Showing posts with label strong dollar. Show all posts
Showing posts with label strong dollar. Show all posts
Wednesday, October 8, 2025

Year to date spot gold is up ~54%

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By comparison, Total Stock Market Index VTSAX is up 14.83% ytd through yesterday. Total Bond Market Index VBTLX is up 6.4%. ... The [gold] r...
Friday, October 3, 2025

Oh yes, the poor, poor dollar, that old thing

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Dollar heads for worst week since July; yen underpinned by BOJ
Friday, September 19, 2025

I keep hearing that gold is soaring because of continued dollar weakness lol

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On the contrary, gold has risen despite continued dollar strength. The enormous gains for gold in 2024 and 2025 are not explained by a round...
Tuesday, August 6, 2019

On lowering the Federal Funds Rate when the economy is just fine

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Monday, January 5, 2015

John Tamny of Forbes spends four pages trying to convince us falling oil prices are always due to a rising dollar

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Here , in Forbes: "Falling crude prices ... were a function of a rising dollar that revealed itself in a major decline in the p...
Saturday, January 3, 2015

Dollar soars almost a percent to close at 91.15, highest close since December 2005

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Tuesday, December 30, 2014

IEA revises down 2015 oil demand growth by 20%, a third of British oilers in big trouble, mostly smaller

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Andrew Critchlow reported Dec. 12th  here : The International Energy Agency (IEA) said on Friday that world demand for oil will grow b...
Tuesday, December 23, 2014

The dollar is trading above 90 today

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The dollar is trading above 90 today, for the first time since early 2006.
Tuesday, November 4, 2014

Told ya: Exports decline 1.5% in September, imports at record levels, signaling GDP of 3.5% will be revised lower

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And to think just five days ago our masters of deception had no idea this was coming. As usual, this was unexpected. Reported here : ...
Friday, October 17, 2014

The dollar closed tonight at 85.19

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The 52-week high was 86.746 on October 3. The 52-week low was 78.906 on May 8, just five months ago. I don't find that big of a mo...
Friday, March 28, 2014

Larry Kudlow's Kudlow Report On CNBC Ended Tonight

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CNBC posted the farewells here  on the day ending the television show's 5-year run, which wraps up 25 years with the network so far. Kud...
Tuesday, October 22, 2013

Since 1967 The US Dollar Currency Index Average Is 97.76, But 120 Remains The Gold Standard Benchmark

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The US Dollar Currency Index benchmark is really 120 since that is the level which prevailed before the closing of the gold window in 1971, ...
Monday, October 7, 2013

Bloomberg's Wrong. Gold Is Actually Fairly Priced Today By 1980 Standards.

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Bloomberg says gold is worth half what it was in 1980, here : After taking inflation into account, gold is worth almost half of what it was ...
Monday, July 29, 2013

Home Prices Still Too High: Nationally 24% Pay More Than Half Their Income On Housing

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Case Shiller Home Price Index @multpl.com Joel Kotkin reflects on the still expensive housing market here : Ownership levels continue to dro...
Sunday, March 31, 2013

The US Dollar Has A Long Way To Go, But The Trend Has Been Up

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The US dollar is up for a number of reasons:  permanency in the tax code effective January 1, 2013; elevated spending by the federal governm...
Wednesday, July 18, 2012

The Purchasing Power of the Dollar Under Post-War Presidents Is A Catastrophe

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The purchasing power of the dollar under Truman fell 12 percent in four years (1949-1953). The purchasing power of the dollar under Eisenhow...
Friday, May 4, 2012

Unemployment Falls to 8.1 Percent, 115K New Jobs

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Consensus estimates had new jobs at 170K. Gee, they were off by only 55K this time. Obama has been president for 39 full months, all of them...
Tuesday, February 22, 2011

This is the Way Banks Go 'Round the QE Mulberry Bush

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James Hamilton for Fortune here  provides an excellent explanation and illustration of how the Federal Reserve "printed" money wit...
Monday, January 17, 2011

NY Times Paints Loughner and Hard Money Libertarianism as Right Wing Extreme

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The leftist ridicule offensive continues, designed to preoccupy the opposition and get the right fighting amongst themselves over who belong...
Thursday, November 5, 2009

"The Feds Have No Faith in Recovery"

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Penetrating analysis here from the chief economist at Delta Global Advisors. November 5, 2009 The Feds Have No Faith in Recovery By Michael...