Barclays Capital says gold could go to $1,500. We don’t know where they got that number. It could go to $15,000 for all we know.
October 9th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 4 comments | ContinuedAll Posts Tagged With: "credit cycle"
Feds Can’t Cause a Genuine Recovery Simply by Throwing Money into Economy
Meanwhile, the feds are muddying the waters. They’re trying to fool the consumer…to trick him…to make him think that up is down and down is up. They want him to believe that the fat years are coming back…
September 17th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 3 comments | Continued
World Economy Has Never Been in a Fix Like This
What we suspect is that the upward trends of the last half a century have now reversed. We’re in a period when the excesses and mistakes of the boom/bubble period must be corrected.
September 1st, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 7 comments | Continued
We Don’t Gamble on Stocks in a Depression
Sticking with the basics, what we notice is that stocks, bonds and commodities move in broad patterns that last for many years. Not to put too fine a point on it, but they go up and then they go down. Or vice versa. Just looking at the last 50 years, stocks were very expensive in 1966.
August 4th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 0 comments | Continued
Is There Any Wonder Americans’ Hate Bankers?
“The watchdog overseeing the federal government financial bailout says the government’s maximum exposure to financial institutions since 2007 could total nearly $24 trillion, or about $80,000 for every American.
July 22nd, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 0 comments | Continued
Households Expand and Contract With the Credit Cycle
It’s a phenomenon known as household compression. Households expand and contract with the credit cycle…
June 15th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 1 comment | Continued
Members of Congress Have the Same Questions As the Rest of Us
We report to you today from the banks of the Potomac. Our old friend, Congressman Ron Paul organized an off-the-record discussion with several other members of Congress. The subject was the financial meltdown…and the bailout. We were there to talk, of course, but we were more interested in listening.
May 25th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 0 comments | Continued
Gold Reaches One Month Low
Good news everyone. Gold has reached a one-month low. In fact, February gold futures on Comex fell the most in six weeks. They tumbled four percent on the day, down US$34. This is very good news. It means you will have a chance to buy gold at lower prices before it goes up higher later this year. Much higher, in fact, according to the 2009 forecast made by Diggers and Drillers editor Al Robinson…
January 13th, 2009 | Dan Denning | 11 comments | Continued
Lending Rates Will Go Up With Inflation
Here in London, inflation is at its highest level in six years. In China, 8% consumer price inflation is spooking the financial authorities. And import prices in the United States jumped 1.8% in April.
May 15th, 2008 | Bill Bonner | 0 comments | Continued