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Has the Fed Panicked?
“Don’t fight the Fed.” — old Wall Street saying Has the Fed panicked again? I see the money supply (M2) is now growing at 9% per annum, its fastest rate in years. Fed Chair Janet Yellen won’t need to cut rates to stimulate the economy again. She’s letting the growth of the money supply do all the […]
Is Wall Street a Fraud?
“The business model of Wall Street is fraud.” — Bernie Sanders, a democratic socialist who is running for U.S. president I’m teaching a class on financial economics at Chapman University in Orange, CA this spring, and right now we are discussing the image of Wall Street. I start off with quite a few quotations from […]
Is Now the Time to Buy Gold?
“Gold is the hitching post of the monetary universe.” — Jim Dines (quoted in “The Maxims of Wall Street,” p. 151) Last year, gold hit a six-year low. My decision to sell gold and silver in late 2011 (when gold was $1,900 an ounce and silver hit $30 an ounce) was a good move. Gold, oil and […]
Will Climate Alarmists Hurt Your Investments?
2015 Far Eclipsed 2014 as World’s Hottest Year, Climate Scientists Say. Global Warming Blamed for System That is ‘Warming Up, Relentlessly.’ — New York Times, January 21, 2016 2015 Was Not Even Close to Hottest Year on Record. — James Taylor, Forbes.com, 2016 Yesterday I had my students at Chapman University read these two articles (quoted above) and […]
Latest GO Data Says Recession May be Around the Corner
Every quarter the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) releases gross domestic product (GDP) statistics. Its latest release indicates that GDP grew at 2.0%, suggesting a slowdown in the economy but no recession. But the BEA also now produces a broader measure of the economy called Gross Output (GO), a measure that […]
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Are We Heading for Recession or Worse?
The financial terrorists are coming out of the woodwork. I recently received a warning from Jim Davidson that the U.S. economy is heading for “imminent collapse.” But it’s not just gold bugs who are predicting disaster. A Merrill Lynch analyst expects a drop in the S&P 500 Index to 1,600, down from around 1,900 now. A Zacks analyst […]
What is America’s Financial Outlook in 2016?
The New Year is here, and it’s the year which everyone has been waiting for to discover if America will rise up to become great again following the November elections. The markets already are worried. Wall Street is in turmoil in response to events occurring in China and the Middle East. This week, famed investor George […]
Bears Make Headlines, Bulls Make Money
The subtitle of my collection of “Maxims of Wall Street” (over 2,000 of the new 4th edition sold during the holiday season) is “Bears make headlines, bulls make money.” That adage was never as true as this year. The doom-and-gloom reports came out of the woodwork in 2015: the dollar was going to collapse and […]
Why the U.S. Mint has Sold Out of Silver Coins
The above headline came from an article in Casey Research about the fact that the U.S. Mint sold out of American Eagle Silver Dollars in December 2015 and is minted more than 47 million silver dollars this year. Your editor and Doug Casey compare American Eagle silver and gold coins at the New Orleans Conference […]
Fed Raises Rates: Good or Bad for the Economy?
“Finally, the Fed made the right decision. It’s like removing price controls from the credit markets!” — Steve Forbes Yesterday, my wife and I spent more than an hour in a private meeting with Steve Forbes at his company’s new world headquarters in Jersey City, New Jersey. (Forbes moved last year from its beloved offices on iconic […]
