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Markets

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Inflating a New Bubble?

Feb 20, 2008 at 00:00

I have a suspicion that the recent insane market volatility would have caused some sleepless nights throughout the investment world. There can be no doubt that the current year did…

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Do Markets Make News or Does News Make Markets?

Feb 19, 2008 at 00:00

Everywhere you look the news is bad. Economic numbers are negative, earnings are bad, and rumors of bank failures are everywhere. Investors who have been holding on to gold stocks…

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The Collection Agency - Weekly Report

Feb 19, 2008 at 00:00

According to Reuters via Bloomberg: "China's government-controlled Citic Securities Co., which agreed in October to pay $1 billion for a 6 percent stake in Bear, is renegotiating to get a…

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"Everybody Hurts" - Inflations Theme Song

Feb 19, 2008 at 00:00

The apparently salubrious result is that the money is created out of thin air, and nobody has so much as a dime taken away from them, dorkface! In fact, everybody…

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Silver Update

Feb 19, 2008 at 00:00

The attached silver chart however shows the upward trend is intact and indeed has accelerated to a steeper gradient. So far that trendline is finding support at $17.00 whilst our…

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Taiwan is Worth a Look

Feb 19, 2008 at 00:00

Even though it's an island of merely 89 miles wide and 245 miles long, Taiwan is the world's 16th largest economy that holds the world's 5th largest foreign reserves.

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Finding Religion Is Not Necessarily An Uplifting Experience

Feb 19, 2008 at 00:00

Uninformed odds players are calling a bottom on the stock market citing extreme technical and sentiment related readings. It's too bad they are not history students as well, but that…

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Favorite "Play of 2008" Alive and Well

Feb 19, 2008 at 00:00

While central banks in most industrialized economies are either reducing interest rates or expected to do so thus year, the Reserve Bank of Australia is expected to further raise its…

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Why the I.M.F. Believes the 400 tonnes of Gold it wants to Sell is its Own!

Feb 19, 2008 at 00:00

There has been a lot of talk of late of potential sales of I.M.F. gold. The more we look at the subject, contrary to our previous view, the more likey…

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As Desperation Sinks In, Non-Solutions Proliferate

Feb 18, 2008 at 00:00

Everyone is foolishly trying to rescue the economy with a series of misguided proposals each more ridiculous than the previous. Worse yet, some of the proposals are outright fraudulent. What…