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Entries for October, 2006

Moves Towards War With Iran

William R. Polk, a former member of the U.S. Policy Planning Council responsible for the Middle East, professor of history and director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Chicago, and later president of the Adlai Stevenson Institute of International Affairs, is writing a series of articles on the imminent U.S. […]

Neither Long or Short Gold

This is why I’m not long or short on gold or any gold stocks right now, and the action I’d be looking for to make a decision. The main action to watch is where the downtrend intersects the possible support at $575. If that breaks to the downside, gold is headed for the […]

Get Short On GOOG Again

Google is, well, everybody knows what GOOG is. In their primary business they have little effective competition; and in their other businesses, they have so many irons in the fire that I wonder how they keep track of them all. Perhaps they use Microsoft Project?
The shares had been on a tear since the […]

The Gulf Of Hormuz Incident

Passive-aggressive belligerent barroom drunks know how to start a fight in such a way that the other guy can be not-so-legitimately blamed for throwing the first punch. Politicians share this knowledge. A time-honored method for getting to that treasured “the other guy started it” point of foreign policy is through having a ship […]

Predictive Model Output - Oct 20, 2006

This is my weekly review of the regression-based Predictive Models, along with some comments on the charts, for the S&P 500 index, the 10 Year Treasury Yield, and the U.S. Dollar Index.
S&P 500 Index

It just occurred to me that some of y’all may not believe we are in a fairly tight three-and-a-half-year trend channel for […]