Markets / Other

Jan 17, 2001 at 00:00

It is funny about markets and human nature. It never fails; that what goes up must come down (though not necessarily vice versa). Yet, if this market fact is readily…

Jan 01, 2001 at 00:00

"Gold 2000 in the year 2000?" What a beauty. Remember that one? I was (shamefully) thinking about burying that call, which was made in one of my more enthusiastic modes…

Jan 10, 2001 at 00:00

The game is afoot! Of course, it is not really a game; it is your life, and your life savings that are about to become annihilated through a desperate push…

Sep 19, 2002 at 00:00

"For the first time since WWII, the world is in the grips of a synchronized global economic downturn," writes Dr. Kurt Richebacher. "We are looking for financial turmoil in the…

Aug 12, 2002 at 00:00

Since there is an obvious interrelationship between short-term business cycles and short-term stock-market cycles, it is useful to discover their common elements in order to develop a theory that explains…

Jan 16, 2003 at 00:00

Last month, Alan Greenspan spoke to the N.Y. Economic Club and sounded, for a while, like his old self. "Although the gold standard could hardly be portrayed as having produced…

Nov 06, 2002 at 00:00

The Kondratiev cycle is a 50-60 year cycle in prices, interest rates and other economic variables. It was noted as early as 1847 in an article in the British Railway…

Oct 20, 2002 at 00:00

This post examines three S&P500 valuation methods for what they have to say about the progress of the current secular bear market. The first method that used by Robert Shiller…

Jul 23, 2002 at 00:00

A caveat to this analysis should be noted. Whereas the drop in P/R of 40% is consistent with the three previous non-Depression secular bear markets (average 38% drop) the absolute…

Jul 15, 2002 at 00:00

Since my last update in April my company's 401K has dropped TWCUX as a fund option and I have been forced to move my assets into an S&P500 index fund.…