Alex Wallenwein

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• A Monkey Wrench ... In the Fed's Gears

  Published 16 October 2005 | viewed 6,317 times

  What are the Fed's "gears"? Its policy goal of keeping long rates low by raising short rates to control inflation expectations. What's the "monkey wrench"?…

• Gold Stocks - or Gold STACKS?

  Published 09 October 2005 | viewed 4,593 times

  Gold powers ahead and its paper-derivatives, mining stocks, lag behind - once again. Same story as last year - or is it? Which should you…

• Gold: No Longer Euro's Copilot

  Published 21 September 2005 | viewed 5,422 times

  Gold had a great run these last few days. It actually sagged a bit toward the middle of last week, but then came roaring on…

• The Dollar's Iron Ceiling

  Published 09 September 2005 | viewed 5,767 times

  The dollar has some major problems, not the least of which is that it has nowhere left to go. Of course, there's nothing new about…

• Dow(n) Jones?

  Published 28 August 2005 | viewed 5,905 times

  So many investors' hopes and dreams ride on the Dow, who would want to let them fall by the wayside? Well, there's old "Mr. Market,"…

• China: From Revolution to Revaluation

  Published 25 July 2005 | viewed 4,954 times

  Lenin and Mao may be dead - but Communism isn't. Living proof: China. Communist China is the big darling of the world now, with a…

• A Single Global Currency?

  Published 09 July 2005 | viewed 9,376 times

  Sure, why not. But, only if it's Gold and Silver Bullion! Introduction Reinventing the Wheel The Advantages of Bullion As Global Currency The 'Medium and…

• Inflation: Myth and (Stark) Reality!

  Published 01 July 2005 | viewed 5,750 times

  Don't you feel good that our Great White Father at the Federal Reserve Bank has tamed inflation for us? Just think back of the horrible…

• China's Dirty Trick

  Published 24 June 2005 | viewed 5,826 times

  Everybody's scared of the big bad Chinese wolf - but the wolf is running on illusory fuel. Not that China's world competitors are running on…

• A Gold-Euro Bust!

  Published 17 June 2005 | viewed 6,107 times

  Does this title confuse you? I'll bet it does, because in the minds of most gold investors it seems backwards. To most, it should read:…

• All that Euro-Hullabaloo ...

  Published 05 June 2005 | viewed 6,148 times

  First, the French vote "no" to the proposed EU constitution. Then the Dutch vote "no" - and now everybody is all up in arms. Why?…

• Greenspan's Inflation-Wedgie

  Published 31 May 2005 | viewed 7,910 times

  Is Fed Policy a Bathroom Joke? Actions of US monetary authorities have been inviting comments that increasingly drift toward the unappetizing, of late. If you…

• GOLD: Bullion vs. Shares

  Published 19 May 2005 | viewed 6,563 times

  Is it time to bail out of shares? Many gold shares owners are pulling their hairs out every morning in front of their computers. "Those…

• Of New Indians and Golden Buffalo

  Published 15 May 2005 | viewed 4,786 times

  Will the Dollar Go the Way of the Buffalo? No, it won't. It already has. As the original buffalo have been replaced with genetically engineered,…

• What's Bugging Gold-Bugs?

  Published 10 May 2005 | viewed 6,577 times

  What's wrong with this picture? A train pulls into the station. There are a bunch of gold bugs riding it, waiting for it to take…

• The Econo-Matrix

  Published 26 April 2005 | viewed 9,197 times

  In the financial world we live in, nothing is as it seems anymore - except for one thing: We are all operating under the same…

• Only the Strong Have Weak Currencies!

  Published 19 April 2005 | viewed 5,849 times

  In this seemingly nonsensical environment of competitive currency devaluations, everything is turned on its head. Under normal conditions, a strong economy would be expected to…

• Tariffs, Schmariffs ... and then GOLD

  Published 13 April 2005 | viewed 5,284 times

  Congress is about to do China a huge favor - unwittingly. It is also about to cause the dollar to further drop in the forex…

• No Gold Manipulation, Right?

  Published 04 April 2005 | viewed 6,449 times

  I have no idea why no one has done this yet. Maybe someone did, and I missed it. That's very likely, judging from the amount…

• The Dollar is a Risky Scheme

  Published 13 March 2005 | viewed 5,837 times

  The fiat-dollar is a confidence game. No more, no less. At its core, its "value" is based on nothing other than the confidence that it…