The commodity metal copper is known in the financial world as “Dr. Copper,” because, historically, the copper spot price has predicted the health of the global economy, as it is an important input resource to a huge number of industrial processes.
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Tag: Economic Indicators
Blog Post - April 25th, 2012
All terms: Commodities, Copper, Currency, Demand, ECB, Economic Indicators, economy, Free Market, Industrial metal, quantitative easing, U.S. Dollar
Blog Post - February 16th, 2012
Fewer and fewer investors are participating in the stock market after $395 billion more dollars have left equity mutual funds than have gone in (below) since the summer of 2008 to the present (data source: ICI ).
NY stock exchange volume h ...
Blog Post - January 13th, 2012
Is the earth’s human population outstripping its resources? And exactly how many people is too many? Assuming the human population responds like other organisms in nature, the outlook is none too rosy.
A recent article on Mike “Mish” Shedlock ...
All terms: Commodities, cycles, Economic Indicators, Free Market, global economy, Government, Oil, Resources
Blog Post - December 29th, 2011
Buckle your seatbelts for an action-packed year. It’s almost like 2011 is leaving us like the cliff-hanger ending of an old comic strip—can Europe be saved? Can the euro survive? Will deflation engulf the world? Stay tuned for the next episode… ...
Blog Post - September 1st, 2011
“Four hundred years ago, Francis Bacon warned that our minds are wired to deceive us. ‘Beware the fallacies into which undisciplined thinkers most easily fall—they are the real distorting prisms of human nature.’ Chief among them: ‘Assuming more order ...
Feature - August 24th, 2011
It’s no secret that the U.S. population is aging. The cusp of the great wave of Baby Boomers already has reached retirement age, and successive generations have yet to match its size. What’s less understood is the impact an aging population will have on ...
Blog Post - May 20th, 2011
The most recent Consumer Price Index report shows overall inflation up just 0.4 % in April, a report that is good news for the U.S. Federal Reserve and very bad news for consumers and taxpayers.
Good news because the 0.4% figure is in line with the ...
Feature - May 18th, 2011
The faith of some investors is flagging, as silver prices plunged from a peak near $50 to a low of $33.10 on May 6, then spent the next two weeks bouncing around the $34 mark, dipping as low as $32.31 on May 12. The abrupt crash evoked “I-told-you-so’s” ...
Blog Post - May 6th, 2011
The latest economic indicators are a mixed bag, as usual. A couple hundred thousand more U.S. jobs were created last month, we are told, yet the unemployment rate nudged up slightly, from 8.8% to 9%--likely due to some formerly “discouraged workers,” wh ...
Blog Post - April 25th, 2011
As of late, many questions to WealthCycles.com research staff have revolved around the U.S. Federal Reserve’s “exit strategy” of draining the unprecedented amount of credit that has been pumped into the U.S. economy, and has wreaked havoc around the w ...