Jim Willie CB
Hat Trick Letter
Editor, FSU Contributor
ARCHIVED ARTICLES
08/07/2008 Path to the Printing Press
07/31/2008 Bank Open Window For Deceit
07/24/2008 Gold Ambush Tactics & Potpourri
07/17/2008 Nationalization, Fiasco, USDollar, Gold
07/11/2008 Long-Term Bond Bull Paradox
06/27/2008 USFed Blinks: Propaganda & Bluffs
06/20/2008 Failed States: Mexico & California
06/13/2008 The Treasury Yield Curve & Gold
06/06/2008 Pressure Points in the Bank Bust
05/28/2008 Gold Benefits versus Mining Costs
05/23/2008 Inflation & Gold-Silver Breakout
05/15/2008 Correction in Gold Near End
05/07/2008 Opportunity on a Silver Platter
04/24/2008 Gold Drivers: Cheap Money, Rapid Inflation
04/16/2008 Liars, Wall Street & Your Gold
04/08/2008 Lessons from Japan
03/27/2008 Bottomless Financial Sector Bottom
03/20/2008 Cliff Notes
on Financial Maelstrom
03/13/2008 Separation & Liftoff: 3 Charts
03/07/2008 Dollar-Gold:
A Perfect Storm
02/29/2008 Recharged Gold & Silver Trend
02/20/2008 Gold &
Whirlwind of Crisis
02/13/2008 Gold Rising in all Currencies
01/31/2008 Backsliding
Currencies & Gold
01/24/2008 Gold &
Math on a Napkin
01/16/2008 Threat of
Sovereign Wealth Funds
01/10/2008 Unproductive Assets, Wasted Productivity
01/03/2008 Enter 2008:
The System Breaks
12/26/2007 Exit 2007:
Denials & Tontería
12/20/2007 US$ Monoline
Bond Insurers
12/12/2007 Gold &
Mortgage Failure Avalanche
12/06/2007 Gold &
Central Bank Shift
11/28/2007 US Fed
Behind the Curve
11/21/2007 Gold &
Currency Wars
11/15/2007 On Currency
& Cross Signals
11/08/2007 Deadly
Dollar Confluence
11/01/2007 Glaring
Goldman Omission
10/24/2007 Signals:
Next USFed Rate Cut
10/11/2007 Commodity
Bull Revived
10/03/2007 Dollar Faith
& Failed Trinity
09/26/2007 Lone Anomaly
Ignites Gold
09/20/2007 Monetary
Doves at the Point of a Gun
09/12/2007 Favorable
Gold Disconnect
09/06/2007 Gold & Subprime Dollar Backlash
08/29/2007 US/Mex: Failed System & Failed State
08/23/2007 Desperate Measures for the US Fed
08/09/2007 MBS Monetization and US Dollar
08/01/2007 Fed Funds & Other Signals
07/25/2007 Optimistic Negative Correlations
07/13/2007 Compound Damage Orgy (CDO)
07/06/2007 Garbage Bonds & Bonfires
06/29/2007 Absolute Bond Contagion
06/21/2007 Bond Convexity from Mortgages
06/14/2007 Bond Upheaval and Confusion
06/07/2007 Dollar and Gold and Four Sheets
05/23/2007 Don't Cry for the US Dollar
05/16/2007 False Housing: Gold Headwind
05/10/2007 The Bear, Dragon & Dollar
05/04/2007 Gold Breakout Delayed
04/26/2007 Death of Bretton Woods II
04/19/2007 PetroDollar & Iran & Iraq
04/12/2007 Hi Ho Euro
04/05/2007 Key Charts & Major Clues
03/29/2007 Cross Currents for USTBonds
03/22/2007 War, Energy, Banks, & US Dollar
03/14/2007 Bank Bust & Sea Change: 3 Views
03/08/2007 Gold Sniffs Rate Cut
03/01/2007 Shocks, Webs, Liquidity & US Dollar
02/22/2007 Summits, Trade War, Gold
02/20/2007 Gold & Silver Stealth
02/08/2007 Zero Degrees of Dollar Separation
02/01/2007 Ultra Slow Motion Gold Bull
01/25/2007 Gold Brushes Oil Off
01/18/2007 Housing Cracks Extend to Banks
01/11/2007 Gold Impetus & Risks
01/05/2007 Euro Key to US$ Decline
12/28/2006 Russian Energy Supermodels
12/19/2006 The Euro-Yen Crossfire
12/13/2006 Promoting Goldman on Govt Tab
12/07/2006 Buck & Housing Three Bears
12/02/2006 The Mike Tyson Economy
11/07/2006 Spent Dollar Momentum
10/25/2006 Coiled Springs and Dark Shadows
10/19/2006 Time: The Waiting Game
10/12/2006 Mega-Storm Signposts
