Confessions of a Doomsayer — Stock Market Predictions
Today, we enter the confessional. And let’s begin by warning new readers that they should never pay attention to our stock market suggestions…
Goodbye to a Good Old-Fashioned Conman
Poor Bernie Madoff died in prison this week. He was convicted of defrauding investors in a ‘ponzi’ scheme. Half of his investors had made money from the scheme. The other half had lost it…
Voodoo Guesswork — Economic Growth and Inflation Trouble
The risk is investors are going to experience an acceleration in economic growth and inflation of magnitude economists and the Fed are totally unprepared for…
An Economic, Social, and Political Catastrophe — Road to Inflation
Well. actually, inflation is not always everywhere, and only a monetary phenomenon. It is much more than that. It is an economic, social, and political catastrophe…
Time to Get out of Dodge? — US Economy Headed For Trouble
The US economy is clearly headed for trouble.Deeply in debt already, it proposes to solve its problems — real and imagined — by borrowing (and printing) more money…
Advice for Holders of Government Bonds — The US Treasury Bonds
US Treasury bond prices got a lift on Tuesday, with the 10-year yield falling below 1.7%. (Remember, when yields go down, bond prices go up.) US Treasury bonds trade on the full faith and credit…
The Feds’ Monetary Experiment — China’s New Digital Currency
China’s digital currency is controlled by its central bank, which will issue the new electronic money. It is expected to give China vast new tools to monitor both its economy and its people…
US’ Poor in the ‘Paradise’ Ahead — The Elite Uses Government For Power
Today’s elite uses the poor the way the Bolsheviks used the proletariat — not as a cause, but as a tool, to help them gain power for themselves
Balance The Budget? — A Long Time Forgotten
What seems to be happening in the US is a general dumbing down…so that important insights and the hard-earned lessons of the past are forgotten…neglected and abandoned…
Peddling Influence — Influencing Comes Back Around
Younger investors trust. Older ones look for verification. Today’s callow speculators have their own ways of evaluating stocks…and their own gurus — now known as ‘FinTwit influencers’ — to help them do it.