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February 9, 2008



GLD - sell signal this week.

People tend to think in terms of black-and-white. Many of my correspondents think that either hyperinflation or deflation is in store for the dollar; tertium non datur (no third possibility given). I would say tertium datur.

February 7, 2008

The charts are not telling a particularly happy story at present.

February 2, 2008

Despite the fact that the Fed still believes that a recession is unlikely to occur, Bernanke & Co. followed up on last week's emergency 75 basis point rate cut with a 50 basis point kicker on Wednesday.

January 31, 2008

If you read the media article below (Greenspan interview) in context of an understanding that "energy drives the economy", and in context of the rising trendline of the PMO oscillator on the 30 year Bond Yield monthly chart, you have to agree with Greenspan.

EDITOR NOTE: My math was done last week on a dirty napkin. The 'AAA' index on credit default swaps for mortgage bonds perhaps is not indicative of prime mortgages, my error in pasted title for the graphic. Mea culpa!

January 30, 2008

Even the most rabid silver bugs admit the possibility that the Chinese are the Big Silver Shorts. This suggests that the Big Gold Shorts are also governments. Neither are naked by any stretch of the imagination.

January 28, 2008

The following is an extract from the December 07 Issue of The Global Speculator sent to subscribers on the 4th of January 2008.

January 27, 2008

Anatole Kaletsky is the author of the most recent Anti-Gold Gospel (www.gavekal.com, January 21, 2008.) He is an establishment journalist, Associate Editor (formerly Economics Editor) of T

January 26, 2008

Back in late 1979, the lineups to buy Gold looked more like lineups to buy tickets to the latest rock concert.

In the last update posted on the 15th January gold was expected to consolidate rather than react, but instead it got taken down temporarily by the near crash conditions that then rapidly developed across most markets.

January 25, 2008

Over the past half-century, the United States has seen its global dominance in dozens of industries slip away.

January 24, 2008

Bankers, Wall Street hucksters, financial network commentators, and floating analysts seem to have flunked basic arithmetic in grand fashion. Maybe they only expose the next link in a long chain of deception, their apparent expertise.

January 20, 2008

Let there be no misunderstanding. The "investment" markets across the globe have become like casinos and, in trying to make a buck in any of these markets, you are betting against the house.

Now that the sound of cork-popping and other signs of celebrating the New Year, and the new record highs in the price of gold, are dying down, some questions arise the answering of which brooks no delay. How high is high?

January 19, 2008

For members of Congress desperate to avoid recession, the takeaway message that Fed Chairman Bernanke delivered in his testimony this week was that a successful stimulus package needs to be rapid and targeted.

January 18, 2008

In my letters dating back to the beginning of 2007, I selected a credit spread between Junk Bonds and Treasuries (buy Treasuries, short Junk Bonds) as my #1 best, lowest risk SURE THING trade.

January 16, 2008

The Sovereign Wealth Fund (SWF) movement has begun to expand in a powerful manner, and will not go away.

January 15, 2008

This is not the time to get bogged down with minor details, and thus risk losing sight of the big picture, which is that gold is now in a powerful uptrend that has a lot further to run.

January 12, 2008

January 11, 2008

Holding onto its "all is well" bias like a terrified cowboy on an enraged bull, Wall Street has managed to convince itself, and much of the world, that inflation is a non-issue.

January 10, 2008

The US system has been the dog led by the financial sector tail, as the tail wags the dog, for over two decades.

January 8, 2008

January 5, 2008



GLD - on buy signal.

Some years ago Gordon Brown, then UK Minister of Finance, was asked at a dinner party why he had allowed the UK to sell 60% of the country's gold reserves from 1999 to 2002.

January 4, 2008

As our economic ship continues to spring leaks, the goldilocks crowd still clings to the false belief that the Fed can easily keep us afloat with a few more rate cuts.

January 3, 2008

What a terrific start to the year for gold! When you see a breakout to new highs on the 1st trading day of the year like this for a commodity it normally signals further strong gains as the year continues.

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