Brian Bloom
Brian Bloom Articles
The views expressed in this column over the past couple of years have been wide ranging and, at times, disconnected. It seems appropriate at this point to set out a consolidated overview. It will also be constructive to highlight past...
The $64,000 question is whether the 200 day MA of silver (and the long term uptrend line) will hold or whether the price of silver will break down from here
In summary, the evidence "seems" to be pointing to an imminent (and violent)...
On June 23rd 2005 - in the case of Kelo vs City of New London - the US Supreme Court ruled, in a split decision, that the "Property Development" under contemplation constituted land to be used for "Public Use" and was therefore "In the...
Disclosure: This analysis has been done by way of a validation exercise of this analyst's personal investment in MMN. It has used a "back of the envelope style" approach and, admittedly, could have been done more accurately to 5 decimal...
Below is a 20 year chart of the goldollar index - which is derived by plotting the product of the US Dollar Index and the US$ price of gold per ounce.
It will rise under two circumstances:
"Apophenia is the experience of seeing patterns or connections in random or meaningless data. The term was coined in 1958 by Klaus Conrad, who defined it as the "unmotivated seeing of connections" accompanied by a "specific experience of...
To be a gold bug has required one of two "irrational" (?) predispositions:
Supreme confidence that one's own mindset is the "correct" mindset
No faith at all that the Central Banks can continue to exert control over the financial...
The Richter Scale is "A logarithmic scale used to express the total amount of energy released by an earthquake. Although the scale has no upper limit, values are typically between 1 and 9, and each increase of 1 represents a 32-fold...
The following article is unusually technical, and may not be of interest to many people.
However, because it arrives at some interesting conclusions, these conclusions are set out below:
I have fond memories of hanging out with my old man when I was about 12 years old. He was a humble man with a gentle soul, and he had a couple of hobbies - one of which was photography. Many was the night when he and I would chat about...
