Economic Trends

Long-term trends grow from short term trends. We attampt to determine the short term trends and where they are pointing.

Do Low Interest Rates Power Stocks Higher?

This chart debunks a long-held myth. Back in the day, one of the first things I “learned” about investing was that low or declining interest rates are good for stock prices. I’ve since had to “unlearn” this. A certain market commentator recently reminded me of the “lower rates equal higher stocks” myth. He opined that […]

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Credit Crisis: Are We Set Up for The Perfect Storm?

Robert Prechter discusses what’s backing your dollars In this video clip, taken from Robert Prechter’s interview with The Mind of Money, Prechter and host Douglass Lodmell discuss “real” money vs the FIAT money system, and what is backing your dollars under our current system. Enjoy this 4-minute clip and then watch Prechter’s full 45-minute interview

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The European Debt Crisis and Your Investments

A look back on 18 months of analysis and reports on the European Credit Crisis In 1999, 11 European countries surrendered their currencies for the euro and a shared monetary authority. Barely a decade later, the once-celebrated EU is in the midst of a credit crisis and its currency is facing collapse. Elliott Wave International’s

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Stock Market Is Not Physics: Part IV

The following series is excerpted from two classic issues of Robert Prechter’s Elliott Wave Theorist. Although originally published in 2004, the valuable series has been re-released in the Independent Investor eBook, along with over 100 pages of other reports that challenge conventional economic thinking. Here is Part IV of the series. Click these links to

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Stock Market Is Not Physics Part III

We have already seen that economic performance, earnings and inflation do not necessarily coincide with movements in apparently related financial markets. Is there any evidence that dramatic news events that make headlines, such as terrorist attacks, political events, wars, crises or any such events are causal to stock market movement?

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The Stock Market Is Not Physics: Part I

The following series is excerpted from two classic issues of Robert Prechter’s Elliott Wave Theorist. Although originally published in 2004, the valuable series has been re-released in the Independent Investor eBook, along with over 100 pages of other reports that challenge conventional economic thinking. Here is Part I of the series. Check back in a

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The ABCs of Re-hypothecation in Gold and Securities Markets: What You Need to Know

By Kevin Brekke, Casey Research A new polysyllabic term has entered the Wall Street lexicon and is sweeping through the investing world like a brush fire through a dry canyon: “hypothecation.” With its connection to the MF Global bankruptcy and aftermath, it engenders the kind of fear a homeowner might feel while monitoring the approaching

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