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Call to the Bernanke Federal Reserve: Round up the Debt!

Sir John Templeton's sentiment that never before in U.S. history has our government and its citizens accumulated the level of financial debt as we have recently was referenced in my February 28th, 2007 article. And it is the citizenry who usually suffers from the eventual debt reckoning, forcing a decline in their living standards, Templeton believes.

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Strategies for the Coming Inflation of 2009-2010

The inflation that I believe may throttle though our economy in the late 2008-2010 period may not be the first inflationary economy many of us have ever seen. There is widespread commentary these days about the similarities between the stagflation/inflation that transpired in the 1970's, and what may be starting to happen in that manner in 2008 and going forward.

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Stock Prices and the End of Disinflation

The disinflation we have experienced in our economy from 1982-2007 (until what I call the silent inflation of the last couple years turned into a more evident broader inflation in recent months) has been in my opinion one of the major underpinnings of the long term bull market in equities during much of the former period. This time was punctuated by the 1987 crash and the 2000-2003 post bubble era bear market.

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The Stock Market and Economy: A Return to the 1970's in Form?

We are entering, in my opinion, a period of economic and stock market turbulence that will affect the pocketbooks of our citizenry going forward. Commentators on financial television have been reluctant until recent days to make the analogy of the present period to the awful economic period of the 1970's, which has been my thesis for some time.

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The Hillary Clinton Stock Market and Economy: Three Areas to Consider

Sometimes it takes a full generation to pass before the memories of important historical events are purged from the collective mindset of a society. For example, soon the living memories of World War II will fade into history, and will be available only through our media.

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Don't Fight Yesterday's Investment Battle: Why Betting on Last Year's Bull Market Always Fails

Just when a new bull market in a category of investments (stocks or commodities, etc.) is percolating to the top, investors may still be immersed in the psychology of investing in the previous bull market's most favored investment. As the maturing trend dies out, investors may still try to find reasons to invest in that trend, even though it may be actually reversing, with some investors playing yesterday's game. This may happen just when the long-term trend for the mature trend may have turned down.

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Bulletin: October 24, 2007 - What Now on Gold?

Editor's note: please see the current update to this article.

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The Level of Confidence in the Stock Market and Our Social Contract

There is unsaid in our daily life a social contract between all the players. Individuals are able to live their daily lives in a manner without much fear because of this contract, unless one lives in an area where this contract has broken down. You might call this unseen force in ordinary life the confidence that people have that their persons, social, economic, spiritual lives will be protected from the actions of others in that society, or from their government.

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