Jim Willie CB

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06/23/2010 SDR Strawman & Gold-Backed Euro
06/02/2010 PIGS-Less EURO at the Door
05/26/2010 Hidden Dollar Swap Hammer
05/12/2010 Shock Events & Gold Breakout
04/22/2010 The Devaluation of the US Dollar
04/06/2010 Two Signposts & Stealth Run
03/23/2010 The Tipping Point at Zero
03/10/2010 Distress Signals on Crisis Watch
02/23/2010 Over-Arching Sovereign Debt Crisis
02/17/2010 Complete Crisis Coordination
02/03/2010 Breakdown of the Gold Market
01/06/2010 2010: Giant Gathering Storm Clouds
12/30/2009 Fannie Debt Merger Monetization
12/23/2009 Zero Corner, Debt Costs & Isolation
12/15/2009 Full Circle of Govt Debt Default
12/02/2009 Gold Desafio: Global Struggle
11/24/2009 Gold & Mount St. Helens
11/18/2009 Zinc Dimes, Tungsten Gold & Lost Interest
11/06/2009 Ultimate Conditions For Recovery
10/29/2009 Golden Accumulation Opportunity
10/21/2009 Attack by Central Bank Lilliputians
10/15/2009 End of US$ Global Reserve Currency
10/08/2009 Death of Petro-Dollar, Told Ya So
10/01/2009 Systemic Failure Approaches
09/23/2009 New Deadly Dollar Carry Trade
09/17/2009 Barrick Gold Ripe for Bear Raid
09/10/2009 13 Reasons for Major Gold Breakout
09/03/2009 Gold: Separation Before Liftoff
08/27/2009 US Bank Enemies At The Gates
08/20/2009 Monetization of USTreasurys In Isolation
08/13/2009 Pressure (Countdown) Toward Breakdown
08/06/2009 Lost Control & Economic Mythology
07/29/2009 USGovt Yuan Bond Threat
07/23/2009 Abandoned USDollar & Paradigm Shift
07/16/2009 Imminent Erosion of USDollar Seawall
07/01/2009 Walls to Block US Deflation
06/18/2009 China Commodities Undercut US Dollar
06/11/2009 Bond Volatility & Interest Rate Swaps
06/02/2009 Quarterly $1 Trillion Monetization
05/28/2009 Hitmen Contracts to Bust Comex
05/21/2009 Loud Paradigm Shift Rumblings
05/15/2009 Trampled Green Shoots
05/07/2009 Silver Leads Gold as Dollar Teeters
04/30/2009 Gold Consolidation Nears End
04/23/2009 Chinese Diversification Strategy
04/16/2009 Banks Must Brace for New Losses
04/02/2009 G20: US$ Funeral, US Failed Debtor
03/26/2009 China: Partner, Adversary, Rebel
03/18/2009 Gold & Treasury Feeder System
03/05/2009 Gold & The Panic Phase
02/27/2009 Gold: Musings & Peptalk
02/19/2009 Putin: Post-US World Blueprint
02/13/2009 Diluted to Oblivion, Dead Banks
02/05/2009 Gold Disconnects from USDollar
01/29/2009 Deception in Quest of Remedy
01/20/2009 Lightning, Earthquakes & Hurricanes
01/07/2009 Ended Dollar Dead Bounce
01/02/2009 False Diagnosis of Deflation
12/26/2008 Year Stained by Insolvency
12/16/2008 Lawsuits, the Cadaver & Gold
12/04/2008 Zombie Banks & Gold Trigger
11/26/2008 Failed CB Franchise & Gold Explosion
11/19/2008 Reflation Challenge & Gold
11/12/2008 UST Bond Obelisk & Printing Press
10/30/2008 Upcoming Gold Default
10/23/2008 US Dollar Death Dance
10/16/2008 Wall Street Monsters & Meat (You)
10/09/2008 Bataan Death March Tickertape
10/02/2008 Breakdown Approaches Climax
09/24/2008 Corruption, Whispers & Receivership
09/18/2008 Panic, Consolidate, Game Over
09/11/2008 Calling US Bonds Home!
09/05/2008 Achilles Heel, Shock Wave, Transformation
08/28/2008 Broken Systems & Dysfunctional Mechanisms
08/14/2008 Q2 GDP: Gross Leveraged Lie
08/07/2008 Pathto 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 FavorableGold 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 NegativeCorrelations
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 DollarSeparation
02/01/2007 Ultra Slow Motion Gold Bull
01/25/2007 Gold Brushes Oil Off
01/18/2007 Housing Cracks Extend toBanks
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 PriceIndex
05/11/2006 Weapons of Mass Destruction
05/01/2006 Canadian Leverage WithoutMargin
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 & CrudeOil
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 CurveInversion
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 DoctoredStatistics
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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