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Toby Connor: The last bull ended when the leading stock, Google (NASDAQ:GOOG), entered a parabolic “bubble” phase. That was the signal that the bull had reached the euphoria stage. Read more…
Chris Vermeulen: The past couple months investors have been focusing on the equities market. And rightly so with stocks running higher and higher. Unfortunately most money managers and hedge Read more…
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Dominique de Kevelioc de Bailleul: ABC news released a video on its site of Diane Sawyer’s interview with Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, aired on Tuesday. Aside from the light moments of the conversation with the veteran journalist of 60-Minutes fame, Bernanke appeared obviously strained, tired and Read more…
Dr. John Chapman: Introduction: The Prologue to Today and the Current Situation Summarized: On August 15, 1971, President Richard Nixon unilaterally terminated U.S. obligations under the 27-year old Bretton Woods monetary framework, and with it the U.S. Dollar link to gold. The world became at once a Read more…
Toby Connor: In response to a bursting real estate and credit bubble in 2007, Ben Bernanke’s solution was to crank up the printing press and flood the world with dollar bills. Unfortunately it didn’t solve Read more…
Mac Slavo: In a recent micro-documentary Chris Duane of The Greatest Truth Never Told and Don’t Tread On Me discusses the coming collapse of our debt-based monetary system and provides a simple, yet succinct argument for why it cannot be prevented. Read more…
Bryan Rich: The theme of the global financial markets is now moving more toward the realization that growth will be ultra-slow (if not recession like territory), unemployment will remain persistently high and global economic shocks will continue to roll through. This is an important realization. Read more…
Dominique de Kevelioc de Bailleul: “The incredible gold scandal,” the German newspaper BILD began its article about the disposition of Germany’s mysterious gold holdings following the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2009. Read more…
Dominique de Kevelioc de Bailleul: As a post-Lehman solution to the Western world, which suddenly found itself drowning in debt, drags well into year three, speculation of an inevitable endgame to Kondratiev’s Winter of discontent is coming more into focus. Read more…
Przemyslaw Radomski: There is a study published by the Credit Suisse and the London Business School that says that gold prices have been too volatile to play a reliable role as a hedge against inflation over the past 112 years. Read more…
Jack Crooks: If you are wondering why the euro (NYSEArca:FXE) rallied sharply over the last couple of weeks, hitting a two-month high against the dollar (NYSEArca:UUP) on Thursday, the answer is that Read more…
David Zeiler: With two GOP presidential candidates saying they’d add legendary Wall Street pundit Jim Grant to their administrations, bringing back the gold standard clearly has moved up on the Republican agenda. Read more…
JR Crooks: I wrote this in Money and Markets on January 14 regarding my outlook for the euro: Read more…
Sara Nunnally: There are a host of factors affecting crude oil prices. Lately, though, it boils down to the value of the dollar. The way things are going… that’s not good news. Read more…
Kevin Kerr: No matter where you live or travel — America, Europe, Asia, South America, China, etc. — you use fiat currency, at least in one form or another. Read more…
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