Mark J Lundeen

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The Dow Jones (Blue Plot / Left Scale below) closed above 14,000 for the first time since October 2007.  Closed above 14,000 in nominal dollars that is.  In constant 1979 dollar terms (Red Plot / Right Scale) the Dow Jones today closed 30...
Well, it appears that the Dow Jones is going to take out its last all-time high of October 2007, even as market trading volume is collapsing.   That fact alone should make us wary of the stock market, but the Dow Jones doesn’t seem to care...
“Economic stimulation” is now a way of life for our “policy makers.”  They have no other choice today but work hard all day and all night long.  As Richard Russell has said for decades; “the Federal Reserve must inflate or die.”  He was...
The word I would use to describe this market is “tedious.”   It seems that nothing truly exciting has occurred since the monetary metals, and the Dow Jones took their plunges in 2011.  In our theatre-of-the-absurd called the financial...
Let's take a historical look at daily volatility in the old monetary metals from the early days of the 1969-80 bull market to the present. Doing so, we'll gain a unique insight into the current bull market in gold and silver, as there are...
Let's take a historical look at daily volatility in the old monetary metals from the early days of the 1969-80 bull market to the present. Doing so, we'll gain a unique insight into the current bull market in gold and silver, as there are...
Let's take a historical look at daily volatility in the old monetary metals from the early days of the 1969-80 bull market to the present. Doing so, we'll gain a unique insight into the current bull market in gold and silver, as there are...
For all of the Big Bad Wolf's huffing and puffing for the past few months, gold and silver are holding on. Let's look at gold and silver's step sum charts to see how the metals are currently doing. Gold looks good, not great, but good;...
No better way to see what the Dow Jones has done since its credit crisis lows, than to compared it to gold and silver with a chart, so here it is. I indexed these plots to their credit-crisis lows, so the metals began their ascent in...

With gold stolen by Conquistador Francisco Pizarro from the Inca Empire in 1532, Spain financed its conquest of Europe.

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