Financial Markets

Nielson: The End Game is Either Hyperinflation or Debt Implosion - Got Gold?

Where a deflationary implosion differs from hyperinflation is that in such an implosion all asset-prices become severely depressed and most people are more likely to move to cash because of its supposed buying power. Read More...


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Cloudy Economic Outlook Keeps Crude Oil Trading in Narrow Range for Week

Crude oil futures continued to trade in a very narrow range, unable to cross the $79 a barrel threshold even though they ended 4.4% higher on the month. Read More...


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Agri-Food Thoughts

While wheat prices are just now moving up, other Agri-Food prices have already risen. Butter recently reached US$1.88 per pound, a price above the high in 2008. Cotton price is almost US$0.82 per pound, a price not seen in years. Read More...


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Are We There Yet?

The economy of the US grew at a weaker than expected 2.4% in the second quarter, but the first quarter was revised back up to 3.7% on the strength of stronger-than-projected inventory rebuilding. But the recession years were ... Read More...


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Global Catastrophe Alert...

So, what does this extremely tight and tense astrological configuration mean for the world? In interpreting this pattern it helps to understand that disharmonious aspects to planets can bring about the following negative manifestations ... Read More...


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Technical Market Report for July 31, 2010

Safe Haven: Preservation of Capital - Sat, 31/07/2010 - 14:46
Most of the indicators are strong, but, seasonally the first few days of August during the 2nd year of the Presidential Cycle have been weak. I expect the major averages to be lower on Friday August 6 than they were on Friday July 30. Read More...


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Have We Seen The Final Bottom For Gold or Just a Temporary One?

Safe Haven: Preservation of Capital - Sat, 31/07/2010 - 13:57
Once again, this week's long-term Euro Index chart shows that there has been little change from last week. However, we have seen a struggle for movement above the resistance line created by the lows of 2005 and 2008. This also closely corresponds ... Read More...


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Quantitative Easing Two

Safe Haven: Preservation of Capital - Sat, 31/07/2010 - 02:21
Not even a week had passed since ECB President Trichet's article, "Stimulate No More - It Is Now Time to Tighten," before Federal Reserve Bank President James Bullard thrusts himself into the debate with his paper, "Seven Faces of 'The Peril.'" Read More...


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The Power to Borrow Money

Safe Haven: Preservation of Capital - Sat, 31/07/2010 - 01:03
... what about the Constitution, what does it say about money and the dollar? Do the Constitution, the Uniform Commercial Code, and the United States Code have the same definition of money? Read More...


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The Housing Depression and Why It Suggests Improved Future Economic Growth

Safe Haven: Preservation of Capital - Sat, 31/07/2010 - 00:40
For the home construction industry, the recent recession has been a depression. The data tell a brutal tale. In 2005, construction started on 2,068,000 homes. In 2009, construction began on 544,000 homes - a drop of 73 percent. Read More...


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International Community Presses Juba, Khartoum On Sudan Referendum

Safe Haven: Preservation of Capital - Fri, 30/07/2010 - 23:43
The international community is pressuring the Juba and Khartoum governments to speed up preparation for a vote on South Sudan's future - a decision that will be dominated by the fate of coveted oil resources ... Read More...


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Asset Allocation - 'Polishing the Turd'

Safe Haven: Preservation of Capital - Fri, 30/07/2010 - 23:26
The intent of this article is to look at asset allocation to determine if it does indeed help investors protect against significant losses. Asset allocation, market timing and other previously accepted risk mitigation techniques will be ... Read More...


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Platinum and Gold

Safe Haven: Preservation of Capital - Fri, 30/07/2010 - 18:23
Platinum and gold, how much of a relationship do these metals really have? Gold has been the talk of the town lately, a growingly-popular safe haven in these wild economic times. But platinum, one hardly hears of this metal ... Read More...


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The SPY's Reactionary 109.68 Level ...

Safe Haven: Preservation of Capital - Fri, 30/07/2010 - 17:58
Yesterday, the SPY closed at 110.29 on a high down volume, last minute tick. So, yesterday's 110.29 close will be subject to a gap down possibility ... below the 109.68 level at the open this morning ... Read More...


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Why more Quantitative Easing can't be avoided and will threaten the developed world and the U.S. Dollar

Safe Haven: Preservation of Capital - Fri, 30/07/2010 - 17:58
The U.S. economy can, at best, be described as in an 'L'-shaped recovery. It is anemic, faced with unyieldingly high unemployment and overburdened with debt, but worst of all, the average consumer that has little to no confidence ... Read More...


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Spain Reports 20%+ Unemployment, a Structural Problem That May Persist For Some Time

Safe Haven: Preservation of Capital - Fri, 30/07/2010 - 14:42
Proposed austerity measures on top of a collapsed bubble in the real estate market and banks that are playing hide the sausage with NPAs are not going to help the unemployment rate any. From our proprietary report on Spain's public finances ... Read More...


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Volume Increases, Bulls Get Beaten...

Safe Haven: Preservation of Capital - Fri, 30/07/2010 - 13:58
Thursday's trading action saw volume increase to below average levels from very light levels and much of that volume came in the final fifteen minutes as bears took over and flooded the major index ETFs with sell orders. Read More...


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Should China Dump Dollars for Commodities?

Safe Haven: Preservation of Capital - Fri, 30/07/2010 - 13:46
Every time there is a little blip by China in its purchasing or holding of US treasuries, hyperinflationists come out of the woodwork ranting about the "Nuclear Option" of China dumping treasuries en masse. Read More...


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Why History Matters: U.S. Perspective on Growth and Austerity

Safe Haven: Preservation of Capital - Fri, 30/07/2010 - 13:35
The U.S. and other major countries are diverging on economic policy. While there is a growing debate in Washington over the possibility of further stimulus actions, a number of European governments, including the U.K., Germany and ... Read More...


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The Year of the Roth

Safe Haven: Preservation of Capital - Fri, 30/07/2010 - 13:19
Until 2010 arrived, you couldn't have a Roth IRA if your income exceeded certain limits. That restriction is gone. Now anyone with a traditional IRA can convert it to a Roth. But should you? Read More...


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