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 […]
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 […]