Aubie Baltin CFA, CTA, CFP, PhD
Aubie Baltin CFA, CTA, CFP, PhD Articles
To listen to the Bears over the past few years, you would have thought we would all be in breadlines and soup kitchens by now. So far, all of the ranting about doom and gloom sounds more like the boy who cried wolf than accurate...
The word on the street today came out that there is no need to worry about inflation and the market shot up over 100 points, while gold dropped over $25 intraday points in two days. Was all this the result of removing the word...
Back in the late 1970's, the lineups to buy gold were reminiscent of people waiting to buy Stanley Cup Hockey tickets at the then Famous Montreal Forum. There they stood all raped up in their Parkas, ski jackets, bulky sweaters,...
There's the housing bubble and the commercial office space bubble. There's the Bond-market bubble and its two progenies, the junk-bond market bubble and the emerging-market-debt bubble. There's the nearly $3.00-a-gallon price you see at...
We have always known about Greenspan's Interest rate conundrum but now we are becoming aware that he has a few more conundrums. In his latest speech he mentioned the "Currency Trade deficit" conundrum. Which is actually two conundrums in...
It's been more than twenty-five years, since former US central bank chairman Arthur Burns was at the meeting of the International Monetary Fund in Belgrade (September 30, 1979) where he made his famous speech entitled "The Anguish of...
IS their a problem with the dollar ? After falling to $1.30 against the euro representing a decline of 20% since the beginning of 2003. In trade-weighted terms, the dollar fell less over the same period (15%), but mainly because Asian...
"We inflate our paper currency, we repair commerce with unlimited credit, and are presently visited with unlimited bankruptcy."
- R.W. Emerson, The Young American, 1844
