Fleckenstein archives 09/27/2013 Final countdown on markets' third bubble 09/11/2013 Is the end of an error coming soon? 08/25/2013 Fed problems: What's past is prologue 08/18/2013 Valuing the invaluable 05/12/2013 The gold panic of 2013 04/24/2013 The gold panic of 2013 03/23/2013 Cyprus' problems must be country-specific 03/17/2013 Is gold ready to turn? 02/26/2013 Believing the Fed, doubting gold 02/05/2013 The great fake rally of 2013 01/28/2013 The Fed knows nothing: Who knew? 01/09/2013 The central bank money-printing party 01/04/2013 Brand-new year, same old saga 12/20/2012 Fed drops the pretense, buys bonds 12/10/2012 A real cliff of incompetence, excuses 11/18/2012 New face, old thinking for the Fed? 11/02/2012 The market runs too fast anyway 10/01/2012 Fight the Fed by owning gold 08/14/2012 The Fed's inflation 'solution' 07/16/2012 When bankers get nervous, watch out 07/09/2012 It's back to the waiting game 06/26/2012 A Fed fail and a euro 'fix' 06/05/2012 Europe's printing-press problem 05/21/2012 Gold's fortunes will soon reverse 04/02/2012 Visible on the horizon: Inflation 02/26/2012 Are mining stocks worth the wait? 02/13/2012 Ready for a bear market in bonds? 02/06/2012 All roads lead to inflation 01/14/2012 Ahead: Inflation and a gold rally 11/16/2011 Will it be 'arrivederci' for euro? 11/09/2011 Will Helicopter Ben save Europe? 11/03/2011 Is Rhode Island the new Greece? 10/22/2011 Crunchtime for the eurozone 10/14/2011 Has Europe saved itself? 10/07/2011 Market at a turning point 09/30/2011 Finding growth far off the grid 09/16/2011 Get ready for the next 'rescue' 09/09/2011 Fiscal insanity? Bank on it 09/02/2011 Popping the gold bubble theory 08/28/2011 Gold's fall: Slip or start of slide? 08/23/2011 [Aug 18] Europe’s banks could break us all 08/12/2011 Why market misery may benefit us 08/06/2011 There's gold in mining stocks yet 07/30/2011 Fiddling as the debt ceiling falls in 07/22/2011 Why Google, Apple can't lift market 07/15/2011 Broke? Not if you can print money 07/01/2011 Kick-the-can debt game is worldwide 06/30/2011 Mutual funds with return-free risks 06/21/2011 Recovery fails its midterm exams 06/11/2011 Economy stuck in waiting room 05/26/2011 Debt ceiling: Onward & upward 05/15/2011 Silver's wild ride: Just how it rolls 05/11/2011 Why streaking silver now seems shaky 04/15/2011 Don't belittle risks of short selling 04/13/2011 The nation's $75 trillion problem 03/24/2011 Will the yen fuel Japan's next crisis? 12/19/2010 Keep an eye on gold, bonds in 2011 11/23/2010 Fed's power of the press hits limit 11/09/2010 Bernanke's latest folly will cost us 10/15/2010 Not your grandfather's deflation 10/08/2010 Why you (probably) need more gold 10/03/2010 Is the US stumbling into a currency war? 09/17/2010 Cuba understands what US doesn't 09/10/2010 Waiting for the Fed's next blunder 09/03/2010 Inflation, stagflation and you 08/27/2010 The next bubble is in punditry 08/13/2010 A 'patently obvious' way to add jobs 07/21/2010 Chinese lesson: Better red than Fed 07/05/2010 The housing bubble hangover, part 2 06/07/2010 Market spinning but going nowhere 04/30/2010 Greece's debt woes test EU unity 04/10/2010 Inflation won't be invisible for long 04/05/2010 Inflation warning etched in steel 03/22/2010 What really broke the banks 03/18/2010 Still printing money at full speed 03/09/2010 Foreign versions of our coming crisis 02/10/2010 Confused? So are the markets 01/25/2010 Why bankers haven't earned bonuses 01/21/2010 In Banksters We Trust 01/16/2010 Why contrarian investors have an edge 01/11/2010 The gamblers & the clueless... 12/21/2009 The Men of the Broken Decade 11/24/2009 How much longer can gold rise? 11/16/2009 Arrogant Fed hasn't learned a thing 11/09/2009 India's big vote for a gold rally 10/29/2009 Obama team ignores Volcker at its peril 10/12/2009 Your dollars are just Monopoly money 09/28/2009 The case for inflation - and gold 09/24/2009 The trouble with techs right now 09/15/2009 A golden opportunity for investors? 09/01/2009 Why this rally might head into fall 08/25/2009 There's no will to fight inflation 08/17/2009 Social Security Crunch Coming Fast 08/10/2009 A pessimist's prediction: Hyperinflation 08/06/2009 Recession has ended, but pain hasn't 07/15/2009 Why creating jobs is so hard 07/10/2009 What's next: Inflation or deflation? 