Bonds: How Will They Do in a Deflation?

Investors got burned twice over the past few years: first it was the drop in the stock market, then in commodities in 2008. So now they are piling into bonds. How will that turn out?

Why Your FDIC-Backed Bank Could Fail

The following analysis by Bob Prechter is excerpted from the free Club EWI report, Discover the Top 100 Safest U.S. Banks. With 130 bank failures expected by the end of this year, we hope you’ll find this information more valuable than ever.

Key To Trading Success: Ignore Nature's Laws?

The following is excerpted from Robert Prechter’s Independent Investor eBook. The 75-page eBook is a compilation of Prechter’s writings that challenge conventional financial market assumptions. You may download the eBook, free.

(Video) Prechter on Tech Ticker: Keep Your Job, Money Safe

Yahoo! Finance Tech Ticker's Aaron Task interviews Robert Prechter on Nov. 5. Prechter says, "The main thing is, don't lose the money you have saved -- your hard-earned money -- in the markets that are likely to go down."

(Video) Prechter on Tech Ticker: Stocks are 'Dangerous Place to Be'

Yahoo! Finance Tech Ticker's Aaron Task interviews Robert Prechter on Nov. 5. Prechter says today's market is akin to the market in 1966-74 or 1929-32, where massive bear rallies gave way to another "big leg down."

(Video) Prechter on CNBC: 2008 Was a 'Warm Up'

Anchor of CNBC's The Closing Bell, Maria Bartiromo, interviews Robert Prechter on Nov. 4 about the current state of the market, investor sentiment, Prechter's bestseller Conquer the Crash and more.

10.2% Unemployment Today on the Way to 33% Tomorrow

As bad as that unemployment level is now, the upcoming bear market and accompanying deflationary depression will make it worse, says Bob Prechter. Here's why.

New Edition of Bob Prechter's Conquer the Crash Now Available

The second edition of Robert Prechter's Conquer the Crash includes 188 new pages of real-time commentary on markets and the mounting prospects for deflation -- rather than inflation -- to become the true threat to the U.S. economy. It includes the entire original edition, word for word, which is as relevant as the day it first published.

The Best is Yet to Come…
If You’re Prepared!

Are you weary of sorting through all the “good news – bad news” dialogue? The financial media would have you believe that everything is coming up roses. 

15 Forecasts That Came True -- and More to Come
Conquer the Crash 2nd Edition Available for Pre-Order Now

How Do Bear-Market Moods Differ from Bull-Market Moods?

When Women's Wear Daily is showing frisky fashions, The Wall Street Journal is in a frisky mood, too. Find out how fashion, the financial markets and bear-market and bull-market moods are connected.

The Next Real Estate Shoe to Drop

The continued selling in commercial real estate today can be considered a technical “non-confirmation” of the recent buying in the residential market. When only one sector rallies, it’s a bad sign for the market as a whole.

What a Topping Market Feels Like

Here's a description of what a bull market in stocks feels like when it tops.

Recession -- or a Slowly Developing Depression with Rallies?
This employment chart tells no lies

Optimism about the U.S. economy is the new cool. So why do we still see a depression ahead?

How The Beatles Helped Bob Prechter Develop His Waves of Social Mood Theory

Bob Prechter was at Paul McCartney's free concert in Atlanta this month. What makes this concert particularly interesting is that it was the Beatles' music that first helped Prechter to make the connection between social mood and stock trends. Here's a Q&A that explains the connection.

The One Strategy Left to Debt-Holders

Unfortunately, no one knows exactly which IOUs are worth less or by how much. The Treasury and the Fed have been giving privileged holders of ruined debt stunning, unearned boons.

Do You Want To Master the "Art" of the Wave Principle?

Everybody usually finds the idea of the Wave Principle fascinating. People who aren't even in the market find it an interesting concept. But the people who should actually apply it are only the people who want to make the market a large part of their lives. Find out why.

How IRAs Can Tie Investors' Hands -- and What To Do About It

How can you protect what you've got in your retirement plan when your plan doesn't have any options for short-side investing?

Universal Health Care: Does It Signify a Market Top?

Now that health care reform is back on the front burner again, it's the right time to consider what Bob Prechter said universal health care means for the markets.

Har Har Har
Who’s got the last laugh, now?