Recently I made mention of the fact that we are in the deflationary phase of the 60-year (average) economic long-wave known as the K-wave.
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.
There are some pretty cool indicators out there. But one of the most useful and most simple is the slope of the yield curve.
Gold is the first, and most frequently mentioned metal in the Bible, as at Genesis 2:11.
In the first few weeks of writing my report on silver stocks, a number of readers brought many new silver companies to my attention.
About 40 weeks ago, I produced a report on 17 silver stocks for Gold-Eagle.com. It rocked the silver stock market. Every silver junior stock listed was up in the following week, and every major silver stock was down the following
Received this message from a member of my investment forum who is currently on the floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange :
Last year at around this time we asked the question: "Has a bear market started yet?" We thought this was a reasonable question because the NYSE advance-decline line had been trending higher for three years and several important se
In an environment of low interest rates (low yields on cash savings), a Primary Bear Market, and higher than reported rate of price inflation, the single most important issue being faced by ageing Baby Boomers today is "cash flow".
Some may regard this article as a bit "off-the-wall", but I have decided to write it anyway.
Of all the sacrosanct, everyone bow down and worship; the Dow 30 Industrials, are the stocks that set the trend for the stock market in America.
In general, when one thinks about support in a market it usually means the last place where there was significant buying pressure as in "the stock market pulled back and I bought at support." But the support I am going to talk abou
This article has been written specifically for those people who are grappling with the conundrum regarding whether we are facing an era of inflation, deflation or stagflation.
From 1973 to 1981 the inflation rate in the U.S. averaged 9.2% per year ! The Fed raising interest rates during this time, on balance did nothing! Why?
A tumultuous several weeks for currencies, bonds, precious metals, and energy. Exaggerated claims about a robust US Economic recovery have arrived in recent jobs reports.
The correction from January was traumatic BUT this is NOT a panic sell area but a HUGE buying opportunity. In the case of the JSE Gold index it marks the final stage of the massive sideways base from April last year.
If one monitors the relationship between investments that have a high "beta" (volatility relative to the overall market) and those that have a low beta one would anticipate the high beta investments to point the way to the market's
For many months now I have been spending many long, enjoyable and fruitful hours reading hundreds of excellent essays in the modern day equivalents of the public library.
According to the Financial Times, "the end of gold as an investment has come a little closer." The op-ed writer reached this conclusion in a 4/16/04 editorial as he pondered the significance of the withdrawal of NM Rothschild from
In the late 1960s my friend Eddie Van Andel convinced me that the stock market was a good place to learn about "high finance", and he recruited me to a business called Electronic Stock Evaluators (ESE), for which he worked at the t
What I see in the following chart is a double top and falling tops and bottoms
For the past couple of years, the Fed and Wall Street have been denying the existence of deflation.
One of the most difficult challenges that I face as I talk to investors is also one which Richard Russell talks about and that is the concept of major change.
First we would like to clarify the term inflation and the cause of it.
We define inflation as the increase in the supply of paper money, or M3 in the modern world.
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