Posts Tagged ‘ market ’

When Central Banks Tamper with Interest Rates

Mar 13th, 2009 | By | Category: Featured, Macro Economics
I really believe that all bubbles must burst.  Bubbles are highly unstable!  This one had to pop eventually, and of course it did.  Most will blame it on greed, but that's like blaming plane crashes on gravity.  There were several causes of the current depression, but the main one is ...read more

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Risk-Taking Traders Born Not Made

Jan 23rd, 2009 | By | Category: Featured, Investing Strategies
A recent dispatch from the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences didn’t give us the next big development in stem cell therapies.  It didn’t tell us how the car of 2020 will be powered.  Instead, John Coates and his team of Cambridge researchers turned the powerful lens of science ...read more

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Compounding Error: Your Tax Dollars At Work

Jan 6th, 2009 | By | Category: Featured, Macro Economics, Politics
As we hunker down in the Whiskey Bar and await the hyperinflationary doom that is bound to come, we have to marvel at the reasons for and manner of our nation’s destruction. As a group currently numbering somewhere around 300 million souls, we’ve sold out our security, freedom and future ...read more

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Top Calls and Catcalls

Aug 8th, 2007 | By | Category: Macro Economics
It is extremely difficult to call a top in anything. But sooner or later, someone has to stick his or her neck out and do it. Typically, it gets chopped off. Things go on far more than bears can imagine. They always do. Nonetheless, I was fortunate to call the top ...read more

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