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This post provides an update on the outlook for government debt and includes a few very interesting long-term graphs. [...] More on this topic (What's this?) Bonds: The Most Important Asset Class (Expected Returns, 4/18/12) Emerging Market Bonds: Less Risk Than You Think (Investment U, 5/11/12) How to Play Low Natural Gas Prices With Bonds (Investment U, 4/17/12) 
The markets have created their own gold standard because of uncertainties regarding other asset classes, Marc Faber, author of “The Gloom, Boom and Doom Report”, told CNBC. [...] More on this topic (What's this?) Gold Price Forecast for the Remainder of 2012 (Investment U, 5/18/12) What’s Happening to Gold and Silver Prices? (Learn Mining News, 5/14/12) Everything You Need to Know About Gold Prices (Money Morning, 5/11/12)
A useful source for some guidance on the prospects of real estate is Robert Cambell’s Campbell Real Estate Timing Letter (via Dow Theory Letters) from which I have quoted in this post. [...] More on this topic (What's this?) Case-Shiller Index: Is This the Housing Market Bottom? (Money Morning, 4/25/12) E-Book Announcement and Some Thoughts on Real Estate (Expected Returns, 4/2/12) 11 Irrefutable Signs of a Real Estate Recovery (Wall Street Daily, 4/9/12)
“We remain cautiously optimistic with the trend up, internals strong, the Russell 2000, the NASDAQ and now the S&P 500 at new recovery highs. Skeptics remain the loudest people in the room and while their concerns may be valid we have learned that the market rewards the minority and confounds the majority,” said technical analyst Kevin Lane in this guest post. [...] More on this topic (What's this?) Economist Gary Shilling: S&P 500 will drop 43% this year? (Value Investing, 4/11/12) Sell in May and Go Away? No Way! (Wall Street Daily, 5/10/12) Stocks Have You Worried? Here's What You Do (Money Morning, 5/14/12)
“We’re going to have another recession, I guarantee you … By 2012 say, it’s time for another recession,” Jim Rogers, chairman of Rogers Holdings, told CNBC. “The next time it’s going to be worse because we’ve shot all of our bullets,” he added. [...]
Let’s not ignore the impact of high gas prices on economic growth. Been there, done that … [...] |
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