Chuck Butler
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Fed to Devalue Dollar by 33%?
The currencies began to get some wind in their sails yesterday midmorning, and soon an all-out rally was taking place. The currency rally was led by the euro (EUR),... Read »
Gold Temporarily Loses its Uncertainty Hedge
Good day! And a wonderful Wednesday to you! A very confusing day for yours truly yesterday. I have my beliefs, and they have been proven to be true for a long time... Read »
Home Prices Keep Falling
Good day… Should be an interesting week, as the ECOFIN people meet and Greece is still working on their debt and… this will be my first full week of work in... Read »
Do Investors Pay Attention to Ratings Agencies?
Both Germany and the IMF have cut their growth forecasts for this year. Germany for Germany, and the IMF for global growth… But both are cutting their forecasts... Read »
Rate Cut Week Next Week?
OK… It’s a Jobs Jamboree Friday… (Doesn’t it seem like we just did this?) The experts are looking for the economy to have created 125,000 jobs in November…... Read »
Chinese Exports Slow Down
Well… Those lofty figures from yesterday for the currencies and metals held for most of the day and night, until… China printed their latest export report, which... Read »
A Currency Selloff as Fitch Downgrades Italy
Good day… And a Marvelous Monday to you! Today, actually is a Bank Holiday! That’s right… We celebrate the guy who discovered the West Indies, or something... Read »
German Bundestag Votes to Expand EFSF
I read a story this morning, titled “World Recession Seen Triggered by Europe Breakdown in a Global Investor Poll”… Whoa there! The US never left their recession,... Read »
No Greek Default…Yet!
Well… The warning that I sounded last week regarding the perfect storm for a period of dollar strength, sure has come to fruition…or at least the beginning of... Read »
Greece Heads Toward Austerity?
It’s a semi-Risk Off Day today, so far that is… The Greek Confidence Vote went as thought… The budget that included austerity measures was passed, and also... Read »







