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Robert Prechter Explains The Fed, Part I The world’s foremost Elliott wave expert goes “behind the scenes” on the Federal Reserve By Elliott Wave International The ongoing financial crisis has made the central bank’s decisions — interest rates, quantitative easing (QE2), monetary stimulus, etc. — a permanent fixture on six-o’clock news. Yet many of us […]
Being Street Smart by Sy Harding Here’s What Investors Should Be Watching! November 19, 2010. The market is in what is usually its favorable season of November to May, when it typically makes most of its gains each year. But it hasn’t been that way so far. Among other worries, analysts are concerned that the […]
Another Xtranormal gem – this one courtesy of top notch financial writer and analyst Porter Stansberry: Hat tip to Doug Casey for the link!
Here’s an insightful guest piece from James Quinn, who takes a look at the first Great Depression to separate the facts from fiction (and there’s no shortage of historical fiction about the Depression that is basically accepted without question as fact today). (And if you like this piece, you may also enjoy my lambasting of […]
The Fed and “Plunge Protection Team”: Are They Manipulating Stocks? Rumors are, the U.S. government “is propping up the stock market.” by Elliott Wave International Out of thousands of questions recently submitted to us at Elliott Wave International, the most frequent one received is: “Can the Fed manipulate the stock market?” Read our expert’s answer […]
Here’s the latest outlook from Harry Dent, where he shares the effect he anticipates QE2 will have on the markets: Dent revises his previous forecast in light of QE2, and says he believes the markets will ultimately make one more high (albeit after a shorter term correction). I interviewed Dent back in September, and found […]
According to Chris Whalen, it’s not a matter of IF the People’s Republic of California, it’s a matter of WHEN (and for the record, we agree 100%). There’s no way out of current debt and pension obligations, Whalen told Yahoo Tech Ticker (full interview and video here). Something’s gotta give – and it’s likely to […]
Awesome clip – hat tip to Carson for sending along, who astutely pointed out that actor salaries may also come under some deflationary pressure in the years to come…
I admit it, I’ve been wrong about gold. I thought it was topping past $1,000 – then at $1,100 – and so on. Now that gold has cleared the $1,400 mark, I’ve finally come to the conclusion that gold is probably heading quite a bit higher before the gold bull market ends. (I know, I […]
I gotta admit – the markets almost had me! It looked like the Dollar was never going to turn around. And then QE2 was announced, which obviously could ONLY be bearish for the dollar, and ONLY bullish for stock prices. Not to mention the metals, which were sure to do moonshots in short order. A […]
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