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March 6, 2000
March 3, 2000
Is the "Bull Market" back? That's the question many on "the Street" are asking today, as stocks generally have moved back up in recent days, very much inline with our call after last week's big drubbing, which showed an exhaustion of s
Palladium is in profound shortage, and Stillwater (SWC) under $20 a share here presents an extraordinary opportunity to buy into one of the great palladium deposits in the world that has yet to be noticed by The Hive.
March 2, 2000
February 29, 2000
To: Gregory Zuckerman
John Conner
Charles Casparino
Wall Street Journal
New York, New York
March 1, 2000
It's said we are separated from the rich, the powerful and the famous by a chain of no more than six friends of friends.
February 29, 2000
Thursday’s Wall Street Journal was filled with articles about how risky the stock market is and about how Alan Greenspan is stubbornly holding onto his desire to gently prick what he perceives as a stock market bubble.
February 28, 2000
"Risky debt may cause trouble for U.S. banks". That was the title of a front page article in this past Wednesday's "Financial Times." The article was based on a report by Wolfgang Hammes, a senior manager at McKinsey, a management consulting firm. Mr.
February 25, 2000
We're not on the edge of instability . . . and "there's no reason to slam on the brakes"; so said a beleaguered Fed Chairman, to the Phase II Humphrey Hawkins testimony in the U.S. Senate. This the Fed Chairman just blink?
February 19, 2000
The rapid pace of developments in the gold market prompts this summary of key milestones and their status:
February 17, 2000
Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan didn't think there was need to worry about bank safety during the Y2K event.
This market may be frustrating and plenty difficult to trade, but it's easy enough to hate. The rallies look like hell, breadth has been shrieking "disaster!!!!" for months, and key bellwethers like Microsoft and Dell look like they've just about had it.
February 14, 2000
A question that I was asked quite often recently is why rational people should purchase stocks that are vastly overpriced by all conventional measures of value and probably with more than just an inkling that the market is in a bubble.
Final Part
Birth of the Euro
February 11, 2000
Inversion strategies. .
It was a particularly unsettled and ominous week for the financial markets.
February 8, 2000
The price of gold exploded on Friday (02/04/00) when Placer Dome announced that it was planning to stop its hedging program.
February 7, 2000
The final market top we have all been waiting for has arrived. The great millennial bear market, which remained elusive in scope and timing, is about to ravage investors with gut-wrenching violence. Is this a certainty?
February 5, 2000
[Note: The following is of a multi-part installment examining the debt phenomenon, based on the book,"A World in Debt," by Freeman Tilden.]
February 4, 2000
Upward price behavior ahead of the FOMC decision . .
February 2, 2000
“ [It] has helped to create a vast new audience of a magnitude which was never dreamed of… This audience, invisible but attentive, differs not only in size but in kind from any audience the world has ever known.
January 31, 2000
Gold is poised to make its second significant move to the upside in less than a year.
January 30, 2000
It was a bearish week on Wall Street as dislocations developed in the credit market and the stock market faltered. For the week, the Dow and S&P500 dropped 3%.
We turn our attention now to an examination of the long-term outlook for gold prices. This is a subject of great importance since it concerns not only many of our favored investments, but more importantly, the state of health of the world economy itself.
January 29, 2000
Background
Four features that can be used to distinguish a bubble, were discussed in Parts 1 and Part 2. These are:
January 28, 2000
A defensive market was the call . . . again for Wednesday action, and we weren't disappointed in the outcome.
January 24, 2000
Stock market action has been particularly choppy and disjointed, not atypical for option expiration week.
January 21, 2000
A little break in the Dow Industrials . .
January 18, 2000
At no other time in history has the supposedly almighty dollar been easier to come by.
Overview
Bonds – nearing an intermediate-term low.
Stocks – nearing a major top. A severe correction is likely to commence very soon.