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Michael Snyder: Where have we seen this before? Bond yields soar above the 7 percent danger level. Check. The stock market crashes to new lows. Check. 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…
Ben Gersten: Over the past few years there have been unprecedented swings in the major indexes, scaring some investors out of the markets altogether. Read more…
Keith Fitz-Gerald: If you have a financial advisor you need to read this-especially if you are one of the 99%. That’s everybody who isn’t a gazillionaire. You may know a few people who fit this bill. Read more…
Dominique de Kevelioc de Bailleul: No hints from the Fed about QE3 is the latest ‘bad’ news coming out of Bernanke’s testimony to Congress this week. Gold sells off. Read more…
Michael Snyder: Another month, another bad jobs report. For the month of May, the U.S. economy only added 69,000 jobs and the unemployment rate rose to 8.2%. Read more…
Dominique de Kevelioc de Bailleul: Octogenarian and 53-year financial markets veteran from Loyola, California, Richard Russell, announced it’s time to get out of stocks—pronto! The market expects a Greek exit of the EMU and further trouble from the other PIIGS, according to him. Read more…
Toby Connor: Once every year gold and stocks form a major yearly cycle low. Commodities form a major cycle bottom every 2 1/2 to 3 years. Every once in a while all three of these major cycles hit at the same time. I’m pretty sure that’s what is happening right now. Read more…
Sy Harding: Consumers understandably like to see prices for commodities decline, the more the merrier, particularly gasoline (NYSEARCA:UGA) and energy costs (NYSEARCA:XLE). Read more…
Dominique de Kevelioc de Bailleul: The financial indicator that traders have watched most for a sign of another Lehman-like swan dive in stocks has suddenly inched to the edge of the abyss in overnight trading. Read more…
Dominique de Kevelioc de Bailleul: The man whose passion for urging investors to load up on gold bullion since the Fed tipped its monetary policy hand following the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008, has jumped a notch in intensity in his latest update for gold investors. 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…
Dominique de Kevelioc de Bailleul: Speaking with Financial Sense Newshour’s Jim Puplava on Thursday, Robert Prechter of Elliot Wave Theory fame said he doesn’t think central banks can Read more…
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Michael Snyder: Are you better off today than you were four years ago? If not, then you are just like most other Americans. According to a CBS News/New York Times poll that was released a few days Read more…
Don Miller: Market manipulation has a long and storied history. From the Tulip Mania of the 1600s all the way to the recent housing bubble, market manipulators have employed a wide range of tactics to lighten the wallets of unsuspecting investors. Read more…
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