Observing 'they couldn't take it down' a week ago . .
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.
The Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME), the exchange on which major world currency futures are traded, announced recently that December 2001 volume of trade reached a record of 411.7 million contracts, surpassing the previous record
Let's see now, the Japanese are buying gold like it is going out of style, carrying bags of yen to gold shops, and asking, "How much gold will this buy?" Dubya is spending, like there is no tomorrow.
As a teen-ager I toured the Ford Assembly Plant in St. Louis (actually, in Hazelwood, a suburb) with my parents in 1949, the year after it opened.
You know you are in trouble when President Pretzel singles out Teddy Kennedy and praises him for his education "bipartisanship" during his State of the Union speech. The State of the Union isn't good as Bushocio claimed.
First let me make the following disclaimers. Everyone must do his or her own due diligence. Nothing in this essay should be considered investment advice.
The Japanese economy, the world's second largest, apparently is unable to recover from a lingering recession which descended on the country in 1991.
Gold futures on the COMEX have soared impressively over the past two days and have broken above benchmark $300 resistance, on an intra-day basis, even before we anticipated in our last commentary.
Are technology stocks on the mend? For those with controlled debt, that's more or less precisely the prospect of this whole era, believing September 20-21st lows were an absolutely spectacular buying oppor
Patiently shining your coins, and bullion may be a wiser pursuit than currently buying most gold stocks.
Since our last update, bullion dipped near long-term support levels at $278, but quickly reversed course to end the week with an impressive $3.90 rally on Friday to close at $286.00.
(For Joy Foundation, which I mentioned last week, I forgot to mention the name of the rep. Call Paul Nystrom, at 1-970-249-1902 if you are interested)
In my last article (see reference [1]), I presented an assessment of the status of the long period cycle associated with the flow of investment capital between equities
It's easy to be confused by the mass of conflicting economic data these days. You don't even have to be an educated economist to sound like an idiot, although a college education is always helpful.
Before a self-righteous Congress tears Enron apart for its accounting lies, our elected officials should not forget that they are among the biggest liars of all.
After years of denial and complacency, Americans are finally starting to realize that the U.S. financial system is one megalithic house of cards on the brink of collapse.
March 2002 gold futures on the COMEX have given the preliminary signal that our forecasted 2002 gold bull market will shortly begin.
In the hundreds of cases, when the money in use becomes worthless, it is ALWAYS government that debases, and eventually kills it altogether.
Up to this point in the presentation the K-Wave has been explored and the conclusion reached was that the fall season has been extended well beyond historical norms.
In 1998, as he began www.LeMetropoleCafe.com , his Internet site of financial commentary, Bill Murphy noticed that the gold market wasn't trading as norma
Our Model Portfolio is up 6.20% during first twenty-five days of 2002, while the S&P 500 has declined by 1.29%.
A valuable contribution to market analysis . .
January 2002 surely will be known as "The Month That Was." This month encompassed the denouement of the Enron saga, as well as the anticlimax of the Argentine peso and the disparagement of the absurd currency board concept which ha
A wondrous portal opened wide,
As if a cavern was suddenly hollowed:
And the Piper advanced and the children followed,
The investment case for gold centers on the notion that the over valuation and excessive supply of the US currency has funded a decade’s worth of uneconomic investment and unsustainable consumption.
Almost exactly a year ago, I wrote a column for GOLD-EAGLE, titled "Diary of a Depression." You can see it by clicking the title just mentioned, or on "also by Don Stott" at the bo
There's nothing like one of my doom and gloom essays to bring out the flaming emails. No problem though cause I'm tough.