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The rally has been over for a good two months, and the markets have been stuck in a trading range since the New Year.  Recent concerns over the potential of sovereign debt crises, however, show that we’re not out of the woods yet.
Just consider some of the following areas for potential setbacks in the markets: [...]

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It wasn’t surprising at $1000/oz, but even at $1100/oz this week, the naysayers are still in full force.  What’s to deny about the trend in gold prices?  You don’t have to be a gold bug to see what’s happening.
Here are the six main factors causing the price of gold to continue to rise.  In some [...]

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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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[N.B.: Dear Peter; as a regular listener of your weekly radio show and vlog, I wanted to say that I appreciate the work you've done.  Although not everyone may agree or even want to listen to what you have to say, I respect the consistency and logic of your arguments, which is quite refreshing admist [...]

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The oft-touted problem whenever the loonie begins to rise against the US dollar is that it will hurt Canada’s exports to the U.S..  If the rise is too quick or too much, the Finance Minister – currenty Jim Flaherty – has been known to step in and threaten “intervention” to ensure that the rise will [...]

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N.B., Acknowledging the fact that some Americans probably think Gerald Celente is a nut – those who are familiar with him at all – just as, for many people, Peter Schiff is seen as an extremist or nut – I think that, given their analytic track records – which you have to admit, have been [...]

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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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