Martin Weiss

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• Soft Landing or Recession?

  Published 13 November 2006 | viewed 5,893 times

  Money and Markets Even as the Dow makes all-time highs and investors celebrate with growing enthusiasm, new signs of a slowing U.S. economy have suddenly…

• The First Capitalist Empire

  Published 30 October 2006 | viewed 6,214 times

  I am in Venice, the birthplace of modern capitalism. Casual visitors see only its countless canals and bridges. They marvel at the conspicuous absence of…

• Fallen Empire

  Published 23 October 2006 | viewed 7,531 times

  Yesterday, Elisabeth, Anthony and I walked the streets of Rome, the little village of seven hills founded in 753 B.C. that rose to rule the…

• Four Retirement Threats

  Published 09 October 2006 | viewed 5,779 times

  The last time I was in Costa Rica to visit my mother, I took my aunt and uncle along with me. All three retired with…

• Classic Case of Complacency

  Published 02 October 2006 | viewed 7,339 times

  America's two largest auto giants, Ford and General Motors, are on a collision course with bankruptcy. Yet most American investors don't seem to care. Instead,…

• Eye of the Storm

  Published 25 September 2006 | viewed 7,912 times

  Money and Markets When Hurricane Wilma struck Florida last year, the eye was so vast and the calm so reassuring we had a hard time…

• The Greatest Scam of All Time

  Published 18 September 2006 | viewed 34,758 times

  Money and Markets Washington's Enron-style accounting is now so widespread and so deeply ingrained, the nation could be bankrupt and not even know it. You…

• Nine Eleven and Eleven Twenty-Two

  Published 11 September 2006 | viewed 6,640 times

  If you're almost 60 like me, sometimes your memory is sharp, sometimes not. But among all the historical moments of our lifetime, none are more…

• Catch-22 at the Fed

  Published 08 August 2006 | viewed 5,769 times

  Money and Markets Dear Roy, Martin here, with an urgent pre-Fed update. It's Monday morning, just 24 hours before Ben Bernanke and the Fed meet…

• World War III?

  Published 31 July 2006 | viewed 7,122 times

  Money and Markets Not long before Dad passed away, we walked in the fields near my home in Florida, debating the likelihood of another world…

• The Next Big Wave

  Published 25 July 2006 | viewed 7,726 times

  Money and Markets Dear Colleen, It's very early Monday morning, and I just got back from a short walk outside. South Florida's sunrise is still…

• Three War Forecasts

  Published 17 July 2006 | viewed 9,089 times

  Money and Markets Anthony and I are in Brazil to attend my nephew's wedding. We fly back tonight. When I planned this trip, I welcomed…

• Money and Markets

  Published 10 July 2006 | viewed 7,196 times

  This coming weekend, something very unusual is going to happen. Eight of the world's most powerful heads of state -- Bush, Blair, Chirac, Harper, Koizumi,…

• SP 500 Index Near Critical Break Point

  Published 26 June 2006 | viewed 11,333 times

  Money and Markets Back in March of 2000, the S&P 500 Index catapulted to 1,553, its highest level in history. But from that point onward,…

• The Most Powerful Force on Earth

  Published 19 June 2006 | viewed 12,670 times

  Money and Markets When I was born, there were fewer than two and a half billion people on the planet. Now, barely 60 years later,…

• The Cycle of Debt and Energy

  Published 12 June 2006 | viewed 8,522 times

  Dear Friend, History inevitably repeats itself, and I know of no historical cycle more deeply embedded in human society than the cycle of debt and…

• Glimmer of Hope; Threat of Blow-Up

  Published 05 June 2006 | viewed 6,144 times

  Money and Markets Dear Friend, I'm at my home office. I'm looking at the Iran crisis very closely. And I see a glimmer of hope…

• Parallel Patterns

  Published 22 May 2006 | viewed 6,549 times

  Money and Markets Before Dad passed away, we often went for walks while we debated how history might repeat itself, and when. Our primary concern…

• Interest Rates Crossing Critical Threshold

  Published 15 May 2006 | viewed 7,903 times

  Money and Markets Dear Friend, We are crossing a critical threshold beyond which the U.S. government could begin to lose control over rising interest rates,…

• A New Phase in the Dollar's Decline

  Published 08 May 2006 | viewed 12,909 times

  Money and Markets The dollar is falling and doing so at a quickening pace. It's falling against the euro, the Japanese yen, the Swiss franc,…