha alleles across long-separated species? As long as you have the same (or similar) ERV reawakening from time to time in two distant lineages of monkeys, it makes sense you'd have the same (or similar) alleles to provide resistance to that ERV. But this assumes that the ERVs can stick around that long in forms that can replicate under the right circumstances. (It seems like the ERVs could stick around by managing to re-insert themselves into the germline when they manage to come out and trigger another epidemic, after most of the population had lost its resistance.)
Is this at all plausible? The more time I spend writing this out, the more assumptions I find I'm making that I don't know enough to confirm. That's the problem with speculating far outside your area of expertise, I guess.
My second question involves a book I want to recommend as a pick of the week, if you haven't already chosen it. It's a book published in 1949 called _Earth Abides_, by George R Stewart, in which a sudden epidemic of some unknown thing nearly wipes out the human race, with perhaps one person in a thousand surviving. Reading this around the same time I listened to your discussion in TWIV 122 made me wonder how likely it is that some epidemic could arise that kills that large a fraction of humanity. I know the original population of American Indians was nearly wiped out by disease, though I think it was multiple diseases--Measles, mumps, chicken pox, influenza, smallpox, the whole package all at once. How common is it that a single disease kills 99% of the people who get it, and also spreads easily?
This made me think of HIV, because it's always seemed to me that if HIV had been spread by casual contact, it would have killed off most of humanity. (The several-year incubation period before it becomes lethal would have kept us from noticing it--who noticed one more flu bug going through the gay communitiy in San Francisco, till people started dying from it years later?) I know there's some fraction of people that don't get it (they have a variant coreceptor that keeps the virus from entering, right?) and others that catch the virus but seem to control it indefinitely (from having the right set of MHC molecules to be able to recognize all the HIV mutations that arise in their bodies, I think). Is there a good figure for what fraction of people, total, don't die of HIV? How common is it historically to see one disease nearly wipe out a whole population?
Thanks for your wonderful podcasts, and for answering my amateur questions.
James writes:
Hey Doctors,
After reading this article I immediately thought of TWIV. Now It looks like there is hope to combine my field of cytogenetics with your field of virology.
Keep up the great work. I look forward every Monday for a new episode.
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I found your podcast while browsing thru iTunes and i have to say i'm hooked. I have the most boring job but i get to listen to my MP3 player. I have nothing to do with the medical field so some of the stuff is way over my head but it's fun to learn about viruses, especially the freaky ones. I was wondering if there have been any studies looking at HIV, generic drugs, and resistance; specifically if generic drugs lead to resistance faster. While the FDA and drug manufactures say generic and name brand are bio-equivalent, I have my doubts. I take Zyrtec for allergies and have tried every store brand i could but within 3 days I'm feeling horrible and have to switch back to the expensive, name brand. Since they generic seem not to work for me, I was wondering if the same could be true for generic HIV drugs. While there are only a few generics in the US, third world countries count on them to keep costs low. Thanks and thank you for a wonderful podcast.
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