The US is at war with Iran. We’ve been making predictions for 2012 and beyond and will go about a somewhat random order depending on what seems the most relevant. We recently saw some comments that make the Iran topic seem like the next one to bring to your attention.
The war with Iran has already [...]
It has taken long for details of our Recession in Japan prediction to start to come in. Japan has been sucking fumes for over 2 decades now. Today, we’ll continue the series on economic predictions for 2012 and beyond…
In the 1970’s and 1980’s the growth story of the Japanese economy was unreal. People across the [...]
The European Debt Crises is front and center of all the world’s man y economic problems. On Wednesday, we discussed the potential directions their untenable situation could go. Today, we’ll take a wild guess at what exactly is going to happen. Keep in mind, this is a guess. And the guess we’re going to make [...]
The European Crises will come to a head in 2012. On Monday, we laid out the European Crises that will resolve itself one way or another this year. Today, we’ll look at some possibilities of what that resolution could look like and what the ramifications would be for each.
1) Complete Fiscal Union
This would kick [...]
Europe’s Nightmare comes to a head this year. We’ve been discussing forecasts for the year 2012 and beyond and today we’ll cover the European Sovereign Debt Crises. We’re writing this on a Friday to post on Monday. If we had put this up yesterday, you might have said, “What are you talking about, they fixed [...]
It’s a difficult call to say that the stock market will be lower at the end of 2012. There are some serious factors on the side of higher as well as lower values. On Wednesday, we explained some of the reasons why we think 2012 will be another extremely volatile year for the markets.
Today, we’ll [...]
Did you know that the US stock markets ended slightly up last year? It probably didn’t feel that way to you though. And we don’t mean to say that they were up a lot…they were simply barely up. But the way they ended gives a totally different picture of the ride to get there. We’re [...]
US Dollar Devaluation is at our doorstep. We’re in a series of posts expanding on the predictions we’ve recently made for the US Economy in the coming year and beyond.
One of our predictions was that holding USD cash would be a losing proposition in 2012 in real terms. On Friday, we shared with you in [...]
There seems to be clear evidence that this is Ben Bernanke’s fall back plan if his deflation fears gets strong enough. And oh by the way, his remarks last week implied his fears are quite high. He said that growth is still extremely sluggish and that there are no inflation fears (we don’t know where [...]
Today, we’re doing something we’ve never done before and probably won’t do again anytime soon. We’re reprinting the monthly newsletter (sign up here if you don’t receive it) on the same day it’s going out to subscribers. We usually don’t post them to the blog at all, or if we do post them it’s with [...]