Ned W. Schmidt

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• Gold Thoughts

  Published 27 June 2007 | viewed 3,102 times

  Good morning sheep! All of you with money in hedge funds, that gave money to your alma mater so they could speculate in hedge funds,…

• Gold Thoughts

  Published 20 June 2007 | viewed 3,348 times

  Can double digit inflation exist in the headline number and "core" inflation remain muted? Does the cost of energy and food influence the cost structure…

• Gold Thoughts

  Published 13 June 2007 | viewed 3,634 times

  Reality can truly be a shocking experience. For more than a year, paper equity markets have been deluded into thinking interest rates would decline. Suddenly,…

• The Agri-Food Value View: Fundamental Demand Determines Price

  Published 05 June 2007 | viewed 5,372 times

  The price of everything is determined by the supply and demand for that everything. In the Agri-Food markets demand is increasing more rapidly than supply,…

• Gold Thoughts

  Published 30 May 2007 | viewed 3,936 times

  Investing in paper equities has apparently become far easier. Either a stock will be taken private by a speculative investment fund or it will be…

• Gold Thoughts

  Published 16 May 2007 | viewed 4,721 times

  Only the truly deluded believe that the core consumer price index released for the U.S. on Tuesday has any true meaning. Only those trying to…

• Gold Thoughts

  Published 10 May 2007 | viewed 3,396 times

  Complacency over the demise of the U.S. dollar has allowed continued expansion of the yen and Swiss carry trade loans. Likewise, the imminent U.S. recession…

• Gold Thoughts

  Published 25 April 2007 | viewed 4,796 times

  How much has Gold benefited from the carry trade loans? How much of the run from US$640 to US$690 has been fueled by the same…

• Gold Thoughts

  Published 18 April 2007 | viewed 4,515 times

  Much talk about this index or that index making a new high, or near a new high. The level for an index is interesting, but…

• Trading Thoughts

  Published 15 April 2007 | viewed 4,434 times

  From THE VALUE VIEW GOLD REPORT TRADING THOUGHTS is about what the name in implies, is to promote timely and profitable trading of precious metals.…

• Moneyization Part Thirty-seven

  Published 28 March 2007 | viewed 4,451 times

  Moneyization: The global financial phenomenon of individuals and businesses moving their funds to monies in which they have the highest confidence, or money in which…

• Gold Thoughts

  Published 21 March 2007 | viewed 4,103 times

  A decade ago the decisions of the Bank of Japan and the People's Bank of China might have been reported, but not widely. Somewhere in…

• Gold Thoughts

  Published 14 March 2007 | viewed 6,644 times

  New York, which considers itself the center of the known universe, has discovered a solution to collapsing mountain of mortgage debt. NYSE is delisting NEW.…

• Gold Thoughts

  Published 07 March 2007 | viewed 5,227 times

  On Tuesday equity markets began a demonstration of long known fact, even a dead cat bounces when thrown into the air. Market corrections can certainly…

• Gold Thoughts

  Published 28 February 2007 | viewed 4,349 times

  Are U.S. paper equity markets facing the beginning of end? Tuesday's break below 118 confirms the view that Japanese yen has turned, meaning last chapter…

• Gold Thoughts

  Published 21 February 2007 | viewed 4,335 times

  This week the bad ideas started early. General Motors merging with Chrysler? How long will it take GM's management to convert Chrysler's stylish models into…

• Gold Thoughts

  Published 14 February 2007 | viewed 4,896 times

  GOLD THOUGHTS: Gold investors thank HSBC, the global bank. $Gold had been making time, unwinding an over bought condition. Last week, HSBC announced its loan…

• Gold Thoughts

  Published 07 February 2007 | viewed 6,863 times

  GOLD THOUGHTS: Gold is the one universal money, even more so than the dollar ever was. Massive trade deficit of United States is spewing out…

• Gold Thoughts

  Published 31 January 2007 | viewed 19,963 times

  GOLD THOUGHTS: Imagine you are on a cruise ship sitting at the Captain's table for dinner one night. Other passengers are quizzing Captain on the…

• Moneyization Part Thirty-five

  Published 09 January 2007 | viewed 3,740 times

  THE VALUE VIEW GOLD REPORT Moneyization: The global financial phenomenon of individuals and businesses moving their funds to monies in which they have the highest…