Gary Dorsch

Contributor since: 26 Feb 2010

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• Greek Wildfire Engulfs the Euro in Flames, Buoys Gold

  Published 13 May 2010 | viewed 0 times

  It takes a lot more time to safely extinguish a fire than it does to start it. There's an important lesson to be learned from…

• Could a Greek Tragedy Morph into a Lehman Meltdown?

  Published 28 April 2010 | viewed 0 times

  In an eerie sense of déjà vu, German finance minister Wolfgang Schauble pleaded with his country's citizens on April 20th, to back a joint EU-IMF…

• Central Banks Stoking Market Euphoria

  Published 15 April 2010 | viewed 0 times

  With only the slightest degree of hesitation, the Dow Jones Industrials penetrated the psychological 11,000-level this week, extending its historic gains to +70% above its…

• Greenspan Signals Warnings for Bubble-maniacs

  Published 29 March 2010 | viewed 1,394 times

  "I guess, I should warn you. If I turn out to be particularly clear, you've probably mis-understood what I've said," former Federal Reserve chief Alan…

• Optical Illusions, "Oil Shocks," and China's Headache

  Published 11 March 2010 | viewed 2,801 times

  March 9th, marked the one-year anniversary of the elusive bottom of the most brutal bear market since the 1930's. At the time, job losses were…

• Bond Vigilantes Set Sights on Sovereign Debt

  Published 24 February 2010 | viewed 2,943 times

  The collapse of Lehman Brothers triggered one of the biggest corporate debt defaults in history, and also ignited the biggest stock market meltdown in decades.…

• Greece Turns the Euro into a "Carry Trade" Currency

  Published 18 February 2010 | viewed 3,105 times

  Last year's parabolic rallies in copper, gold, Brazilian and Russian stocks, and the Australian dollar, are running out of steam. Suddenly, there are eerie reminiscences…

• Beware - The "January Barometer" Points to Bear Markets

  Published 04 February 2010 | viewed 2,722 times

  Beware! It was a cold January on Wall Street. The S&P-500 Index lost 3.7% of its value in January, the biggest monthly setback in a…

• Chinese Dragon Rattles Commodities, Gold, Brazil

  Published 22 January 2010 | viewed 4,164 times

  Although the US remains the world's #1 economy it's increasingly feeling the heat of a Chinese dragon, breathing down its neck. At the beginning of…

• "Commodity Super Cycle" Ready to Rumble in 2010

  Published 06 January 2010 | viewed 3,777 times

  The colossal V-shaped recovery of the global stock markets in 2009 was indeed, the most remarkable feat, ever engineered by the "Plunge Protection Team," (PPT).…

• One More Dance Before Midnight Strikes

  Published 16 December 2009 | viewed 11,338 times

  "As the old saying goes, what the wise man does at the beginning, fools do in the end," said Warren Buffett, at Berkshire Hathaway's Annual…

• The Resurrection of the Gold Standard

  Published 02 December 2009 | viewed 4,981 times

  One-way bets against the US-dollar have been building-up over the past eight-months, and are now estimated to total about $550-billion, in what's popularly dubbed the…

• Central Bankers Blowing Bubbles in Global Markets

  Published 19 November 2009 | viewed 3,917 times

  The Swiss franc is counted among the top-5 reserve currencies in the world, alongside the US-dollar, the Euro, the British pound, and the Japanese yen.…

• Dangerous Side Effects of Ultra-Easy Money

  Published 29 October 2009 | viewed 8,747 times

  Operating under the elixir of ultra-low interest rates, and flush with trillions of fiat currency at their disposal, courtesy of the world's top-20 central banks,…

• G-20 Inflates the Global Economy to Prosperity

  Published 10 September 2009 | viewed 4,301 times

  Who says central bankers can't inflate an economy to prosperity? To head-off the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression, the "Group-of-20" central banks have…

• Canadian Dollar Rattled by Shanghai Meltdown

  Published 17 August 2009 | viewed 3,801 times

  Bullish investors betting on a V-shaped recovery for the global stock markets are convinced the worst of the global economic crisis is over, and furthermore,…

• "Bubble-Mania" in Shanghai Spreads to Global Markets

  Published 04 August 2009 | viewed 4,602 times

  The S&P-500 Index, a global bellwether for the world stock markets, extended its best five-month winning streak since 1938, by advancing through the psychological 1,000-level,…

• Analyzing the Australian dollar, Up, Down, and Under

  Published 22 July 2009 | viewed 6,784 times

  Viewed from the outside, trading in the arcane world of foreign exchange might appear to be quite glamorous. However, attempting to anticipate the next major…

• The Mystery Behind the Parabolic Yield Curve

  Published 10 June 2009 | viewed 4,511 times

  Everything depends upon proper judgment. Of ten people who examine the same chart, or listen to the same speech, each person may well understand it…

• Can North Korean Nukes Rattle Global Markets?

  Published 27 May 2009 | viewed 4,681 times

  News that North Korea's mercurial leader Kim Jong Il authorized the detonation of a nuclear bomb on May 25th, comparable to those that obliterated Hiroshima…