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Economic Recovery? Commodity Charts Don't Think So

The charts are a real eye opener and I agree with your cautionary notes completely.
Thanks for a well presented and info rich article.

Weekly ETF Rewind: Volatility Reintroduced

Would be helpful to me if you would rewrite your Risk/Reward indicator glossary explanation to include an example along with some different and expanded verbiage. Thanks

Energy Will Lead the Next Commodity Shortage

It seems to me we could all benefit greatly by reducing dirty and imported sources of energy some significant percentage a year without having to drive the amount of consumption all the way down to zero % as the author remarked as the goal of the greenies.
With a well coordinated national effort ,we could reduce them maybe 2 to 6% a year at least until we got it down to about half of what it is now, ie. 43% instead of 87%, that's still a long way from 0 %, but the relief would have enormous and extraordinary impact in a positive direction.
I once worked with a group of people that were extremely pro nuclear. Well , as their luck and fate would have it , a nuclear facility was later proposed to be built near their homes.
The outrage that went up and the extreme personal threats and threats of violence by these same community people against the proposed facility and the proponents involved caused the proposed facility to be totally canceled.
Shows how dramatically people can change their tune when they become directly impacted by danger to themselves and negative impact on their home and property values.
This happened near Durham in North Carolina, and can easily be researched if one has the inclination.

Thursday Outlook: Commodities, Global Markets

Same old story. When Da Boyz determine that retail market is Bearish enough ,they do the opposite, sometimes accompanied by a big short squeeze preferably, but sometimes without.
Then when its run up to rediculously overbought levels fundamentally and technically , they set things up for the correction they know has to happen -- always has and always will happen, for certain and guaranteed.
Actually it's easier to exploit than a rally, safer too.
Those big computers and all that data and personnel online with the hair triggers, both
manual and automated , DOES make a BIG difference , and they are determined to milk it to the extreme , and why not?.
The difference between them and us is that they have the massive money power and all the connections to move the markets when they can time it right, which is almost all the time, and which is more than enough to pocket most of the money.
They really don't need any more help with the rules, they do well enough already, but then with them, enough is never enough.
And no, the rule changes don't surprise me any, it's all part of a rigged game.

Global Markets in Review: Roller Coaster Ride for Investors

Another robust Thank You! for a fine chock full of relevant data articles and info.
When looking at various trend line and volume data esp. considering their "dips" on various market sectors and individual stocks, it is difficult for me to understand how anyone but expert market professionals and traders can invest in these markets "unless" one is willing to scalp short term profits and spend their entire life in front of a computer monitor.
This is true because the fundamentals are so weak that any return to sanity could cause the technical indicators indicating "sell" to lead to a rout rather than a short term downslope and recovery, notwithstanding the indicators pointing to the start of a new rally, and there are several which you and others have pointed out..
This is a market made for GS and JPM and others of their skill and size and market power. The best of all world's for them but not for the small investor.
We small investors need a better shake and more protection i.e. laws and info and less deception to be able to invest with even a modicum of confidence in these markets, and all the professionals know exactly what I am talking about.

Preserving Wealth During the Global Banking Crisis

Well John Lounsbury, you are indeed a fair and reasonable man and I admire and respect your astute opinions, and they are legion!
It often happens, however , that step one does NOT lead to step two.
Thus, this time , we must do BOTH , more or less, at the SAME TIME! (Is "swift" justice only another American myth?)
If we don't enact swift and effective action, and these criminals slip thru our fingers yet again, then their progeny shall return against us to create chaos and mayhem yet again in even greater scale and calamity in the future.
Why?, because their predecessors, yet again, got away with it , and that always emboldens the crooks that follow.
Memories are too short , and ongoing distractions too many to wait around for Step 2 to take it's course on a "business as usual basis".
Does History bear me out ?, or do you think I am a victim of an overactive imagination?

Preserving Wealth During the Global Banking Crisis

As a well deserved follow up to you Gary:
A fine and greatly informative article that is much appreciated.
No one can ask of this article, "Where's the Beef?", as there is a warehouse full of solid prime meat in your excellent article, and it is such that we all should be able to use it to considerable advantage. Many Thanks!

Preserving Wealth During the Global Banking Crisis

Can we not apply the "Martha Stewart Standard" to the malefactors and crooks in the Banking/ Investment Banking Cartel?
Simply determine if their offences were more egregious than those of Martha Stewarts, and send them to jail if they were/are, just like we did her.
Isn't our justice system supposed to be based , in large measure , on precedent?
If their crimes are more egregious , and they therefore are in jail, we won't have to worry about their proflicacy and criminal behavior taking us all down the tubes quite so much again in the future.
In my view, this would be simple and straight forward JUSTICE , and not some form of tedious , confusing, and ineffective Rocket Science that many are making it out to be.