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 […]
Sell Gold Article Debunked
This is the final gold post in the series on silver and gold. We continue with the second portion of an article by Fareed Zakaria in which he feels he is doing the public a favor by exposing the follishness of those buying gold today. After each point, we are providing a rubuttal which will […]
Gold Speculators or Prudent Gold Savers?
We’re continuing a series on gold and silver which began here. This is part of a letter written by myself and the board of an association to list the reasoning behind moving some of our US Dollar savings to gold and silver to protect ourselves from risk in the fiat US Dollar. The point is […]
Gold & Silver: Are We in a Bubble?
Gold and Silver prices have grown dramatically over the last year when compared to fiat money such as the US Dollar. We’re continuing a series that began here. Fortunately, I believe we are still fairly early in the so called “bull market” of gold and silver. There are 3 phases of a bull market, the […]
Silver & Gold: Why? How?
We’re continuing a series on silver and gold in which I’m including parts of a letter I drew up to document our rationale for the board of an associations decision to hold gold and silver for a portion of savings. This association currently holds US Dollar cash as its only form of savings. I’m going […]
