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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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There are two short-term advantages to a weak US dollar.
The primary advantage of purposefully driving the value of the US Dollar down, as Bernanke and Geithner both know, is that it makes US exports more attractively priced for foreign buyers. This, of course, helps the US economy in theory (if more goods are purchased as [...]
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It’s one thing to buy gold and invest in BRIC ETFs to help protect your assets from double-digit inflation or hyperinflation expectations, but what if you don’t have that many assets to invest? What if you don’t really have any extra money at all? What should you do to prepare for high inflation? Does it [...]
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Economists define the money supply as the total amount of money available within a given economy. Here, money is defined as the amount of currency in actual circulation as well as on deposit at financial institutions (where the money is often held in a more or less virtual form, since usually the bank never physically [...]
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Some people may tune out any talk of inflation, chalking its presence in the media up to fear-mongering (a handy scapegoat!) or laughable economic miscomprehension. “Why worry about inflation, when deflation is clearly the threat?,” so many commentators cried a few months ago. But if all one cares about is the short-term, then one won’t [...]
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So, we’re finishing up the eighth straight week of the bear market rally of March-April 2009. Everyone’s asking how long it will last. Last week, Schiff mentioned the rally in passing, but this week he addressed it head on. Simply put:
both some bears and some bulls are wrong going ahead
stocks are up in nominal [...]
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The US “dollar collapse” has recently become an emerging trend in Google searches. Whether this has something especially to do with the G20 “success” – and the one trillion in global committment to new stimulus – I’m not sure. Perhaps news about the threat of a hyperinflating dollar has finally reached critical mass.
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