Jim Letourneau

Montreal Investment Conference on Oct 25, 2009 in Uncategorized I’ll be speaking at the Montreal Investment Conference which runs November 6-7, 2009 Click HERE to register Use the Promotion Code “Letourneau” to save the $20 admission charge. Montreal is a great city and Quebec has a great mining...

Climate Confusion on Oct 13, 2009 in Uncategorized I used to be disgusted but now I try to be amused. Elvis Costello The world is making policy decisions based on climate model predictions that aren’t coming true. Thankfully, the BBC is irritating the global warming tribe by pointing out that i...

YAHOO! Class Action Suit on Oct 13, 2009 in Uncategorized Every month or two I receive a notice about some class action lawsuit about a stock that went down after people bought it *gasp*. The latest one was more interesting as Yahoo! is the defendant and we know they have deep pockets. The proposed settleme...

A Hard Rain on Oct 10, 2009 in Uncategorized I asked my parents for a copy of this photo of the aftermath of an August hailstorm in central Alberta. Vinyl siding and hail don’t mix.

One benefit of living in a landlocked province… on Oct 10, 2009 in Uncategorized While the continental effect on climate is one irritant of living in Alberta (especially in winter), today I am grateful to live in a landlocked province. We have no tsunami risk. The FBI captured some tsunami footage from an American Samoa parking l...

Protect Me from Myself on Oct 9, 2009 in Uncategorized Protect me from knowing what I don’t need to know. Protect me from even knowing that there are things to know that I don’t know. Protect me from knowing that I decided not to know about the things that I decided not to know about. Amen. ~...

To the Contrary? on Oct 8, 2009 in Uncategorized It has been pretty difficult to lose money in the stock market in 2009. The obscure avant-garde themes are playing out. The gold bugs are rejoicing. Commodities have recovered. The financials have bounced. This brings up some thorny questions. What...