August 5, 2006 – We at SmartKnowledgeU are constantly surprised by how little people understand the manipulation of monetary flow and inflation by the world’s central banks. Especially since such policies affect everyone that is invested in the global stock markets, real estate markets, currency markets and commodity markets. In late May, 2006, for weeks, [...]

August 3, 2006 For the most part, you must ignore short-term market fluctuations because in these volatile markets they make absolutely no sense. For example, stock markets have short rallies (sometimes just a one-day sharp rise) whenever people interpret the U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman’s comments as less hawkish though most of the time since short [...]

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