Michael Hartman Bio & Archive

Financial Sense Market Commentator

BIO

Michael Hartman has enjoyed the technical aspects of the markets for decades. In 2003, he put this love to work and became a registered representative with Puplava Securities, Inc. Since 2002, Mr. Hartman has been a market commentator for Financial Sense online.

OBSERVATIONS ARCHIVES

02/05/2007 Markets Are Quiet Ahead of Quarterly Refunding
01/22/2007 Big Debt Sales in Focus This Week
12/20/2006 Markets Ease Into Holiday Weekend
12/06/2006 We Want You to Succeed!
11/22/2006 Economic Reports and White House Say Economy Will Slow
11/17/2006 Housing Numbers, Inflation & Interest Rates, Options Expiration and Gold
11/08/2006 America Votes for Change -- Dollar Under Pressure
10/25/2006 Home Prices Lower, Energy Higher, and the Fed Speaks
10/11/2006 Financial Liquidity, Interest Rates & Commodity Prices
09/13/2006 Wall Street Spin Creates Opportunity
08/30/2006 "Inflation Not a Problem"...But it's NOT Going Away!
08/16/2006 Stocks and Bonds Both Higher on Weak Economic Data
08/02/2006 Central Banks Struggle to Manage Fiat Money
07/05/2006 Higher Interest Rates to Come!
06/21/2006 Gold & Silver, Managed Media
06/07/2006 Federal Reserve Maintains Grip on the Markets
05/24/2006 The Fed Can Make It Happen!
05/10/2006 Markets Wait for the Fed
04/26/2006 Booming Global Economy, Dollar Troubles and China
04/12/2006 Higher Interest Rates & Inflation
03/29/2006 The Politics of Financial Markets
03/01/2006 Markets Turn 180 Degrees From Yesterday
02/15/2006 Chairman Bernanke Maintains Continuity
02/01/2006 Actions Speak Louder Than Words
01/18/2006 THE TRUTH... a Rare Commodity These Days!
01/04/2006 U.S. Economy Weakens with Probable Dollar Problems Ahead
12/14/2005 Volatile Markets on Economic Reports and Year-End Positioning
11/30/2005 Markets Weaken Amidst Positive Economic News
11/17/2005 Lackluster Market on Weak Housing Numbers
11/02/2005 Treasury Auctions...AGAIN...Next Week!
10/19/2005 Relentless Rate Increases from the Fed
09/21/2005 Mr. Market Says Fed is Wrong!
09/14/2005 Markets Struggle for Direction
09/07/2005 Fed in a Corner on Interest Rates
08/31/2005 Damage Control on All Fronts
08/24/2005 Stocks Tumble, Record Oil Price, Gold in Lock-Down
07/20/2005 Fed Targets Long Rates and Real Estate...and China
07/06/2005 ISM Report Trumped by Energy Storms and Layoffs
06/29/2005 Money, Money, Money
06/01/2005 Interest Rates Move Lower on Weak Economic Data
05/25/2005 Signs of Blow-Off Top in Home Sales
05/18/2005 Battleground: Paper versus Things
05/11/2005 Media Spins "Risk Aversion" to Sell Treasuries
05/04/2005 Treasury Auctions in the Spotlight
04/27/2005 Market Chaos Abounds!
04/20/2005 Inflation Worries Spooked by Inflation Data
04/13/2005 The Stakes are Very High!!
04/06/2005 Tax Games; Global Economy Slowing
03/30/2005 "It Didn't Have to Be This Way"
03/24/2005 A Slowing Economy with Higher Costs
03/09/2005 Dollar, Stocks and Bonds...All Lower Today
02/23/2005 Dollar Damage Control in Force
02/09/2005 Federal Reserve Opens Door to "Slow" Measured Rate Increases
02/02/2005 Markets on Hold for Fed Announcement
01/26/2005 Political Economy and Financial Markets
01/19/2005 Check the "Big Money" Donors!
01/12/2005 Another Blow-Out Trade Deficit
01/05/2005 Flattening the Yield Curve
12/15/2004 U.S. Dollar Takes Another Tumble
12/06/2004 Should be a Difficult Week for Stocks
12/01/2004 Gold and Silver Remain Undervalued
11/24/2004 Lots of Economic Data, But Quiet Markets
11/17/2004 Currency Wars Loom Over 2005
11/10/2004 Global Currencies Out of Balance
11/04/2004 The Post-Election Bush Effect
10/20/2004 Why Wait for the Elections?
10/13/2004 Dow Industrials Crawl Back to 10,000
10/07/2004 Currency and Trade Wars Just Around the Corner
09/29/2004 G-7 Meets October 1st
09/22/2004 The Day After Greenspan - Stocks Move Lower
08/18/2004 Conflicts with Interest Rates and Energy Prices
08/11/2004 Technology Tumbles, Inflation Concerns Deepen
08/10/2004 Promises, Promises
08/04/2004 Another Afternoon Stock Rally
08/03/2004 NASDAQ Approaches Critical Support
07/28/2004 Rough Day on Wall Street... But Saved by the Bell!
07/21/2004 The Greenspan Effect Didn't Last Long
07/14/2004 U.S. Stocks, Treasuries, and the Dollar Down Today
07/07/2004 One Week Report Card for Federal Reserve Rate Increase
06/30/2004 Interest Rates Move Lower
06/23/2004 Looking for Direction
06/16/2004 Good News, but Stock Prices Frozen
06/09/2004 Over-Reaction to a Non-Event
06/02/2004 Actions Speak Louder Than Words
05/26/2004 Economy Showing Signs of Weakness
05/19/2004 Watch the Giant Head-Fake
05/13/2004 Interest Rates, Inflation, Debt and Dollar
05/05/2004 Debt, Jobs and Inflation
04/28/2004 Nowhere to Hide
04/21/2004 Darkest Before the Dawn
04/14/2004 Take a Few Steps Back
04/07/2004 Friday Job Number Made Bonds “Affordable”
03/31/2004 A Wild Ride
03/24/2004 Market Noise, But Not Much Movement
03/17/2004 Provocative, Ponderous...
03/10/2004 Proceed With Caution
03/03/2004 Are You Confused?
02/25/2004 Greenspan Testimony Gives Dollar a Bounce
02/04/2004 Double-Minded Markets
01/28/2004 Mr. Greenspan Speaks
01/21/2004 Stocks Regain Early Losses
01/14/2004 Rhetoric Versus Reality
01/07/2004 Forecast 2004
12/10/2003 Many Thanks to the BOJ
12/03/2003 The Jury is Still Out
11/26/2003 Economic Reports are Booming
11/19/2003 Corruption, Greed and Propaganda
11/10/2003 Markets Remain Quiet for Treasury Auctions
10/22/2003 Stocks and the Dollar Close Sharply Lower
10/08/2003 Freeze Frame - Nothing Moved Today
06/10/2003 Stock Prices "Engineered" Higher
05/02/2003 Falling Dollars Friendly to Gold & Silver
03/07/2003 Time to Launch the War Rally
01/17/2003 Home Prices, Income & Gold
12/06/2002 Consolidation

Contact Information

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