Berkshire Hathaway collected some of the most self-deluded investors in the world in the annual pilgrimage to hear the sell-side stock pushers CEO/Chairman Warren Buffet and his benefactor, Berkshire Vice-Chairman Charlie Munger, speak. CNBC chos ...
Tag: Stocks
Blog Post - May 7th, 2012
All terms: Berkshire Hathaway, Commodities, Currency, Gold, Investing, Monetary Policy, Paul Krugman, Ron Paul, Stocks, U.S. Dollar, Warren Buffett
Blog Post - March 23rd, 2012
Make war on machines. And in particular the sterile machines of corporate death and the robots that guard them.
--Abbie Hoffman
Shh, they might hear you…
Well, we at WealthCycles actually like our machines quite a lot—they are after all ...
All terms: Money, Personal Finance, Stocks, Trade, trading, wealth management
Feature - March 21st, 2012
Japan’s central bank responded to a record trade deficit and shrinking GDP with a flood of new currency in February—a move that was a Valentine’s Day surprise for most analysts. But rather than improving, the trade deficit, inspired largely by high oil ...
All terms: Bank of Japan, currency inflation, Current Analysis, Deflation, economy, fiat currency, Stocks, trade imbalance
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 ...
Feature - October 12th, 2011
The Dow Jones Industrial Average was hovering around 11,400 as WealthCycles.com went to press today. By the time you read this article, who knows where it will be. Extreme volatility is the name of the game in the stock market of late, and investors who ...
All terms: banks, Bull Market, Current Analysis, Dot-Com Crash, Investing, real estate crash, Stocks, Wall Street, Wealth Cycles
Blog Post - September 28th, 2011
Since late July, stocks (as measured by the S&P 500) are down nearly 12%. But despite the fact that confidence has plummeted and the world become embroiled in economic turmoil, stocks are still overvalued, according to one very important metric.&nbs ...
All terms: Bull Market, Crash, Currency, Free Market, S&P 500, Stocks, Wealth Cycles
Blog Post - August 22nd, 2011
In the midst of Japan’s lost decades, one vocal U.S. Federal Reserve Governor argued that Japan’s central bank had not done enough—that they should be buying stocks, bonds, and real estate outright in order to not just prop those markets up—but to let i ...
All terms: Ben Bernanke, Currency, Debt, Federal Reserve, quantitative easing, stock market, Stocks
Blog Post - June 21st, 2011
An old myth once told us that goldfish have no memory—which is why they could happily swim around the same bowl for years on end. Scientists have since proven that goldfish have some memory, or, at least, some sense of conditioning. Some human beings, h ...
All terms: Bubble, Dot-Com Crash, Personal Finance, Stocks, Trade
Blog Post - February 18th, 2011
We at WealthCycles.com have used search trends as a proxy for unemployment numbers and deflation numbers before. Back in July, we used Google’s Unemployment Index to better understand the employment picture—which had been fiddled with to reduce ...
All terms: Gold, Google, Stocks, US Economy, Wilshire 5000
Blog Post - December 22nd, 2010
In order to know where you’re going, it’s important to know where you’ve been. A year-end assessment can help map your future investments.
The end of the year usually marks that time that you look back at and see how your investments have done in th ...
All terms: Commodities, Currency, Free Market, Gold, Personal Finance, S&P 500, Stocks, US Economy