By Bert Dohmen, Founder of the Dohmen Capital Research Group. Wall Street honchos and Washington leaders tell the public that no one could have predicted it. That apparently is the excuse for not having taken steps to prevent it. A number of people did predict it. Something you want on your bookshelf for many years. The charts told Bert ever.

Even a dead cat will bounce if it falls from a great height. Friday, February 3, 2012. Please do not take this post as a signal that we are starting up again. I just feel very strongly about it and want there to be a record. Sunday, July 31, 2011.

Gordon delivers indepth research which pulls from his Tipping Points logical, macro-economic trends and themes which are or will be effecting his readers. Here are keys to the steps Gordon takes, from beginning to end - identifying tipping points, then abstracting and synthesesizing themes into commentary.

Markets tend to return to the mean over time. Excesses in one direction will lead to an opposite excess in the other direction. There are no new eras - excesses are never permanent. Exponential rapidly rising or falling markets usually go further than you think, but they do not correct by going sideways. The public buys the most at the top and the least at the bottom. Fear and greed are stronger than long-term resolve.