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Markets

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Merk Economic Calendar: Week Ahead in U.S. Financial Markets (October 20-24 2008)

Oct 17, 2008 at 00:00

After the heaviest week of Fed talk and macro data releases in recent memory, the calendar will see a very light week of rhetoric and economic releases.

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Gold Investments Market Update

Oct 17, 2008 at 00:00

Many hedge fund managers are under severe pressure to liquidate positions as banks request more collateral to back funds' borrowing. Many hedge funds, including some of the largest, have gone…

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Deflation Scare the Perfect Camouflage

Oct 17, 2008 at 00:00

The deflation scare currently hovering over the entire market, particularly in the metals and commodities sectors, has been brutal. But the key question today is whether this "scare" will evolve…

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Does This Say the Market Could Have a Short Term Upside Move?

Oct 17, 2008 at 00:00

On the short term, the Inverted NYSE Declining Volume is trending up. This means that the aggregate dollar volume of stocks being sold off is continuing to decrease. This opens…

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Merk Market Outlook: Reduced Gasoline Prices Provide Relief, But May Not Change Consumer Outlook

Oct 17, 2008 at 00:00

Real personal consumption looks to be on a pace to decline -3.0% in Q3'08 and will almost certainly see a second consecutive negative quarter during the final three months of…

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Not Your Grandfather's Depression

Oct 17, 2008 at 00:00

The current stock market crash has spurred a vital national debate about the causes and catalysts of the Great Depression. The dominant school of thought believes that the stubborn refusal…

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Stock Bear Extremes

Oct 17, 2008 at 00:00

Everyone involved in the markets, including me, is trying to wrap their minds around so many unprecedented developments coming at us so fast. From a supposedly free-market government incessantly meddling…

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Marco Polo Goes West

Oct 17, 2008 at 00:00

You can't blame the king of Persia for printing up money no one could trust. His neighbors in China were doing the same, after all, and with the same inevitable…

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U.S. in Crisis Mode -- What's Next?

Oct 17, 2008 at 00:00

The impending calamity - mass housing foreclosures, failing banks, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in ashes, millions of personal bankruptcies - is so dire... most people can't even conceive of…

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Gold and Deflation

Oct 17, 2008 at 00:00

The question has been pouring in: "What happens to gold during a deflation? Of course, many of my readers are equally if not more interested in what happens to silver…