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The call was scratchy and barely audible. I was instructed to not mention any names. I should only use the prearranged code words when talking…
The dramatic collapse in the price of oil is creating a rare opportunity to get into some of the highest yielding paper in the financial…
The first thing I noticed when Paul walked in was the few extra pounds and silvery tinge to his hair he acquired since I saw…
A major plank in my golden age scenario for the 2020's is the collapse of the cost of energy. This won't occur because of a…
Panic is on deck, to use the baseball terminology that my foreign readers are often attempting to decipher. That is the only conclusion one can…
Well, they didn’t really say that, but they could have, and perhaps should have, and the bond market wholeheartedly agrees with them. That is my…
It is already January 24, and the S&P 500 has seen a grand total of two down days so far in 2012. Are we on…
Any trader will tell you the trend is your friend, and the overwhelming direction for the US dollar for the last 220 years has been…
I received a scratchy and barely audible call from my buddy out in the Barnet natural gas fields just outside of Fort Worth, Texas the…
This is my favorite asset class for the next decade, as investors increasingly catch on to the secular move out of paper assets into hard…
I’m sitting here with a mountain of technical analysis reports that are causing my desk to buckle this morning, all shouting “breakout”, “buy”, and “uptrend”.…
The financial markets exploded to the upside overnight with news of Europe’s triple resolution of their sovereign debt crisis. As I predicted in my letter…
It has been quite a hectic and frenetic day, so I am just getting around to writing out the logic behind today’s short cover of…
If we are now in recession, this is the most bizarre one in history. It is a recession where the first thing people do is…
What a quarter that was! Q3, 2011, will go down in the history books as one of the worst in market history, and certainly one…
When I heard that Molycorp (MCP) had just cratered by $22 from $53 to $31 in two days, I did what I usually do when…
With oil having bounced $5.50 over the last couple of days, I am going to flip back to the short side for several reasons, not…
Will everyone please take a look at the chart below for the United States Oil Fund ETF (USO) and tell me if you don’t see…
Long term readers of this letter know that I have long been banging away on the fact that the world is making people faster than…
Over the last month, asset classes everywhere have downshifted to new, lower trading ranges, reflecting the very rapid chopping of GDP growth forecasts for 2011…