Moneynews RSS FeedTue, 18 Dec 2012 13:38:24 EDTI think we are seeing a key element in the markets no one is really mentioning. This being that the U.S. dollar, which had been artificially held up by economic weakness in Europe, is starting to roll over.Fri, 07 Dec 2012 08:44:34 EDTIn a way, the U.S. markets at the moment are a victim of their own size and success.Mon, 03 Dec 2012 08:38:22 EDTOne of the great investors of our time and one of my mentors, John Templeton, would have turned 100 on Nov. 29. Templeton’s way of investing and his life influenced me a great deal. In more ways than I could have ever imagined.Fri, 09 Nov 2012 11:30:08 EDTThe theme of my book, The Great Super Cycle, is just as the title sounds. Cycles. I believe that markets have a life of their own and move in huge 15- to 20-year cycles.Thu, 01 Nov 2012 08:02:13 EDTThe United States is on its way to financial bankruptcy, and Obama will just quicken the pace.Fri, 19 Oct 2012 08:05:57 EDTRight now it is easy to be bearish on Europe. Everyone has bashed Europe. They say the European politicians are just kicking the can down the road, that they are not dealing with the real problems. I do not see this as the case.Fri, 12 Oct 2012 07:59:12 EDTAs bottoms are full of fear and panic, for those jumping on the short bandwagon to play a collapse (which has already happened), the reversal tends to be ferocious.Thu, 04 Oct 2012 15:31:00 EDTHere is the funny thing about investing: People do not use the principles they use in day-to-day life that they do when buying stocks and investments.Thu, 27 Sep 2012 12:23:45 EDTWe have seen some themes coming back in the market as of late, as people are worried about the debt crisis in Europe and the U.S. fiscal cliff. Thu, 20 Sep 2012 11:50:18 EDTIf I told you that a country had a debt-to-gross domestic product ratio of nearly 200 percent, no real plan to pay down this debt, interest rates near zero and close to zero economic growth for the past 20 years, would you buy buying the currency of this country?Thu, 13 Sep 2012 11:47:49 EDTWhen I was a kid growing up in Canada, the country was a basket case. Almost two decades of socialism from then Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau had turned the economy into a basket case (note to Americans: the combination of Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama is your Trudeau).Thu, 06 Sep 2012 07:13:54 EDTUntil the country starts to talk about real issues and not about Obama’s birth certificate or how much Romney pays in taxes, we will continue on the path to nowhere.Thu, 23 Aug 2012 14:24:00 EDTOver the past year, many markets around the world have seen a sort of “risk-off” trade. The strength in the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index has hidden the fact that many markets in the emerging world and in Europe have fallen 30 to 40 percent or more.Thu, 16 Aug 2012 10:45:31 EDTI think we are nearing a big bottom and a rally for gold. You see, nothing goes up in a straight line. In bull markets, there are corrections and consolidations and corrections. There is an old saying that Mr. Market always wants people to be wrong.Thu, 09 Aug 2012 09:27:59 EDTProbably the most symbolic end to the American Empire is the war in Afghanistan. No one really wins in Afghanistan. You can capture Kabul, but the rest of the terrain is so rocky and dangerous you just get picked off in the mountains. Thu, 02 Aug 2012 12:33:59 EDTI know there is a portion of the economic populace out there who thinks the government needs to spend its way and stimulate its way out of this recession (see Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics Sciences-winning economist Paul Krugman). Thu, 26 Jul 2012 12:27:49 EDT“Grexit” is the name given to the term of Greece leaving the eurozone. It is something that I began to believe in a long time ago. However, it seems that the mainstream press did not catch on to it until just recently. Thu, 19 Jul 2012 09:37:42 EDTBrazil, Russia, India and China are seeing slowdowns. However, they have started to cut rates and are beginning to pump liquidity into their economies. Thu, 12 Jul 2012 13:49:19 EDTBecause people are worried about global slowdowns, money has flowed into the perceived safety of U.S. stocks and the U.S. dollar. Wed, 04 Jul 2012 17:08:01 EDTOn this July 4th I will bring you wishes of happiness and good will. However, I also bring a grave warning. The United States is on the verge of a massive debt crisis.