06/15/2009 Printing money isn't the cure 06/10/2009 Blame Reagan for our financial mess? 06/04/2009 The next crisis has already begun 05/25/2009 Why this downturn is different 05/19/2009 A trio of views to guide investors 05/11/2009 Where you'll see real recovery first 05/04/2009 Swine fluke or real market change? 04/27/2009 Thank Uncle Sam for the rally 04/21/2009 The Fed is now peddling inflation 04/16/2009 The pitfalls of short-selling 04/07/2009 A bear rally in bull's clothing? 03/23/2009 Got gold? You're right on the money 03/03/2009 Nationalization isn't the worst fear 01/15/2009 Massive forces cloud market outlook 11/03/2008 Economy sinks as we save bankers 10/30/2008 Leave stocks to Buffett (for now) 10/02/2008 [Sep 29] What's next, a ban on stock sales? 09/23/2008 Whatever we do, it will be wrong 09/15/2008 'Franron' bailout: Good plan, bad news 09/08/2008 Be on red alert for US market chaos 08/26/2008 Going for the gold? Be alert 08/20/2008 Now Greenspan doesn't like bailouts? 08/11/2008 Crybaby capitalists whine for more 07/08/2008 Global economy won't bail out the US 06/18/2008 Fed chief still doesn't get it 05/22/2008 In favor of bubble-free prosperity 05/07/2008 Why we can't cruise past a recession 04/25/2008 The market's worst is yet to come 04/03/2008 It's time to rein in the Fed 03/24/2008 Catering to the bailout nation 03/13/2008 Next shoe to drop: Prime mortgages 02/21/2008 It's too early to be bullish 02/05/2008 Did Greenspan push risky home loans? 01/15/2008 We've run out of bubbles 12/05/2007 The blood on Greenspan's hands 11/13/2007 Stage is set for a stock crash 11/05/2007 The Fed digs us a deeper hole 10/22/2007 A super-duper bad-loan bailout scam 09/24/2007 Bernanke: The anti-Robin Hood 09/17/2007 Banks' dark off-balance-sheet world 09/10/2007 Bush, Bernanke and a bad bailout 08/20/2007 Central banks are stealing from the average citizen 08/13/2007 Credit problems are too big for the feds to fix 07/16/2007 Housing troubles begin to snowball 07/02/2007 Finally, a voice of economic reason 06/18/2007 The market's game of musical chairs 06/04/2007 The damage of the dollar glut 05/21/2007 Ignoring the lessons of 1929 03/20/2007 Warning: This mess will only get worse 03/15/2007 Next: The real estate market freeze 02/19/2007 The housing ATM rot is just the beginning 02/13/2007 Dell's saga: When facts don't matter 01/30/2007 Tech investors still buying the hype 01/23/2007 Why the chip ship will sink 01/09/2007 Goldilocks vs. a few bears 12/07/2006 Speculation gets even loonier! 10/05/2006 Beware of the 'Bubbleonians' 09/26/2006 Voodoo debt & the coming recession 08/17/2006 The next big pension crunch 07/26/2006 Don't worry about the Fed getting tough 07/11/2006 Why the Fed is really done 07/05/2006 The economy's next time down has begun 06/29/2006 Bad data + weak Fed = Buy gold 05/17/2006 Lessons from Buffett on investing vs. speculating 03/08/2006 The numbers behind the lies 02/27/2006 If there's no inflation, why do we fight it? 01/16/2006 is going much higher... 11/01/2005 The trap Bernanke can't escape 10/04/2005 Empty houses, falling prices: A boom dies 08/17/2005 Japanese showdown might cost you big 07/27/2005 Will China's float sink the housing bubble? 06/14/2005 Straight talk on what the Fed has wrought 05/23/2005 ...won't be down for long 04/11/2005 Gold: The only currency that can't be printed 03/29/2005 Caught in the Fed's inflation trap 03/22/2005 GM's woes one more blow to housing bubble 03/08/2005 Housing mania will end in tears 03/01/2005 Dress rehearsal for a dollar deluge 01/11/2005 What Mr. Market can learn from Mother Nature 12/06/2004 Dollar's plunge is a blight, not a benefit 12/04/2004 Heads up for pension heartache 11/01/2004 Europe Embraces a Strong Euro: That's Bad News 10/26/2004 Insurance mess may ignite bigger problems 10/12/2004 The frantic search for a silver lining 09/16/2004 The 'recovery' is living on borrowed time 07/13/2004 Odds of a crash are higher than you think 07/06/2004 Stagflation, anyone? The slowdown has begun