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Told Ya So: Gold Is STILL Not The Safety Trade

In the wake of the Dollar’s rally during the Dubai scare late last year, I did a fairly prescient Public Service Announcement here on TRB.  The gist of it was: Gold is no longer any kind of “Safe Haven”.  Those days ended when the 38th gold ETF came public and the 900th commercial for gold…

A Roundup of Reactions to the Jobs Number

This morning’s jobs report?  No es bueno.  It makes the November numbers we got in early December look even more manipulated in retrospect. Oil and stocks sold off in reaction, but gold actually staged a furious comeback off the early morning’s lows.  There’s a lot more to the report than the number itself.  Here are…

Know Your Market Bears – A Field Guide

(read the below in an exaggerated Australian accent, like that guy who took bubble baths with great white sharks and electric eels but for some strange reason died in a freak animal incident.) Krikey!  This landscape is litrelly filled with Market Bears!  But wait just a tick – there appear to be many different types…