Markets

Apr 19, 2002 at 00:00

In this earlier essay, as the title delicately suggests, I advanced the controversial idea that there were simply no fundamental or technical reasons to get excited about the spectacular bear…

Apr 12, 2002 at 00:00

In a true free-market environment, the bane of the existence of freedom-hating socialists everywhere, gold forms the foundational monetary cornerstone of the economy and it helps prevent governments from engaging…

Apr 05, 2002 at 00:00

Gold is the ultimate standard of value, resolutely standing fast in a fickle world. For six millennia of human history gold has almost always been the most-highly-sought-after universal store of…

Mar 28, 2002 at 00:00

As a diligent student of the amazing history of the wondrous metal of gold and a wildly bullish gold investor at this peculiar crossroads in history, I am perpetually fascinated…

Mar 22, 2002 at 00:00

Corporate managers in the US now maintain an almost fanatical zeal for being hyper-focused on the current quarter's results. Wall Street analysts revel in spending vast amounts of time trying…

Mar 15, 2002 at 00:00

While stock investors in recent weeks have continued zealously waging their great debate over the near-future destiny of the US equity markets, strange things are afoot in the massive bond…

Mar 08, 2002 at 00:00

Very exciting rallies erupted almost simultaneously in the ruling triumvirate of US equity indices, the Dow Jones Industrial Average, the NASDAQ Composite Index, and the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index.…

Mar 01, 2002 at 00:00

For the most part, the six millennia or so of human history has progressed in a fairly slow and relaxed manner. Borders changed, technology evolved, time relentlessly marched on, and…

Feb 22, 2002 at 00:00

Incredibly, as we rapidly approach the two-year anniversary of both the spectacular NASDAQ mania blow-off top of March 2000 and the ensuing brutal bear market in the once universally-loved index,…

Feb 15, 2002 at 00:00

Not too many weeks ago, the prospect of gold running to $300 and staying there was merely an elusive dream for the relatively small number of hardcore gold-investors worldwide. Before…