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Market Jitters: Are We About to See the End of the Risk Rally and Bear Market Bubble?

January 20, 2010 · 13 comments

in 2010, Federal Reserve, US economy, bull market, central banks, economy, exchange rates, financial planning, forex, hedging, inflation, interest rates, international economy, market crash, market reports, market timing, recession, risk

Highest ever one-month inflation rise in the UK for December, fiscal imbalances in Greece, weakened macro-economics in Germany, a Canadian housing market bubble, higher than 50% gains in the commodity currencies since last March (2009), and the return of hubris and risk-taking in the U.S. investment banks… what do these all have in common?
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Survival Skills To Barter With In Case of Financial Ruin, Unemployment, or Economic Collapse

January 15, 2010 · 10 comments

in diversification, economy, education, emergencies, lifehack, market crash, risk, self-protection, survival, sustainability, unemployment, wealth protection, world order

Do your “transferable skills” include survival skills?  If you work in financial markets, accounting, tourism, real estate, university-level teaching (certain fields), administration, human resources, and a number of other fields whose central activities are not connected in any real way to the basic “stuff” of living, it is more likely that you are lacking in [...]

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Market Risks and Challenges That Lay Ahead in the Second Half of 2010

January 12, 2010 · 0 comments

in 2010, DJIA, Financial New Year, Q3, Q4, S&P 500, bull market, earnings, economy, indexes, market bottom, market crash, market timing, market trends, recession, risk, technical analysis, wealth protection

Increasingly, analysts seem to agree that the first half (and the first quarter, especially) of stock markets in 2010 will look robust and promising, but stock markets in the second half of the year leave much to be desired.
The possibility of a double-dip recession still remains for some, while others mitigate this prediction about the [...]

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Remaining Problems That Could Cause A Second Stock Market Crash in 2010-2011

November 8, 2009 · 14 comments

in US economy, VIX volatility, economy, emergencies, financial fitness, layoffs, market bottom, market crash, news and updates, recession

I’m an extremely cautious bull on the current markets.  Cautious, because, if a few criteria are met, the mini bull market (or bear market rally, if you prefer) we’ve seen since March 2009 could easily tip over and provide the catalyst for the hypothetical “double-dip recession.”
Commentators have recently been pointing out the fact that the [...]

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Inside the House of Cards – Autopsy of the Crisis

March 1, 2009 · 2 comments

in US economy, market crash, video

If you didn’t catch this CNBC special, take a look.  Don’t worry, it’s not more doom and gloom – it’s more like an anatomy of what went wrong.  Yeah, yeah, you say, you already know by now what went wrong… but this version is more… “entertaining”?  If you think you’re against the idea of “regulation” [...]

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The Second Stock Market Crash: February 19-23, 2009

February 23, 2009 · 6 comments

in market bottom, market crash

We all want to know when the market is going to bottom.  Well, right now it’s definitely at SOME kind of bottom. So start dipping your toes in if you’ve not been paying attention for a while (buy some of the Canadian banks that Obama likes so much) – there are great sales out there [...]

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