Wow. It has been forever and a day since I’ve posted. Lots of things “happening” here in Uruguay. I’ve been pretty busy during the weekdays, and sick as a dog last weekend so I didn’t get a chance to update everyone on the ‘haps’. Here is a brief summary: Montevideo weather: it’s still sunny at [Continue]

Let’s face it. fuBarrio has wasted a lot of time musing about potential melt-downs and scary outcomes for the financial markets in this blog. The executive summary of this entry in case you don’t want to dig through the details of my still muddled mind is that I’m predicting a bankin crisis in the US [Continue]

this month i’ve been slowly moving more and more of the holdings to cash. i’m going to accelerate that move tomorrow and be sitting 90% cash before next week. i’m not “top calling”, but i need to have time to analyse global liquidity…and i don’t have that time right now. i will diworsify across several [Continue]

I was looking at my two trades last week. OK…I was hurried. I lacked sleep. I missed breakfast. The sun was in my eyes….(sorry, can’t think of any other excuses). In looking at the charts I’m not sure what I was thinking in those trades. After all the preaching in my blog about not tryin to time [Continue]

This Sunday afternoon GL and I spent a day with the relics. And no, before I get flamed, I’m not talkin about hangin out with the usual cast of retiree types who frequent the Sunday expat get togethers. (har har har) Golden Lotus and I went to visit some tibetan holy relics that were in Uruguay as [Continue]

That’s an old saying in markets. Needless to say, it doesn’t always hold true, however when it does and you’re caught on the wron side of it, that saying will ring in your ears all summer. I’m still in the depreciatin dollar in my housing fund, and off today (”may day” holiday). I’m watching very closely [Continue]