Gold Editorials & Commentary

Ian Gordon is a broker with a major Canadian brokerage firm. Admittedly, he is not a household name - at least not yet. That might change if he is reading the current stock market cycle properly. Ian is a student of the Kondratieff Cycle.

Gold stocks: the next Internet boom!

Taking a breather . . . in the midst of a nominal Expiration week is fairly unusual; but since this was mostly a function of the Dow Industrials alone, more so than the rest of the market, it's still suspect on a daily basis.

Several years ago in an essay on gold ("The Golden Sextant"), I pointed out that gold is arbitraged like currencies, which is to say on the basis of interest rate differentials.

IT HAS been almost a year to the day since the stock market went into a brief but steep decline, falling 20 percent in just six weeks and giving Wall Street its first whiff of real fear since the October 1987 crash.

The exact wording of a key portion of the Fed's official statement following its June 30 Federal Open Market Committee meeting read: "...the FOMC has chosen to adopt a directive that includes no predilection about near term policy action." That was all the U.S.

In its aspiration for a new and perfect world, the New Age Movement believes that there will have to be a "paradigm shift", which will change the conventional way of thinking.

Optimism ahead of Yahoo! . . . probably enhanced the late Wednesday market tone, though it's not something that impacted the futures, given the low premium at day's end.

Money is generally thought of, if at all, in practical terms: how to get it, what to do with it. Monetary Realists believe that the most important thing to know about money, however, is its nature, because from this nature all else flows.

The stock bubble of 1999 constitutes perhaps the most dangerous, speculative investment climate ever. Exactly three score and ten years after 1929, the world seems poised on the verge of an equally ruinous stock market collapse.

WANTED: Greenspan (FRB), Camdessus (IMF) and Eddie George (BOE) for premeditated murder of American Farming

Soybeans At 26-Year Low - DEVASTATING THE US FARMER

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Reliability studies conducted by the Bullish Review across 36 futures markets from 1983 to 1989 show that extremely long or short positions by hedgers CORRECTLY FORECASTED significant market moves 67% of the time.

In this week's commentary we will address a topic that has been foremost in our minds for the past several days and has even been suggested by other stock market commentators of late.

I have been attempting to consolidate my notes that I have taken from various articles and comments posted by participants of this Forum in regards to The Dollar (should read as The FED), The Euro and Gold.

Lawrence Parks

Aggregate "blue chip" stock prices remain significantly above the long term average. The current trailing PE for the S&P500 is 35 times earnings.

Seesaw behavior . . . characterized Wednesday's alternating action, with the S&P low exactly that we looked for on the morning 900.933.GENE hotline call.

After experiencing a long losing streak throughout the last part of May and most of June the broad U.S. stock market staged an impressive rally on June 16 in a much-needed show of strength.

Sage Crystl: Sage is proud to introduce Mr. David Tice, Portfolio Manager for the Prudent Bear Fund. Thanks for joining us today David.

Megalomania or common sense? Those are factors to consider when evaluating Thursday's testimony by Chairman Greenspan; especially the part that focused on the ability of modern day monetary authorities to intervene in ways that presumably didn'

GENERAL COMMENTS: Monday's modest 70-point rally in the Dow was enough to tweak a bear's ugliest suspicions about the stock market's underlying health.

The broad U.S. stock market, while breaking its recent downtrend this week, continues to show evidence of topping. Our reading of the tape shows that distribution has been underway at least since April and that a much larger correction looms ahead.

A recent analysis on the status of Wall Street concluded on the basis of volume behaviour that there is a good probability that the Dow Jones has already peaked.

An Orchestration by the

Four Horsemen of the Gold Apocalypse…

G7 Gold Sales

Which Rx for this market tumble did you prefer? Was it the multi-month delayed downgrade of the PC outlook from a major firm on the Street (after we had warned the sector was topping in the first part of this year); th

GENERAL COMMENTS: Although Black Box Forecasts has perhaps been too eager in the past to sound taps for this 17-year bull market, the newsletter has scored nothing but bullseyes in predicting what the Fed would do next. Are they going to raise rates?

Executive Summary

Chart Symmetry is designed around the observation that prices tend to change direction along certain preferred gradients. New readers are advised to read the first article in this series to discover how Chart Symmetry works.

With Alice Rivlin unchained. . . from the Federal Reserve Board, one more "dove" has flown the coup of those inclined to believe the "this time is different" scenario regarding business cycles.