Mortgage rates at 8.5%? Who exactly would be able to afford such a rate? If rates hit 8.5%, you could bet the housing market would be in a...
When the housing bubble finally pops in this country it will be messy. People everywhere act as if housing prices only go up 10-20% a year. This...
"Did I not say in my other posts that lowering the Discount Rate was simply for announcement effect??? Does that statement not imply that the Fed...
"And for crying out loud. The discount rate that fed produces really has no direct effect on the market it is just an announcement statistic that...
Where is inflation in the consumer sector? For one, the Govt has a huge incentive to cheat on the CPI numbers every month that gauge the...
I don't own any gold or gold shares. Supply and demand is not as favorable today compared to the 60's before gold skyrocketed. Setting the price...
I normally laugh at these gold bug, "the sky is falling, gold is going to $50,000 an ounce" type articles, but I thought this arguement was...
Has Network TV ever been this bad? "Creativity" at the major networks is no where to be found. It seems like all NBC can do is to put hot young...
IMO, GDP is wildly overrated. Japan has had net positive GDP growth during the 1990's. Yet their economy was a joke. Record unemployment,...
Supply and Demand looks good for gold (but certainly nothing like the 1970's). From what I've read, gold exploded in the 1970's, simply due to...
I've got access to Lexis Nexus and I'm wondering if there are any good daily periodicals that can gauge the general interest level of commodities?...
There will be new unknowable innovations in the future. But those won't be of much help to a stagnant US economy and society. The US in the 20th...
Great thread. Here are some large macro questions on my mind: The Dollar is the huge question entering into the 21st century. There is no way...
Rogers isn't in the same ballpark as those guys. From reading his books, I take it he made something like $10 million in the early 80's after...
This is the funniest news story I've seen all week. Westside liquor, lol. Getting your neighborhood addicted to crack. Just insane. Black...
My trading odyssey started back in 1998. Wade Cook of all people got me interested in trading options. JDSU, ARBA, National Discount brokers, real...
Illegal immigration is something so polarizing for politicians, they just sweep it under the rug. Better to pander to the latino vote than dare...
W is treading on very thin ice come next november. If the economy gets any worst (which I think it will by then), virtually any democrat will win....
I've seen the Seigfred and Roy show. He's not an ass entertainer. I think he genuinely cares about and likes animals and those white tigers...
Jenny Lopez has done some brilliant PR moves in her career: The Grammy Versace dress, the one that created an uproar, took her career to the...
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