Thursday April 4 2013 The Bank of Japan will attempt to reflate its currency. Why is the BOJ doing this?  What does it mean to reflate the currency?  How does this relate to what other Central Banks are doing? Would this have anything to do with gold prices?

Tuesday April 2 2013 See http://www.themarketperspective.com    I have been perusing the WSJ, well well well, I suspect that, like our gold miner bullish percent getting into higher gear, things we have mentioned for months and years are about to accelerate.  Municipal Disasters on the Radar Screen on the editorial page A 12, Bondholders Beware,…

Weekend March 24 2013     Buying a gold miner is like buying an oilfield service company.  When oil is cheap no one wants service companies, they are wanting for work and letting employees go. When oil prices are up though it is a sellers market for them, they can name their price and so…

Tuesday March  19 2013 LULU pulls sheer pants from shelves, stock drops 6%. I have mentioned this yoga apparel retailer Lululemon many times in class. In a hilarious an dperhaps unintentional play on words LULU admits to be exposed to having too few suppliers. In class I have noted massive insider selling  among corporate insiders. …

Thursday March 7 2013 Commodity Fuds experienced sharp gains yesterday while some blue chips are looking toppy.  XME A 3.3% gain after weeks and weeks of downtrend is impressive. Funds who are short must eventually buy back positions. And money is beginning to shift from the blue chip favorites.  The polar opposite of XME GDXJ…

Monday March 3 2013 It looks like our prediction of stock market tops is gathering steam.  After a Sixty Minutes Report on the Chinese Real Estate Bubble, the Shanghai dropped 3.7% with the Property Index down 10%.   Stories of entire ghost cities, built to keep employment up while hoping for a recovery are apparently now front…

Wed Feb 27 2013 Children Are QuickTEACHER: Why are you late?STUDENT: Class started before I got here.____________________________________TEACHER: John, why are you doing your math multiplication on the floor?JOHN: You told me to do it without using tables.__________________________________________TEACHER: Glenn, how do you spell 'crocodile?' GLENN:K-R-O-K-O-D-I-A-L'TEACHER: No, that's wrongGLENN: Maybe it is wrong, but you asked me…

Weekend February 23 2013  Jeff Cooper's remarks about the combat mindset can be a good metaphor for a successful student  mind set. Read on to grasp the analogy.  Jeff Cooper wrote for Guns and Ammo and served in the Marines in WW II and Korea. He described what he called the Combat Mindset. I am including…

Monday Feb 18 2013 Readers DIgest used to be a staple of all waiting rooms. Millions of Americans subscribed. The magazine also offered condensed books, popular titles edited to shorter versions. But RD has taken Chap 11 for the second time since 2009.  It actually has a website Homepage Does anyone go there in this day of…

Monday January 28 2013 Space station Commander JUanita Williams gives a tour of the Orbital Laboratory.  She is ine a weightless environment, floating around, and interestingly wearing shorts and socks.  She has a nice head of hair, I wonder how you cut and capture long hair in outer space? It looks like the world's most expensive camp…