Fred Sheehan

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• The Golden Constant

  Published 07 October 2011 | viewed 0 times

  The following is a brief outline of "Gold and the 'Flations," published in the April 2005 Gloom, Boom & Doom Report. General talk has it…

• Measuring Financial Productivity

  Published 30 September 2011 | viewed 0 times

  "An Absolute Zero" discussed the relationship of credit growth to economic growth. (The measurement used in the article was the change in non-financial domestic debt…

• An Absolute Zero

  Published 27 September 2011 | viewed 0 times

  The Federal Reserve Open Market Committee (FOMC) concluded a two-day meeting by initiating "Operation Twist." The FOMC's press release explained: "The Committee intends to purchase,…

• The Financial Times Discovers Gold Stocks

  Published 21 September 2011 | viewed 0 times

  Having read "Gold and Silver Stocks", the Financial Times decided to follow the trend with "Investors Bet Miners Will Follow Gold's Gain." (September 20, 2011)…

• Gold and Silver Stocks

  Published 17 September 2011 | viewed 0 times

  The prices of gold and silver shares are derived from the price of their reference metals. The referral method has gone astray, akin to a…

• Harvard Deconstructed: The Taming of the Zoo

  Published 31 August 2011 | viewed 0 times

  The Atlantic magazine has illustrated the unsustainable growth of student debt in the chart below. In David Indiviglio's August, 18, 2011, article, "Student Loans Have…

• Scarlett O'Hara's Risk-Free Rate

  Published 21 August 2011 | viewed 0 times

  The death of the long-established risk-to-reward asset categories was the subject of "It's Over." From lowest to highest: cash, bonds, and stocks, are the pecking…

• It's Over

  Published 14 August 2011 | viewed 0 times

  Standard & Poor's downgrade of the United States Treasury Department is a harbinger of changing times. The institutional mind has been trained to operate within…

• Do You Think Ben Bernanke is J.P. Morgan?

  Published 02 August 2011 | viewed 0 times

  On July 13, 2011, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke was questioned by members of the U.S. House Financial Services Subcommittee on Domestic Monetary Policy.…

• What a Business

  Published 22 July 2011 | viewed 0 times

  Steve Wynn, chairman and CEO of Wynn Resorts, is a man who knows how to build and grow casinos. His father ran bingo parlors. Over…

• Central Falls Leads the Field

  Published 18 July 2011 | viewed 0 times

  Central Falls, Rhode Island faces a plight that should be studied for its application elsewhere. It is nearly out of money. This is common news…

• The Euro and You

  Published 11 July 2011 | viewed 0 times

  Greece may seem a long way from Newport Beach, California. Well, it is. But, we live in the global village, or some other dim construction.…

• The Education Gap

  Published 28 June 2011 | viewed 0 times

  On June 22, 2011, the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) concluded a two-day meeting. This was followed by the obligatory press release. That statement was…

• Inflation Asides

  Published 27 June 2011 | viewed 0 times

  A note from a reader: In 1977 I accidentally ran into a high school friend of mine who had taken an advanced degree in mathematics…

• Sick Minds

  Published 23 June 2011 | viewed 0 times

  DOW JONES NEWSWIRES - June 22, 2011 - "Lawmakers are considering changing how the Consumer Price Index is calculated, a move that could save perhaps…

• What They Are Saying

  Published 17 June 2011 | viewed 0 times

  It was not difficult for an observer to understand Armageddon beckoned by 2006, as long as the observer listened to practitioners rather than theorists. The…

• The Consumption Bust

  Published 07 June 2011 | viewed 0 times

  There is no end to the indicators showing the consumer is up against it. Negative home-equity, incomes, layoffs, food inflation - oh, this is tale…

• Playing Old Maid

  Published 04 June 2011 | viewed 0 times

  When my youngest sister was four-years-old, we taught her how to play Old Maid. She learned quickly but played the game like - a four-year-old.…

• Who's Fool?

  Published 31 May 2011 | viewed 0 times

  Legislation to modify debit-card interchange fees cannot compete with celebrity gossip. Yet, exhausted carcasses are carried on stretchers from the senate office buildings. The Huffington…

• The China Trade

  Published 21 May 2011 | viewed 0 times

  In an Undercollateralized World concluded by quoting Michael Lewitt. Lewitt, the proprietor of Harch Capital Management in Boca Raton, Florida, wrote in the May issue…