Needless to say, watching (and feeling) your money being eaten alive by a multi-year bear market is not pleasant. In fact it’s the kind of experience that might prompt you to make a change by, say, selling your shares and giving up on the market once and for all.
January 3rd, 2012 | Dan Denning | 2 comments | ContinuedCurrencies
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A chronological listing of articles is below.
Avoiding the Market Danger Zones in the Year Ahead
(Ed Note: Bill penned this note as 2011 was drawing to a close). The markets are fairly quiet. The politicians are keeping their mouths closed too. Here at The Daily Reckoning Christmas headquarters we’re drinking eggnog, eating fruitcake and wondering what 2012 will bring. We’ve given up trying to actually look into the future. We don’t seem to have the knack for it.
January 3rd, 2012 | Bill Bonner | 2 comments | Continued
The Daily Reckoning’s Best of 2011
Happy New Year!
Normal Reckonings resume Tuesday, January 3rd. To tide you over, we’re continuing a tradition we started last year. We reflect on some of the more colourful predictions of 2011. What follows is a selection of musings from Dan Denning, Bill Bonner and the DR team.
January 1st, 2012 | Dan Denning | 0 comments | Continued
6 Things Governments Might Do To You This Christmas
The break over Christmas is a pretty convenient time for politicians to spring something unexpected on you. Well, unexpected for those who don’t read the Daily Reckoning, that is.
So here is a list of things the governments of the world might unleash on you and your portfolio over the holidays:
December 24th, 2011 | Nickolai Hubble | 7 comments | Continued
Should Banks and Government Merge to Become One?
There was a problem we promised to solve on Monday. To refresh your memory, the problem is that both banks and governments need money. Governments borrow from banks. But because government finances are so terminally bad in Europe, government bonds are destabilising the capital structure of the banking system.
December 21st, 2011 | Dan Denning | 3 comments | Continued
How the Banking Crisis Affects the Real Economy
What Australia has – commodity wealth – is strategically important. But what it doesn’t have – capital – is economically urgent.
The banking crisis will mean small Aussie businesses may start to feel the crunch of Europe’s credit crisis in 2012.
December 19th, 2011 | Dan Denning | 5 comments | Continued
Gold Are You In Or Out?
Hey…what’s going on with gold? The dollar up, gold down. When we checked yesterday the price was crashing through the $1,550 level.
December 16th, 2011 | Bill Bonner | 3 comments | Continued
Will This Great Correction Bring a Darkness Without a Dawn?
So far, the Great Correction has followed the usual script. Bond yields have fallen. Price inflation has generally come down. But demand for credit — as evidenced by $10 trillion government financing costs — is running hot. This is no typical downturn. And it wouldn’t be too surprising if all this demand for credit pushed up bond yields.
December 14th, 2011 | Bill Bonner | 1 comment | Continued
Energy, Resources and Real Asset Investing
Basic economics of scarcity, supply and demand, and investment demand won’t be less important in supporting commodities. But in a world of collapsing financial asset values, tangible assets are about to become the hotly contested objects of a great global strategic game.
December 9th, 2011 | Dan Denning | 1 comment | Continued
Why the Stock Market Disagrees with the Economy
In the past few days we’ve seen Brazil’s economy contracting…Australia’s economy expanding…the RBA slashing interest rates…and China’s currency under pressure.
December 8th, 2011 | Greg Canavan | 3 comments | Continued
Central Banks Play: Print…Ready…Aim
All central banks are desperate to stop stress from building in the global banking system. Despite what they say, job No. 1 of every central bank is to do whatever it takes to prevent a disorderly collapse of banks caused by “bank runs.”
December 6th, 2011 | Dan Amoss | 0 comments | Continued
Why Liquidity Solutions for Solvency Problems Won’t Work
Once again, the Fed is distorting the signals the private market is trying to send. The market is saying there is a solvency problem and the Fed is saying it’s just a matter of liquidity.
But that’s the question – liquidity or insolvency?
December 2nd, 2011 | Greg Canavan | 1 comment | Continued
Europe’s Credit Crisis is China’s Trading Problem
Europe isn’t a huge customer of raw commodities. But China is Europe’s largest trading partner. So there is a knock-on effect…somewhere down the line.
November 29th, 2011 | Dan Denning | 0 comments | Continued
IMF Considers Loan to Italy
If the IMF does find the money to loan to Italy, it will have to find money for Spain, and for Ireland, and for the Belgians (who just had their credit downgraded again over the weekend). Unless the Italian “solution” brought down government bond yields generally, the basic problem in Europe is still the same: the governments need to borrow more money than anyone actually has.
November 28th, 2011 | Dan Denning | 1 comment | Continued
Let The Fireworks Begin
“Very little has changed in the last week,” writes Slipstream Trader Murray Dawes. “European bonds continue to implode and the Equity market is continuing to ignore it at their peril. When credit markets and equity markets diverge it is uncanny how often the credit markets are right and the equity market is wrong.
November 16th, 2011 | Dan Denning | 2 comments | Continued
