Archive for John Mauldin
As a recognized expert and leader on investment issues, Millennium Wave Investments president John Mauldin is primarily involved in private money management, financial services, and investments. John is a prolific author, writer and editor of the free popular Thoughts from the Frontline e-letter which goes to well over 1,000,000 readers weekly, and is posted on numerous independent websites. John is a Fort Worth, Texas businessman, and the father of seven children, ranging from ages 11 through 28, five of whom are adopted.
Whip Inflation Now
Whip Inflation Now…Where Can We Get Help on Inflation?…The Patient Died Anyway…Inflation in Asia and Europe…There Are No Good Solutions
When Bubbles Collide
I remember in the summer of 2006 I would face my blank computer screen on a Friday and wonder, what I could write about? The media was all Goldilocks, all the time. Today, there is such a target-rich environment.
The Change In Policy…The Divergence in European Spreads - Why Now?
So, without further ado, let’s jump into the problem with the Euro. Back in May 2007, we wrote a piece entitled “Part 2-So What Should We Worry About“.
The Euro at Par with the Dollar
About five years ago, I said that the euro, which was trading at about $.88 at the time would rise to $1.50 and then fall back to $1 over the course of a decade or more. It would be one huge round trip.
Swapping out Commodities
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission announced yesterday that they are looking very hard at possibly closing a regulatory loophole that allowed some extremely large commodity index funds to get around position limits.
Whither the Price of Oil?
Those Nasty Index Speculators. Is Correlation Causation? Where Are All the Tankers? Where Will Oil Prices Go? Is it 1980 All Over Again? The Middle East, California, and Help for Myanmar.
The Fed at the Crossroads
Is the economy poised for a recovery, as the stock market seems to expect? Or are we in for another few more quarters of recession and/or slow growth?
The Absolute Return Letter
What countries are truly the have and have nots of the world? Good friend and business partner Niels Jensen of Absolute Return Partners suggests we look at the old equation in a new way? Food and energy resources may be at least part of the definition in the future.
Why Investors Fail
The Financial Research Corporation released a study prior to the (2001-02) bear market which showed that the average mutual fund’s three-year return was 10.92%, while the average investor in those same periods gained only 8.7%.
Latest News
- Expect Global Inflaiton to Push Gold to $2,2002:25pm CDT
- Another ECB Rate Hike Will Kill the Dollar2:02pm CDT
- BRICs Crumbling Under Weight of Inflation10:51am CDT
- Food Producers Fail to Benefit from Spike in Market Prices10:23am CDT
- European Bank Stocks Rise on Improved Outlook9:34am CDT
- Crude Oil Prices Hit $146… Who’s to Blame?9:18am CDT
- UBS Shakes Up Board Ahead of ‘Likely’ IRS Probe11:41am CDT
- Iraq Seeks Foreign Investment to Rebuild Energy Sector10:37am CDT
- CIT Group Offloads Home Mortgage Business10:28am CDT
- The Decline and Fall of the American Empire9:16am CDT
- Gas Prices Remain High for Fourth of July Weekend7:49am CDT
- Crude Oil Prices Hit Another Record High Above $1401:26pm CDT
- Speculators Are to Blame for Sky-High Crude Oil Prices12:59pm CDT
- Gold Soars on Iran Attack Fears11:38am CDT
- Stimulus Checks Give One-Off Boost to Consumer Spending11:31am CDT
- Brazilian Industrial Output Slows11:14am CDT
- Qatar Sovereign Wealth Fund to Invest $8bn in Libya11:11am CDT
- June Slump Leads Dow Into Bear Market9:59am CDT
- Time to Jump In to GM Foods?8:19am CDT