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Hey, have you noticed muni bonds lately? They’re crashing! Muni bonds fall off a cliff (Source: StockCharts.com) We shall see where they go from here – but the recent rally sure looks like it your standard fare retracement/dead cat bounce – paving the way nicely for the next leg lower. DailyWealth’s Dan Ferris believes this […]
Repeat after me: “They are still all the same markets!” There’s the US Dollar – and then there’s everything else. And the dollar, just days after QE2 was announced, turned up in sharp fashion. Some final nail in the coffin that was! It appears this is STILL the only chart we need to watch. (Source: […]
We’ve sure seen a lot of QE2 talk hashed around – including some hilarious cartoon spoof videos. But here’s a unique take from Andy Kessler on Bernanke’s real motivations for QE2, courtesy of the WSJ: I have a different explanation for the Fed’s latest easing program: Without another $600 billion floating through the economy, Mr. […]
Steve Keen rocks! I realize I’m a bit impartial due to my deflationary bias, but I make no apologies for my intellectual man crush on Mr. Keen. If you’re not familiar with Keen’s work (or even if you are), check out this video interview with Max Keiser. It’s an excellent one, and if you watch […]
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 […]
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