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Gold •174 days | 2,368.70 | +35.30 | +1.51% |
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Platinum •15 mins | 964.80 | +13.30 | +1.40% |
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WTI Crude •19 hours | 70.10 | +0.86 | +1.24% |
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Gasoline •19 hours | 1.959 | +0.021 | +1.06% |
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Ethanol •174 days | 2.161 | +0.000 | +0.00% |
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Silver •174 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% |
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Silver • 174 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% | |
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Copper • 174 days | 4.530 | +0.111 | +2.51% | |
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Brent Crude • 19 hours | 73.58 | +0.95 | +1.31% | |
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Natural Gas • 19 hours | 3.946 | +0.290 | +7.93% | |
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Heating Oil • 19 hours | 2.222 | -0.005 | -0.22% |
David Knox Barker
Contributor since: 22 Apr 2010
Biography
David Knox Barker is the founder of Long Wave Dynamics, LLC, and the publisher and editor of The International Long Wave Dynamics Letter. Barker is one of the world's foremost experts on the economic long wave, stock market cycles and Fibonacci market analysis. He is the creator of the Market Cycle Dynamics (MCD) software and author of The K Wave (2012). He is a writer, entrepreneur and technical market analyst. He has researched stock market cycles and written on the impact of the long wave on international financial markets and the international political economy for over 25 years. Barker developed the powerful Market Cycle Dynamics Formula Timing Plan (aka Theory 144) approach to market cycle analysis based on decades of market cycle research. Barker was founder and CEO for ten years from 1997 to 2007 of a successful life sciences research and marketing services company, serving a majority of the top 20 global life science companies. Barker also founded ALP Life Sciences, LLC in 2007, which is managing research and development on the Nanoveson(TM) project. He received his bachelor's degree with a major in finance from Appalachian State University and a master's degree in political science from University of Central Florida, where his thesis research explored disequilibrium in the international political economy from the long wave perspective. He is happily married to Berdjette, a citizen of Switzerland, and they are the parents of three great kids. His hobbies include reading, writing, running and discussing big ideas with family and friends.
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U.S. Federal Reserve Delivers 50% Higher Stock Market Pavlovian Premium
The U.S. Federal Reserve Bank of New York has just released what is essentially a stock market manipulation bragging rights report. Based on their research,…
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The Market Cycle Dynamics of Intel (INTC)
They say the proof is in the pudding. Upon first encountering the proposed market cycle matrix of the late market analyst PQ Wall, from the…
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Debt Deflation, Corporate Efficiency and Stock Prices
It all started out great in 1949. The global economy had finished deleveraging from the great depression. The austerity of the long wave cycle winter…
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Schumpeter's Creative Destruction and Nokia's 41 Megapixel Camera Innovation
In Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy, Joseph Schumpeter coined the term "Creative Destruction" to explain the capitalist process of innovation. Innovation is continually disrupting and transforming…
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Value and Dividends at Wall Cycle Lows
In light of the top of the multi-decade bull market and the recurring bear market massacres since the top, investors are increasingly jaded and skeptical.…
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The K Wave Strikes Back
The Kondratieff long wave cycle (aka The K Wave) provides the only good explanation of the current state of the global economy and financial markets.…
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The ECB Gone Wild; Living in Interesting Times
The historically hawkish European Central Bank (ECB) has the single mandate of ensuring price stability in the European Union. In the face of the rapidly…
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The Fed's Inflation Target; QE3, QE4, QE5, etc. are in the Queue
The U.S. Federal Reserve policy announcement on Tuesday, January 25, 2012 marks an important moment in monetary history. The forecast by a majority of the…
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Morphic Fields and Market Cycles
Dan Brown popularized the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS) in the novel The Lost Symbol. IONS is in fact a real research organization. The mission…
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Central Bankers vs. Natural Market Cycles in 2012
Government fiscal policy and central bank monetary policy have the specific goal of stamping out the business cycle. Governments have been intervening in the economy…
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The Road Not Taken
The international political economy and global financial markets are deep in the woods. A long wave winter season is blowing cold, and getting colder. Decades…
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The Collapse of Wall Cycle #6
The late market analyst PQ Wall put forward a rather bold proposal concerning the regular business cycle, which is also known as the Kitchin cycle.…
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The Triple Play in the UK FTSE 100
Price, time and sentiment represent a three dimensional approach to technical analysis of any market or security. The Fibonacci drill-down grid method is particularly instructive…
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Emerging Markets Telegraphing Trouble in 2012
During the last global long wave winter season that occurred in the 1930s and 1940s major economic changes took place that were similar to what…
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Occupy Wall Street and the End of Crony Capitalism
Occupy Wall Street demonstrations are sweeping the globe. Universally, demonstrators recognize that there is something fundamentally flawed with the current system of international political economy.…
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The Paradox of Deflation Facing Global Investors
The primary purpose for markets is to allow buyers and sellers to reach a deal, strike a price. Anything that distorts this purpose, leads the…
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The Perfect Storm in a Kondratieff Long Wave Winter
Crashing global stock markets, debt defaults, overproduction, falling prices, tumbling interest rates, global debt deleveraging, and the clear necessity for austerity, they are all classic…
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Debunking the Myth of the Efficient Markets Hypothesis
In the way of a refresher course, the efficient markets hypothesis (EMH) proposes that global financial markets are efficient in terms of the information available…
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Prepare for the Global Long Wave Extinction Event
Life without appreciation for irony in global financial, economic and political affairs would be challenging. God undoubtedly enjoys the irony at work in human action.…
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Without Vision the People Perish; and the SP 1361 Reversal
Nobody can see the future, except of course for a real prophet. I'm not one. Real prophets come along to show us the way very…
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