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Commodities prices plunge: The drawback of basing investment advice on the weather forecast

As Hurricane Gustav fizzled, commodities prices have plunged… if gold, crude oil, and copper are moving with the weather forecast, it’s time to head for the relative safe haven of stocks! by J. Christoph Amberger Baltimore — (TFN): “For now, based on our analysis, gold’s bull market remains in force,” wrote the Aden Sisters on August 27: [...]

Euro crash: We may never get blogged by the Daily Reckoning again!

The euro comes crashing down from it record highs against the dollar. The Daily Reckoning may never blog us again! by J. Christoph Amberger Baltimore — (TFN): We may never again get blogged by our friends of ContrarianProfits.com or DailyReckoning: Not only have we always questioned the statute of faith that gold is a one-track ticket to [...]

New Book Release: Demise of the Dollar, Reloaded

by J. Christoph Amberger Baltimore — (TFN): When U.S. manufacturers and exporters lobbied the Bush Administration back in late 2001 to reduce the valuation of the US dollar against currencies like the yen and the euro (which was about to replace all individual national currencies in the Eurozone on January 2, 2002), the reply was that [...]

Commodities Investing: Gold rises, dollar falls

"In terms of real money - gold - oil is still cheap. Then again, in terms of real oil, gold is cheap. In terms of anything real, everything else is realistic." — Bill Bonner Blogger's note: Popular Daily Reckoning contributor Bill Bonner sent out this insightful and entertaining article today. According to Bill, the [...]

The Week in Review: Wall Street sinks, China floats, and Marilyn Monroe makes an unexpected appearance

If you missed last week's TFN financial news coverage, here a few of the highlights!  by J. Christoph Amberger Baltimore — (TFN): The first trading week of the new year began quite ominously, with a substantial drop in the American stock indexes. This meshed well with some of our most popular TFN contributions this week… [...]

Daily Reckoning’s Bill Bonner: Demise of the Dollar and the new economic superpowers

Baltimore — (TFN): Given recent volatility and the prospects of lowered consumer demand from the States, should we continue to invest in China and India? Where is the US economy headed in 2008?  William Bonner, founder of Agora Inc. and bestselling financial author, comments on the demise of the dollar, its effect on other [...]

A National Problem: Politics and the “human scale”

"How is it that a reasonably intelligent man can perfectly well drive through traffic without killing himself, but ask the same man his thoughts on global warming, the war on poverty or public education… and what you get is such preposterous nonsense you can barely believe your own ears?" — Bill [...]

Forecast 2008: Outlook for the US economy, Part 1

"Tax hikes will suffocate economic growth and domestic demand, resulting in a widespread relocation of US economic bellwether companies offshore." — J. Christoph Amberger by J. Christoph Amberger Baltimore — (TFN): I'll be the first to admit that I was wrong. Based on the fall surge in the markets, I had pegged the Dow Jones Industrials [...]

Gazprom, Crisis in Pakistan, Take-over Arbitrage and a Daily Reckoning for 2008: TFN’s week in review

Baltimore — (TFN): Most of our colleagues in the financial newsletter industry took a well-deserved breather from e-mailing fresh new financial analysis to you, some since the Friday before Christmas. It's not like anything groundbreaking could possibly be happening in the financial markets anyway between Christmas and New Year, right? Apart from the occasional political [...]

Global Credit Crunch: Why the Fed is making it worse

"The feds try to artificially increase the supply of cash and credit… so as to avoid correcting mistakes." — Bill Bonner. Blogger's Note: Our friend Bill Bonner of The Daily Reckoning published a good article on the current credit crisis. Bill has some interesting things to say about the U.S. market situation and the [...]

The Bullion Conundrum: Can you generate income from gold?

"In a bull market this strong, why meddle with options at all? Why not just buy gold and hold it? Well, firstly of course, only an idiot would put all of his money into a non-yielding asset – or so your financial advisor would say. (Just ask him yourself; he could probably do with a [...]

Annual Reckoning: Market Outlook 2008

  Baltimore —(TFN): We've asked Bill Bonner, financial bestseller author and chairman of Agora Inc., to destill the impressions he has gathered surveying his global media empire… and tell TFN viewers what he thinks we'll be in for during the coming twelve months. Bill analyzes the roots of the global crisis, the role of debt [...]

Investing Outlook for 2008: Bill Bonner’s view of what is ahead in the coming year

"We think you should be prepared for a recession next year.  When people have less money, typically, they spend less money; the economy contracts. (…) Not a pretty picture.  But is this a bad thing?  Not the way we look at it.  A correction is way overdue.  Better late than never." — Bill Bonner by [...]

US Market Forecasts: Hurricane season and Dow outlook

Baltimore — (TFN): Hurricane forecasters were wrong again with their 2007 forecasts of killer storms hitting the United States. It is beginning to look as if they are just as accurate as forecasters of US financial collapse: US GDP growth just came in at multi-year highs… despite subprime and real estate crisis. J. Christoph Amberger [...]

Resource Mining Stocks: BHP rebounds from Rio rebuff; WorleyParsons, Saudi Aramco deal may be close

“We suspect that construction and infrastructure and engineering stocks are going to have a good 2008 with all this spending in the pipeline. And not just in Australia.” — Dan Denning  by Dan Denning, Daily Reckoning Australia and TFN Blogger’s Note: We saw this piece on the site of the Daily Reckoning Australia. If you don’t believe [...]

Oil and Inflation: “Soaring Inflation Leads to Rising Bond, Oil and Gold Prices”

“When the price of gold goes up, the value of the stuff that buys it – paper – goes down. People are buying gold because they fear inflation is going to get worse. Typically, gold holds its value in an inflationary trend.” — Bill Bonner by Bill Bonner, Daily Reckoning Australia and TFN Blogger’s Note: Its it [...]

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