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Does Liquidity Mean Confidence?

Sep 07, 2007 at 00:00

Smoke and mirrors, the confidence game is such a difficult one, once the crowd is suspicious. Our generation trusts few figures in authority. It is a generation used to being…

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$700 Gold

Sep 07, 2007 at 00:00

On Thursday, December Gold leaped $14 to $704, while the continuous spot contract gained about 2% to 694. More impressive to me was how the mining stocks acted. Recently I…

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Top?

Sep 06, 2007 at 00:00

We remain in Buy Mode as the barometer moved higher even as the market moved lower. The expectation over the longer term as we look at the next key reversal…

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A New Dance Craze - The Bernanke Shuffle

Sep 06, 2007 at 00:00

As long as fools were dancing, the Fed was simply going to have a hard time cutting, no matter what housing was doing. And as Schaeffer points out, the irony…

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Expert vs. The Machine

Sep 06, 2007 at 00:00

Whether by accident or design, I seem to be stumbling on one piece after another on the subject, as well as some analysis on expert performance.

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Currency Devaluation and House-Swapping: A Symphony in Two Movements

Sep 06, 2007 at 00:00

An insidious contribution of currency devaluation is the destruction of work habits. This was true in the 1970s; it is obvious today. In the disco decade, the belief that currency…

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What Lies Beneath

Sep 06, 2007 at 00:00

The truth is most of us, at one time or another, have benefited from our fiat money system. It has promised us whatever we need, delivered by truckloads of increasingly…

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CNBC PowerLunch Europe

Sep 05, 2007 at 00:00

S&P500: My forecast has been for this index to run up 12 trading days and then be vulnerable to a further correction. That is a probability developed from time cycles…

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The Ropespinner Conspiracy

Sep 05, 2007 at 00:00

The Ropespinner Conspiracy is a novel by Michael M. Thomas, a former investment banker who writes enjoyable novels about high finance. The title relates to Lenin's observation the "Capitalism will…

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Can the "Bernanke Put" Lift Gold Sharply Higher?

Sep 05, 2007 at 00:00

In 1919, the Bank of England, determined to restore London as the main gold market, reached an agreement with seven South African mining houses to ship their gold to London…