Thursday 9 April 2009


Market Observation

April 8th, 2009

Possible vs. Probable: 
"So you're telling me there's a chance!"

by Chris Puplava

In last week’s article, “Fixed on the VIX,” I highlighted how important the VIX is as a valuable technical as well as fundamental indicator as it shows a strong correlation to many other indicators (ISM reports, employment, S&P 500, bond spreads, etc…). For this reason the resolution of the VIX to break either its declining trend line or lower trend line would be sending investors a strong signal. Currently the VIX is testing support at its lower trend line and we should have resolution of a breakdown or breakout soon as the two trend lines are converging. Full article

Reality Check

New episode: April 7th, 2009
Matt Simmons details how pricing chaos, unwavering demand, and a rusty infrastructure heap trouble onto the likelihood of peak oil supply. 

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Financial Sense Newshour
FSN Broadcast for Saturday, April 4      Posted on Saturday, but available all week long. Podcast

1st Hour with
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Carl Swenlin 
Technical

Michael Panzner
Economy

Joseph Dancy
Energy

Nick Barisheff
Metals

2nd Hour 
Guest Expert


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3rd Hour with 
Jim & John


Part 1
- The Business Cycle: 
Where are We?
- Data Mining for a Recovery

Part 2
- Until Debt Do Us Part
- The Inflation Trifecta - OBG
- FSO - Risk Model
- It Ain't Just Oil

Special Note ~ We are sad to say that Bob Gordon passed away in March. He was a delightful and insightful man. I enjoyed working with him on his editorials for over 4 years. Mary Puplava, Retired FSO Webmaster

Financial Sense Editorials

04/08 Agri-Food Thoughts by Ned Schmidt
04/08 Goldfinger Brown Rides Again by Editors of BIG GOLD
04/07 Consensus And All That Rot by Hugo Salinas Price
04/07 John Lee's Quarterly Summary On Gold And Various Markets by John Lee
04/07 Wasting a Good Crisis: Result - $200 Oil by James Quinn
04/07 Poor Greed by Brady Willett
04/06 Rebound? Or... Just Bouncing? by Paul Nolte
04/06 Have We Taken Safety Too Far? by Paul Petillo
04/06 Th*nk*ng (The Elections) by Fred Cederholm
04/03 Why retail investors are starving themselves to death by Clif Droke
04/03 Widening Deficits by Oliver Garret
04/03 Dollar Devaluation is Inevitable... Just like in 1934 by I. M. Vronsky
04/03 Rally Continues by Carl Swenlin
04/03 Interview with Silberinfo by David Morgan
04/03 When Fortune Turns Against Us by J. R. Nyquist
04/03 Has the G-20 saved the Financial World? Is the Gold Bull Market over? by Julian Phillips
04/01 How Long Will We Have to Wait? by Editors of BIG GOLD

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Financial Sense University Editorials

04/08 The Suitcase Farmer by Paul Lamont
04/08 What Really Happened in London by John Browne
04/08 Gold Sales – Scams and Big Money by Neil Charnock
04/07 Two Currencies Sure To Rise In Value by Dudley Baker
04/07 Copper; A Long Term Opportunity in the making by Sol Palha
04/07 Money Narcosis by Richard K. Brawn 
04/06 Stocks Stealth Bull Market Closes above Dow 8,000... by Nadeem Walayat
04/06 In Order Of Magnitude by Captain Hook
04/06 Gold & Silver: Market Wrap Week Ending April 3 by Doug Gnazzo
04/06 America’s Financial Oligarchy Is Still in Control by W. Lorimer Wilson
04/06 The Energy Sector & Most Powerful Indicator by Chris Vermeulen
04/06 The stock-market-playground for the week ahead by Stephen Tetreault
04/06 XAU Pendulum Trend & Cycle by Trader Garrett
04/06 How Mark-to-Market Helped Slow the Economy by Frank Holmes
04/06 Entering Existing Trends by Hawkeye Trader
04/06 The New REAL Currency by David Vaughn
04/03 Unemployment rate officially at 8.5% by Tony Cherniawski
04/03 Dollar and Gold by Michael Fulp 
04/03 Rally Built On Sand? FASB Can Help! by Chris Ciovacco
04/03 Coping With the Ongoing Investor by Deepcaster
04/03 Record Declines in Global Net Worth Tank Economy by Joseph Dancy
04/03 Instability & Depletion Add Uncertainty to Energy Sector by Joseph Dancy
04/03 Mark-to-Market Isn’t the Problem by Mike Stathis
04/03 S&P 500 Stock Market Trends – April 2009 by Hans Wagner
04/03 Stock market Choke Points for 2009 Part 3A by Timing Strategies
04/03 Humpty - Dumpty Fiat Sat on the Wall… You Know the Rest! by Rob Kirby
04/03 Will the Big Rally Continue? by Sy Harding
04/03 Dangerous Myths by Jennifer Barry
04/03 Defending Capitalism from Old Europe's G20 Guillotine by Nadeem Walayat
04/03 Commitments and Confusion by Andy Sutton
04/03 The Shell Game by John Needham
04/03 Let's Play Pretend! by Peter Schiff
04/02 G20: US$ Funeral, US Failed Debtor by Jim Willie
04/02 Gold and silver. “To buy or not to buy” – that is the question by Peter Degraaf
04/02 Speculators Return to Commodities, Aussie & Canadian dollar by Gary Dorsch
04/01 When Gold Ruled the Earth, Part I by Adrian Ash
04/01 Decoupling Set to Increase by John Browne
04/01 Actually, We’re not Saving Yet by Michael Pento
04/01 7 Things to do Right NOW to Protect your Prosperity by Paul Mladjenovic
04/01 A Look at Gold Sentiment by Trendsman