Economic Trends

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

Economic Insights from a Lord of Finance

By David Galland, The Casey Report Of all the social memes related to the economic and investment landscape, none is more dominant than that there is a small cadre of powerful Wall Street money men who, working behind the scenes, effectively control investment markets, the global economy and the politicians that play such a big

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Earnings: Stock Market’s Brightest False Beacon

“Earnings estimators are too pessimistic at bottoms and too optimistic at tops,” explains EWI’s president Robert Prechter Four times a year, investors and Wall Street watch the quarterly corporate earnings reports, trying to anticipate the trend in stocks. Another earnings season is upon us right now, so read this excerpt from our free Club EWI

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Foreigners Losing Confidence in Holding US Treasury and Agency Debt

By Bud Conrad, Casey Research Foreign central banks buy US Treasury and Agency debt through accounts at the Federal Reserve, where it is held in custody. Without these central banks buying our debt, the US federal government would have to find a new source of funds or the result could be higher interest rates. Looking

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How to Prepare for When Money Dies

An eye-opening interview with renowned speculator Doug Casey, conducted by Karen Roche and JT Long of The Gold Report. Doug explains why fiat currencies around the world are destined for collapse… and what investors can, and should, do to protect themselves. If dollar-dumping turns from a trickle into a flood, look out. Exploding prices (aka

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Did the Past 7 Weeks of Rally Lull You to Sleep?

Here’s why you SHOULDN’T get too comfortable Bear markets are cunning beasts. Don’t get me wrong — we are not in the bear market territory yet. At least, not officially. An “official” bear market begins when the stocks indexes decline 20%. The DJIA’s decline from the May 2, 2011 high to the September 21 low

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