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  • Option Trader Friday Outlook: Is the Dollar Going UUP? [View article]
    The federal reserve board here is quite expert at creating
    bubbles, commodities are merely the latest convenient
    vehichle for their specious economic philosophy, though I
    agree with Prechter that gold can be tricky and may be wildly
    overvalued at present. But there is also the argument that
    it is highly undervalued as well. Time will tell which argument
    is most accurate as this market continues to give signals that
    perhaps a severe correction is at hand with a strong dollar rally
    certainly fitting that scenrio, it may not be far off at all!

    Erick Tippett
    Chicago, Illinois
    Nov 08 03:59 am |Rating: +2 0 |Link to Comment
  • Paul Tudor Jones: Gold's Undervalued and Bonds Are a Curve Flattener Play [View article]
    This is interesting, Tudor's econometric model confirms, according
    to him, gold as undervalued by 20%. Robert Prechter's Gold/Dollar
    1913-2009 comparative chart/model confirms gold as overvalued
    by 50%! What we can use here in regard to this highly emotional
    and obsessive controversy is a fiercely objective editor on this
    website to present a detailed analysis of both views so that the
    investing public can make their own determination concerning gold.

    Erick Tippett
    Chicago, Illinois
    Oct 31 17:02 pm |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment
  • Paul Tudor Jones: Gold's Undervalued and Bonds Are a Curve Flattener Play [View article]
    This is interesting, Tudor
    Oct 31 16:54 pm |Rating: +1 0 |Link to Comment
  • The Trend Is Your Friend Until It Ends [View article]
    You're absolutely right. One must understand "true diversification"
    in order to have had any beneficial involvement with hedge funds
    during this cycle. And of course one must have some medium
    for knowing which hedge funds were going to be lucrative and
    which ones were not and most people either lack the skill and or
    or patience you apparently possess, if in fact you experienced the success you've claimed.

    Erick Tippett
    Chicago, Illinois
    Oct 05 18:55 pm |Rating: 0 -1 |Link to Comment
  • The Next Major Crisis Brewing [View article]
    Your guess is probably right for all the reasons you've
    so clearly explained!

    E. Tippett
    Chicago, Illinois
    Oct 02 17:00 pm |Rating: +1 0 |Link to Comment
  • Marc Faber: Equities Safer than Dollars [View article]
    It is always refreshing and informative to hear Mr. Faber speak on
    economic issues and the economy. I thought I was the only one
    who recognized that our government houses 'fiscal criminals' as
    a matter of course!

    But as they say, "it takes two to tango"! Of course only a brain- washed, apathetic public allows such vermin to be elected and
    appointed in the first place!

    E. Tippett
    Chicago, Illinois
    Sep 30 22:04 pm |Rating: +3 0 |Link to Comment
  • You Can Spend Your Way Out of a Recession [View article]
    Mr. Mc Teer,

    "More spending is needed to generate more income. Therefore
    more spending will do the job". Where is the money for all this
    spending going to come from, the public that has been the driving
    force of this economy by 70% or so as unemployment continues
    to rise? Production, the result of job growth has been the only
    remedy for recessions and only after toxic elements in the system
    economically have been flushed out. Have you any data that
    confirms any society that has recovered from a recession by
    any means other than job creation? I haven't! What will you do
    when your money runs out and you have no more to 'spend'?
    Shed some 'Teers'?

    By the way, I know that the author of this article did not quote the
    comment Hayek supposedly made alleging Keyne's 'greatness',
    so I went to the website (hayekcenter.org) to veryify for myself and agree with the listed commentary made earlier by another web visitor. Not one of the 13 or so comments I observed attributed anything to Keyne's comming from Hayek that amounts to a compliment of even so much as Keyne's having barely more than a rather primitive understanding of economics or that much of an interest in the study of it either!

    Strange how the thinking of a segment of the population can be
    so skewed. But that no doubt explains why the leadership which
    foster and intensify these needless economic fiascos get to hold
    office in the first place. They get elected and re-elected by those
    folks who unfortunately constitute the voting American majority!
    Strange how a nation founded upon the word Independence seems
    to have such a problem electing "Independent" candidates to office!
    Whenever I view the voting tallies in congress and the senate on ESPN, I see Republican and Democratic votes, but none for any
    Independents!

    How sad for what should be an advanced democratic system
    and a model to the world of societal and fiscal excellence. How
    sad indeed! Yet again on second thought, perhaps the old saw
    still lives "you have to give the people what they want" and these
    'people' love their popularity contest winning pathalogical liars who promise what hey can never deliver in order to get elected and proceed to screw the taxpayer who is paying for all of this, just in case you hadn't noticed!

    Erick Tippett
    Chicago, Illinois
    Sep 28 15:08 pm |Rating: +2 0 |Link to Comment
  • Why Is Paul Volcker Being Ignored? [View article]
    I have wondered about Mr. Volker and was quite amazed to see
    him sit around in the present administration having to wait on
    queue to see the president! In my opinion he is the only person
    in anyway connected to the present administration who could
    possibly offer substantive policy conerning the economy based
    upon both his performance in the Carter and Reagan administra-
    tions and his background.

