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The near term risk for the Dow is on the downside, says Adam Hewison of INO.com. In this free video, he describes the recent bounce as a classic Fibonacci retracement, where markets typically retrace 50-62% of their recent losses, before retesting new lows. Regular readers know that traditionally, I have not been a big believer […]
In the midst of yet another slaughter of commodities and stocks, cotton futures held up remarkably well today. The March 2009 cotton contract closed down 0.88 to finish at 47.03, thanks to a steady rally after an initial drop. A push above the 48-cent mark would be impressive, as cotton continues to retrace some of […]
Top posts from the past week: Are Any Grains Worth Buying At These Prices? US Government Continues to Print Money at Breathtaking Pace Food Supply Problem More Acute Than Ever Jim Rogers: Dollar Will Be Devalued; Buy Commodities Casey Research: Get Ready for the Commodity Comeback A review of my futures trades from the previous […]
Jim Rogers was interviewed on November 25 by Mike Schneider. Not too much new here if you’ve been tracking Rogers closely already, but it’s a very thorough and insightful five-part interview by Rogers:
John Adams on the limited shelf life of democracies. Maybe our country’s Founding Fathers knew a thing or two after all? AUTHOR: John Adams (1735–1826) QUOTATION: Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide. ATTRIBUTION: JOHN ADAMS, letter to John […]
A hysterical and insightful turkey analogy in today’s Daily Reckoning: “Until today or tomorrow, the typical turkey enjoyed a fairly decent life,” commented our friend Nassim Taleb, in Zurich yesterday. “You can understand how fraudulent most economic analysis is,” Nassim explained, “just by looking the life of the turkey. The animal is fed for 1000 […]
Lost Principles By Olivier Garret CEO, Casey Research As the economic crisis continues to unfold, recently a sense of uncertainty has begun to pervade the market. Even dyed-in-the-wool risk takers admit that they don’t know what to think anymore. Inflation, deflation, recession or depression – there are so many vagaries that it appears to be […]
Jim Rogers continues his streak of interviews with the financial media, telling Bloomberg that US policy makers will devalue the US dollar. He says he buying commodities, especially agriculture, and the Japanese Yen.
Chris Mayer writes in Agora Financial’s Rude Awakening that the global food supply problem is more acute than ever before, as a result of the current financial crisis. This is something we’ve been discussing here of late. Farmers cannot get basic loans for fertilizer. Forget about new capital investments. And this all happening with world […]
Tom Dyson, who also believes in the short case for long-dated US treasuries, writes in today’s DailyWealth that it may be some time before treasuries actually start to fall. But he closes the article by mentioning that the danger is much greater on the long side of this trade – and mentions a great recent […]
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