Mark J Lundeen
Sorry for writing this before the last gold price of 2013 has been posted by the markets. But on New Year’s Eve I’ll be busy with more pressing matters than writing this article, using the actual last price of the year. I expect nothing...
I thought I send my readers some charts I’m looking at; here are the Bear’s Eye View (BEV) charts for gold and silver during their decade long bull markets. The BEV format displays each all-time highs within the range selected as Zero %,...
Without a doubt, monetary inflation (Blue Plot / Rising CinC) has outperformed both blue chip and gold mining shares since 1920. Unfortunately, benefitting from rising CinC is the preserve of Washington and Wall Street, not people like...
The Dow Jones ended the week at a new historic all-time high. In late 1999, this news would have greatly excited the media and investing public, but fourteen years later, there are scant signs of excitement that the Dow Jones has...
There’s talk of foreign central banks purchases of US Treasury debt slowing down, or even significant reductions in their current Treasury bond holdings. Unfortunately, authors seldom share their work with the readers of their articles....
The Dow Jones has seen a nice recovery off its credit crisis lows of March 2009. In the last 4.5 years it’s up about 138%. Don’t you wish you had bought stocks on the 09 March 2009 bottom? It’s easy to say that today, but in March 2009...
The latest “debt limit crisis” was resolved this week; for another few months anyway. Come January 2014, we can expect all congressional Democrats and the dopes in the Republican leadership to once again kick the can down the road to ruin...
Every now and then it’s good to take a long term look at the market, so here’s a 128 year chart of the Dow Jones Industrials going back to 1885; weekly closing price basis. The Dow Jones published price is plotted in red and uses the...
Currently, the Federal government is in “shut-down” mode as House Republicans refuse (at least so far) to provide funding Obamacare. You can be sure that any part of the government that is important to the politicians is unaffected in the...
I like watching the old B&W programing from the golden age of TV; shows from the late 1940s to the early 1960s. It’s amazing how many financial concerns one generation shares with another. I got the following from the 1950s George...
