December 2009

Stock Market Similarities between 1974 and 2009

Back in April of 2006 I wrote an article entitled Inflation similarities between the 2000s and the 1970s and detailed the many similarities between the two decades. Now two and a half years later, Rick Pendergraft is seeing the same correlation between the current stock market and that of 1974.  If he is right you don’t […]

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If You Think the Past Decade Was Bad For Stocks…Wait Till You See This

A well-known business magazine recently published a story with this headline:

Stocks: The “Loss” Decade
A disastrous ten years for the stock market ends in just a month. Will the turning of a new decade change investors’ luck?

One sentence from the story itself tells you most of what you need to know: “The ten years since Y2K are on track to produce the worst total returns for investors since the 1930s.”

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Is Prechter of Elliottwave a “PermaBear”?

I recently was talking to a fellow investor at a conference and I mentioned that we carried quite a few articles from Elliott Wave International on this site. The gentleman I was speaking with commented that he had the impression that Bob Precter founder of Elliott Wave International was permanently bearish and so “eventually he would be right”.

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Taxes and More Government Oppression

After a relaxing Thanksgiving break, I anticipated to return to work in a lighter frame of mind. However, the following item from FOX News crushed that hope right away: Lawmakers Propose ‘War Surtax’ to Pay for Troop Increase in Afghanistan. Two top Democrats say they want to impose a new tax on the wealthy to finance any increase in U.S. troops for the Afghanistan war.

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