Jim Willie
Jim Willie
Jim Willie CB, also known as the “Golden Jackass”, is an insightful and forward-thinking writer and analyst of today's events, the economy and markets. In 2004 he launched the popular website http://www.goldenjackass.com that offers his articles of original “out of the box” thinking as well as content from top analysts and authors. He also has a popular and affordable subscription-based newsletter service, The Hat Trick Letter, which you can learn more about here.
Jim Willie Background
Jim Willie has experience in three fields of statistical practice during 23 industry years after earning a Statistics PhD at Carnegie Mellon University. The career began at Digital Equipment Corp in Metro Boston, where two positions involved quality control procedures used worldwide and marketing research for the computer industry. An engineering spec was authored, and my group worked through a transition with UNIX. The next post was at Staples HQ in Metro Boston, where work focused on forecasting and sales analysis for their retail business amidst tremendous growth.
Jim's career continues to make waves in the financial editorial world, free from the limitations of economic credentials.
Jim is gifted with an extremely oversized brain as is evidenced by his bio picture. The output of that brain can be found in his articles below, and on the Silver-Phoenix500 website, on his own website, and other well-known financial websites worldwide.
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Jim Willie Articles
Take the energy story away, and the copper story away, and one might suspect we have witnessed a sleepy precious metals market this autumn and winter. Gold did lose its momentum seen from the autumn high just over $650. Silver did lose its...
Words from older European sage economists are as welcome to the mainstream financial circles as welcome as leisure suits and hot pants are to the fashion set, as eight track tape sets are to the home music systems, as old Model T Fords are...
The USDollar decline remains in progress, the one which began when the United States citizenry and its Wall Street aristocrats observed the great eating orgy known as Thanksgiving. Nothing can stop a holiday where Americans make eating the...
The real currency story in recent months is the euro-yen cross, and not so much the euro-dollar headline breakout. In Japanese yen terms, the euro is on a tear. Aiding the euro is significant Asian diversification away from the USDollar by...
US Treasury Secy Hank Paulson and USFed Chairman have embarked upon yet another trip to China, joined even by Commerce Secy Gutierrez. This Strategic Economic Dialog between the Untied States and China deserves comment. The official...
A steady, relentless, and nearly perpetual force pushing the USDollar down in the next two years will be the housing bear market. Most economists seem woefully inept and insufferably weighed down by optimism, as they issue silly...
Don't look now, but a new emergent monster is growing, this one a close cousin to the trade gap. We have all been subjected to the steady deterioration in the trade gap, from gargantuan imported product sales from Asian (mostly Chinese,...
In the last few years, a dangerous trend has occurred, whereby hidden machinations, secret dealings, and devious activities have grown to become commonplace. What has become more alarming is that so few people seem bothered by the trend....
