Global Credit Contagion On the Verge Again
February 8, 2011 by CAPTAINHOOK · Leave a Comment
By Captain Hook, Treasure Chests Apparent disparities and idiosyncrasies between Western economies and China (at center of the emerging market model) continue to grow more profound, which will eventually end badly by popping the larger global credit bubble for good this time. This is of course not to say that our ambitious and greedy bankers [...]
A Culture of Complacency
January 31, 2011 by CAPTAINHOOK · Leave a Comment
By Captain Hook, Treasure Chests That’s what the stock market is right now more than anything else in terms of importance – it’s a culture of complacency and corruption (from last week) that is perilously addicted to the Fed’s liquidity. And I am certainly not the only one voicing concern in this regard, where you [...]
A Culture of Corruption
January 24, 2011 by CAPTAINHOOK · Leave a Comment
By Captain Hook, Treasure Chests It’s a funny thing – actually it’s not so funny for the poor lost and trusting souls that give their money to the crooks in New York to manage – but for some strange reason (greed) managed account returns don’t seem to even come close to those enjoyed by money [...]
A Lighter Shade of Gray
January 18, 2011 by CAPTAINHOOK · Leave a Comment
By Captain Hook, Treasure Chests Between the high frequency trading and other shenanigan’s the bureaucracy’s price managers employ to goose the stock market higher on a daily basis, one could think both it and the economy are better than they really are, but that would be a lie. In fact, you should know that the [...]
The Future Is Now
January 12, 2011 by CAPTAINHOOK · Leave a Comment
By Captain Hook, Treasure Chests There’s no end to the opinions and forecasts of what awaits us in 2011, with everything from your increasingly popular doomsday scenarios that appear to be getting more attention by the day, to the usual propaganda that by now only the kool-aid drinking sociopath types on Wall Street believe themselves [...]
Heaven Knows
January 6, 2011 by CAPTAINHOOK · Leave a Comment
By Captain Hook, Treasure Chests Heaven knows there are a myriad of good reasons for Western stock markets and other equity prices to be falling, and of course for the most part they are in real terms when measured against gold as the ultimate benchmark. We have Europe under increasing fiscal stress and rioting because of this [...]
Never Say Never
December 28, 2010 by CAPTAINHOOK · Leave a Comment
By Captain Hook, Treasure Chests In reviewing the charts from the Chart Room over the weekend I came to the conclusion that in terms of timing the markets you don’t want to think in terms of price right now, but in terms of time, where again, we are not looking for a blow-off top in [...]
Volatility Set to Pick Up in the New Year
December 22, 2010 by CAPTAINHOOK · Leave a Comment
By Captain Hook, Treasure Chests The markets are so manipulated these days that it’s becoming increasingly difficult to gauge just what effect increasing interference is having, knowing in general all unnatural stimuli have decreasing impact the longer and more they are applied. Perhaps the best example of this at present comes from the bond market, [...]
Glory Days
December 14, 2010 by CAPTAINHOOK · Leave a Comment
By Captain Hook, Treasure Chests ‘Those were the days’ is a well known but now little used catchphrase that is employed in describing ‘better times’, usually heartfelt and sentimental for the individual(s), and usually occurring in better economic times. And at one point or another in a person’s life the concept of better days – [...]
Fiscal Discipline and Unintended Consequences
December 7, 2010 by CAPTAINHOOK · Leave a Comment
By Captain Hook, Treasure Chests It’s no secret Ron Paul is expected to chair the Monetary Policy Subcommittee starting next year, and that he intends to properly audit the Fed and US gold reserves as initial steps in attempting to return America to some degree of fiscal discipline. Because there can be little doubt an [...]
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