All Fixed?

One indicator at least says move along folks, nothing to see here.  Palladium vs. gold, which was used as a gauge of coming economic strength in early 2013 had recently…

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Economic Snapshot

Excerpted from this week's Notes From the Rabbit Hole, NFTRH 314: Our view has been that a stronger US dollar would eventually start to eat away at corporate results, especially…

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Negative Feedback

Here is some feedback a republished post of mine (Market Summary; Saturday Morning Cartoons) got at a leading gold website from a reader. "The other support has been the very…

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NFTRH; Semi Industry Direct Info

Reference back to January of 2013.  In an NFTRH update we talked about a contact of mine who supplies the equipment sector of the Semiconductor industry, who advised that the industry was on a “ramp up”.  The equipment companies are the likes of AMAT, MKSI and LRCX who gear up for Semiconductor Fab cycles.

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Is Gary Shilling?

Sorry, I could not resist the title.  Gary Shilling, an economist whose name I have heard over the years, has quite a body of work often revolving around Fed policy, GDP and deflation.  The reason I looked into Mr. Shilling is an email from an NFTRH subscriber linking his thoughts on a coming boom…

The Boom is Coming, and Sooner Than You Think (July 18, 2014)

Okay, an economist and Bloomberg columnist thinks this is a boom (actually it is; we are after all in the age of Inflation onDemand © and a Boom/Bust cycle; currently in a cyclical boom concentrated in stocks).  Let’s see what he thinks…

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Rates of Interest

[edit]  Formatting errors have been corrected from an original version posted earlier. The following is excerpted from this week's Notes From the Rabbit Hole, NFTRH 247: As the 10-year to…

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A ‘Carry Trade’ Returns?

As I was charting long-term Treasury yields in NFTRH 241, I ran a chart of the ratio between the banks and the S&P 500 and what do you know?  The…

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Young FrankenMarket Lives

Excerpted from Notes From the Rabbit Hole #237: Young FrankenMarket Lives In failing to take a “healthy” correction to the equivalent of SPX 1350 to 1450 from the upside target…

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Gold Ratios – An Update

Current gold ratio setups, a real world view of ratio analysis 'White Paper' As the Cyprus drama and other macro events play out and distort normal macro economic signals to…

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NFTRH Interim Update 3.14.13, Market Update

Precious Metals (Negative) Bearish Engulfing candles aplenty yesterday ('BE' is only a very short-term bearish candle, with implications over the next 1-3 days at most) Lack of bullish follow-through from…

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