As interest rates trend toward a zero percent yield it seems most traders and analysts are calling the interest rate market a bubble. Some are calling it the greatest bubble in years, and one that is about to burst wide open. That argument does seem logical on the surface. It doesn’t seem to make sense [...]
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Posted in Daily Comment, Gold, Weekly Comment on Sep 25th, 2011
The action in world markets last week took many markets down, of course, but especially hard hit was the gold market. I’ve been suggesting that this market has been in a bubble for some time. Bubbles do tend to grow larger than anyone expects, and this one certainly exceeded the expectations of all but those [...]
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Posted in Daily Comment on Aug 25th, 2011
It’s been a long time since my last update. I took the month of June off for vacation in New York as well as a Sheridan reunion in Chicago. Upon my return I was facing the huge task of moving my mother from a large home into a small retirement apartment. It is amazing how [...]
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Posted in Commodities, Daily Comment, Gold on May 24th, 2011
It’s been a while since my last update. The last two updates were on the silver bubble as it was reaching a very overbought condition. At the time it seemed like the bubble would burst at any moment, but as is usually the case in an extremely overcrowded bullish market, the bubble burst very dramatically [...]
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Posted in Commodities, Daily Comment, Gold on Apr 19th, 2011
The silver market continues its impressive bull move. There are few technical signs suggesting that this will end, although from a sentiment perspective this trade is extremely crowded on the bull side. There are times when I’m fully in agreement with the story behind a market trend, but there are times within that trend when [...]
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