Jim Willie CB

Hat Trick Letter

Editor, FSU Contributor

ARCHIVED ARTICLES

05/07/2008  Opportunity on a Silver Platter
04/24/2008  Gold Drivers: Cheap Money, Rapid Inflation
04/16/2008  Liars, Wall Street & Your Gold
04/08/2008  Lessons from Japan
03/27/2008  Bottomless Financial Sector Bottom
03/20/2008  Cliff Notes on Financial Maelstrom
03/13/2008  Separation & Liftoff: 3 Charts
03/07/2008  Dollar-Gold: A Perfect Storm
02/29/2008  Recharged Gold & Silver Trend
02/20/2008  Gold & Whirlwind of Crisis
02/13/2008  Gold Rising in all Currencies
01/31/2008  Backsliding Currencies & Gold
01/24/2008  Gold & Math on a Napkin
01/16/2008  Threat of Sovereign Wealth Funds
01/10/2008  Unproductive Assets, Wasted Productivity
01/03/2008  Enter 2008: The System Breaks
12/26/2007  Exit 2007: Denials & Tontería
12/20/2007  US$ Monoline Bond Insurers
12/12/2007  Gold & Mortgage Failure Avalanche
12/06/2007  Gold & Central Bank Shift
11/28/2007  US Fed Behind the Curve
11/21/2007  Gold & Currency Wars
11/15/2007  On Currency & Cross Signals
11/08/2007  Deadly Dollar Confluence
11/01/2007  Glaring Goldman Omission
10/24/2007  Signals: Next USFed Rate Cut
10/11/2007  Commodity Bull Revived
10/03/2007  Dollar Faith & Failed Trinity
09/26/2007  Lone Anomaly Ignites Gold
09/20/2007  Monetary Doves at the Point of a Gun
09/12/2007  Favorable Gold Disconnect
09/06/2007  Gold & Subprime Dollar Backlash
08/29/2007  US/Mex: Failed System & Failed State
08/23/2007  Desperate Measures for the US Fed
08/09/2007  MBS Monetization and US Dollar
08/01/2007  Fed Funds & Other Signals
07/25/2007  Optimistic Negative Correlations
07/13/2007  Compound Damage Orgy (CDO)
07/06/2007  Garbage Bonds & Bonfires
06/29/2007  Absolute Bond Contagion
06/21/2007  Bond Convexity from Mortgages
06/14/2007  Bond Upheaval and Confusion
06/07/2007  Dollar and Gold and Four Sheets
05/23/2007  Don't Cry for the US Dollar
05/16/2007  False Housing: Gold Headwind
05/10/2007  The Bear, Dragon & Dollar
05/04/2007  Gold Breakout Delayed
04/26/2007  Death of Bretton Woods II
04/19/2007  PetroDollar & Iran & Iraq
04/12/2007  Hi Ho Euro
04/05/2007  Key Charts & Major Clues
03/29/2007  Cross Currents for USTBonds
03/22/2007  War, Energy, Banks, & US Dollar
03/14/2007  Bank Bust & Sea Change: 3 Views
03/08/2007  Gold Sniffs Rate Cut
03/01/2007  Shocks, Webs, Liquidity & US Dollar
02/22/2007  Summits, Trade War, Gold
02/20/2007  Gold & Silver Stealth
02/08/2007  Zero Degrees of Dollar Separation
02/01/2007  Ultra Slow Motion Gold Bull
01/25/2007  Gold Brushes Oil Off
01/18/2007  Housing Cracks Extend to Banks
01/11/2007  Gold Impetus & Risks
01/05/2007  Euro Key to US$ Decline
12/28/2006  Russian Energy Supermodels
12/19/2006  The Euro-Yen Crossfire
12/13/2006  Promoting Goldman on Govt Tab 
12/07/2006  Buck & Housing Three Bears
12/02/2006  The Mike Tyson Economy
11/07/2006  Spent Dollar Momentum
10/25/2006  Coiled Springs and Dark Shadows
10/19/2006  Time: The Waiting Game
10/12/2006  Mega-Storm Signposts
10/05/2006  The Upcoming Mega-Storm
09/29/2006  Housing Out of the Box
09/15/2006  More Avenues Into Bonds
09/08/2006  Bond Market Has it Right
09/01/2006  The Tragedy of Busted Myths
08/24/2006  Anatomy of Jobs Fraud
08/16/2006  Topsy Turvy Gold Chart
08/10/2006  Knights of the State Round Table
07/26/2006  Quack Doctors In the House
