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Markets

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Trends for 2008

Jan 01, 2008 at 00:00

The year 2007 was marked by pessimism, doom and gloom, and a never-ending fusillade of fear. The mainstream press never tired of hypnotizing into believing the stock market would collapse,…

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Gold Thoughts

Jan 01, 2008 at 00:00

GOLD WINS! PAPER EQUITIES LOSE! The headlines for investing in 2007, and the previous ten years, can now be written. Forget all the other drivel about what happened in the…

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Tracking Portfolios at Year-End 2007

Jan 01, 2008 at 00:00

Trades in these systems are tracked live, with moves and analysis announced before action is taken, and the systems are mechanical in nature. Returns for each system are reviewed in…

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Dec 2007 Returns

Jan 01, 2008 at 00:00

These are my current personal positions, along with portfolio weight, as of Monday, December 31, 2007... I'm holding NO cash. I am approximately 100.046% long, I had a little more…

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Will The Truly Efficient Market Please Stand Up?

Jan 01, 2008 at 00:00

Although maybe it always seems this way, but it sure feels to us as if we're entering 2008 with some of the most pressing issues for the financial markets and…

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2007 Wrap-Up

Dec 31, 2007 at 00:00

The year was remarkable for the unusual divergences between bursting Bubbles and others continuing to inflate. This was the case both domestically and globally. As an example, the U.S. KBW…

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Taxes, Money and Surpluses: Fact and Fiction

Dec 30, 2007 at 00:00

Let us make this so simple that even a journalist can understand it. If tax cuts are offset by cuts in government spending aggregate spending remains unchanged. If the cuts…

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Merv's Non-Edibles Futures Page

Dec 30, 2007 at 00:00

Weekly Technical Information and Ratings

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Technically Precious with Merv

Dec 30, 2007 at 00:00

Boy, you take a few days off and all hell breaks loose. Gold seems ready for new highs and the US $ for new lows. Let's take a quick look.

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2008 Resolved

Dec 30, 2007 at 00:00

The otherwise irrational markets in which one elects to speculate, in fact - behave in a rational and predictable fashion if one knows how (or is shown how) to properly…