Chip Hanlon

Delta Global Advisors

Contributor since: 26 Feb 2010

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• Saving Equals Squandering

  Published 30 January 2009 | viewed 3,659 times

  Do you put money away in the bank periodically? You're just wasting it, you know. At least, that's the assertion of this mindless rant: Millionaire…

• The True Scope of the Housing Bust

  Published 21 January 2009 | viewed 11,995 times

  Below is the transcript of an interview I conducted just a few weeks ago with Fannie Mae's first Chief Credit Officer, Edward Pinto. In our…

• Bill Gross Should be Ashamed of Himself

  Published 24 September 2008 | viewed 5,719 times

  I just got the chance to read the op-ed penned by Pimco's Bill Gross in this morning's Washington Post. Wow, have you read this mess?…

• Another Late-Summer Natural Gas Low?

  Published 18 September 2008 | viewed 3,338 times

  The following was posted on my blog, Hanlon's Pub, on Thursday morning: In mid-July, I warned that natural gas prices were likely to head lower…

• Unemployment Number Saves Gold

  Published 05 September 2008 | viewed 3,995 times

  ...but for how long? This morning's huge surge in jobless numbers has knocked the dollar, thus causing gold to pop up nearly $20 as I…

• Encouraging Action for Gold Bulls

  Published 22 April 2008 | viewed 3,710 times

  When discussing gold and commodities on CNBC last month, I said I expected gold to underperform commodities such as energy, base metals and agriculture for…

• Unbroken, Australia's Voters "Fix" Her Anyway

  Published 04 December 2007 | viewed 3,127 times

  Political challengers, you just saw a great example of how to run against an incumbent when things in your country are perfect, a seemingly impossible…

• Energy Trust Takeover Keeps Canada's Conservatives in Tough Spot

  Published 17 October 2007 | viewed 3,190 times

  Because last year's bombshell that Canada would change the way it treated royalty trusts was fraught with political risks, not only did the country's ruling…

• The Silk Road: A Positive Look at Asia

  Published 25 April 2006 | viewed 3,782 times

  An outstanding book was just released about the rising nations of Asia. Now, I may be a bit biased because I already know of and…

• Buying Bullion Keeps Getting Easier

  Published 25 January 2006 | viewed 5,578 times

  While most investors seem satisfied using the shares of mining companies as high-beta substitutes for the metal, more and more individuals are becoming interested in…

• Big Day for the Dollar

  Published 05 November 2005 | viewed 5,312 times

  There's no way to deny the importance of today's surge in the U.S. Dollar index. After staging a surprise rally in the first half of…

• Bernanke Needs to Talk Tough

  Published 25 October 2005 | viewed 3,106 times

  With the nomination of Ben Bernanke as the next Federal Reserve Chairman, the reactions of the stock and currency markets may diverge, but for the…

• Commodity Currency Action Makes Sense

  Published 06 October 2005 | viewed 5,219 times

  Looking at the action in the commodity currencies (particularly those of Australia and Canada), the drubbing they're taking today (Tuesday, 10/5/05) makes some sense, but…

• The Fed Misses an Opportunity

  Published 18 August 2005 | viewed 4,103 times

  The segment below was written and distributed only to the media within an hour of last week's Federal Reserve interest rate hike, with excerpts/themes picked…

• Currencies to be Less Exciting in Second Half

  Published 23 July 2005 | viewed 3,972 times

  With the Chinese calling Congress' bluff yesterday and moving the Yuan's peg to the Dollar, the focus of the investment world will once again be…

• Today's Fed and the Global Search for Yield

  Published 30 June 2005 | viewed 3,454 times

  Before getting into thoughts on today's Federal Reserve interest rate meeting below, I thought it important to remind investors of one simple thought I first…

• Foreign Stock Investors: Beware the Double-Whammy

  Published 03 June 2005 | viewed 4,261 times

  For U.S. investors, there's no such thing as a conservative foreign stock investment. Given the beating many foreign equity investors have undoubtedly taken in 2005…

• Sure, the Dollar Should Pull Back, but...

  Published 28 May 2005 | viewed 4,483 times

  I was struck the other day when reading the words of Marc Faber in a Bloomberg article about the global economy, he called himself a…

• What if Greenspan isn't a Hack?

  Published 03 May 2005 | viewed 5,712 times

  My use of the word "hack" in the title, of course, is a reference to Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid's quote in early March calling…

• Nobodys Talking About Newsweek?!

  Published 22 March 2005 | viewed 6,478 times

  Really, how can Newsweek run a cover story titled "The Incredible Shrinking Dollar" without the entire investment world taking notice and commenting on it? I…