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GOLD-Two Steps Forward...Two Steps Back--
January 2005 Though he didn't enjoy the landslide that the late President Richard Nixon did in his 1972 re-election. George W. may nevertheless suffer Tricky Dick's EARLY second term fate: a declining dollar, bear market for financial assets and, if he's smart, cutting and running from a foreign quagmire (from The November issue).The Fed's Own Irrational Exuberance--From the October 2004 Issue
"Consumerism" Didn't Come About by Accident--(NOTE: This is an excerpt from Chris Temple's provocative Special Report entitled "Understanding the Game".)
DIVERSIONS (excerpted from the September, 2004 Special Report entitled "Understanding the Game") -- Everyone is looking for a scapegoat to blame for the heavy losses on Wall Street since the great bull market bubble began losing its air over four years ago. But I have news for you: the culprits are not Ken Lay and Martha Stewart. Will the real truth ever come out? Will the needed monetary reform result? Or, instead, will we soon be treated to guillotines on Wall Street to punish the "aristos?"
Greenspan to Play "Chicken" With Oil? -- (from the August, 2004 issue) -- Just when we think we have the Fed chairman figured out, he throws us yet another curve. Of all the times to get serious about "inflation," is The Maestro about to plunge us into recession by "playing chicken" with oil?
BONDS OR GOLD -- WHICH MARKET IS WRONG?--Posted August 20, 2004
Forget About a "Neutral" Federal Funds Rate -- Here's Chris Temple's post-F.O.M.C. commentary of July 2, 2004
"On a Knife's Edge" - Commentary from the June, 2004 issue
Greenspan Preaches What He Can't Practice -- (new commentary for May 7, 2004) -- Just like a preacher who extols the virtues of temperance while hiding a bottle of Jim Beam in his pulpit, so too does the Federal Reserve Chairman demand conduct of others that he won't--and actually CAN'T--practice himself
Cash Might Not Be Such Trash After All--posted March 10, 2004
"Where are the Bond Market Vigilantes?" (from the January, 2004 issue.) While most markets ended up responding largely as expected in 2003 to the extraordinary fiscal and monetary stimulus coming out of Washington, one major market was conspicuous in NOT doing so.
"Market Complacency May Soon Be Tested"--posted February 18, 2004
Gold Should Sue the Euro For Divorce--(from the March Issue)
WILL
GOLD NOW PULL GOLD SHARES HIGHER?--New U.S. Dollar Lows Will
Help Both
The Fed's "Hail Mary Pass"--from the November 2002 issue
A DIFFERENT KIND OF RALLY--(from the May issue)--In his most comprehensive analysis of the gold market to date, Editor Chris Temple--whose track record on gold has been more accurate and profitable than anyone's in both down and up markets--recaps the reasons why gold has moved steadily to the $325 per ounce area, and will go higher still.
COMMENTARY--"YA GOTTA BELIEVE!"--Tug McGraw did it for the 1973 Mets--can Alan Greenspan do it for The Markets?--posted February 21, 2001