But now that everyone is talking about the dollar weakness again, as well as gold breaking to new highs, Geithner is stuck between the proverbial rock and a hard place. If he takes the strong dollar stance, it could kill the stock market rally, especially if the Fed increased interest rates. If he lets the dollar fall too much, there could be a rush for the exit with Japan and China leading the way. There is a reason why Obama chose this time to take his trip to China. The U.S. needs to maintain the U.S. Dollar’s world reserve currency status. It cannot afford to become a second rate nation. Something has to be done.
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16
2009
The Problem With Elliott Wave Theory Proved Right Again, 8 Days Later
By: Doug Eberhardt
Category: Gold
Tags: Elliott Wave Theory, Gold, Gold Investing, Jim Rogers, marc faber
Marc Faber called for gold to go to $800 last week. Jim Rogers is recommending physical gold now over mining stocks.
It’s not easy to time the gold market because of these external influences. Holders of physical gold care not that gold falls to $800 an ounce on its way to $2,000 and higher.
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6
2009
Gold and the Carry Trade: Rogers vs. Roubini, Who’s Right?
By: Doug Eberhardt
Category: Gold
Tags: carry trade, Gold, Gold Investing, Jim Rogers, Nouriel Roubini, U.S. Dollar
So why does Roubini hate gold? Because he’s a Keynesian Government loving professor at NYU and former advisor to the U.S. Treausry Department. Show me a professor at a University that likes gold, outside of the Austrians, and I’ll listen to what they have to say. Otherwise, remember where the professors bread is buttered.
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But the Elliott Wave folks miss one thing when they do their prognosticating, and that is “the unexpected.” In a perfect world with no outside influence, the ABCD patterns of Elliott Wave Theory seem to fall in place naturally. But Elliott Wave Theory doesn’t take into account external influences that can affect these patterns like what occurred earlier this week.
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15
2009
“DOW 10,000 (version) 2.0,” but is it really a better version, or even the same version as DOW 10,000 of 1999?
What most don’t realize is that the DOW 10,000 of 3/12/99 was worth more in terms of purchasing power than DOW 10,000 10/14/09 by a whopping 23.8%. Why? Because the dollar index has fallen 23.8% since March of 1999.
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At least so far, Joshua Zumbrun from Forbes has chosen not to post my reply that disagrees with his perspective. Since I know that many of these bashers of gold won’t post my replies, explaining to them where they are mistaken about gold, I make sure and do a screen print to show that I have in fact replied but they have chosen not to post that reply. Then I expose them here on my blog.
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