The focus on gold and the USDollar alone lacks a crucial factor in maintaining the world currency reserve on its fragile pedestal.
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.
Sometimes, intuition and fact do not reconcile. The following charts fly in the face of intuition. They therefore warrant some discussion.
The gradual uptrend of the past 6 weeks has brought gold once again to a critical juncture.
The ignorance about gold in America's mainstream press and on Wall Street is amazing. The conventional "wisdom" on the Street is that gold is already way, way too overpriced.
The dollar is no longer responding to traditional stimulants.
Last week, I mentioned that under FDR, to me, our worst President outside of Lincoln, Johnson, and most of them during the last hundred years I suspect, the welfare system got into gear, which debased the buck tremendously, and sti
Hardly a dull moment in the currency market these days. Much attention centers upon central bank actions. The Bank of Japan held steady, as world speculators thank heavens.
Below is an extract from a commentary originally posted at www.speculative-investor.com on 3rd April 2007.
For the past few weeks, we have prepared our subscribers with special tutorials on how to position in the gold sector during the next impulsive phase, with specific instructions on how to enter the market before, during, and after
Some extremely important charts follow, each with an equally important message. The story can be told from a series of painted pictures. The USEconomy is in deep trouble. The US Federal Reserve is caught in a box.
As investors and market strategists sift through every new economic tea leaf for clues about the health of the U.S.
There are a lot of things in life, that are our fault, and ours alone.
An increasing number of goldbugs and traders are getting bewildered and frustrated at gold’s pedestrian performance and refusal to break higher, even with a possible attack on Iran looming, especially as oil has been romping ahead,
As our phony economy begins to unravel before our eyes, it is amazing how few people can actually see it.
Do you like a good mystery? So do I, especially if it can be profitable. The Feni Islands grabbed my attention some years ago because the regional geology is extremely ideal for finding a major gold deposit.
Volatility for US Treasury Bonds has risen markedly in the last several months. A rise in such bond yields creates a favorable background for gold prices.
There was a little suggestion in a "Daily Reckoning," last week, that all may not be as well as one thought, if certain things happen. Papers can get mixed up, computers fail, and all sorts of ugly things can happen.
The following two charts are courtesy stockcharts.com. They measure percentage movement in the silver price.
Despite this week's FOMC induced rally, nothing has changed in the big picture.
By omitting a few key words from their most recent statement, the Fed led Wall Street to the premature conclusion that the next move in interest rates will be down.
Everyone wants to 'make money,' as far as I can see. It's a universal pastime and goal. The question I have, is how does one make money? Can you make money by starting a business?
This time it's different: Even though we eventually discover to our sad consternation that this time it's never different, when it comes to a 1930's type depression, the FED governors and our economists have us bel
"It's early days yet, but my gut is telling me that February 21st 2007 may turn out to be the date that the sea change started to manifest. Right now I am in the minority, if not alone in my views.
I have finally figured it out. Eureka! I now think I know why perhaps less than 1% of people are protecting themselves with gold and silver.
Thirdeyeopentrades has been watching the current eleven month consolidation in gold stocks with fascination.
With the meltdown in the sub-prime mortgage sector now laid bare, many on Wall Street desperately cling to the notion that the pain will be localized.
Two recent articles stated a theory that silver-to-gold price ratio will increase when the economy is strong, and decrease during financial meltdown (or inversely the gold-to-silver price ratio will decrease when the economy is str
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