GE Christenson
Market Analyst, Author, and Founder of The Deviant Investor
Gary Christenson is the owner and writer for the popular and contrarian investment site Deviant Investor and the author of the book, “Gold Value and Gold Prices 1971 – 2021.” He is a retired accountant and business manager with 30 years of experience studying markets, investing, and trading. He writes about investing, gold, silver, the economy and central banking.
GE Christenson Articles
Gold: the monetary metal that central bankers, politicians, and Too-Big-To-Fail bankers publicly hate. The Cockroach Strategy: A cynical but depressingly accurate view of politics that can assist your investment decisions. It assumes...
IN THE BEGINNING: Gold and silver coins were used as real money for several thousand years. Gold and silver were universally recognized as a store of value. 140 YEARS AGO: The $20 Gold Double Eagle Coin was globally recognized as money...
Examine the 20 year log scale chart of monthly gold. I have drawn lines connecting highs and lows. The result is an expanding channel or megaphone pattern. The increasing prices are exponential (log scale chart) because of exponential...
Missing Gold, Unpayable Debts, Financial Crises, Bail-Outs And Bail-Ins...There Must Be A Better Way
The US congress bailed-out the banking sector, General Motors, and others with $700 Billion from TARP. The Federal Reserve added approximately $4 Trillion to their balance sheet with Quantitative Easing and other programs in their effort...
The S&P500 Index has hit numerous new highs in the past three years. Note the log-scale graph below and the broken support lines from 2000 and 2007. The current support line, depending on where it is drawn, is on the verge of...
Consider this 25 year graph of the ratio of gold to S&P 500 Index. Unless you believe, AS I DON’T, that the Fed can levitate the S&P for many more years while squashing gold even further, this 25 year chart shows that gold is...
Since the financial system, stock markets, bond markets, and currencies are primed for a correction/crash, expect severe disruptions (we don’t know when) and eventual market imposed discipline upon global governments and over-leveraged...
Gold has been a store of value for 1000s of years. You can’t purchase gasoline with gold but it has no counter-party risk and is valued world-wide. In contrast, paper and digital dollars, euros, pounds and yen are debt based fiat...
There is no shortage of negative commentary on gold and silver. A quick google search will produce such headlines as: “Gold is the Worst Investment in History”
