John Mackenzie

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• Exceeding Through Excess

  Published 16 May 2004 | viewed 2,373 times

  Leveraged Speculators continue to feed at the short end trough as ever increasing risks are blown into the Derivatives Bubble. The BIS's most recent release…

• Brave New World

  Published 04 May 2004 | viewed 2,549 times

  Forty months and thirteen Federal Funds rate cuts later and all we've managed to accomplish is sustenance of unsustainable and unprecedented "Credit Bubbles". US M3…

• Golden Globes and Drama Queens

  Published 29 April 2004 | viewed 2,373 times

  I tend to run, not walk, when the operatic din of Gold's Advisor's begins to crescendo. At times, some of the well intentioned Gold Bull…

• Dollars to Dimes

  Published 23 April 2004 | viewed 2,561 times

  The Central Banks of the globe have placed a very large bet on a bankrupt monetary "theory" and it's relation to debt. While our nation…

• Ghosts in the Machine: we, the people, held captive by our own machinations

  Published 15 April 2004 | viewed 2,367 times

  I ask you to please consider: We often choose to ignore just how fragile life's balance truly is and that we are dependent upon one…

• Din of the Inept

  Published 14 April 2004 | viewed 2,850 times

  In theory, our theories for forecasting are based primarily upon our perceptions. We conceptualize, and build functional norms in hard science we believe are practical.…

• Lawn Darts

  Published 13 April 2004 | viewed 2,702 times

  "Let me begin with the question of whether interest rates and asset prices have been pushed away from appropriate levels. Some observers worry that recent…

• Hong Kong Fighter Pigs, Part 3

  Published 11 April 2004 | viewed 2,533 times

  By borrowing funds in a foreign market and using these funds to purchase an offsetting position in fixed income securities in a domestic market, traders…

• Central Pranking

  Published 07 April 2004 | viewed 4,259 times

  "Like gold, U.S. dollars have value only to the extent that they are strictly limited in supply. But the U.S. government has a technology, called…

• "Hong Kong Fighter Pigs, Part 2"

  Published 24 March 2004 | viewed 2,269 times

  In part one of this essay I suggested: "An "Event," is going to give way and topple the "Great Game." I'd venture a guess though...…

• Your Three Minutes are Up

  Published 22 March 2004 | viewed 2,669 times

  Once a year, our children's school hold it's annual fund-raiser to assist in providing scholarships, expand fine and performing arts, increase development and resources in…

• "Hong Kong Fighter Pigs"

  Published 12 March 2004 | viewed 2,533 times

  The past few weeks have blended into an endless tug of war, an epic battle of "Paper" over "Resources". The Gambit must be far larger…

• "Pax Hegemon"

  Published 24 February 2004 | viewed 4,142 times

  Selective rather than common interest would better describe the present global economic resource allocation system. The quest for selective interest can historically be traced back…