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The Sickness that Never Ends
It’s a wacky and wild world out there. We don’t know what to make of it anymore. The tried and true has disappeared from common circulation like pre-1965 quarter dollars. What remains is a lot of claptrap. For example, we’ve … Continue reading
Exactly When the Fed Will Raise Rates
December has been a wild month so far. Markets have gone haywire. The DOW dropped 890 points before running back up 710. Oil prices have been slashed 26 percent to just $55 per barrel. Gold has gotten kicked in the … Continue reading
Hold On To Your Gold
Something befuddling’s going on. It is quite the brain twister. As night follows day and day follows night, should not price inflation follow the massive $4 trillion Fed balance sheet expansion that’s happened over the last 6-years? Simply connecting the … Continue reading
One Hundred Years of Failure and Counting
Quantitative easing is set to expire this month. That’s the plan at least. The $10 billion monthly tapers will finally bring the Fed’s QE3 bond buying program down from $85 billion per month to zero. That’s not to say the … Continue reading
