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"Gold"

Aug

2009

Unemployment Numbers Don’t Tell the Whole Truth

By: Doug Eberhardt Category: Gold Tags: Budget deficit, Economy, Government Spending, unemplolyment

What from an economic standpoint is going to sustain these “green shoots?” What is really supporting this stock market but economic fluff from the result of short term shenanigans?

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Aug

2009

How Worried is Citibank About California’s Ability to Handle It’s Budget Crisis?

By: Doug Eberhardt Category: Gold Tags: California Budget Crisis, citibank, registered warrant

Take a look at the actual document posted at the Citibank ATM and see if you can catch the reality of how deeply concerned Citibank is about California’s budgetary crisis.

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Aug

2009

Modern Portfolio Theory’s Biggest Flaw

By: Doug Eberhardt Category: Gold Tags: geithner, Investing, modern portfolio theory, risk-free, sharpe ratio, Stocks

Modern Portfolio Theory had one major flaw from the beginning. The assumption that there is such a thing as a “risk-free” asset. It is the same flaw that exists for most portfolios today.

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Aug

2009

From Green Shoots to Drought? Making Economic Sense of Investing

By: Doug Eberhardt Category: Gold, Stocks, U.S. Dollar Tags: Add new tag, debt, Economics, Economy, GDP, Investing, Stocks

But calling the exact top isn’t what’s important. Keeping and growing your wealth is. To do this, you must make sense of the economic data that are causing the green shoots and decipher for yourself whether they will blossom from here or wither and die from a potential drought.

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Jul

2009

Digger’s Friday Triple Play

By: Doug Eberhardt Category: Gold Tags: Federal Reserve

Bringing Transparency to the Federal Reserve
Alan Grayson: “Which Foreigners Got the Fed’s $500,000,000,000?” Bernanke: “I Don’t Know.”
Ron Paul: What Are They (The Federal Reserve) So Afraid Of?

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Jul

2009

Current Thoughts on the Stock Market: Caveat Emptor!

By: Doug Eberhardt Category: Gold Tags: Deflation, GDP, Government Spending, Inflation, Interest rates, Investing, Stock Market, Stocks, U.S. Dollar

Government surplus efforts are presently working. Some are calling an end to the recession. Green shoots are sprouting. The stock market is breaking 2009 highs. Life is back to normal. All is well. Or is it?

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Jul

2009

Digger’s Friday Triple Play

By: Doug Eberhardt Category: Gold Tags: Dollar, Economics, Economy, Gold, Health Plan, Money

Doug Digger Eberhardt’s Top 3 Articles and Posts of the Week – Click on headline for full article

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Jul

2009

Digger’s Friday Triple Play

By: Doug Eberhardt Category: Gold Tags: Dollar, Inflation, Recession, Taxes, War

Doug Digger Eberhardt’s Top 3 Articles and Posts of the Week

Budget Deficit Tops $1 Trillion for First Time
Bank of Wyoming Is the 53rd FDIC-Insured Institution to Fail in the Nation This Year
Why Obamacare Can’t Work: The Calculation Argument

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Jul

2009

Gold and the EURO Connection; Another Nail in the U.S. Dollar Coffin?

By: Doug Eberhardt Category: Gold Tags: decoupling, Dollar, Economy, EURO, Financial Adviser, financial advisor, Gold, Inflation, Investing, Money, Stocks

Another story was developing at this time; the EURO had bounced off its lows and become a much stronger currency. As the dollar was sinking from its high in 2002, and the uncertainty of what affect Central Bank sales would have on the price of gold, the EURO became the only other “safe haven” in the mind of those who were looking to get out of the dollar.

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Jul

2009

Digger’s Friday Triple Play

By: Doug Eberhardt Category: Gold Tags: Credit expansion, ecoomy, GDP, Government Spending, loaning money, Obama stimulus plan, real estate bubble, stimulus, stock market bubble

Doug Digger Eberhardt’s Top 3 Articles and Posts of the Week
When Stimulus Does Not Stimulate
Credit Expansion, Crisis, and the Myth of the Saving Glut
Bailing Out Your Spendthrift Relatives

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