Author Archives: Darren Marchal

Oil Dragging Down Gold Prices

Gold, the ultimate inflation hedge, isn’t much use to investors these days. Oil is in a bear-market freefall that began in June, spearheading the longest commodity slump in at least a generation. The collapse means that instead of the surge in consumer prices that gold buyers have been expecting for much of the past decade, the…

2015 – What Does Cycle Analysis Suggest?

“Predictions Are Difficult…Especially When They Are About The Future” – Niels Bohr We can’t predict the future – if it were possible fortune tellers would all win the lottery. They don’t, we can’t and we aren’t going to try to. However, we can analyze what has happened in the past, weed through the noise of the…

The Greater Abomination: Washington’s Lies About TARP’s “Success”...

The mainstream economics narrative is so far down the monetary rabbit hole that the blinding clarity of the chart below has no chance whatsoever of seeing the light of day. That’s because it dramatizes the real truth regarding all the Fed gibberish about “accommodation” and “stimulus”. Namely, that what lies beneath its “extraordinary measures”, such as ZIRP, QE, wealth effects and the rest of…

Could An Energy Bust Trigger QE4?

In a normal economic times falling energy costs would be considered unadulterated good news. The facts are simple. No one buys a barrel of oil to display above the mantle. No one derives happiness from a lump of coal. Energy is simply a means to do or get the things that we want. We use…

These Stocks Are No Dividend Lemons

Investing In Automotive Dealership Dividend Stocks A while back I wrote an article titled, “Drive Your Way Towards Dividends,” where I discussed how the average age of automobiles on the American road stands at 11.4 years. Driving our cars longer than ever before, I highlighted many of the dividend stock beneficiaries of this trend. Names…

WD-40 – Chart Of The Day

The Chart of the Day belongs to WD-40 (NASDAQ:WDFC). I found the stock by sorting the All Time High list for the stocks with the most frequent new highs in the last month then used the Flipchart feature to review the charts, Since the Trend Spotter signaled a buy on 10/20 the stock gained 12.76%. WD-40 Company sells a petroleum-based product,…