Today I’m not going to beat around the bush. I’m jumping right into investing, because I think the market is at a critical point here. On the one hand, the world is a mess. Arab governments are being overrun by crowds whose actions threaten to throw a monkey wrench into our oil-addicted economy. And here in the U.S., where only one new deep-water drilling permit has been issued since the moratorium was lifted last October (!), it’s becoming clearer day by day that our debts are excessive, and that we simply cannot continue to spend as we did in...