By EconMatters In light of the recent S&P downgrade of the U.S. sovereign credit rating, the nation suddenly looks more dire financially than before the downgrade ( (at least psychologically, as the country...
Read MoreBy Bob van der Valk (Guest Post) Saudi Arabia took notice about oil prices being in a bubble in March 2011 when they offered up 800,000 barrels of oil a day to replace the lost Libyan crude oil. One problem, it was the...
Read MoreBy Energy Burirto (Guest Post) In times of market turbulence like this, I find it useful to do two things: make simple observations, and seek solace in the wisdom of others. So this week I have turned to the...
Read MoreBy Doug Short (Guest Post) Let’s review the recent volatility in the S&P 500. The first chart features an overlay of the index and the CBOE Volatility Index (VIX) since 2007. On Aug. 8, the VIX rose to...
Read MoreBy David Banister via The Technical Traders (Guest Post) Gold hit $1805 tonight in trading, a Fibonacci Fractal figure I gave out a few weeks ago as a possible top. We are close to a near term high in Gold and Investors...
Read MoreBy Tim Iacono (Guest Post) Don’t look now, but the holdings of the SPDR Gold Shares ETF (NYSE:GLD) are now within shouting distance of the all-time high set back in June of last year, some 24 tonnes added to the trust on...
Read MoreBy Frank Holmes (Guest Post) There’s an old contrarian investing maxim from Baron Rothschild that says “the time to buy is when there’s blood in the streets, even if the blood is your own.” The idea is...
Read MoreBy Tim Iacono (Guest Post) Well, it looks like it’s one down, three to go for the Federal Reserve as they promised to keep short-term interest rates freakishly low for at least the next two years (and possibly much longer)...
Read MoreBy Bruce Krasting (Guest Post) What to make of the move by S&P? I will tell you that I was surprised that it happened this weekend. I expected that S&P would have given the US to November to sort things out. From the...
Read MoreBy Andrew Butter (Guest Post) I suspect that even the most sophisticated student of Econ-101 would concede that the trajectory of the price of oil in 2008 was a bubble and that 2009 was a bust? Not that anyone has come up with a...
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