Broad Oak Magazine

We're in a surreal phase. As Denninger points out, there is no legal authority for the Federal Reserve to accept stocks and shares as c...

The FTSE has just closed at 5,414.40, about 1,150 points down from a recent high (10 December 2007) of 6,565.40. But the gyrations have gone...

It's now generally accepted that houses are overpriced. I think valuations will not only go down, but (notwithstanding bear market ralli...

Two from Karl Denninger in the last two days: Monday , he reasserted his belief in DE-flation; but as I've been saying for some time, ma...

Some expect the market to drop, but bounce quickly as in 2000. Vince Foster says not, since this boomlet has been credit-fuelled. His view: ...

The long-experienced team at Contrary Investor thinks the credit market needs watching, not the equity market. Outlook: oh, dear. When thing...

Cash is king for now, but later next year it'll be equities up, dollar up, bonds down, according to the round table on Safe Haven . UPDA...

Greg Silberman reveals the results of some interesting research: 1. Since 2003, if the dollar falls, all other asset classes rise; and conve...

Michael Panzner's latest is lucidly entitled "Today's Lesson: Bad Economy = Bad Stock Market". At last, financial analysis...

Following Dearieme 's comment on the previous post*, I'm going to try to visualise a chain of events over the next year - guesswork,...

Karl Denninger reports on the savage downgrading of a credit default insurer from "A" to "CCC" (junk) in one move - esse...

Clearly, The Contrarian Investor (2 Dec) thinks it's a possibility. So does Frank Barbera , who looks at the jaded market response to in...

Jeff Prestridge , in today's UK "Mail on Sunday" finance section, reports that the Personal Assets trust, controlling £188 mil...

I seem to recall it was some Supreme Court decision, where one judge said he dissented from the view of his colleagues "for the reasons...

Michael Panzner quotes USA Today quoting him, and I'll quote Michael too, since the advice seems sensible... Predicting tough times ahe...

We are said to be heading for a recession, so I had another look at Bank of England statistics for M4 - money supply as measured by private ...

A useful - and free! - essay by Adam Hamilton in SafeHaven , called simply Stock Trading 101 .

John Hussman is an American fund manager and takes pains to show that his judgments are carefully weighed; so his warnings are unlikely to b...

Percentages of the population above age 65 in selected countries Clif Droke ( SafeHaven , yesterday) summarises Edward Cheung's work , w...

It all looked a bit woeful yesterday, but I stick with my prediction: the market will go up towards the end of the year, so that dealers can...