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Michael Snyder: Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke delivered his annual address to Congress on Tuesday, and he did very little to give lawmakers much confidence about Read more…
Jeff Nielson: Regular readers of my work know that I have been outlining (and warning people about) two potential economic scenarios; as the West’s terminally-ill economies lurch towards their final collapse. These hollowed-out, debt-saturated economies Read more…
Michael Snyder: What is the second half of 2012 going to bring? Are things going to get even worse than they are right now? Unfortunately, that appears more likely with each passing day. Read more…
Corey Rosenbloom: While the NASDAQ recently crested above both its 2011 and 2007 (before the recession) high, the Russell 2000 – an index mainly of small-cap stocks – struggles to overcome its key long-term resistance level. Read more…
Rick Pendergraft: The past year’s market has been a tough one for long-term investors. We saw the S&P 500 locked in a trading range from mid-November through mid-July with 1,250 serving as the low and 1,350 as the top. Read more…
Jeff Nielson: As the collapse of the U.S. economy quickly evolved into the Crash of ‘08; politicians, “experts”, and mainstream media shills were unanimous: the U.S. economy would/could “never experience the Lost Decade” experienced by Japan’s economy after several, huge asset bubbles Read more…
Keith Fitz-Gerald: There are many reasons why the Occupy Wall Street movement could fail – a lack of cohesion, too many directions, no leadership, not enough money, and no representation, to name a few. Read more…
Shah Gilani: After European leaders announced a plan to stem Eurozone and global panic over Greece’s potential default and shore up capital at beleaguered banks, positive contagion is lifting stock Read more…
The Daily Capitalist: Yahoo! Finance is currently headlining: “Don’t Fight the Rally: Stocks Soar After Europe Deal, Dow Clears 12,000.” Is that a top-ticking headline? Let’s investigate. Read more…
The Daily Capitalist: First and foremost, my view is that the markets and the mainstream media have been giving insufficient attention (if any at all) to the core problem that was revealed by the meltdown in 2008. Massive amounts of capital was misspent (“malinvested”) during the boom. In order to finance Read more…
Keith Fitz-Gerald: Stuart Varney, host of the aptly named and very highly rated “Varney & Co.” program on Fox Business, put the following question to me in his usual direct style: “Will we have an agreement on Wednesday out of Europe and what will that mean for the markets?” Read more…
Martin D. Weiss: Mark your calendar for two historic days that could shake Wall Street to its foundation and change the Western world forever … The first is Europe’s day of reckoning, postponed to Read more…
George Maniere: Lately I have had many readers write to me about the family of Direxion Triple Leveraged ETF Funds and the Ultra ProShares ETF’s. These are relatively new funds. The first fund was the Ultra ProShares ETF (NYSE:SPXU). SPXU was first introduced in 2009. This Ultra Short ProShares Read more…
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David Zeiler: The very austerity measures that Greece implemented to remedy its sovereign debt crisis have crippled its economy so badly the country is actually sinking deeper into the red, making default all but inevitable. Read more…
Chris Ciovacco: As we mentioned yesterday, a fear-induced buying climax may occur in the coming days as shorts cover and managers sitting on cash move to the “I can’t take it anymore” stage. While a sustained break above the 1,266 to 1,276 range on the S&P 500 (NYSE:SPY) would increase the odds of stocks Read more…
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