http://www.dollarcollapse.com/inp/ DollarCollapse.com - Articles DollarCollapse.Com - RSS en-us Tue, 08 Jul 2008 23:40:04 GMT http://www.dollarcollapse.com/inp/view.asp?ID=65 Sat, 12 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT In yet another sign that the end is near, Harper's Magazine, that venerable fount of left wing culture, has become a source of clear-eyed financial journalism. In February it ran a cover story by iTuilip's Eric Janszen explaining America's devolution ... http://www.dollarcollapse.com/inp/view.asp?ID=64 Tue, 26 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMT My new friend Shayne McGuire is director of global research at Texas' $115 billion Teacher Retirement System, which means he oversees a vast portfolio of high-grade bonds, Blue Chip stocks, and cash. Not the kind of environment that's usually hospita ... http://www.dollarcollapse.com/inp/view.asp?ID=63 Sun, 24 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMT Back in June of 2006 I posted some long excerpts from an internal report produced by Colorado & Santa Fe Real Estate, a Denver firm owned by an entrepreneur Marcel Arsenault. More about him here. After riding the long bull market in U.S. real estate ... http://www.dollarcollapse.com/inp/view.asp?ID=62 Fri, 21 Dec 2007 00:00:00 GMT During the past year the thoughts of some perceptive people appeared in this column. But just how perceptive is only apparent in retrospect. Some of these guys absolutely nailed it. So for the holidays I've decided to repost a few of the columns tha ... http://www.dollarcollapse.com/inp/view.asp?ID=61 Wed, 07 Nov 2007 00:00:00 GMT Here we go. Gold and silver are soaring, financial stocks are tanking, heads are rolling on Wall Street, and the Fed's creditability is melting like a popsicle on a hot summer sidewalk. http://www.dollarcollapse.com/inp/view.asp?ID=60 Thu, 27 Sep 2007 00:00:00 GMT Here's one for the 'don't try this at home,' file. Yesterday's post on how the dollar's decline makes China's red-hot stock market look like a classic short candidate—and my decision to buy puts on a China ETF—brought the following response from http://www.dollarcollapse.com/inp/view.asp?ID=59 Wed, 26 Sep 2007 00:00:00 GMT Yesterday I took part in a round table discussion with some seriously smart, articulate money managers, two of whom are putting their clients into foreign stocks. Well-run companies with nice dividends in fiscally-sound countries will outperform, the ... http://www.dollarcollapse.com/inp/view.asp?ID=58 Mon, 24 Sep 2007 00:00:00 GMT One of the most popular themes of the sound-money media is 'the crossroad,' that place where a country ends up when it borrows too much for two long and is forced to choose between two (and only two) very different paths. One leads to deflation, with ... http://www.dollarcollapse.com/inp/view.asp?ID=57 Sun, 19 Aug 2007 00:00:00 GMT Prudent Bear's Doug Noland has for years been pointing out that one of the drivers of the credit bubble has been the ever-broadening definition of money. As the global economy expanded without a hic-up, more and more instruments came to be used as a ... http://www.dollarcollapse.com/inp/view.asp?ID=56 Fri, 20 Jul 2007 00:00:00 GMT In our 2004 book, 'The Coming Collapse of the Dollar,' James Turk and I said this about the effect of a falling dollar on other countries: http://www.dollarcollapse.com/inp/view.asp?ID=55 Wed, 13 Jun 2007 00:00:00 GMT Most financial bubbles are pretty easy to spot: An asset class climbs way beyond what old-fashioned valuation measures used to define as reasonable, market participants start acting like idiots, and pundits rationalize the madness with learned 'new e ... http://www.dollarcollapse.com/inp/view.asp?ID=54 Sun, 10 Jun 2007 00:00:00 GMT A world run on two or three fiat currencies, issued and accepted by diktat...becomes only more likely every time that drug-lords in Moscow trade a kilo of crank. But as a store of wealth for the future, however, gold keeps winning out. Since the drea ... http://www.dollarcollapse.com/inp/view.asp?ID=53 Thu, 03 May 2007 00:00:00 GMT Everything is in bubble territory. Everything. From Indian antiquities to modern Chinese art; from land in Panama to Mayfair; from forestry, infrastructure and the junkiest bonds to mundane blue chips; it's bubble time! The bursting of this bubble w ... http://www.dollarcollapse.com/inp/view.asp?ID=52 Mon, 09 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMT The introduction of gold and silver ETFs has, so far, been a huge positive for the precious metals markets, opening the field to individuals and insitituions who wouldn't otherwise be buying bullion. It's safe to say that the vast majority of us (i ... http://www.dollarcollapse.com/inp/view.asp?ID=51 Tue, 03 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMT In short, the global boom in all asset prices has come thanks to one major bear market – the bear market in money. Government-led and central bank-sanctioned, it has now halved the value of US Dollars versus gold. It's pushed Sterling