Gordon Long

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• Beware of Lurking North Africa and EU Bank Runs

  Published 02 February 2011 | viewed 0 times

  An abridged version of EU & North Africa Bank Run Contagion Research Report   This is a warning to prepare for potential stealth bank runs…

• Ending Diagonal Dead Ahead

  Published 31 January 2011 | viewed 0 times

  We appear to have a 'rolling top' with broad based weakening analytics and cascading warning signals. This behavior is often seen near major tops. The…

• Currency Wars: Debase, Default and Deny!

  Published 28 October 2010 | viewed 0 times

  In September 2008 the US came to a fork in the road. The Public Policy decision to not seize the banks, to not place them…

• Currency Wars: Misguided US Economic Policy

  Published 16 October 2010 | viewed 0 times

  The critical issues in America stem from minimally a blatantly ineffective public policy, but overridingly a failed and destructive Economic Policy. These policy errors are…

• Preserve and Protect: The Jaws of Death

  Published 19 September 2010 | viewed 0 times

  The United States is facing both a structural and demand problem - it is not the cyclical recessionary business cycle or the fallout of a…

• Innovation: America Has A Structural Problem

  Published 09 September 2010 | viewed 0 times

  It's a STRUCTURAL problem not a CYCLICAL problem! It's a DEMAND problem not a SUPPLY problem! I gave President Barrack Obama six months to roll-out…

• Mapping the Tipping Points

  Published 21 August 2010 | viewed 0 times

  The economic news has turned decidedly negative globally and a sense of 'quiet before the storm' permeates the financial headlines. Arcane subjects such as a…

• What Made America Great is Now Killing Her!

  Published 13 August 2010 | viewed 0 times

  What made America great was her unsurpassed ability to innovate. Equally important was also her ability to rapidly adapt to the change that this innovation…

• Sultans of Swap: Gold Swap Signals the Roadmap Ahead

  Published 23 July 2010 | viewed 0 times

  The news rocked the global gold market when an almost obscure line item in the back of a 216 page document released by an equally…

• Extend and Pretend: Stage I Comes to an End!

  Published 08 July 2010 | viewed 0 times

  The dog ate the report card Both came to an end at the same time: the administration's policy to Extend & Pretend has run out…

• Sultans of Swap: BP Potentially More Devastating than Lehman!

  Published 01 July 2010 | viewed 0 times

  As horrific as the gulf environmental catastrophe is, an even more intractable and cataclysmic disaster may be looming. The yet unknowable costs associated with clean-up,…

• Extend and Pretend: A Matter of National Security

  Published 18 June 2010 | viewed 0 times

  There is something seriously wrong in America. We all sense it, but few in the mainstream media are willing to touch it or can effectively…

• Extend and Pretend: A Guide to the Road Ahead

  Published 10 June 2010 | viewed 0 times

  It will likely surprise you but like a trolley car we are now locked into economic tracks that determine our financial destination. Unfortunately, it isn't…

• Confirming the Flash Crash Omen

  Published 04 June 2010 | viewed 0 times

  The highly discussed and quickly forgotten Flash Crash was an omen of what lies ahead for the financial markets. It was a uniquely distinctive occurrence…

• Extend and Pretend: Its Either RICO Act or Control Fraud

  Published 27 May 2010 | viewed 0 times

  We are entering the Age of Rage. It is presently most visible in Europe as austerity programs that potentially could shred a half century of…

• Euro Experiment: German Steel or Schmucks?

  Published 23 May 2010 | viewed 0 times

  The European Crisis is proving to be more of an unraveling than a contagion. I have long written that the European Monetary Union (EMU) constitution…

• Euro Experiment: EU Bullied into $1T Banking Bonanza

  Published 14 May 2010 | viewed 0 times

  Like a chess game, the bankers called 'checkmate' against the EU political leaders on Friday May 5th, 2010. Two days later in an urgently called…

• Extend and Pretend: Shifting Risk to the Innocent

  Published 06 May 2010 | viewed 0 times

  Markets never repeat themselves but they often rhyme. This rally feels like the same sonnet we experienced in 1987. As in a sonnet, it is…

• Extend and Pretend: Uncle Sam, You Sly Devil!

  Published 30 April 2010 | viewed 0 times

  The modus operandi (MO) of deviant behavior aids investigators in doing criminal profiling. Forensic accounting takes a similar approach and leads us to some unnerving…

• Extend and Pretend: Is the US Facing a Cash Crunch?

  Published 25 April 2010 | viewed 0 times

  The US Government is caught in a cash vise and is being squeezed between too slow a rebound in tax revenues and the limitations on…