Daily Reckoning Group Research Project: Trade of the Decade, Part II

We asked. You answered.

We asked you, the Daily Reckoning readers, to submit your ideas for the “Trade of the Decade.” You responded with a flood of excellent responses. We regret that we cannot publish them all.

Yesterday, we presented some of your submissions. Today, we present a few more. So without further ado, here’s goes:

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Fiat Currency: A Common Sell-Side Trade

Faithful Daily Reckoning readers (and even some unfaithful ones) will undoubtedly be familiar with a concept known in these pages as the “Trade of the Decade.” In today’s Weekend Edition, we’re going to take a look at a few of your ideas.

But first, for the really unfaithful (or relatively new) readers, here’s a quick recap…

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The Undeniable Wealth Potential of Emerging Markets

A cool breeze blew in over our little island late this afternoon. The temperature is forecast to drop from a high of 90 degrees today to only 60 tomorrow. How quickly things can change…

But we’re here to talk markets… If you took Friday off, you didn’t miss much. The Dow nudged higher by a fraction of a percent. The NASDAQ and the S&P 500 remained, for all intents and purposes, unchanged. Gold slipped a bit over the past few days. After a failed run at $1,120 per ounce on Friday, ol’ yella fell back to around $1,100. This morning it trades a few bucks higher. Oil holds steady at $80 and change per barrel.

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