07/13/2006  Flat Yield Curve & Reflation
07/06/2006  Different This Time Vs 1980 
06/21/2006  Dilemmas & Redux
05/31/2006  Fibrillated Silver Bull Flag
05/23/2006  Backfire On Corrupted Price Index
05/11/2006  Weapons of Mass Destruction
05/01/2006  Canadian Leverage Without Margin
04/20/2006  Gold Bull With Numerous Legs
04/12/2006  Global Trade War Update
04/04/2006  Deadly Dollar Dominos
03/29/2006  The High Cost of Inflation
03/21/2006  A Walk Down Currency Lane
03/07/2006  Earth Geophysics & Crude Oil
03/02/2006  Mosques, Civil War, Oil & Gold
02/22/2006  Noland: Justifications & Questions
02/16/2006  Why USFed Hikes, Unspoken
02/01/2006  Negative Q4 Real GDP, Really
01/27/2006  Vancouver, Iran, Russia, Europe
01/19/2006  XAU/HUI: Response to Wallenwein
01/13/2006  Countdown to Energy War
01/06/2006  FOMC Starter Gun for 2006
12/30/2005  Forces in Yield Curve Inversion
12/22/2005  T/A: Euro Bullish Divergence
12/16/2005  Double Barrels Against US$
12/09/2005  Lost USDollar Pillars
12/01/2005  The Dollar Repatriation Conjob
11/22/2005  A Bundle of Gold Factors
11/14/2005  The Green Ben Bernanke
11/04/2005  Dollar Stalls With Higher Rates
10/20/2005  Bankers Versus USFED!!!
10/14/2005  Delphi, GM & Rogue Events
10/07/2005  Two Shoes & Rogue Event
09/29/2005  Petro-Canada & Its Stocks
09/22/2005  Gold in 3-Part Harmony
09/15/2005  Pendulum Swings to Gold Over Oil
09/09/2005  Why The Buck Just Don't Die
08/26/2005  Chinese Checkerboard of Effects
07/20/2005  Next Impetus for Gold
07/10/2005  Trust Fund & Step-Father
07/01/2005  Elliott Wave Gold Math
06/24/2005  Three Great Big Lies
06/03/2005  Financial Market Physics
05/26/2005  Risks from Doctored Statistics
05/18/2005  Quoted Pearls on Energy
04/06/2005  The Petro-Dollar & Protection Racket
02/09/2005  The Golden Race Car Struggles
02/03/2005  Inflation Pushes Down the CPI
01/20/2005  Effects of Chinese Acquisitions
01/12/2005  Queer Eye for the Bond Guy: Fanny Mae as the Bond Canary
01/05/2005  Oil to Prevail Over Gold
12/23/2004  US $ IV SKEWS TNX & SPX
12/01/2004  Karl Marx & Greenspan Over Coffee
05/19/2004  Hat Trick Letter Issue #2
04/06/2004  Hat Trick Letter Issue #1A Politics, Jobs & Trade War
01/30/2004  The Broken Cycle Part 3: Spinning Gears
01/20/2004  The Broken Cycle Part 2: Permanent Intervention
01/12/2004  The Broken Cycle Part 1: Paradigm Shift
11/21/2003  Inflation + Deflation = Chaos (not zero)
10/18/2003  Patriotism and Gold Wars
09/30/2003  Dragon at the Back Door
09/12/2003  A Week with Richebächer in Cannes
08/21/2003  A Statistician's Indictment of Economists
07/30/2003  Japan, Argentina, Weimar or Muddle?

Jim Willie CB is a statistical analyst with 23 years of experience in the industry. He holds a Ph.D. in Statistics with experience in marketing research, retail forecasting and manufacturing quality control. He has been writing about gold, currencies, bond markets and international economics for 18 months. He functions unencumbered by the limitations of economic credentials. Visit his website to find articles from topflight authors at www.GoldenJackass.com.

Financial Sense has been fortunate to receive Jim Willie's editorial commentary for Market WrapUp as well as his guest appearances on Financial Sense Newshour broadcast.

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