China’s Growth Slows

Moving from Europe to China, the story stays similar.  While Europe is in recession, China’s growth has slowed dramatically.  This is another prediction that has already begun to come true since we first made the prediction.  However, we see this trend continuing. China’s economy is largely based on sending cheap manufactured items to the US […]

Europe Will Experience a Sovereign Default (and Perhaps Multiple Defaults) in 2012

We spoke on Friday about the possibility of sovereign default in Europe.  There is the possibility that the European Central Bank (ECB) will print enough money to bail out all the problem countries.  However, this would surely lead to hyperinflation and since Germany is still the main power in Europe, this seems unlikely to us […]

Europe Undergoing Severe Recession

It might be obvious to all now that Europe will not escape a severe recession.  At the time we first wrote this prediction, the media talk was about how the rest of Europe was pulling together and saving Greece. Well, they’ve “saved” Greece and now Greece is back in trouble.  They’ve “saved” the European banks […]

Bonds Will Turn Around in 2012

Our bold prediction that US bond investors will see losses in 2012 has still yet to bear out.  Last year we shied away from such a bold prediction because it’s so hard to guess when this 30 year bull market will turn.  But turn it most certainly will….the question is when? With 10 year Treasury […]

Oil Prices to Explode Higher

Oil prices have seen increased volatility along with most everything lately.  We just finished discussing silver in our series on economic forecasts.  Today we look at the main reasons we think oil prices will be higher to end 2012.  We’ll also cover the reasons we think oil prices have much higher to climb in the […]

Why You Should Own Silver Now Even If The Price Might Drop Later

Friday we left off talking about Silver and ended the piece discussing the ongoing bullion bank price suppression scheme.  We’ve often commented on the issue because new proof comes up all the time and it’s hard not to comment on a blatant in justice being done against everyday Americans.  It’s gotten to the point that […]

Silver: Will it Crater or Explode Higher?

Silver is gold’s manic depressive cousin.  Silver typically (although sometimes with multi-week or month delay) trends in the same direction as gold, albeit in much more dramatic fashion.  It screams higher when times are good.  Silver also drives owners mad when its price drops seemingly faster and harder than any other asset price. The turbulence […]

Europe to Bring Down the World Economy?

The European Debt Crises is front and center of all the world’s man y economic problems.  On Wednesday, we discussed the potential directions their untenable situation could go.  Today, we’ll take a wild guess at what exactly is going to happen.  Keep in mind, this is a guess.  And the guess we’re going to make […]

How will the European Crises Resolve?

The European Crises will come to a head in 2012.  On Monday, we laid out the European Crises that will resolve itself one way or another this year.  Today, we’ll look at some possibilities of what that resolution could look like and what the ramifications would be for each. 1) Complete Fiscal Union This would […]

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 […]