    My question is why he has waited so long to speak up concerning
    economic issues. What does he have to loose? His 'job', his
    popularity. I don't think so.

    Erick Tippett
    Chicago, Illinois
    Sep 21 11:51 am |Rating: +2 0 |Link to Comment
  • Economic Recovery: Determining the Undeterminable [View article]
    I agree with the comments of those who understand this is a
    market determined by market mood and the skillful and adroit
    machinations of seasoned traders expert in timing them. After
    all that's how they make their living, they should be that good
    at it! They have no doubt figured out already when this rally is
    going to dry up, or if not will pick up the signals like ravenous wolves as and when the haunting hour approaches.

    This economy has nothing to do with the markets in any manner
    whatsoever!

    Erick Tippett
    Chicago, Illinois
    Sep 14 18:56 pm |Rating: +1 -1 |Link to Comment
  • Recent Oil Rally: Another Crowded Trade [View article]
    You think oil and natural gas prices are going lower here and
    globally in the future? When China and India begin accelerating
    their purchases of automobiles you will see what supply and
    demand can do to oil prices in a way you have not yet witnessed!

    E. Tippett
    Chicago, Illinois
    Sep 11 00:03 am |Rating: +1 0 |Link to Comment
  • Is the U.S. Dollar Finished? [View article]
    I concur, Robert Prechter has been saying for quite some
    time now that Gold will top even if it goes over $1,000.00 and
    the Dollar will experience a significant rally, problem is timing.
    When will they top and bottom? That is the question.

    E. Tippett
    Chicago, Illinois
    Sep 10 04:02 am |Rating: +1 0 |Link to Comment
  • Strong Start for Bull Market, But Investors Are Nervously Eyeing the Exits [View article]
    Sir,

    You don't define whether this is a secular bull market or a
    cyclical bull rally in a larger trend bear market secular in
    nature. As a consequence your information could be harmful
    to inexperienced investors who don't have the educational
    background in market cycles to differentiate between the two!

    Try to be instructive as well as analytical in your future articles.

    Thank you.

    Erick Tippett
    Chicago, Illinois
    Sep 07 00:21 am |Rating: +2 -1 |Link to Comment
  • Money Supply: The Myth of Hyperinflation [View article]
    Mr. Sunshine,

    Not to rain on your parade (and I do agree, Mr. Bernanke and
    company have proven skillfull in shifting money around from
    pillar to post, and I do agree that there has not as of yet been
    a frenzy of printing press activity at the FED ), but the history
    of central banking systems does not augur well for financial
    stability and never really has. Regardless of the polished
    balancing act Mr. Bernanke and his jongleurs pull off with impressive aplomb, the die has already been cast for serious
    heavy duty deflation/depression and an examination of the
    historical data on the Federal Reserve Board bears this out,
    a fact you fail to mention.

    E. Tippett
    Chicago, Illinois
    Sep 05 03:15 am |Rating: +2 0 |Link to Comment
  • Marc Faber: Buy a Machine Gun [View article]
    "I wonder WHO on earth would have faith in the U.S.
    Administration? Certainly, not someone who thinks".

    But Mr. Faber, wasn't that the reason Adolph Hitler once
    made the comment before the start of World War II that
    it is the people who don't think (according to a History Channel
    presentation) who make it so wonderful for the governments
    to do as they please?

    That certainly explains the present crisis concerning central
    banks that have been pointed out by Ludwig Von Mises and
    others but ignored by the people who don't think, the majority
    voting populations here and in Europe where all this stuff
    orginated? They came to this continent then conterfeited and
    devalued the lucrative wampum of the Pequot Indians before
    massacring them and taking their land! The present world
    economic malaise has its roots centuries deep and needs to
    be thoroughly studied and evaluated by all those who do think!
    A competent educational system in so called democracies
    should have provided truthful historical instruction concerning
    this and other issues years ago and affluent citizenry should
    have demanded such whenever it went lacking. Unfortunately
    a brainwashed public lacks the awareness and presence of
    mind to demand such things of their elected officials in the so
    called modern "democracies". They apparently find other things
    more important to their everyday concerns such as having their
    neurtotic fantacies satisfied and thier hedonistic desires indulged.
    Do the "hard working Australians function in that manner in their
    day to day existence, I don't think so.

    All this is a sad testiment to a lie that the people who don't think either cannot or do not want to see or hear about!

    Erick Tippett
    Chicago, Illinois
    Sep 04 22:28 pm |Rating: +1 0 |Link to Comment
  • Weekly ETF Rewind: Short Term Top or Consolidation Before Pop? [View article]
    Pop, top, geschlop! We can all read charts by now. So what?
    Geflop!

    E. Tippett
    Chicago, Illinois
    Aug 30 21:13 pm |Rating: +1 0 |Link to Comment
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