In the Bible there is a reference to a “sin unto death.” In the realm of U.S. economic policy a situation is developing that could easily lead to a “death” of the current recovery. Ironically, this brewing economic destruction is springing from the same policies that are responsible for the ... Read More
Category: Clif Droke
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Jan2011
Wall Street seems particularly giddy entering the New Year, and for good reason: the stock market has had its best two-year performance since 1932. Retail investors are also beginning to shed their bear suits and slowly embrace a bullish posture. For the month of December 2010, a ... Read More
January 13, 2011chanakya
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Jan2011
Investors have been liquidating bonds in the last few weeks which begs the question why. Are investors liquidating bonds in order to move cash back into stocks and other risk assets? Or is that money going under the mattress? On that score a recent news article provides ... Read More
January 3, 2011chanakya
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Dec2010
The inflation versus deflation debate has raged for years but since the credit crisis the debate has become highly politicized. If the credit crisis taught us anything it is that the risk of deflation far outweighs that of inflation. Yet there is an entrenched view emerging in ... Read More
December 12, 2010chanakya
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Dec2010
After the bottom of the 4-year cycle in September the stock market began what has been described, in the words of Samuel J. Kress, “the final cyclical bull market of the post-World War 2 expansionary era.” The months ahead could well be the last chance for individuals ... Read More
December 5, 2010chanakya
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Oct2010
The headline discussion in the financial press of late has been about the recently announced quantitative easing program that the Federal Reserve has said it will undertake in order to further stimulate the economy. Financial commentators have bled their pens dry in speculating what impact the so-called ... Read More
October 21, 2010chanakya
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Oct2010
Even if you’re not one who tracks currency values, you just knew the dollar was on the ropes again if you bothered to check your mail box. Whenever the dollar shows any sustained weakness the newsletter publishers will send out bulk mail advertisements with sensational headlines like, “Dollar Crash Looms!” ... Read More
October 8, 2010chanakya
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Sep2010
The XAU Gold Silver Index closed 2.69% higher on Tuesday at 190.63. The Gold Bugs Index (HUI) closed 3.36% higher at 495.99. December gold closed 1.835 higher at $1,268. December silver ended 1.71% higher at $20.50.
Throughout the last few weeks of summer there has been a ... Read More
September 15, 2010chanakya
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Sep2010
After a brief decline in July, gold once again finds itself in the investment spotlight as investors seeking safety from the turbulence of the bottoming 4-year cycle turn to gold. In its latest close, the gold price according to the 100 oz. COMEX index closed at $1,248.50 ... Read More
September 12, 2010chanakya
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Aug2010
When Bert Dohmen talks, smart investors listen.
In 2007 when most investment analysts and economists were downplaying the developing credit market troubles, Bert warned investors that the probability was very high that the troubles would escalate into full-blown crisis and would produce a crash of historic proportions. ... Read More
August 31, 2010chanakya