December 7, 2007 – This week as I was walking through the Houston airport, I glanced at a newsstand and noticed that the headlines of this weeks Economist magazine blared, “The dollar panic”. Normally, when an established magazine starts toting…

November 4, 2007 – If we look at today’s global economic situation, there are many similarities in the conditions that exist today and those that triggered the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis. The 1997 Asian Financial Crisis Prior to 1997, the…

November 4, 2007 – There are many similarities between today’s global economic conditions and conditions that triggered past economic crises. An examination of the 1922-23 hyperinflation of the German papiermark, the 1997 Asian financial crisis, and the March 2000 dot…

November 2, 2007 – I’m not really sure how all the “Gold at 27-year high” headlines came to be, but my own calculations tell me that gold would have to break at least $2,400 an ounce to break its supposed…

October 25, 2007 – Here’s another story that belongs in the “More Worthless Manufactured Key Economic Indicators Released by the Government” statistic. Out of Washington D.C. at 10 AM this morning, this story was released WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) – Sales of…

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October 15, 2007 – I’ve often mentioned that the U.S. stock market can APPEAR healthy even when the underlying economy is in worse shape than an alcoholic on a kidney dialysis machine. And this is just one of those instances…

October 9, 2007 – Those of you that have been reading my blog and newsletters for a while know that I view the vast majority of government released economic reports as nothing but manufactured, cooked reports designed to generate whatever…