Read ‘Dines Interview, ‘O Canada?’‘, e-mailed today to StockResearchPortal.com Subscribers.  The e-mail discusses:

• an audio interview with James Dines (The Dines Letter) where he expresses his obviously strongly held views on the investment potential of Rare Earth Elements – and also expresses view with respect to Gold, Silver and Uranium;

• an article that promotes Canada as an ‘investing refuge’ for Americans and others – where the author seems to take a stronger position on this than we think is justified; and,

• the E-Mail  Archive data feature offered by StockResearchPortal.com that we think ought to be of interest to all Resource Equity Investors and Traders.

In part, the e-mail reads:

“Dines Interview

Here is a link to an audio interview with James Dines, writer of The Dines Letter.  He discusses Rare Earth Elements, Gold, Silver and Uranium.  I suggest you listen to the interview – about 10 minutes long – get past what I see as Dines’ unnecessary ‘attitude’, and think for yourself carefully about what he has to say.  For me, a lot of what he says makes ‘sense on the surface’.  I now plan, over the next few days and weeks, to myself research the 26 Rare Earth Elements companies (Molybdenum, Nobium, Tantalum, Vanadium and other Rare Earth Elements companies) currently included in the StockResearchPortal.com Company Universe, and 13 others that we soon will be adding to that ‘Company Universe’.  To date I have done absolutely no due diligence on any of the ‘Rare Earth Element’ companies, and frankly (given all the other things I am doing in respect of the development of StockResearchPortal.com) am going to spend time doing that based entirely on having listened to the Dines interview.  Trust me, I will then decide for myself – for better or worse – whether I think Dines views make sense.  That said, Dines has definitely aroused my curiosity.

O Canada?

An article yesterday titled ‘O Canada: Investing in the World’s Safest Economy‘ suggests – at least as I read it – that Canada currently is an ‘investing refuge’ for Americans and presumably others.  While obviously the answer to the question ‘in which country to invest?’ is a relative one, I think the views of the author of the referenced article to be far to broad.  Hence, I commented on his article as follows:

I am a Canadian who has spent my adult life providing business valuation consulting advice to many of Canada’s largest companies and wealthiest families – see www.cvpl.com. I find Mr. Hutchinson’s comments and conclusions very simplistic and not ones I personally embrace – at least not to nearly the degree he seems to.

In the past two years Canada’s banking system indeed has proved to be more stable than that of the U.S., and to some degree Canadians are ‘hewers of wood and carriers of water’ – that is, we have a critically important resources economic sector, and one that I believe will become more important in a world context going forward. However …..” – to continue reading click here

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