Adam Brochert

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• Dow to Gold Ratio Update

  Published 09 October 2009 | viewed 3,006 times

  The Dow to Gold ratio is something I harp on again and again. Why? Well, two reasons. The second I'll mention later. The first reason…

• Stocks Are Still A Lousy Investment

  Published 07 October 2009 | viewed 3,210 times

  NOTE: This is a sort of tit-for-tat rebuttal of a classic hatchet piece on Gold as an investment class that recently appeared in the Wall…

• Asset Class of the Decade: Gold

  Published 26 September 2009 | viewed 3,056 times

  In the end as an investor, it's all about the scoreboard. For those who aren't traders, allocation to the correct asset classes is critical to…

• Gold - Long Term Thoughts

  Published 20 September 2009 | viewed 2,933 times

  The short and intermediate-term future for Gold and any investment for that matter are tricky to navigate. I have guessed right and wrong many times…

• We're All Going to Pay For the Housing Mess

  Published 19 September 2009 | viewed 5,096 times

  The citizens of the United States will be paying to clean up the collapse of the real estate bubble. It doesn't matter if one participated…

• Deflation and Bankers Mix Like Oil and Water

  Published 18 September 2009 | viewed 2,867 times

  Why is deflation bad? If one can manage to keep one's job and one has some savings, deflation is the greatest thing since sliced bread.…

• When There's No One Left to Trust

  Published 13 September 2009 | viewed 4,355 times

  Fraud and corruption are being exposed at the highest levels of our financial markets. The integrity of our so called "free" markets has been badly…

• Real Estate - The 800,000 Pound Deflationary Gorilla

  Published 07 September 2009 | viewed 13,834 times

  The housing market is rapidly deteriorating under the surface. A housing price collapse is a highly deflationary event because it affects so many banks and…

• Gold is a Currency You Can Rely On

  Published 06 September 2009 | viewed 2,851 times

  I get comments and questions from people who don't understand why Gold is money and don't understand why it has any value other than as…

• Let's Get Physical With China

  Published 04 September 2009 | viewed 3,439 times

  The recent development of the Chinese government no longer restricting Gold and silver ownership and now actively promoting it is a very, very big deal…

• The Power Of The fed And Deflation

  Published 29 August 2009 | viewed 4,119 times

  The non-federal, private federal reserve corporation has a no-bid contract to print money out of thin air and charge U.S. citizens money (interest) for this…

• The US Dollar Versus Gold - Flea on a Bull's Back

  Published 27 August 2009 | viewed 3,579 times

  Gold versus paper. That's the real battle under the surface. This is the more important battle from a societal standpoint. Honest money or crooked money.…

• Japanese Yen Fractal - Path for the U.S. Dollar?

  Published 24 August 2009 | viewed 3,790 times

  Though I keep hearing how we're different than Japan and their lost two decades of deflation (or as close to it as we seem to…

• Bear Market Fractal Encouragement

  Published 23 August 2009 | viewed 3,455 times

  It's gotten mighty lonely in the bear camp and the bulls have certainly had their way with the bears since the March 2009 lows. It…

• Deflation Relative to What?

  Published 16 August 2009 | viewed 3,797 times

  As the deflation versus inflation debate rages on, both sides present reasonable arguments that sound plausible. I am in the camp that believes stocks, commodities,…

• It's All Coming Together

  Published 11 August 2009 | viewed 5,617 times

  Although the waiting is the hardest part. The next phase of the credit contraction and next down leg in the bear market is set to…

• Gold Versus Stocks - Trade of the Decade

  Published 09 August 2009 | viewed 3,756 times

  Stocks have been a terrible investment over the past decade and they are about to get worse. Gold has been one of the best if…

• Where Are We in This Bear Market?

  Published 07 July 2009 | viewed 4,908 times

  The short answer: somewhere around halfway through it. The long answer follows. The price to earnings ratio for the S&P 500 is currently greater than…

• Gold Outperforms the US Dollar During Deflation

  Published 05 July 2009 | viewed 3,196 times

  Karl Denninger over at Market Ticker just came out with his 2009 prediction review bashing Gold and Robert Prechter has considered the entire run in…

• Gold is Money and Nothing Else

  Published 03 July 2009 | viewed 3,403 times

  The title of this post is actually a quote from Mr. JP Morgan in the early 1900s during a Congressional hearing in the United States.…