{"id":176,"date":"2009-05-26T13:14:33","date_gmt":"2009-05-26T17:14:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pundyspub.com\/?p=176"},"modified":"2009-05-26T13:14:33","modified_gmt":"2009-05-26T17:14:33","slug":"dont-pay-the-ransom-i-escaped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pundyspub.com\/?p=176","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Pay the Ransom; I Escaped&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OK, here&#8217;s where we are now:<\/p>\n<p>GDX &#8211; 7.5% &#8211; Gold Mining<\/p>\n<p>EWC &#8211; 6.35% &#8211; Canada<\/p>\n<p>EWZ &#8211; 5.17% &#8211; Brazil<\/p>\n<p>SLV &#8211; 4.76% &#8211; Silver<\/p>\n<p>UNG &#8211; 4.21% &#8211; Natural Gas<\/p>\n<p>FCX &#8211; 3.81% &#8211; US Copper<\/p>\n<p>GLD &#8211; 3.58% &#8211; Gold<\/p>\n<p>SA &#8211; 3.27% &#8211; Canadian Gold Mining (sorta)<\/p>\n<p>SLW &#8211; 3.26% &#8211; Canadian Silver Mining (sorta)<\/p>\n<p>MVG &#8211; 3.20% &#8211; Canadian Silver Mining<\/p>\n<p>NRG &#8211; 3.15% &#8211; US Elec. Power<\/p>\n<p>PEYUF &#8211; 2.98% &#8211; Canadian Natural Gas Producer<\/p>\n<p>CCJ &#8211; 2.97% &#8211; Canadian Uranium Mining<\/p>\n<p>AUY &#8211; 2.80% &#8211; Canadian Gold Mining<\/p>\n<p>CZZ &#8211; 2.74% &#8211; Brazilian Ethanol Producer<\/p>\n<p>EWA &#8211; 2.32% &#8211; Australia<\/p>\n<p>SWC &#8211; 2.29% &#8211; Palladium &amp; Platinum<\/p>\n<p>ATGFF &#8211; 2.20% &#8211; Canadian Natural Gas Producer<\/p>\n<p>RNP &#8211; 2.20&amp; &#8211; US Commercial Real estate<\/p>\n<p>PBW &#8211; 2.19% &#8211; US Clean Energy<\/p>\n<p>CGIFF &#8211; 2.16% &#8211; Canadian Mining Supplier<\/p>\n<p>AGQNF &#8211; 2.15% &#8211; Canadian Alternate Energy Producer<\/p>\n<p>PAL &#8211; 2.12% &#8211; US Palladium Mining<\/p>\n<p>NFEI &#8211; 2.12% &#8211; US Natural Gas Producer<\/p>\n<p>BHP &#8211; 2.09% &#8211; Australian Mining<\/p>\n<p>AGU &#8211; 1.96% &#8211; Canadian fertilizer producer<\/p>\n<p>WTSHF &#8211; 1.91% &#8211; Canadian coal port operator<\/p>\n<p>VALE &#8211; 1.84% &#8211; Brazilian iron ore producer<\/p>\n<p>NBDFF &#8211; 1.69% &#8211; Canadian Wood Products<\/p>\n<p>PCZ &#8211; 1.56% &#8211; Canadian Oil Sands Producer<\/p>\n<p>BQI &#8211; 1.54% &#8211; Canadian Oil Sands Producer.<\/p>\n<p>CLLZF &#8211; 1.44% &#8211; Canadian Oil Sands Producer<\/p>\n<p>MAAFF &#8211; 1.21% &#8211; Canadian Fertilizer Finder<\/p>\n<p>OPCDF &#8211; 1.21% &#8211; Canadian Oil Sands producer<\/p>\n<p>POT &#8211; 1.12% &#8211; Canadian Fertilizer producer<\/p>\n<p>DBA &#8211; 1.06 &#8211; Agricultural Commodities holder<\/p>\n<p>PRF &#8211; 1.02% &#8211; Brazilian small caps<\/p>\n<p>KOL &#8211; 0.86% &#8211; Coal Industry<\/p>\n<p>Figures do not reflect additional purchases today of DBA &amp; EWA. Overall portfolio is down about 35% from earlier peaks but up about 50% from the lows in March<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, here&#8217;s where we are now: GDX &#8211; 7.5% &#8211; Gold Mining EWC &#8211; 6.35% &#8211; Canada EWZ &#8211; 5.17% &#8211; Brazil SLV &#8211; 4.76% &#8211; Silver UNG &#8211; 4.21% &#8211; Natural Gas FCX &#8211; 3.81% &#8211; US Copper GLD &#8211; 3.58% &#8211; Gold SA &#8211; 3.27% &#8211; Canadian Gold Mining (sorta) SLW &#8211; 3.26% [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-investment-portfolio-changes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pundyspub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pundyspub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pundyspub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pundyspub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pundyspub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=176"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pundyspub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":177,"href":"https:\/\/www.pundyspub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions\/177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pundyspub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pundyspub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pundyspub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}