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1.
What economic
phenomenon is most worrisome to Dr. Ben Bernanke? To view a picture of the
answer, please click here now.
2.
A higher oil
price is Dr. Bernanke’s biggest fear, and I believe a new move higher
is beginning right now.
3.
David “SuperDave” Greenlaw
is Morgan Stanley’s chief U.S. fixed income strategist. A number of
Morgan Stanley’s top economists, including SuperDave,
have issued substantial warnings that the American economy faces what they
term a “fiscal cliff” in 2013.
4.
There is talk
of dividend tax hikes, the end of the Bush tax cut extensions, and it’s
conceivable that both individuals and American corporations could enter the
year 2013 with no idea what their tax rates will be for the year.
5.
How much
fiscal tightening are you facing in 2013? Well, Dave argues that the total
amount of fiscal tightening will not be the “3.5% of GDP”
number bandied about by many respected economists and by the congressional
budget office.
6.
He feels the
American economy is facing a 5% hammer that will send America back into
recession in 2013.
7.
I agree,
because if the Dow Jones Industrial Average had a chief economist, it would
be “Doctor Copper”. The weekly chart of copper looks
like a train wreck waiting to happen.
8.
In my view,
this chart “technically certifies” the superb fundamental
analysis produced by SuperDave, who says, “Under
current law, the US economy will experience a fiscal tightening of
unprecedented magnitude at the end of this year.” If you
like horror movies, you’ll love this copper chart. To view Dr. Copper’s
horrifying forecast for the economy of America, please click here now.
9.
That head and
shoulders top pattern is ominous. Sadly, I think that for the
intermediate term, Doctor Copper, both fundamentally and technically, is
about to become Doctor Plopper.
10. The last time that the U.S. economy
faced a fiscal tightening almost as big as what appears to be your coming
2012 Christmas present was in 1969, and America didn’t rise from those ashes
until the 1980s.
11.
Quite
frankly, if the price of oil skyrockets, I don’t think SuperDave will want to imagine the magnitude of the
American recession that he could be forecasting.
12. Probably the single most important
question to be asked if the economy goes into severe recession in 2013 is;
what are the ramifications of a new recession for the existing mountain of
OTC derivative contracts? They look like a minefield of financial nuclear
weapons with hair trigger detonation switches.
13. New OTC derivatives are cleared through
professional clearing houses, but there are hundreds of trillions of existing
OTC derivatives baggage that are cleared nowhere, and it’s unknown what
happens if a new recession occurs.
14. The Dow has hesitated here, but it has
not fallen. Please click here now. There’s a small head and
shoulders top pattern that is forming, but note the position of the Stochastics oscillator and the MACD indicator.
15.
They are both
verging on crossover buy signals, telling you that the Dow could surge to a new
high just as easily as it could break below 12,700.
16. How the Dow, and gold, move from here is
likely to be determined by the action of the US Treasury bond. Please click here now. Note the small wedge pattern that I
have highlighted.
17.
Many
technicians thought the bond market would decline strongly from the 139 price
area. From there, a small decline took the bond down to the 136 area. The
bond could have fallen further, but instead a substantial rally occurred,
shocking the bears.
18. Look at the Stochastics
indicator now. It’s rolling over, but it’s unknown what happens
if the bond itself rolls over at this point in time and price, because the
market sits in “analysis quagmire”.
19. After months of reports that showed an
improving economy, the latest jobs report shredded the view that everything
is fine, and happy times are here because it is an election year. Still,
there simply hasn’t been enough data released to convince institutional
money managers that the recovery has died.
20. When the bond first broke down, money
managers believed it was because the economic news was so good that no
further credit easing was required.
21. Now, they are less sure but not yet
convinced that the recovery is dying.
22. Gold has been tracking the bond price.
Please click here now. Gold seems to be attempting to
establish a new uptrend, which I’ve highlighted with two trend line
arrows.
23. My main concern is that I think most
investors in the gold community are looking at the “super-wedge”
pattern on the gold chart as something that will produce a violent move to
the upside.
24. A vertical move could occur, but I think
the most likely scenario is a “steady as she goes” plodding type
of move towards $1800. Gold is your beacon of light in a crisis of darkness,
but I still believe there are too many gamblers rushing to buy a perceived
“breakout” each time gold moves higher to allow for that type of vertical
move. If you are always long gold, and I always am, you will
benefit from any vertical move, but I would suggest the focus should be away
from a vertical move and towards the slow but growing buy programs of central
banks that will support gold on price weakness, and ultimately revalue it
thousands of dollars higher!
Thank-you
Cheers
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