I’ve been reading some technical and highly detailed research on what to expect in the future regarding the economy, stocks and gold.  I’m still digesting this but am looking forward to de-briefing my readers here on what I’m thinking lies ahead.  The findings are pretty amazing to say the least.  We’re living in interesting times indeed.  More to come soon…

The rise in silver in recent months is huge to say the least.  The last six months have been very rewarding for silver investors as the price of the ounce of silver has more than doubled.  If you look at a chart, it looks somewhat parabolic which always makes me nervous.  I don’t exactly think that silver is necessarily over, but the short term rise makes me somewhat nervous.  If you have some paper silver gains such as SLV, I’d consider selling it and putting that cash into something like …

Ron Paul is the man. He’s one of the few who understand the real dynamics of a market-based economy. His relentless criticism of Ben Bernanke and the Fed is well documented and well backed up. Here are snippets of his latest…

Ben Bernanke is doing a press conference this week.  It’s the first time he’s ever done it.  It will be in coordination with the Fed’s two day meeting.  The question is why is he doing a presser?  Make no mistake, nothing is random here.  Could it be that the Fed expects it will need to defend its actions more thoroughly in the future?  This doesn’t seem far-fetched.  If this is indeed the case, I think it means higher inflation and more rhetoric to “ignore” the inflation and defend the inflationary …

The problem is that it is too easy to manipulate stock prices simply by printing more of the currency of which it is priced in. We could print trillions every day from here on out and get the stock market to 1,000,000 on the Dow, but would that really be a good thing? Since the printing clouds our judgment of true valuation of the stock market, it is wise to “price” the market in something else. What else? Read on…

Fortune magazine author gives a compelling account for why the US economic growth of the last decade is not what we think, and ultimately results in the uncomfortable reality that we’re poorer than we think. Don’t expect a politician to speak this plainly to you.

If you’re following the financial world the last couple weeks, you’ve undoubtedly been hearing about the major beats on earnings estimates and massive corporate profits from the S&P 500 companies. The bulls continue to tout corporate profits as the main reason for a recovering economy. I’ll give them that. Corporate profits are excellent. But, I thought you’re bearish on the economy? I am. Well, what gives?

After I graduated from college, I set out to discover a way to get ahead financially in my 20s. I bought TONS of books on the topic of investing and personal finance. After numerous hours of diligent reading, it seemed that all of the books pointed to essentially 4 ways to become financially independent (I didn’t include the Lotto). I’ll save you hundreds of hours of reading and provide you with my findings.