10/05/2006 The Upcoming Mega-Storm
09/29/2006 Housing Out of the Box
09/15/2006 More Avenues Into Bonds
09/08/2006 Bond Market Has it Right
09/01/2006 The Tragedy of Busted Myths
08/24/2006 Anatomy of Jobs Fraud
08/16/2006 Topsy Turvy Gold Chart
08/10/2006 Knights of the State Round Table
07/26/2006 Quack Doctors In the House
07/13/2006 Flat Yield Curve & Reflation
07/06/2006 Different This Time Vs 1980
06/21/2006 Dilemmas & Redux
05/31/2006 Fibrillated Silver Bull Flag
05/23/2006 Backfire On Corrupted Price Index
05/11/2006 Weapons of Mass Destruction
05/01/2006 Canadian Leverage Without Margin
04/20/2006 Gold Bull With Numerous Legs
04/12/2006 Global Trade War Update
04/04/2006 Deadly Dollar Dominos
03/29/2006 The High Cost of Inflation
03/21/2006 A Walk Down Currency Lane
03/07/2006 Earth Geophysics & Crude Oil
03/02/2006 Mosques, Civil War, Oil & Gold
02/22/2006 Noland: Justifications & Questions
02/16/2006 Why USFed Hikes, Unspoken
02/01/2006 Negative Q4 Real GDP, Really
01/27/2006 Vancouver, Iran, Russia, Europe
01/19/2006 XAU/HUI: Response to Wallenwein
01/13/2006 Countdown to Energy War
01/06/2006 FOMC Starter Gun for 2006
12/30/2005 Forces in Yield Curve Inversion
12/22/2005 T/A: Euro Bullish Divergence
12/16/2005 Double Barrels Against US$
12/09/2005 Lost USDollar Pillars
12/01/2005 The Dollar Repatriation Conjob
11/22/2005 A Bundle of Gold Factors
11/14/2005 The Green Ben Bernanke
11/04/2005 Dollar Stalls With Higher Rates
10/20/2005 Bankers Versus USFED!!!
10/14/2005 Delphi, GM & Rogue Events
10/07/2005 Two Shoes & Rogue Event
09/29/2005 Petro-Canada & Its Stocks
09/22/2005 Gold in 3-Part Harmony
09/15/2005 Pendulum Swings to Gold Over Oil
09/09/2005 Why The Buck Just Don't Die
08/26/2005 Chinese Checkerboard of Effects
07/20/2005 Next Impetus for Gold
07/10/2005 Trust Fund & Step-Father
07/01/2005 Elliott Wave Gold Math
06/24/2005 Three Great Big Lies
06/03/2005 Financial Market Physics
05/26/2005 Risks from Doctored Statistics
05/18/2005 Quoted Pearls on Energy
04/06/2005 The Petro-Dollar & Protection Racket
02/09/2005 The Golden Race Car Struggles
02/03/2005 Inflation Pushes Down the CPI
01/20/2005 Effects of Chinese Acquisitions
01/12/2005 Queer Eye for the Bond Guy: Fanny Mae as the Bond Canary
01/05/2005 Oil to Prevail Over Gold
12/23/2004 US $ IV SKEWS TNX & SPX
12/01/2004 Karl Marx & Greenspan Over Coffee
05/19/2004 Hat Trick Letter Issue #2
04/06/2004 Hat Trick Letter Issue #1A Politics, Jobs & Trade War
01/30/2004 The Broken Cycle Part 3: Spinning Gears
01/20/2004 The Broken Cycle Part 2: Permanent Intervention
01/12/2004 The Broken Cycle Part 1: Paradigm Shift
11/21/2003 Inflation + Deflation = Chaos (not zero)
10/18/2003 Patriotism and Gold Wars
09/30/2003 Dragon at the Back Door
09/12/2003 A Week with Richebächer in Cannes
08/21/2003 A Statistician's Indictment of Economists
07/30/2003 Japan, Argentina, Weimar or Muddle?
Jim Willie CB is a statistical analyst with 23 years of experience in the industry. He holds a Ph.D. in Statistics with experience in marketing research, retail forecasting and manufacturing quality control. He has been writing about gold, currencies, bond markets and international economics for 18 months. He functions unencumbered by the limitations of economic credentials. Visit his website to find articles from topflight authors at www.GoldenJackass.com.
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