Posts Tagged ‘SLV’

• Oil Crush: Model Portfolio Update
  Gregor Macdonald, March 10th, 2010 at 5:37 pm, Comments: 0

  Fresh figures were released today from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, showing that the big states lost further ground in the battle of unemployment. California, Illinois, Florida, and North Carolina set new highs in their unemployment rates. Interestingly, these are four of the seven large states I identified in February as energy-deficit states. It’s not [...]

• Silver Flashing: Model Portfolio Update
  Gregor Macdonald, March 3rd, 2010 at 6:07 pm, Comments: 0

  The gold/silver ratio continues to come down from recent highs, when the 72.81 level was hit, and is currently sitting at 66.28. This most recent thrust off the Greece drama looks like it’s going to carry some. At least through the end of March. And, I think we should look for the ratio to fall [...]

• MacroTwits Hour: Sunday Night Show 28 February 2010
  Gregor Macdonald, March 1st, 2010 at 9:04 am, Comments: 0

  The full range of stocktwits.tv programming can now be taken through iTunes. See link at bottom of the StockTwits. TV front page. Regards, –Gregor

• Safe in the Empire: Gregor Weekly Macro Note
  Gregor Macdonald, February 6th, 2010 at 6:24 pm, Comments: 0

  All the current thinking is that the old thinking will enjoy one final day in the sun before the new thinking arrives, and replaces the current thinking. In other words, another bout of deflation before the inflation finally arrives. Or perhaps one last round of dollar strength, before gold heads above 2000 an ounce. Treasury [...]

• MBS Catch-22: Model Portfolio Update
  Gregor Macdonald, January 27th, 2010 at 11:13 pm, Comments: 0

  The FED confirmed its intention today to end its MBS purchase program, which saw the uptake of 1.25 trillion in mortgages over the past 9 months, since March of last year. I remain doubtful that the FED will be able to halt this program for long. After all, this operation served a double purpose. Not [...]

• First Responders: Gregor Weekly Macro Note
  Gregor Macdonald, January 23rd, 2010 at 11:47 pm, Comments: 0

  The largest nationalisation in the history of the United States occurred in the first week of September 2008, when the US took over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. At the time, I don’t recall President Bush, Treasury Secretary Paulson, or FED Chairman Bernanke referred to as socialists. Since President Obama took office his administration has [...]

• Big Macro Data: Gregor Weekly Macro Note
  Gregor Macdonald, January 9th, 2010 at 11:37 pm, Comments: 0

  The first week of the year was stuffed with some big macro data. This was fitting as we now have the bracket of the last 10 years through which to see a number of important trends in the US economic story. Essentially, we’ve been spinning our wheels since the Nasdaq cracked in the Spring of [...]

• Barging Into the New Year:Model Portfolio Update
  Gregor Macdonald, January 6th, 2010 at 11:55 pm, Comments: 0

  Gold, Silver, and the commodity currencies have now barged into the New Year. I am surprised these moved so early and fast, but I am also pleased as they form 60% of the model portfolio. As for gold, one wonders that remarks made over the weekend from Ben Bernanke were influential. Gold is up by [...]

• Gregor Weekly Macro Note: Sunday 03 January 2010
  Gregor Macdonald, January 3rd, 2010 at 11:20 pm, Comments: 0

  The GregorWeekly model portfolio was initiated the last week of August in 2009, with $100,000 USD notional. My stated goal at that time was to achieve positive absolute returns, while assigning a lesser role to individual equities. In addition, I neither wanted to trade too actively or waste time taking out a series of insurance [...]

• Gregor Weekly Macro Note: Saturday 19 December 2009
  Gregor Macdonald, December 19th, 2009 at 11:39 pm, Comments: 0

  Someday this war’s gonna end. For this week’s Campfire series on The Oil Drum, I have submitted a kind of post-peak, energy-transition, urban renewal plan and used Philadelphia as my tableau. Embedded in what is otherwise a rather thematic, big idea kind of essay are most of my views on energy transition, permanently higher oil [...]