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Daily Pfennig 1/6/09: The Italian Job...
The dollar continues to rally... Obama bounce picks up steam... ECB and BOE meet this week... Brazilian reals on a roll! and much more, including today's currency prices, in this edition of the Daily Pfennig - Your Eye on World Currencies!
01/06/2009
The Daily Resource 1/6/09:
Gold stumbles out of the block in 2009. Silver also retreats, but platinum steady. Dollar whacks the euro. Prospective Obama stimulus plan cited. Crude pushes higher again. Middle East violence driving prices. Base metals stagnant. Copper, aluminum inventories soaring. All this and more in The Daily Resource 01/06/2009
Spanish Coastal Property - "The Russians are Not Coming. The Russians are Not Coming!" 12/30/08
If you’ve made your way over to Europe in the last few years, you may recall being inundated with flyers, billboard messages and seminar advertisements for Spanish property, particularly if you were in the UK... 12/30/2008
Making Preparations and Taking Action in Today’s Deflationary Environment
The ultimate effect of deflation is to reduce the supply of money and credit. Your goal is to make sure that it doesn’t reduce the supply of your money and credit. The ultimate effect of depression is financial ruin. Your goal is to make sure that it doesn’t ruin you. 12/29/2008
Crappy New Year 12/29/08
Bud Conrad of Casey Research is quoted in an Entreprenuer Magazine article on how to survive '09 by reducing expenses and watching cash flow. 12/29/2008
The eBay Index - The one place that shows you how much gold is really worth 12/23/08
Anyone who has watched the price of gold lately must have felt that something was off. While public demand for bullion coins went through the roof and major bullion dealers ran out of coins to sell, the spot gold price was flat, teetering between the upper 700- and lower 800-dollar range. 12/23/2008
Revisit of the tight-bound relationship between gold and oil 12/19/08
While gold investors faired well as gold went from $250/oz in 2001 to $1,000/oz in early 2008, oil investors reaped stupendous profits as oil price topped $145/barrel in July 2008, up from $22/barrel in 2002. 12/19/2008
Battle of the Flations 12/18/08
One of the most hotly debated topics among financial talking heads these days is, “Deflation or inflation, what is it going to be?” 12/18/2008
Fed Fights to Weaken Dollar 12/17/08
Faced with the threat of deflation, the Federal Reserve (Fed) may be trying to drive the dollar lower to spur inflation. As policy makers don't want home prices to deteriorate further, an alternative is to inflate the prices of all other goods and services: as a result, the relative prices of homes would be less expensive.... 12/17/2008
Technically Precious with Merv - 12/12/08
A nice weekly move by the metals but boy did the stocks move. Most gold Indices were making gains in the 20% area while the Merv’s Spec-Gold Index gained 32.1%. We should not expect gains like this to come along very often but enjoy them when they do. 12/12/2008
The Credit Crunch, Close Up and Personal 12/12/08
Within the last year, the true extent of the real estate debacle and ensuing credit crisis in the United States has become blatantly obvious. But now there is a new phenomenon rearing its ugly head: a credit crisis of the individual that is hitting a large number of Americans straight in the pocketbook. 12/12/2008
Congress Votes for Misemployment 12/11/08
Today, Congress signaled its intention to use $15 billion in public money to bail out the "Big Three" automakers with a so-called "bridging" loan. You would think that after becoming a major issue during the presidential campaign, politicians would have become wary of "bridges to nowhere." 12/11/2008
The Real Cost of the 2008 Recession 12/9/08
It took the statisticians of the National Bureau of Economic Research almost a year to confirm what the rest of us already knew, that the US registered a significant decline in economic activity, thus officially entering a period of recession. 12/09/2008
Should the Big Three Be Allowed to Fail? 12/5/08
The fact that after over 30 years of consistent mismanagement and decline, there is still any discussion on whether or not we should allow the now significantly smaller “Big Three” automakers to fail is clear evidence that Washington has lost all common sense. 12/05/2008
Gold Buyers Smash Records 12/3/08
The spot price of gold has fallen more than 20% from its all-time high, reached in March of 2008. But if you think that means demand has declined, think again. 12/03/2008
How John Lee Would Clean Up the Financial Mess and Put $800 billion to Work (Part 1) 11/26/08
