David Chapman
David Chapman regularly writes articles of interest for the investing public. David has over 40 years of experience as an authority on finance and investments via his range of work experience and in-depth market knowledge.
David Chapman Articles
Federal Reserve Statistical Release
November 10, 2005
Discontinuance of M3
On March 23, 2006, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System will cease publication of the M3 monetary aggregate. The Board will also cease publishing...
For a number of years now there have been alarm bells sounded about the huge growing under funded liabilities of both US and Canadian employee pension plans. At stake are billions of dollars that both US and Canadian corporations have not...
It certainly was a dramatic front page for the most recent issue of MacLean's Canada's weekly magazine (Canada's version of Time/Newsweek). If one were picking up this story atwww.financialsense.com or www.gold-eagle.com you would have...
Hyperboles are nothing new to gold bugs. One of my favourites was a description of the coming Islamic Gold Dinar describing it as a neutron bomb against the US Dollar, worse than anything than Osama Bin Laden could possibly do. While that...
With the introduction of the new peach-toned $20 bills is the US signalling the end of the greenback? Well certainly the greenback, which has been in place for over 100 years, will now have to share some space with money of a different...
It has been some time since we last discussed the bond market in some detail. But bonds are an integral part of the market. World wide it is estimated that there are $33 trillion of bonds outstanding. The US market represents just over...
That the United States is the world's largest consumer of energy is indisputable. With less then 5% of the world's population the US consumes roughly 25% of the world's oil. An abundance of cheap oil is what has driven the US economy over...
The Fed threw a party and nobody came. They surprised the market with a full 50 basis point cut rather than the consensus 25 basis points. To ease fears that the economy might be really bad the important bias was changed to neutral. The...
I have long been a cycles fan. My background is in Economics so my introduction to cycles came through studying economic cycles. There is a branch of technical analysis that also studies cycles. It is a fascinating area that sometimes can...
This is a story that bears repeating. J. P. Morgan Chase & Co. (JPM-NYSE) is one of the biggest banks in the world with assets of approaching US$ 700 billion, capital of about US$ 41 billion and a market cap of US$ 71 billion. By...
