All blogs posts by Wayne Lochore

Contrarian Thoughts: A slow market explosion
25 Aug, 4:53pm
The change in tone in global financial markets and websites in the past two weeks has been sudden and alarming and I must comment on the change. As...

Contrarian thoughts – Let's talk about some really big numbers
20 Aug, 12:03pm
As the world economic system strives to right itself from what has been called the Credit Crunch or the Great Recession, or any other euphemistic tag designed...

Contrarian thoughts – Unusual confusion
5 Aug, 11:14am
I saw a quote today that summed up the state of mainstream economics more clearly than even Ben Bernanke could have done. “The recession was un¬usually...

Contrarian thoughts – the Fed said what?
27 Jul, 10:31am
I never thought I'd see the day that the US Federal Reserve would admit that the US economy may not recover for five or six years. But they confessed exactly...

Let's eat more fish than sausages
12 Jul, 8:16pm
The last week has seen a large number of writers and economists address the austerity/stimulus dilemma I talked about last week - many are merely repeating...

Contrarian thoughts: Austerity or Stimulus?
1 Jul, 9:58pm
The entire world, regardless of its willingness, is being dragged into the above question. The G8 and G20 meetings in the past week talked about little...

Contrarian Thoughts: Dark pools
18 Jun, 10:20am
It is somewhat ironic that the announcement of New Zealand's entry to the world of trading 'dark pools' coincided to the very day with a speech given by...

Think Global - Markets moved massively in May
9 Jun, 12:56pm
I don't think I can recall a month since I started in the Equity game 41 years ago that contained such a myriad of happenings. Every day, and certainly...

Think Global – A few words from history
20 May, 10:49am
A blog posting today from Zero Hedge sent me to an essay called “The Truth about Tytler” by Loren Collins, (

Think Global – Moral Hazard Rules, OK?
14 May, 6:04pm
I have to give the ‘headline of the week’ prize to James Howard Kunstler for his extremely clever take on the European bailout – “And Chicks for...

Think Global... and sleep not!
10 May, 1:07pm
Every week seems to bring far more action than the week before – in fact last week it was every day brings far more action than the week before!  Thursday...

Think Global: The ‘end game’ shows up!
29 Apr, 12:59pm
As I have watched the contagion aspect of the European debt pickle develop it has become obvious that the Euro-bloc debt markets are effectively in a state...

Think Global: Let’s call it fraud then!
26 Apr, 12:50pm
The most outstanding aspect of the past two weeks is just how different the world looks from the previous two weeks – never in my 40 years involved with...

Think Global: Europe again
6 Apr, 5:16pm
Once again I’ll head to where I think the most trouble is brewing, and for a while this has to be Europe.  This is not to suggest events bubbling away...

Think Global: It's a wrap (Jan/Feb)
11 Mar, 3:51pm
Things are moving so fast in the markets and global economies that most writers...

Think Global: Europe and little white pills
2 Mar, 4:25pm
Firstly me – on the 9^th of February I received a call from the Endocrinology Department of Waikato Hospital asking how long it would take...

Think Global: China
25 Jan, 1:24pm
I have been doing lots of research for this blog on China because most people’s...

Think Global: Japan
12 Jan, 2:44pm
I see Japan as a self-volunteering economic litmus test – everything they did and got punished for during the last 20 years the rest of the world is...

Think Global: United States of America
5 Jan, 2:32pm
Thinking about the USA gives me a headache. Nevertheless we must put them first in any Global analysis – and it’s simply because they are so dominant,...

Think Global: Invest local
15 Dec, 1:48pm
This week we start a regular column by experienced trader and analyst, Wayne Lochore. Between Jan 2005 and June 2006 Wayne wrote a...

Think Global: United States of America
5 Jan, 11:30am
Thinking about the USA gives me a headache. Nevertheless we must put them first in any Global analysis – and it’s simply because they are so dominant,...