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 | Clif Droke |
| Is the market all-knowing |
| “The tape tells all” is a Wall Street bromide we’re all familiar with.It neatly summarizes the belief that the major averages discount everything pertaining to the business outlook.It’s also a basic tenet of Dow Theory.Writing a century ago, Richard Wyckoff was one of the very first market pundits to put this belief in writing.“The tape tells the news minutes, hours and days before the news tickers or newspapers and before it can become current gossip,” he wrote.“Everything from a foreign war toFriday, July 14, 2017 |
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 | Michael Ballanger |
 Forecasting 2017 |
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One of the most bothersome peccadillos of the advisory community, be it emanations from home computer blogs or the Ivory Towers of Wall Street, is the annoying tendency to accentuate good calls and understate bad ones.
Confusion, diffusion, and illusion . . .
Take Dennis Gartman. The ZerohWednesday, January 4, 2017 |
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 | Richard Mills - Ahead of the Herd |
| Demise of London Gold Pool Ends Vietnam War |
| In July 1944, as allied troops were racing across Normandy to liberate Paris, delegates from 44 nations met at Bretton Woods, New Hampshire - the United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference - and agreed to “peg” their currencies to the U.S. dollar, the only currency strong enough to meet the rising demands for international currency transactions.
“At the closing banquet, the assembled delegates rose and sang “For He’s a Jolly Good Fellow.” The fellow in question was John Maynard Keynes,Tuesday, March 1, 2016 |
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| Richard Mills - Ahead of the Herd |
| Color Outside the Line |
| Mining is an extremely capital intensive business for two reasons. Firstly mining has a large, up front layout of construction capital called Capex - the costs associated with the development and construction of open-pit and underground mines. There are often other company built infrastructure assets like roads, railways, bridges, power generating stations and seaports to facilitate extraction and shipping of ore and concentrate.
Capex costs are escalating because:
Declining ore grades meSaturday, October 10, 2015 |
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 | Gary Dorsch - SirChartsAlot |
| Minefields That Can Blow-Up Global Stock Markets in 2012 |
| Gerald Loeb was most of the most respected analysts on Wall Street, during
the Great Depression years and through the following decades. He wrote an
epic book, titled "The Battle for Investment Survival," last published in
1965. Many of his pearls of wisdom, concerning the financial markets and rules
of investing, have withstood the test of time. Yet one has to wonder though,
if Loeb's long held truths about the markets would stand up to the erratic
behavior of today's world ofWednesday, April 11, 2012 |
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 | Captain Hook - Treasure Chest |
| A Culture of Corruption |
| It's a funny thing - actually it's not so funny for the poor lost and trusting souls that give their money to the crooks in New York to manage - but for some strange reason (greed)Wednesday, January 26, 2011 |
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| Clif Droke |
| A Bouncing Baby Bull |
| Monday, January 5, 2009 |
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| Gary Dorsch - SirChartsAlot |
| "Maverick McCain" and the Resurrection of the US$ |
| Thursday, September 11, 2008 |
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| Aubie Baltin |
| Riding The Golden Bull |
| Monday, April 30, 2007 |
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| Crisis Watch - Aubie Baltin |
| Riding The Golden Bull |
| Monday, April 30, 2007 |
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 | Ty Andros - traderview |
| Fingers of Instability Series, Part V |
| WAR, Matches being lit in a bomb factory, or Don't Spit in Superman's face
US decoupling likely, Global boom proceeding
Get on the Train, it's pulling out of the station; Commodities and Gold
In this final edition of the Fingers of Instability we will cover the bomb
like plans being implemented in Washington DC. The overall look and prognosis
for the Global Economies (it is bright), in spite of the Sub prime, "Arm"ageddon
and auto debacles shaping up in the US. And the signals emanatinThursday, April 5, 2007 |
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