Swen Lorenz

Who Really Benefits from Inflation and Why You’re Not Wealthier

Guest post from Investment Contrarians   The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis released an interesting report analyzing the underlying fundamentals of…

How do interest rates rise safely?

Since the collapse of the Bretton Woods agreement, and with it the gold standard, monetary policy has changed dramatically. Instead…

How the Fed Has the Economy Hooked on Its “Monetary Cocaine”

Guest post from Investment Contrarians   The debates continue on whether the Federal Reserve should or should not begin to take its…

Institutions Already Shifting Their Investments; Should Investors Follow Suit?

Guest post from Investment Contrarians   Recently, I’ve issued several warnings in these pages for investors who are heavily involved in fixed-income…

Marc Faber joins SBM with his long gold miners call…

At a time when US stock markets continue to trade at elevated levels as a consequence of “Helicopter” Ben Bernanke’s…

Zak Mir on Ben Hur And The Non Farms

As I have mentioned before, I knowingly allow myself to receive a lot of junk mail from the financial services…

Do Western Central Banks Have Any Gold Left?

The past few months have been difficult for the gold investor as selling pressure in the gold futures market has…

Are these so called guru’s right and the “big one” is coming straight at us?

They predicted it was going to happen long ago. Are we talking about Nostradamus or even anything remotely as cheesy…

Short term bounce in the markets looks just around the corner

UPDATE - WITH USDYEN PULLING MARKETS LOWER WE ARE IN ON THE LONG SIDE ON OUR NIKKEI POSITION BETWEEN 12,300…

Investors Beware: Underlying Weakness in Stock Market

Guest post - Investors Beware: Underlying Weakness in Stock Market ~ by George Leong, B.Comm.  The Dow Jones Industrial Average…