Chris Temple

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• The War Against Deflation

  Published 26 July 2010 | viewed 0 times

  In the June issue* of The National Investor, one of the things I described was what was appearing to be the end of a months-long…

• A Day Late -- And a 'Flation' Short

  Published 29 June 2010 | viewed 0 times

  Today, for the first time in over 13 months, the bellwether 10-year Treasury note traded with a yield below 3%. At a minuscule 0.60%, the…

• Market Comments

  Published 07 April 2010 | viewed 1,141 times

  Market commentators have become so used to just about every day being an up one for stocks that today was quite confusing. I was watching…

• Safe Havens Through the Looking Glass

  Published 02 March 2010 | viewed 2,390 times

  For some time now, the most knowledgeable and principled of investors have been perplexed, to say the least, by what the markets have recently defined…

• Is the Dollar's Next Leg Up at Hand?

  Published 23 February 2010 | viewed 2,737 times

  Today's trading demonstrates anew the truth of the single most important investment consideration affecting the markets these days; one that I expect to continue for…

• A Broader -- and More Ominous -- January Barometer

  Published 31 January 2010 | viewed 3,652 times

  A big deal is being made now of the fact that the stock market ended the month of January with losses across all major indices;…

• A Couple More Nails in the Bull Market's Coffin

  Published 26 January 2010 | viewed 4,621 times

  Credit or blame who you will. The Senate Banking Committee, which seems more interested in holding a hearing with Paul Volcker over President Obama's banking…

• The Last Days of Ben Bernanke

  Published 22 January 2010 | viewed 3,406 times

  The developments over the last day or so concerning Time magazine's 2009 Person of the Year have been nothing short of breathtaking. Until yesterday, if…

• The Euro's Turn in the Doghouse -- and the Next Key Level for the Dollar

  Published 20 January 2010 | viewed 2,884 times

  During most of 2009, there was essentially just one currency story: the U.S. dollar. From March through the rest of the year, the dollar was…

• My ANTI-Predictions for 2010

  Published 02 January 2010 | viewed 6,352 times

  It's fashionable - if not expected - at this time of year for those of us in the business of economic and investment prognostication to…

• An Inflation of Confusion

  Published 20 December 2009 | viewed 3,876 times

  In my December issue, the cover story is entitled "The Blind Leading the Blind." In it, I use many examples to demonstrate that virtually nobody…

• Bernanke Resurrects the Bond Vigilantes

  Published 10 October 2009 | viewed 3,804 times

  At long last, enough of a scare has been put into policymakers to move them into a multi-pronged effort aimed at propping up the value…

• Alan Greenspan: A Lesson In Drunken Driving

  Published 29 January 2005 | viewed 5,468 times

  For the life of me I can't remember who it was. But some time back, I read an entertaining article by a fellow market watcher…

• Gold: Two Steps Forward...Two Steps Back?

  Published 07 January 2005 | viewed 3,035 times

  Happy New Year! Though you wouldn't know it from the perpetually bullish chatter among most gold bugs, the year just past actually gave us an…

• "Consumerism" Didn't Come About by Accident

  Published 02 November 2004 | viewed 3,589 times

  (NOTE: This is an excerpt from Chris Temple's provocative Special Report entitled "Understanding The Game". For more information or to order this latest report-part of…

• Bonds or Gold -- Which Market is Wrong?

  Published 21 August 2004 | viewed 2,879 times

  As we all know, financial markets now and then send mixed signals on what the future might hold. Especially these days, with investors on edge…