Gary Tanashian

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• Gold Fixation

  Published 11 October 2013 | viewed 0 times

  What is it about gold that makes people view it differently than any other asset class, creating an almost religious fixation* on the metal? As…

• US Stock Market, Profits and Policy

  Published 07 October 2013 | viewed 0 times

  Excerpted from the October 6 edition of Notes From the Rabbit Hole, NFTRH 259:   US stocks generally remain on bullish trends in all time…

• Outer Limits of Monetary Policy and Inflation

  Published 02 October 2013 | viewed 0 times

  The ISM has once again expanded. Policy is working, so please Dear Mr. Bernanke, begin to withdraw not only a token amount of Treasury bond…

• Technical Status: Gold, Silver and Much More...

  Published 30 September 2013 | viewed 0 times

  In response to a subscriber's request, I am pleased to announce the addition of a simple yet helpful new aspect to the NFTRH service that…

• As the Debt Ceiling Kabuki Dance Starts Anew

  Published 27 September 2013 | viewed 0 times

  Inflation spigots are open and running 24/7... and an economy that needs to purge the excesses keeps resisting the inflation... Within this, we are in…

• Send in the Clowns

  Published 23 September 2013 | viewed 0 times

  Last week the Fed treated us to a whipsaw as market perceptions apparently were not in line with the FOMC policy statement, which was basically…

• The Fed's Great Adventure in Inflation

  Published 20 September 2013 | viewed 0 times

  In the current policy and media stoked market environment, anything is possible. It's the wonderful, magical world of hands-on policy making. 5 years after the…

• Gold: 'Taper This'

  Published 17 September 2013 | viewed 0 times

  The media love to get a hold of buzz words and then give them a spin and a life all their own. Recent examples were…

• China, US and Inflation

  Published 10 September 2013 | viewed 0 times

  In light of today's positive economic data out of China, I thought I would reproduce a segment from NFTRH 255 (9.8.13) that speculated upon the…

• A Look at ISM, Prices and Gold vs Commodities

  Published 05 September 2013 | viewed 0 times

  US manufacturing expanded again last month as July's strong pace was maintained in August at 55%+. New orders increased at a healthy rate of nearly…

• Macro Markets Shrug Off Policy Makers, Ready for a Pivot

  Published 26 August 2013 | viewed 0 times

  Once again we present the Treasury 'TICs' data for China and Japan, most recently available through June. It can be argued that these two countries…

• FOMC Minutes... Head for the Hills!!!

  Published 21 August 2013 | viewed 0 times

  While the MSM instigates reasons why we should give a damn about what people who have little control over the T bond market were thinking…

• Change

  Published 16 August 2013 | viewed 0 times

  The destruction culminating in late June in the gold price brought out the usual suspects to school us ever since about why gold is all…

• Commodities, Precious Metals and Economic Contraction

  Published 12 August 2013 | viewed 0 times

  The 'Commodity' segment, excerpted and expanded upon, from NFTRH 251: The commodity complex is famous for a sort of 'Whack-a-Mole' quality to it. Do you…

• Momentum: By Definition it is Hard to Stop

  Published 07 August 2013 | viewed 0 times

  Excerpted from NFTRH 250 (August 4, 2013)   Momentum: the quantity of motion of a moving body, measured as a product of its mass and…

• Market Indicators in a Transformed System

  Published 05 August 2013 | viewed 0 times

  We have used the 'continuum' (monthly chart of the 30 year yield) for years now to define tops in inflation expectations (red arrows at or…

• Hand Off to a New Fed Chair is Well Timed

  Published 29 July 2013 | viewed 0 times

  It is as notable as a 2nd term president handing off the big problems to the next guy, as George Bush did with Barack Obama…

• Precious Metals Must Make a Stronger Statement Still

  Published 23 July 2013 | viewed 0 times

  Yesterday was an impulsive looking move and something of a statement in itself. But now technically, the metals and miners need to gather themselves (after…

• Rates of Interest

  Published 15 July 2013 | viewed 0 times

  The following is excerpted from this week's Notes From the Rabbit Hole, NFTRH 247.   As the 10-year to T-bill yield curve chart makes clear,…

• 'Taper to Carry' (T2C)... a Logical Chain

  Published 08 July 2013 | viewed 0 times

  Below is the opening segment of this week's edition of Notes From the Rabbit Hole (NFTRH 246). My friend's request for a 'simple' road map…