Monday, August 25, 2008

Buy!/Sell! #3: Investing

Long:

+ Pacific coast real estate, specifically:

  • BC: All along the Sea-to-Sky highway from Vancouver to Whistler
  • SoCal: San Diego, Ventura, Santa Barbara, and San Luis Obispo counties
  • NorCal: Mendocino and Del Norte counties
  • NW: Vancouver and San Juan Islands, WA and the rural Oregon coast
  • Downtown LA

+ Index Funds (Warren agrees!)

+ Vanity Funds (green, carbon neutral, sociallly conscious, fair trade, etc)

+ Bank Stocks (especially the most battered such as WaMu and the most profitable such as Goldman)

+ The US Dollar

Short:
- Inland Cali real estate:

  • Inland Empire (overbuilt Riverside and San Bernardino counties)
  • Orange County
  • Silicon Valley

- Hedge Funds

- Oil

- Gold (for now)

- The Euro

No comments: