September 13, 2010 - I am pleased to present the following article written by Mark Lundeen. He explains why the Barron's mining stock average has ...
December 16, 2009 – One of the best explanations of fractional reserves comes from a polemical essay written in 1995 by Murray Rothbard, one of ...
May 17, 2009 - Occasionally the stock market gives important clues about its future direction. One way a clue can appear is through a ...
November 24, 2009 - I last wrote about Citibank eight months ago in an article entitled "Will Citibank Survive?" That article is still ...
October 27, 2008 - To identify the primary trend of the stock market, I like to follow the trading pattern of the so-called 'bellwethers ', key ...
Oct 27, 2008 - In an article published in The New York Times on October 16th, Warren Buffet tells us that he has "been buying American ...
October 6, 2008 - One of the basic premises of my portfolio strategy is to avoid the US dollar. My basic recommendation in this regard is simple, ...
May 26, 2008 - What a week this has been! As the oil price soared and gasoline prices at the pump touched $4 per gallon, the search for scapegoats ...
February 11, 2008 - Do I have it right? It is a question that I relentlessly ask myself, comparing what the various markets are doing against what I ...
Jan 25, 2008 - Now that gold has climbed above the $850 high reached back in January 1980, many are proclaiming that gold is at a new 'record'. That's ...
June 4, 2007 - Last week the S&P 500 Index made a new all-time record high, finally joining the Dow Jones Industrial Average in that exulted ...
May 28, 2007 - I am writing this newsletter one week earlier than planned because several markets are at critical points. In short, there is simply ...
May 7, 2007 - Wouldn't it be wonderful if there was an indicator that accurately predicted when the price of gold was about to rise? Well, here's ...
April 23, 2007 - It is widely recognized and understood that bull markets have three stages. What is less well understood is how those three stages ...
October 23, 2006 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average made a new record high this past week. It settled back somewhat on Friday, but still closed the ...
Oct 4, 2006 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average yesterday closed at a new record high. In stark contrast, gold was whacked, closing down $21.40 on ...
Sept 15, 2006 - "People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy ...
July 24, 2006 - Many thanks to Adrian Douglas for the accompanying chart of the price of gold plotted against the Dow Jones Industrials Average. ...
September 19, 2005 - The title of the last newsletter was "Get Ready!" I intended this one to be entitled "Get Set!", with ...
July 11, 2005 - Last August I wrote an alert entitled "The End of Cheap Hydrocarbons" that was published on the GoldMoney website. The ...
January 10, 2005 - From time to time over the past couple of years I have been comparing our present circumstances to those prevailing in the ...
January 5, 2004 - Seventy years ago this month the dollar was devalued against gold by 69% when the federal government arbitrarily changed the ...
March 12, 2003 - Have the gold mining stocks finally reached their low? We'll only learn the answer to this question in the days and weeks ahead. But ...
Januray 6, 2003 - I have today mailed the following letter to the Enforcement Division of the Securities & Exchange Commission. It's about time ...
November 18, 2002 - Long time readers of these letters know that I am not shy about making my views known. In other words, when it comes to markets, I ...
September 23, 2002 - Though every market is different in that each one is driven by its own unique factors affecting supply and demand, there are ...
July 15, 2002 - The slide in the stock market really picked up some momentum this past week. The Dow Jones Industrials Average dropped 7.4%. The ...
July 1, 2002 - Over the past several weeks, the stock market has taken a severe pasting. The Dow Jones Industrial Average has declined six weeks ...
March 26, 2001 - Years ago an old stock market pro told me that sometimes the most difficult thing about markets is believing what you are seeing. It ...
October 30, 2000 - Back on August 7th in Letter No. 268 I alerted readers to some of the accounting gimmicks being employed by both Cisco Systems and ...
October 16, 2000 - Most everyone assumes that a crash in the stock market is the Federal Reserve's worst nightmare. There are many sound reasons to ...
August 7, 2000 - Every once in a while a bubble is created in a market. Bubbles can occur in any market, whether stocks, commodities, real estate or ...
June 26, 2000 - Energy Secretary Bill Richardson has been screaming about high oil prices. Al Gore and countless other Democrats have been harping ...
June 5, 2000 - A couple of weeks ago when the Dow Industrials were threatening to break below 10,000 and the NASDAQ looked ready to collapse through ...
May 15, 2000 - In recent letters I have been purposefully directing everyone's attention to the Commodity Research Bureau Index. Though the components ...
May 1, 2000 - A week ago both the stock and bond markets were jolted by an unexpectedly large jump in inflation. That there was any surprise from ...
March 13, 2000 - Everything you can think of about this multi-year rise in the stock market has been unprecedented - its duration, the price ...
September 23, 1999 - In a continuation of the sell-off that began a few weeks ago, the Dow Jones Industrial Average today closed down -205.47 points, ...
July 12, 1999 - One of the most basic axioms of trading and investing is that every market has a story to tell. Traders, generally speaking, need to ...
December 7, 1998 - It would be very easy here to let one's emotions get the upper hand and to paint a bearish picture for Gold. However, it would not ...
October 5, 1998 - Long-Term Capital Management was supposed to have been run by some of the best minds on Wall Street. Its management boasted that two ...
July 27, 1998 - Beauty or beast? Either of these adjectives can apply when it comes to the stock market. At times the market is something wonderful to ...
January 27, 1997 - It has become a tradition of mine at this time of the year to share some of my thoughts about the various markets, and to make some ...
September 9, 1996 - Since May I have been warning that stocks may be topping out. Our attention was first focused on the NASDAQ, which took a nasty ...
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