Dow…3 ounces! Our old friend Ronan McMahon has been keeping us up to date. Ireland is going broke, he says. The Irish foolishly borrowed too much money during the boom years. The banks foolishly lent too much money. And then the government foolishly said it would bail them out…
October 4th, 2010 | Bill Bonner | 2 comments | ContinuedAll Posts Tagged With: "price"
Attachment “G” is Too Dangerous to Be Seen
There may be a simple economic explanation for the best September on Wall Street in 71 years. No double dip recession…improving labour market numbers…rebounding house prices. Except none of that is true. So what is left? Well, as near as we can tell, everyone seems to be front running central banks. Is the Fed buying stocks? Not yet.
October 1st, 2010 | Dan Denning | 3 comments | Continued
Investing in Gold With a Watchful Eye On Mr. Market
What if the final stage of the bull market in gold has already begun? What if investors and speculators begin to panic out of the dollar now? What if they sell the rumor of quantitative easing…rather than wait for the real thing? What if they drive the price of gold up to the moon…
October 1st, 2010 | Bill Bonner | 1 comment | Continued
Squishy Ball Test for Banks
It’s an all-out attack on the greenback and everyone else is winning! The Aussie dollar has reached parity with the Canadian dollar (the Loonie) and is fast approaching its previous highs against America’s number one export (the U.S. dollar). So is this a turning point in the currency wars? Well, like all wars, a sensible question to ask is, what are we fighting for?
September 30th, 2010 | Dan Denning | 162 comments | Continued
The Legacy of the Current Recession
Epithet for a doomed economy…What will they say? How will they describe the ’00s and ’10s? Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen was accused of being drunk when he gave a “croaky” radio interview two weeks ago. He denied it. But we’d be tempted to turn to the bottle too…
September 30th, 2010 | Bill Bonner | 0 comments | Continued
Attack on 5,000
April seems like such a long time ago. What were investors thinking then? As you can see from the chart below, April was the last time the ASX/200 traded near the 5,000 level. The index is nowhere near the 2008 high (as you can see). But maybe it’s getting ready to make a run to 5,000 by the end of the year.
September 29th, 2010 | Dan Denning | 3 comments | Continued
Gold US$2,000? Try US$27,000!
The supply of gold is falling steadily. As with any other commodity the price of gold ultimately depends on just two things: The supply of gold, and the demand for gold. Before we get to the exciting part of the story, it is important to look at the supply of gold.
September 29th, 2010 | Dr. Alex Cowie | 27 comments | Continued
Strength in Weakness
If you haven’t sorted out whether gold shares or gold coins or gold bullion should be part of your investment strategy, you still have time to think about it and do something, if that’s what you decide. One reason you have time is that one of the strength’s of gold’s current move is that central banks are buying it instead of selling it.
September 28th, 2010 | Dan Denning | 2 comments | Continued
When Zombies Buy Gold
The advisors told their clients to buy gold. The economy must be improving they said. The recession ended more than a year ago. The recovery hasn’t been as strong as anyone wanted. But there must be a recovery underway…and it must mean that inflation and gold will go up.
September 28th, 2010 | Bill Bonner | 0 comments | Continued
You’re a Free Man
Today’s Daily Reckoning will be a bit of a cautious and casual affair. Jet lag is supposed to have the same effect on the human body as drinking three beers. We’re opposed to drinking and reckoning. So today’s task is to survey the territory and compare it to what we thought about while out of the country for two weeks. The first obvious sign, when converting the currency, is that it now takes 96 U.S. cents to buy one Australian dollar.
September 27th, 2010 | Dan Denning | 20 comments | Continued
Is the Bull Market in Gold Over?
Gold hit three new record highs last week. This week, following the announcement by the US Fed on Tuesday, it is hitting still more highs…closing in on $1,300 as we write. Gold should go up with consumer prices. But, for nearly two decades – from 1980 to 1999 – gold went down while consumer and asset prices rose.
September 27th, 2010 | Bill Bonner | 0 comments | Continued
Thank God for Bailouts
Considering the Labor Government’s record when it comes to government construction programs, we would like to issue the following warning: Do not go bush walking. You may be run over by a tractor laying fibre optic cable for the NBN trials.
September 25th, 2010 | Nickolai Hubble | 1 comment | Continued
Funds Flowing, But For How Long?
We’ve made this point before, but we’ll make it again. Today’s modern financial system depends critically on continued debt growth to stop asset prices from collapsing. In modern economies dominated by governments and their agents, central banks, money is debt and debt is money.
September 24th, 2010 | Greg Canavan | 43 comments | Continued
Recession Officially Over… Someone Tell the Unemployed
Officially, the recession is behind us. That’s the good news. Officially, it ended in June of ’09. The bad news is – so what? Recession or no recession, people are having a hard time finding jobs and making ends meet. The US economy continues rumbling and trundling along.
September 24th, 2010 | Bill Bonner | 0 comments | Continued
A New ‘Trade of the Decade’
If you’re going to be invested in a single metal this decade, my advice is to back copper. Specifically – companies that are sitting on long-life, high-quality copper resources. He dropped out of the spot light for a while there, but ‘Doctor Copper’ is making some big moves again.
September 22nd, 2010 | Dr. Alex Cowie | 7 comments | Continued
