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Fed Exit Strategy?

In this article I discuss the tools and strategies outlined in Bernanke's exit strategy. In conclusion I focus on the price risk and interest rate risk that the Fed must address in its attempts to drain reserves from the banking system.

The End of an Era

"Green shoots" has become the new economic mantra used by the media to describe our current economic condition. The recession that began in December, 2007 is now in its twentieth month. You would have to...

Acknowledging the Deception

Meet Victor Kalashnikov: former KGB officer, scholar, analyst, and writer. He is married to historian and journalist Marina Kalashnikova, the subject of last week’s column. Before the Soviet Union collapsed Victor worked for the KGB in Vienna. After Gorbachev’s bizarre abdication in December 1991, Victor found himself drawn into the Presidential administration of Boris Yeltsin on orders of KGB General Yevgeny Primakov...

Uranium and Bonds

By Sol Palha

Uranium has finally traded past its main down trend line and now it needs to break through this long channel formation. Once it achieves this, it will establish a new up trend line and prices should start to rise. As this is a 3 year chart this development is pretty significant but it will be even more significant when it breaks out of the current channel formation. A break past 60 for 9 days in a row should at the very least lead to a test of the 90 ranges. Individuals who have no positions in uranium should use all strong pull backs to open up positions in several of the top performing players in this sector. We calculate performance more in terms of relative strength and not just price action; thus trader should focus on the stocks with the strongest relative strength.

Positive Quarters Happen

While the financial media is certainly going to be clamoring over the all but certain improvement in Q2 GDP numbers set to be released later in the month, should investors? Is the worst behind us and are there clear skies ahead, or is the picture far from rosy? These are the vital questions investors need to ask themselves as their answers to them will dictate how they invest going forward.

Marina Kalashnikova’s Warning to the West

Meet Marina Kalashnikova: a Moscow-based historian, researcher and journalist. Last August she criticized foreign “experts” for suggesting that a conflict with Moscow will not happen because Russia’s elite is too closely associated with the West. According to Kalashnikova, “The West does not care to wake from the dream of its wishful thinking, even when Moscow turns to … reanimating Stalin’s cult of personality together with the ideology of the Cheka [i.e., the secret police].”

A Bipolar Market

It was only a few days ago when everyone was commenting on the head and shoulder topping pattern and expecting a decline in the S&P 500 to the low 800s. CNBC anchors who know nothing of technical analysis were even commenting on it as the financial media were all abuzz with the pattern, with Google Trends key word search showing a dramatic increase in Internet search and news reference volume highlighting the frenzy behind the pattern.

Finding the Right Tune

To write a popular song is a trick, perhaps even an accident; for who really knows what will tickle the public? Why is one song a hit while another goes unnoticed? What makes for popularity? Is it truth, beauty or perfection? If so, then classical music would not be losing support with secular society, inch by inch.

Gold, the U.S. Dollar, and the Yuan

In late April, a Chinese sovereign wealth fund, the State Administration of Foreign Exchange, announced that China had purchased 454 metric tons of gold over the past six years.

Commodities: Bursting Bubble or Crouching Tiger?

Today’s article is a follow up to last week’s piece entitled, “Commodity Bubble Revisited.” The premise of last week’s article was to make the case that commodities were not in a bubble in the last bull market that ended in 2008 with a climatic top.

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