Category Archives: Economy-General

Economy – general: general economic and business cycles.

Lunar cycles and Golden Ratios: exposing the weird world of chartism

Posted on 2011/06/07 by

City Wire Wealth Watch United Kingdom by David Campbell on Jun 03, 2011 The constituent parts read like a discarded plot line from The Da Vinci Code: the ancient Greek mathematical principle of the Golden Ratio, elements of chaos theory … Continue reading →

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Kondratieff Cycles and Long Term Interest Rates

Posted on 2011/05/24 by

Kondratieff is perhaps the best known economic cycles researcher, having given his name to a cycle of around 54 years in prices and interest rates. The following graph, taken from “Cycles” magazine in August 1980, shows Kondratieff’s interest rate chart … Continue reading →

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Sentient Trader (Beyond Hurst)

Posted on 2011/05/19 by

This post describes one of the most exciting developments in the application of cycles that I have ever seen. Some of the readers of CRI Blog will be aware of the development of The Hurst Trader software by one of … Continue reading →

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Bull’s Eye Investing

Posted on 2011/05/16 by

Bull’s Eye Investing is a book by John Mauldin. When I found it in the local library I was impressed by the amount of useful information it provides. The byline “Targeting Real returns in a Smoke and Mirrors Market” is … Continue reading →

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Magnetic Polar Shifts Causing Massive Global Superstorms

Posted on 2011/02/11 by

Eclectic Thought Source: http://www.salem-news.com/articles/february042011/global-superstorms-ta.php Feb-04-2011 00:50 Terrence Aym Salem-News.com Superstorms can also cause certain societies, cultures or whole countries to collapse. Others may go to war with each other. Courtesy: Weather Snob (CHICAGO) – NASA has been warning about it…scientific papers … Continue reading →

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Rapid Climate Change

Posted on 2011/01/04 by

Climate Change New Dawn in Climatology January 3, 2011 by Mark Sircus Actually the deep snow above at Mammoth Mountain is nothing compared to the snow at one Vancouver Island ski resort, which was practically completely snowed-in. Mount Washington has … Continue reading →

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Dow Jones versus Gold – Long Waves

Posted on 2010/07/27 by

In the Long Wave Group Report of a couple of days ago, a comparison is made between stock prices and gold prices by plotting the ratio of the two over the last 125 years. The Long Wave Group have several … Continue reading →

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Is the Kondratiev wave still relevant?

Posted on 2010/07/24 by

This question is asked on Interactive investor yesterday at http://www.iii.co.uk/articles/articledisplay.jsp?article_id=10105568&special_id=10060887 where Peter temple states: Why should an obscure economist liquidated as part of Stalin’s purges in the 1930s be relevant to today’s generation of stockmarket investors? To get the answer … Continue reading →

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AORD cycle of 1884 days (62 months)

Posted on 2010/07/18 by

I received an email from Jeff Connell in Australia which I quote here with his permission: I don’t know whether this comes across as “teaching your grandmother how to suck eggs”, as you are the master, but as a thank … Continue reading →

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The Lambda Function

Posted on 2010/07/16 by

Several papers by Stephen J Taylor and Brian G Kingsma, “Non-stationarity in Sugar Prices” http://www.jstor.org/pss/3009471 and “An Analysis of the Variance and Distribution of Commodity Price Changes” deal with a method of pre-processing price data which is suitable for many … Continue reading →

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