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NEW COMMENTARY
-- Follow Up: Another
Reversal! (Tuesday evening - February 1, 2011)
Families were in the streets of Cairo earlier today, even with their small
children. Bulls were living it up on Wall Street anew. We pretty much saw the
opposite today of what went on in most markets last Friday. Will these moves
last?
Turmoil in Egypt: Game-Changer for the Markets? -- Special Commentary, by Chris Temple (Sunday, January 30, 2011)--Here, Chris also weighs in on the goings-on in Egypt, and talks about the many changes of direction for several assets in last Friday's trading. He discusses whether these moves might be one-day wonders...or develop into something more.
The Egyptian Unrest: A
Special Report dated January 29, 2011
(republished with permission from Stratfor Global
Intelligence -- www.stratfor.com) --
Here, my friends at Stratfor (to whose excellent
intelligence information on a host of issues
subscribe) give one of their
excellent, publicly-available overviews of the last few days on the current
situation in Egypt.
Looking ahead to 2011; Comments by Editor/Publisher Chris Temple
"The Revolutionary Christmas Message"
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The Dollar Reverses...but for How Long? --Go figure...despite QE-2 and the fears over Ben Bernanke turning the U.S. dollar into toilet paper, the dollar has suddenly embarked on a scorching run higher. Here's what's caused the greenback's astonishing reversal of fortune; and why the odds are that it will continue for a while.(Posted Nov. 30, 2010) |
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Election 2010 -- And What it Doesn't Mean -- From the OCTOBER ISSUE: In this excerpt from an expanded October, 2010 issue, Chris soberly tells you, most of all, what NOT to expect from the strong G.O.P. and Tea Party election results of this past week. |
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The Investment Philosophy of Tacitus -- (Commentary of October 20, 2010) As Chris wrote in the latest edition of The National Investor, it is sometimes best to be neither a bull nor a bear, but a chicken. Tacitus, the Roman statesman and historian of the 1st century A.D., would no doubt agree... |
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The
Hindenburg Omen...and why it's worth pondering As the summer days were coming to a close, the August swoon on Wall Street gave rise to the latest manifestation (though some quibble with the technicalities) of the so-called Hindenburg Omen. In these thoughts from the August issue, we explain why such an indicator of this is worth worrying about at all...
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Our ANTI-Predictions
for 2010 -- A Mid-year scorecard
All five of our major calls for the year made back on January 1 have come to pass. Here, we revisit those predictions and tip off one major change -- regarding the U.S. dollar's direction -- coming for the back half of 2010. (From the June, 2010 issue).
--Posted January 1, 2010
The Great Gold Caper of 1999
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Here, as we promised, we reproduce our post-mortem (the first six pages of our October, 1999 issue) of the most extraordinary market event we have EVER had the privilege of covering, and of being a part of.
Understanding the Game--
Though Chris' essay here is nearly six years old, it proved prophetic!!
Disclosure regarding the Editor, Chris Temple: On July 21, 2004, Christopher L. Temple appeared in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin and was sentenced to the custody of the Bureau of Prisons for a term of 72 months on each of two counts to run concurrently. He previously pled guilty to one count of mail fraud in violation of 18 U.S.C. Sec. 1341 and one count of laundering of monetary instruments in violation of 18 U.S.C. Sec. 1956 (a)(1)(A)(I), both of which are Class C felonies. On November 25, 2009, Christopher L. Temple was released from the custody of the Bureau of Prisons and is serving a three-year term of supervised release with the U.S. Probation and Pretrial Services Office in the Western District of Wisconsin. Please be advised that The National Investor provides GENERAL investment/market advice and commentary: neither it nor Chris Temple manages individual investment accounts. For additional information, visit www.christempleonline.com
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