Richard Russell Snippet

What’s the word, mockingbird?

Dow Theory Letters

Question — Russell, if you’re so damn smart, then how is it that most of the economists and analysts disagree with you? The fact is that most experts are now bullish on both the economy and the stock market.

Answer — I think Washington and the economists have brain-washed themselves. They are so blasted anxious to be optimistic, they are all listening to each other and all thinking alike. And when everybody is thinking alike, nobody is thinking.

Gold — I just talked to Leon, my old and trusted friend and coin dealer (858 459 2228). I asked Leon about Krugerands. “Can’t get ‘em,” he said, “Europe’s cleaned ‘em out — they’re buying all they can find.” But American Eagles are still for sale.

America’s greatest fear is deflation, as per the 1930s. Germany’s greatest fear is inflation, as per the 1920s.

Headline in the May 16 Financial Times — “GERMANS LEAD GOLD RUSH FRENZY. We have some extraordinary sales to German customers,” says Deborah Thomson, the Rand treasurer. “The refinery which usually sells 2,000 coins to each customer at a time, said that last week it received an order from a German bank for 30,000 coins. Another banks requested 15,000 coins.”

Late Notes — Another nasty and misleading day. Dow up, Trannies down. More “internal market” destruction. Breadth on the NYSE down. Down volume on the NYSE was 59% of up + down volume. My PTI was down 4 to 6112. MA was 6076, so my PTI is bullish by 36, lowest number in months.

As we used to say, “What’s the word, mocking bird?” The word, dear subscribers is “trouble ahead.”

Russell suggestion — Do your friends a favor. Tell them to “batten down the hatches” because there’s a HARD RAIN coming. Tell them to get out of debt and sell anything they can sell (and don’t need) in order to get liquid. Tell them that Richard Russell says that by the end of this year they won’t recognize the country. They’ll retort, “How the dickens does Russell know — who told him?” Tell them the stock market told him.

And as we say a fond good bye to Monday, we look forward.

Russell belief — behind every government or agency lies a secret crime against either the American people or the US Constitution.

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