Alxsteele

Starbucks: Highly Overvalued in a Mightily Overbought Market

On Aug 26 09:51 AM Jeff B. wrote:
"... My guess is that SBUX will double again in 12 months."

Jeff--

I appreciate the sentiment, especially as a SBUX shareholder. Do you have any stock analysis to help support your suspicions? My position: convinced (from a number of data points) that the current market is overbought, a pull-back is expected (though when isn't clear), and SBUX could be caught up in that. I at least appreciate the author's analysis of fundamental aspects. Based on many of the replies that SeekingA tends to draw--very contrarian: deals with facts, not ad hominem.

Look forward to your reply.

A

Gold: The Only Remaining Bubble?

Inflation can be measured in terms of "increase of prices" but can also be measured in "increase in money" (corollarily). Increase of the latter creates increase in the former, until you can take any two paper (gasp) dollars and rub them together to get...half the hamburger you used to be able to get.

Does anyone want to take on the topic that "money" isn't increasing?

Consensus Gold Estimates

Based on what?

No Silver Lining for Precious Metal Bugs

Interesting--on the one hand, you say that the price of silver isn't manipulated (my summary of your thesis) the way that Gold is--by large investors, shorts, and the purchase/sale of paper--but then you say that the increase in silver price must be speculation. A great reason to jump into silver is because it isn't manipulated.

You may have considered this prospect, but because you do not walk us through why the increase of silver is not a TRUE reaction to massive deficit (inflationary) spending, and must be speculation--you fail to convince.

I would like to hear your reasoning for why a jump in the price of silver is not an actual reflection of the demand and value against the manipulated price of Gold.

Why Gold Will Decline More than the Markets

Often when stocks decline significantly, there is the immediate need to raise funds by liquidating hard assets--e.g. Gold and Silver. I would someone to run the dates above against a similar chart that shows performance of the next six months from each of the points indicated.

Also, are we talking about paper money?

And like they say in the south (where my brother lives), "All ya'll done said it all before"--do you mean paper or hard currency? I'm sitting on a 5% loss on my bullion verses 40% losses in my 401.

Why I Got Gold Wrong

Humm...well, I guess trying to be the contrarian of history COULD work. I mean, eventually, somebody DOESN'T get shot when playing Roulette.

Question - do you actually have to know anything about gold to be able to post on Seeking Alpha?