Jim Willie
Jim Willie
Jim Willie CB, also known as the “Golden Jackass”, is an insightful and forward-thinking writer and analyst of today's events, the economy and markets. In 2004 he launched the popular website http://www.goldenjackass.com that offers his articles of original “out of the box” thinking as well as content from top analysts and authors. He also has a popular and affordable subscription-based newsletter service, The Hat Trick Letter, which you can learn more about here.
Jim Willie Background
Jim Willie has experience in three fields of statistical practice during 23 industry years after earning a Statistics PhD at Carnegie Mellon University. The career began at Digital Equipment Corp in Metro Boston, where two positions involved quality control procedures used worldwide and marketing research for the computer industry. An engineering spec was authored, and my group worked through a transition with UNIX. The next post was at Staples HQ in Metro Boston, where work focused on forecasting and sales analysis for their retail business amidst tremendous growth.
Jim's career continues to make waves in the financial editorial world, free from the limitations of economic credentials.
Jim is gifted with an extremely oversized brain as is evidenced by his bio picture. The output of that brain can be found in his articles below, and on the Silver-Phoenix500 website, on his own website, and other well-known financial websites worldwide.
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Jim Willie Articles
Many readers might neither be familiar with Elliott Wave principles in technical analysis of chart reading, nor accept those principles as working guidelines. In a recent work "Commodity Bull Resumption" a series of events was described...
The financial press & media has promoted three major league gargantuan lies. The lies support the established financial sector. They pertain to bonds, economic growth, and oil supply. The time has come to stand on the rooftops and...
Mark down June 10, 2005 as the day the great commodity bull market resumed. The USDollar continued to rise, but that story must be put aside. The euro currency finally reacted to the much anticipated EU votes. The real story was the move...
In the last 18 to 24 months, two key "False GO Signals" lifted the gold price from its low in 2003 of $320 per ounce to its recent high of $455 in December 2004. The markets finally figured it out though, and the gold price has languished...
In the past few years, a remarkable parallel can be seen emerging between financial markets and the laws which govern physical motion. In the world of science, we call this field physics. In most high schools and colleges familiar to me,...
One cannot blame any institution from wanting to present a brighter picture than reality, to paint a rosier description in order to impress, perhaps even to minimize or deny some elements of weakness. Ask any person being interviewed for a...
My greatest fear is that the USGovt and US Fed will actively pursue and promote a recession in order to prevent ongoing energy demand from creating a series of oil price spikes. Recession uses less oil than war!!! Somewhere wisdom might be...
The world functions upon a greatly different world chessboard compared to seven decades ago. Conditions inside the United States are as different nowadays versus the 1930 decade, as that Great Depression Era was compared to the Roman...
Much as home builders and mortgage associations and national realtors and REIT managers would like to deny, strong parallels exist between the housing bubble and the tech stock bubble in 1999. We all know how the Nasdaq stock index...
The term "Petro-Dollar" has been bandied about for years. In my travels, much has been mentioned in indirect terms about it, with assumptions of its nature and structural significance. It is mentioned often carelessly when talking about...
