US Stocks Nosedive: What Markets Are Safe (If Any) Right Now?

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Today, US stocks were not successful in issuing a counterpunch to yesterday’s bloodbath, when there were 11 stocks down for every 1 up.  Stocks staged a meager rally after opening – only to swoon late and close at new lows for 2010. As you can see from the chart below, the S&P 500 peaked in […]

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Robert Prechter was Jim Puplava’s guest this week on the Financial Sense Newshour.  You can listen to the entire interview here – it’s almost an hour long, and it’s fantastic. Ed. Note: You can also read a full transcript of the interview here, courtesy of our friends at Elliott Wave International. Prechter last chatted with […]

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Robert Prechter: Gold isn’t the safe haven many think The euro’s recent loss has been the dollar’s gain, which means that it’s not the best time to buy the U.S. dollar. Meanwhile, the most popular alternative to currencies, gold, isn’t such a good buy either. Watch the excerpt from Robert Prechter’s May 20 interview with […]

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The deflation camp may not be well populated, but I have to say that I really dig the few economists and analysts that are sympathetic to the deflation argument.  Perhaps it’s just because we all smoke the same lettuce – but I prefer to think there’s more to it than that 🙂 One of our […]

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Spent part of my weekend reading Bob Prechter’s latest newsletter, which is always thought provoking.  The folks on his team were kind enough to allow us to republish this article from the April issue of Bob’s Elliott Wave Theorist. In terms of technical and sentiment analysis, I think Prechter is second to none.  He’s been […]

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Regular readers know that while we are more sympathetic to the deflation argument, at least in the near term, we keep our ears open to the inflation camp as well. And that’s not hard to do, as some inflation believers become quite hostile at the mere muttering of deflation! For my money, the guy with […]

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Whither deflation… Chased away by reflation? Or eye of the storm? Revisiting the Deflationist Arguments of 2009 Earlier this week I revisited two of my favorite inflation/deflation interviews of 2009, both courtesy of Jim Puplava at the Financial Sense Newshour. Being sympathetic to the deflationist arguments, I was interested in seeing if their forecasts were […]

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I hope you had a good, long holiday weekend. I sure did…I mentioned at the end of the week that I’d be blogging when I wasn’t drinking beer. As you can probably infer from my lack of posts, I managed to put back a few with some good friends! Back in the saddle now, I […]

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