John Mackenzie

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• Money Knockers

  Published 06 October 2004 | viewed 3,226 times

  Yesterday's action was telling; the past few weeks have been important to shaping the balance of 2004's outcome. The Hedge Fund Economy, courtesy of Alan…

• Coffay Flavored Coffay - Part 2

  Published 04 October 2004 | viewed 2,872 times

  2004 has been a remarkable year. So much has changed, yet so little has barely budged. Under the surface, beneath the hollow, vapid din... confusion…

• Coffay Flavored Coffay - Part 1

  Published 21 September 2004 | viewed 2,385 times

  The United States has been habitually, compulsively occupied with maintaining its "Right" to a mélange of insidious addictions. Hyper-Habitual, First Abuser Privilege has fostered a…

• Kingdom of the Rain

  Published 15 September 2004 | viewed 3,496 times

  Hurricane Frances managed to impart a large degree of damage, contrary to the ever bullish "rebuilding" spin bantered about by the robotic pundits scripted to…

• Garbage IN / Garbage OUT

  Published 30 August 2004 | viewed 2,688 times

  NASCAR Dads "In order to make sure jobs stay here in Ohio and America, we're going to make sure countries treat us the way we…

• Angels of Deception, Part 2

  Published 26 August 2004 | viewed 3,458 times

  Come on down--the devil's in town. He's brought you sticks and stones, to bust your neighbor's bones Derivatives square up twice a year, March and…

• Angels of Deception Part 1 of 2

  Published 25 August 2004 | viewed 3,133 times

  Well it's high noon at the USA Corral, and it's high time I got myself back on the rails. Is it time to re-assess what…

• Buoy 12

  Published 20 August 2004 | viewed 2,382 times

  Chairman Greenspan's Statist Course is becoming far more tragic with each passing day in this observers opinion. Sadly, most Americans are far too "busy" to…

• 1/64th Scale

  Published 20 July 2004 | viewed 2,857 times

  To build a model, the assembler invariably ends up sniffing glue... in building the Banking model, more than a few pieces already in place have…

• Abject Failure

  Published 14 July 2004 | viewed 3,041 times

  The Financial Markets are setting up to overwhelm the Policymakers in short order this August in this observer's opinion. Dislocations have become most untenable over…

• Paper Mache

  Published 13 July 2004 | viewed 4,104 times

  Setting aside, for a moment, the technical and psychological aspects of the inter-connected world markets, let's observe the underlying fundamental facts: The United States Current…

• Mamayev Kurgan

  Published 08 July 2004 | viewed 3,460 times

  Motherland Russia is calling once again, her banking system an open cry shouting West. This morning's latest issuance sounds a bit like John Snow bull…

• Reciprocal Folly

  Published 07 July 2004 | viewed 2,668 times

  As we move into July of 2004 the Global Financial terrain has begun to resemble a minefield. Russian Oil Giant Yukos teeters on the abyss…

• Why Interest Rates Will Rise

  Published 03 July 2004 | viewed 4,987 times

  Increasingly, Fund Flows have been used to offset any rise in yields. More command performance from Chairman Alan Greenspan. The latest decline in yields can…

• The Big Blue - The Emergence of the Financial Economy

  Published 29 June 2004 | viewed 2,903 times

  Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan and company have held true to form, Credit expansion continues to exceed through excess. 2004 has been a busy year…

• Gold & Miscellaneous Rambling

  Published 25 June 2004 | viewed 2,584 times

  Recently finished reading Tim Wood's "Analysis of Gold 2004" and found it to be an illuminating analysis of the behavior of the Gold Market. Mr.…

• The Big Blue - Contrasting Values

  Published 24 June 2004 | viewed 2,487 times

  Alan Greenspan's remarkable 1966 essay on "Gold and Economic Freedom" stands up as one of the more remarkable declarations against the "Statists'" transfer of wealth…

• FedHeads

  Published 16 June 2004 | viewed 2,886 times

  Over the past several years I have become accustomed to the emotional and suspect diatribes of some in the Gold Advisor Community. Filtering this white…

• Convention?

  Published 25 May 2004 | viewed 2,914 times

  Intellectually, it's quite simple to reject some of the preconceived lines of thinking with respect to Gold's monetary orientation. The fundamentals for Gold have, quite…

• Fahrenheit 451

  Published 18 May 2004 | viewed 2,979 times

  Myron S. Scholes of Long Term Capital Management, won one-half the 1997 Nobel Peace Prize in Economic Sciences "for a new method to determine the…