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The term “contrary opinion” in the field of equities refers to taking the course of action which is least popular in the stock market. Simply said, it means buying stocks when the majority are selling and selling when most others are buying. This often means taking an action which is against the emotions you may be feeling.

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In my eBook, A Way to Wealth – The Art of Investing in Common Stocks, I outline my investing journey through both good and awful stock markets, and tell how I am to the current date winning the battle for long term profits in equities and mutual funds. The eBook profiles my unique technique for profitably investing in stocks and mutual funds. Much of my results have been achieved and profits retained by choosing stocks and funds more conservatively.

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This article might be titled, How You Can Make a Fortune by Investing in Strong Banks During a Credit Crunch. In my article Monday March 5, 2007: Are Stocks Still Worthwhile Investments? I stated in reference to at that time lesser possibility of contagion in the subprime mortgage problem, "The only thing that I believe could affect the economy and equities would be for the authorities to starve the system of providing mortgage money to potential borrowers – in other words, a credit crunch."

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There is unsaid in our daily life a social contract between all the players. Individuals are able to live their daily lives in a manner without much fear because of this contract, unless one lives in an area where this contract has broken down. You might call this unseen force in ordinary life the confidence that people have that their persons, social, economic, spiritual lives will be protected from the actions of others in that society, or from their government. We have enacted laws, and have institutional structures to protect us, such as the judicial system and religion, however imperfect they are. We have laws on the books to protect the citizenry. The Ten Commandments states that it is not right, for example, for men or women to kill each other, or to steal, and so on.

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We are entering, in my opinion, a period of economic and stock market turbulence that will affect the pocketbooks of our citizenry going forward. Commentators on financial television have been reluctant until recent days to make the analogy of the present period to the awful economic period of the 1970's, which has been my thesis for some time.

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The inflation that I believe may throttle though our economy in the late 2008-2010 period may not be the first inflationary economy many of us have ever seen. There is widespread commentary these days about the similarities between the stagflation/inflation that transpired in the 1970’s, and what may be starting to happen in that manner in 2008 and going forward. There are the behavioral similarities between the 1970’s and now: a rising gold price, increasing oil prices, an increase in the rate of inflation in certain commodities such as food, milk, farmland, copper, and a declining dollar (concurrent with a rise in the value of harder money currencies such as the Euro and the Swiss Franc).