William Petty
Bear's Lair
Bear Markets always follow Bull markets and a severe stock market correction is long overdue. Bears Lair will spot, monitor and analyze the stock market correction as it develops.
"Apophenia is the experience of seeing patterns or connections in random or meaningless data.
Coming in at $3 billion less than some had feared, today's release of April's $57 billion trade deficit is being heralded as good news.
After writing for more than two months I'm happy that the Gold Drivers Report 2005 has been finalized. I really enjoyed writing it and want to thank my readers for their continued support.
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.
To be a gold bug has required one of two "irrational" (?) predispositions:
The Richter Scale is "A logarithmic scale used to express the total amount of energy released by an earthquake.
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:
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.
The French "No" vote on the European Constitution, which has created political uncertainty in Europe, has produced the reflexive, and ironic "flight to quality" into the U.S. dollar.
There are three kinds of people; those that make things happen, those that watch things happen and those who don't know what's happening.
There goes the buck? Will that flashy new currency and coinage called the euro, spell doomsday for the used to be almighty dollar? Hardly.
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.
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.
I have been analyzing interest rates because they can affect all of our investments. The lynchpin to the projection of US rates is how foreigners handle our US trade deficit, which is often described as “unsustainable”.
Some charts are breaking down and others are breaking up
1. Breaking Down
Some charts are breaking down and others are breaking up
1. Breaking Down
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Today, as the Labor Department reported that April consumer prices rose at a faster than expected .5%, which follows yesterday's release of a .6% rise in April producer prices, Wall Street and the financial media once again celebra
Over the long-term gold stocks are counter-cyclical investments in that they trend higher during periods of stock market weakness and trend lower during periods of stock market strength; or, putting it another way, when the broad s
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!!!
GOLD & GATA is chapter VI of the Gold Drivers Report. It discusses GATA's claims that the Gold market is not free and not fair.
Last week, on my second appearance on CNBC's Squawk Box, host Mark Haines mischaracterized my position that the U.S. could not hope to pay for imports solely through reliance on the service sector, as my advocating that the U.S.
I believe that now is an excellent time to buy silver stocks.
Here is the silver story in a nutshell:
There are two parallel markets happening in gold. If you own the mining stocks you are currently caught between these two financial forces.
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Minting of gold in the U.S. stopped in 1933, during the Great Depression.
