Markets

Jan 24, 2003 at 00:00

As the bust grinds on and increasing amounts of general investors' scarce capital is unceremoniously slaughtered and dispatched to financial hell, speculators monitoring the carnage and taking notes continue to…

Jan 17, 2003 at 00:00

In primary bull markets speculators can trade like investors and do just fine. One diligently searches for undervalued stocks, buys them, and holds on to them until the markets recognize…

Jan 10, 2003 at 00:00

Woohoo! Our imperial President has dragged himself away from the dangerous game of waging endless foreign wars long enough to throw hardworking Americans a token sop in the form of…

Jan 03, 2003 at 00:00

Some speculators will be blessed with truly legendary profits in 2003, while others will watch in horror as the Great Bear continues to eviscerate their trading capital. Our mission as…

Dec 27, 2002 at 00:00

The financial markets of 2002 were utterly dominated by massive strategic trends of an awesome magnitude that almost defied all rational attempts at description. Provocatively however, the seeds of all…

Dec 20, 2002 at 00:00

The naysayers claimed it would never happen. The Keynesian socialists claimed there was no place for gold in their brave new age of fiat paper. The Wall Street perma-bulls claimed…

Dec 13, 2002 at 00:00

Sometimes a post-mortem autopsy of the market past yields excellent insights and sometimes it unfortunately merely leaves a bloody mess on the autopsy table. Yet this very Great Bear against…

Dec 06, 2002 at 00:00

Each individual speculator trading deploys his scarce and precious capital into a vast, unforgiving marketplace. These speculators making bets pit their own emotional fortitude and raw intellect against countless other…

Nov 29, 2002 at 00:00

Speculators make very risky bets on short-term market direction in the hopes of reaping legendary profits if the markets cooperate. They live by the sword and die by the sword,…

Nov 22, 2002 at 00:00

Real interest rates are simply the "risk-free" interest rates less the rate of inflation. While the label of "risk-free" is not technically true because no investment or speculation is ever…