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The guy who actually saw it ALL coming down :

Steve's early warnings ahead of the 2008 Financial Crisis:

2003 Mortgage backed securities huge risk

2003 Derivatives threaten financial system

2003 Debt bubble hangs over economy

2004 Glass-Steagall repeal--history lesson

2004 Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac gone wild

2004 Unprecedented Housing bubble

2004 Musical chairs in Credit default swaps

2007 Triple-digit annual bank failures coming

2007 World-wide financial system at risk

Here are some of Steve's timing calls:

Dec 1998 Generational commodity bull move

March 2000 Tech Market top

July 2005 Housing bubble top won't be long

Oct 2007 Major stock market top

Nov 2007 Recession already here

June 2008 Commodity prices to plunge 50%

Jul 2008 Oil prices to collapse to $30

Background

As a US Army helicopter pilot during two tours in Vietnam, Steve was awarded 3 Air Medals for Valor, the Soldier's Medal, and the Distinguished Flying Cross.

Steve began is trading career in 1973, buying silver futures at 3.97. In 1974 at the bottom of the bear market, he watched is grandfather select stocks using 3 simple rules:

1. Solid dividend paying record.

2. Currently yield of 8% minimum.

3. Price have doubled during the last bull market.

In 1988, Steve retired from the construction business and began writing Bullish Review of Commodity Insiders  based on the Commitments of Traders report he discovered in 1974. He hired couriers to pick up the printed reports in New York and Chicago and rush them to his doorstep. Later, Steve led a letter writing campaign to get the CFTC to release reports more frequently than once a month and electronically. You can now get these reports weekly at the CFTC's website. (But, you're better off getting them here in several formats.

In 1997, when the CFTC announced proposed registration requirements for broadcasting market opinions on the Internet, Steve joined a handful of newsletter writers and sued the CFTC in federal court. His landmark First Amendment victory assures your unfettered access to the kind of material you find on this website (and thousands other).

In 2001, when Florida's First District US Congressman quit in the middle of his term, Steve ran to replace him in a special election. Steve's strength was his wife Jeannette, 5 college-age kids and a 5-year-old granddaughter working on the campaign. Alas, it wasn't enough and Steve is back to researching and writing about markets.

In the world of futures trading, one advisor is the acknowledged expert on the the CFTC's Commitments of Traders report. This weekly statistical report reveals the dealings of true market insiders—large commercial hedgers who dominate the futures pits. Within these pages lie some exceptional trading opportunities, but you need to know how to find them. If you don't have 12 hours a week to study this report, you might consider Bullish Review, which has been finding special situations since 1988.