The European Implosion
Europe’s Nightmare comes to a head this year. We’ve been discussing forecasts for the year 2012 and beyond and today we’ll cover the European Sovereign Debt Crises. We’re writing this on a Friday to post on Monday. If we had put this up yesterday, you might have said, “What are you talking about, they fixed […]
Stock Markets Will End 2012 Lower
It’s a difficult call to say that the stock market will be lower at the end of 2012. There are some serious factors on the side of higher as well as lower values. On Wednesday, we explained some of the reasons why we think 2012 will be another extremely volatile year for the markets. Today, […]
Stock Markets Will See Continued Volatility in 2012
Did you know that the US stock markets ended slightly up last year? It probably didn’t feel that way to you though. And we don’t mean to say that they were up a lot…they were simply barely up. But the way they ended gives a totally different picture of the ride to get there. We’re […]
The Coming US Dollar Devaluation
US Dollar Devaluation is at our doorstep. We’re in a series of posts expanding on the predictions we’ve recently made for the US Economy in the coming year and beyond. One of our predictions was that holding USD cash would be a losing proposition in 2012 in real terms. On Friday, we shared with you […]
Is Ben Bernanke Planning to Devalue the US Dollar by 40%?
There seems to be clear evidence that this is Ben Bernanke’s fall back plan if his deflation fears gets strong enough. And oh by the way, his remarks last week implied his fears are quite high. He said that growth is still extremely sluggish and that there are no inflation fears (we don’t know where […]
Economic Forecasts of 2012 & beyond
In 2012, the Economy will…Yesterday, we began a series on predicting what will happen in the economy and markets in 2012. We stated that in today’s post, we would give you some bullet point predictions and then follow up with a series of posts to round out the information so that you understand how firmly, […]
2012: The Year of the Black Swan
Today, we’re doing something we’ve never done before and probably won’t do again anytime soon. We’re reprinting the monthly newsletter (sign up here if you don’t receive it) on the same day it’s going out to subscribers. We usually don’t post them to the blog at all, or if we do post them it’s with […]
Financial News at Your Fingertips
Some big financial news has been coming out recently, so we thought it a good idea to share some of the important recent events with you. You can check out the last few posts of this series here, here, & here. Of course, you’ve probably already seen the biggest news of the week which is […]
Exposition on “The Shepherd of the North”
On Monday, we shared an ancient parable out of China that probably pre-dates the Kingdom of God’s advancement into that land (as goes on in amazing ways today). But it’s an amazing parable that has often come to mind when sharing with others that teaches an important lesson. Today, we’ll share a few thoughts on […]
The Shepherd of the North
There was an old & wise shepherd who lived in the north of China. One day, the best of his few horses ran away. His neighbors came by and tried to console him. He replied, “Who knows this might be a blessing?” About a month later, his horse came back with a flock of wilder […]