Look at the charts for the barbarous relic below and you can only come to one possible conclusion. If the Federal Reserve disappoints on Thursday, just a little bit, even by a smidgeon, and does not deliver QE3 and gold sells off big, you should jump in and by the stuff like crazy. All of
?Inflation steals from savers, and inflation is the logical consequence of printing too much money,? said Oracle of Omaha, Warren Buffett.
NOTE TO READERS: There is a short letter today because I spent the entire weekend writing Trade Alerts, which you will receive right at the Monday morning opening. Last Friday, China announced a $150 billion reflationary public works budget designed to arrest the current free fall in the country?s GDP growth rate. The move came
Since nothing less than the fate of the free world depends on the judgment of Ben Bernanke these days, I thought I?d touch base with David Wessel, the Wall Street Journal economics editor, who has just published In Fed We Trust: Ben Bernanke?s War on the Great Panic. I doubted David could tell me anything
?Over the next several years, you will be shocked and surprised at the strength of the emerging Chinese consumer,? said Stephen Roach, the former Chairman of Morgan Stanley Asia.
A number of readers have asked me why I?m not trading now. Since I put out my calls to sell Treasury bonds in August (click here for ?The Great Treasury Bond Crash of 2010? ), and buy US stocks in September (click here for ?My Equity Scenario for the Rest of 2010? ), I have
The gold rush is back on in California. On my way back from Lake Tahoe recently, I saw that every bend of the American river was dotted with hopeful amateur miners, looking to make a windfall fortune. Weekend hobbyists were there panning away from the banks, while the hardcore pros stood in hip waders balancing
I have just finished reading the best financial book ever, and I have read most of them. It is The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World by Harvard professor Niall Ferguson. It gives you a great explanation of how the broad sweep of history delivered us to the doorstep of today?s crisis.
?The most expensive advice that you will ever get is to be told at a market top that ?This time it?s different,? said Harvard economics professor Kenneth Rogoff
Those who have been dying of boredom during August -- the lowest volume, tightest ranging month in many years -- may be about to get their respite. September 12 (or Wednesday next week) offers a potential cornucopia of either fantastically good or terribly bad news, and maybe both. Let me give you a program of