The Fed and US Treasury announced today a further plan to buy up to $800 billion of mortgage backed securities. This is in addition to the $700 billion financial bail-out package announced in September. In just past 3 months, over $1.5 trillion has been committed to help home owners and solve financial crisis. 11/26/2008
Lost Principles 11/26/08
As the economic crisis continues to unfold, recently a sense of uncertainty has begun to pervade the market. Even dyed-in-the-wool risk takers admit that they don’t know what to think anymore. Inflation, deflation, recession or depression – there are so many vagaries that it appears to be anyone’s guess what will happen next. 11/26/2008
Commercial Real Estate - the Next Shoe to Drop 11/24/08
The residential real estate sector is in shambles and, some economists say, will not recover until the end of 2010, at the earliest. Now it looks like commercial real estate may be the next block to fall in our “Jenga economy.” 11/24/2008
The Times, They Are A-Changin' 11/21/08
President-elect Barack Obama is faced with the daunting challenge of fulfilling his campaign promises – promises he actually made, along with those that voters think he made. Unfortunately, the latter category predominates. The new president didn’t actually say much on the campaign trail, but he said it well. 11/21/2008
Gold in the Low $600s? 11/18/08
Of late, I have read a number of analysts, Jim Rogers even, who have expressed the view that gold could dip to the mid- to low $600 level. Could happen, but I think not. Already, buyers of physical gold are finding anything near $700 to be cheap and so are helping to build a floor under the monetary metal. On that topic, a friend sent this item along last week… 11/18/2008
What's Up, Doc? 11/10/08
Under Bernanke’s direction, the Federal Reserve has completely rewritten its mission. Many articles in the International Speculator and The Casey Report have reported the strange growth in the loans they have made and explained that Bernanke has, for a long time, espoused unconventional actions to avert deflation and to expand the economy. So the charts below tell that story, and it is truly amazing. 11/10/2008
The Trial of Gold 10/28/08
Calling the court to order, the bailiff announced that all should rise for the judge. Shortly thereafter, Judge Market entered from stage left, a stern look in his eye. Approaching the dais, he arranged his robes around him and took his seat before gaveling the court to session. The trial of Gold had begun... 10/28/2008
Frank Holmes: "When Inflation Erupts, Gold Will Take Off" 10/22/08
In this exclusive interview with The Gold Report, he predicts gold will go to $1,000, even $2,000, over the next two years. A growing money supply due to a change in government policies will help lift some juniors out of their misery, too. Holmes advises selective nibbling until conditions improve and names a few companies to consider. 10/22/2008
U.S in Crisis Mode-- What's Next? 10/17/08
In the last few weeks, it has become clear that the current financial meltdown is not our usual, run-of-the-mill crisis. It’s supersized, inexorably linked to the rest of the world, ruled by chaos, and precariously perched atop a mountain of debt. ”What makes this crisis different from some of the earlier ones,” says IMF Historian James Boughton, “is that the interlinkages among financial institutions are much greater now than they used to be.” 10/17/2008
Back from the Future 9/30/08: Gold in January 2012
What’s more valuable than one ounce of gold? How about the news release I brought back with me from the future that reveals the price of gold then? It’s with nothing but unabashed excitement that I republish an article that I saw cross the AP wires on January 21, 2012... 09/30/2008
The Commercial Paper Market Frozen 9/19/08
The commercial paper market broke down Thursday. It is a measure of just how much confidence has been lost in this traditional market for short-term loans to the largest and most secure companies. There are no buyers as rates jumped. 09/19/2008
The AIG Bailout: What's Next? 9/18/08
Wondering where it’s all going to end? Or who’s going to be left standing once the dust settles from this latest round of financial collapses? So is Olivier Garret, CEO of Casey Research, publisher of the investor newsletters The Casey Report, and BIG GOLD. 09/18/2008
The Biggest Bailout of All Time 9/10/08
The failure and subsequent government bailout of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac has been no surprise to the Casey Research team. But where do we go from here – will the bold action of the federal government save the housing market and revive the economy 09/10/2008