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Showing posts with label stock market. Show all posts
Showing posts with label stock market. Show all posts
Wednesday, June 12, 2019

Is Value Investing Dead?

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Vitaliy Katsenelson, CFA, has an excellent post on LinkedIn:   “Is Value Investing Dead?”   Katsenelson concludes that it is not, and he is...
Friday, October 26, 2018

How High Can the VIX Go?

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VXX over the Past 10 Years. Chart Courtesy of Nasdaq.com The VIX measures stock market volatility.  Over the past ten years, it ...
Friday, December 29, 2017

The Democrats' War on Rural America

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 A piece by Paul Overberg in today's   Wall Street Journal shows 20 charts that indicate how badly rural Americans have fared. The elec...
Thursday, April 3, 2014

Millionaires Thank Krugman, Yellen, Obama, and the Democratic Party

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As the Dow Jones industrial average nears its all-time high, those who are rich need to take a moment to praise the Democratic party an...
Monday, April 8, 2013

Bearish on Gold, Stocks

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I have sold more than half of my gold and silver holdings. I am bearish on gold right now, and I think the recent declines can go to $1200. ...
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Thursday, November 22, 2012

Flies in the Molten Nickel: Mining Stock Prices = K / QE

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After college in the 1970s,  my first job in the actuarial department of a small insurance company lasted about seven months, after which I ...
Thursday, September 13, 2012

QE 3: Gold Bugs, Stockholders Celebrate While American Workers Starve

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Joe, a retired, Kingston, NY commodities trader and Brooklyn College alum, is a drinking buddy. He predicted $1750 gold on Labor Day while h...
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Thursday, September 22, 2011

Obama's Stock Market Weakness

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The Dow fell 391 points today while the S&P 500 fell 37 points, 3%, to 1129.  The immediate reason was that yesterday the Fed announced ...
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Tuesday, August 2, 2011

The Stock Market's Curious Decline

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The Wall Street Journal reports that stocks fell dramatically today. The S&P 500, an index of large stocks, fell by 2.56%, or $32.89. I...
Thursday, May 5, 2011

Obama's Birth Certificate Causes Stock Market Crash

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Those who follow the stock market know that it has gone down for the past four days. I had sold my silver on Monday and so suffered a 6% los...
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Saturday, January 1, 2011

Morgan Stanley Smith Barney's On The Markets: A Forecast from The Belly of the Beast

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Back during the late 1990s' tech-and-Internet stock bubble my wife noticed that whenever television broadcasters or their Wall Street pu...
Thursday, June 3, 2010

Is the Ride to $3,000 Gold Going to Hit Air Pockets?

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The graphs above are of the Power Shares DB Commodity Index (DBC) which tracks sweet crude oil, heating oil, RBOB Gasoline, natural gas, ...
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Friday, May 21, 2010

Money Matters: Wall Street in Turmoil

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Several pundits had been predicting a correction in the market averages and they seem to have been right.  According to Morgan Stanley Smith...
Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Ron Holland on the Coming Currency Crisis and Economic Viagra

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Ron Holland has an excellent blog on the Lew Rockwell site about the coming currency crisis.  Holland makes four excellent points: 1. The...
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Monday, March 22, 2010

Stock Market Rises in Response to Obamacare

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The stock market continues to move up the day after Obamacare passed. However, gold went down. This is revealing. Stocks might go up if the...
Thursday, February 4, 2010

Blood in the Streets

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Kitco reports that gold prices have fallen 4 percent today to 1066, nearing the 1030 mark that Jon Nadler mentioned as a near term support s...
Monday, February 1, 2010

Thirty Year Bear Market

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An economic forecaster once told a class I attended that he loved to make thirty year forecasts because no one would remember his forecast w...
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Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Whither Gold?

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Gold went up today just four days after I blogged that I was mostly in cash. I just wrote a column for a popular local newspaper called th...
Tuesday, August 4, 2009

Democrats' and Republicans' Impoverishment Plans

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The Democrats have this impoverishment plan: 1. Teach children that production of wealth is immoral while taxation is moral. 2. Tax output o...
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Thursday, April 2, 2009

Why Is CNN Telling the Truth?

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I was working out today and someone had turned on CNN. I was stunned that CNN was warning of an attack on the dollar and a dollar crash. T...