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Euro - Anchor of Stability?
The world’s attention is on the fiscal malaise in Greece and Portugal. Just a few months ago, policy makers told banks to shore up their balance sheets with more sovereign debt. However, policy makers around the world have since raced to spend money in an attempt to reinvigorate their respective economies, leading to record deficits. Now everyone appears surprised that weaker countries are having difficulty financing their largesse. 02/09/2010
Daily Pfennig 2/9/10: Bias To Buy Dollars Remains In Place...
Good day... And a Terrific Tuesday to you! I'm Back! Boy, was that ever a great idea that our little Christine had a couple of weeks ago, when she heard my schedule... "you should take off that Monday"... Yes sirree Bob! That was the best idea I've heard in a month of Sundays! So... As you can see, or will see soon, I'm full of you know what and vinegar this morning... Let's get going on this Terrific Tuesday! 02/09/2010
World's Central Banks Meet in Secret in Australia
Gold didn't do much in Monday trading anywhere in the world. There was a peak in the price [around $1,075 spot] at 4:00 a.m. New York time, when the dollar was at one of its lows of the day... but it was basically all down hill from there, right into the New York close at 5:15 p.m. yesterday afternoon. The low of the day [$1,059.90 spot] occurred during New York trading at some point. 02/09/2010
Greenscapes - a true triple bottom line proposition
As we become a bit more environmentally conscious and start to recognize and acknowledge the negative effects on our environment caused by our overly consumptive, energy inefficient lifestyles and business practices, a number of businesses - based on an environmental sustainability model - have responded to our new found social responsibility. 02/08/2010
Technically Precious with Merv
Gold looks great if you turn the page upside down. Otherwise, one might just stay away for a while until the dust settles. The NYMEX close for gold was $1052.80 while only an hour or two later the Globex electronic trading showed gold at $1065. One might just wonder what goes on here. 02/08/2010
Daily Pfennig 2/8/10: Our pledge to you: high yields forever
Good day... Chuck spent an extra day in Florida, so he stayed home to recuperate today. I made it home Saturday night, and was a bit shocked by all of the ice and snow which covered my truck at the airport. I heard so much about the winter storm which rocked the east coast that I forgot to check the weather here at home. I am a bit behind this morning, as I stayed up a bit celebrating the Saints victory with friends. 02/08/2010
Vintage Wine Turns Sour for Financiers
The world of private equity financing doesn’t have high visibility, but it is big business behind the scenes. Unlike venture capital outfits – which provide startup money to very early-stage companies – those who play this game grab existing private companies, often through leveraged buyouts (LBOs). Each year’s investments are referred to as vintages, with some being more highly drinkable than others. 02/05/2010
Gold To Hit $1,350 By Late Spring - John Embry
As I mentioned in my closing comments yesterday, the two price rises in both gold and silver in the wee hours of Wednesday morning... one in the Hong Kong afternoon, and the other shortly after the London open... were quietly squashed. I didn't know it at the time, but the spike up in early London trading, turned out to be the high of the day... 02/04/2010
How to Talk to a Nincompoop
My Grandmother’s favorite word for politely describing the obtuse among us aptly characterizes a recent attack on gold. And that it comes from an investment magazine that commands front-of-the-rack prominence in waiting rooms across our great land is reassuring evidence we have a long way to go in this gold bull market. 02/02/2010
The China Controversy, Gold and the Stock Market
The news spotlight recently was stolen by Google, the Internet search engine giant. A statement issued by Google a couple of weeks ago was greeted by dismay on Wall Street as shares retreated in response to the company's announcement that it no longer supports China's censoring of searches that take place on the Google platform. China has defended its extensive censorship after Google threatened to withdraw from the country. 02/02/2010
What’s next for the Dollar?
The Federal Reserve’s Open Market Committee (FOMC) is sticking to its course for phasing out the additional purchases of Mortgage Backed Securities (MBS). Notably however, in its statement released January 27th, reference to an improving housing market was omitted after recent bad news about the sector. 02/02/2010
Technically Precious with Merv
For week ending 29 January 2010 : The week has seen no major moves in gold, either way. However, the price is sitting right on top of a support area and a move either way would be telling. We can have all sorts of fun with charts one view is a move to $1140 could project to $1600, a number very much in vogue. 02/01/2010
The Precarious State of Our Union
In this week's much anticipated State of the Union address, President Obama again demonstrated his poor understanding of the fundamental problems that confront our nation. By following the advice of the same people who helped guide our economy to the precipice of total collapse, Obama now threatens to push it over the edge. 02/01/2010
What’s a Company's Gold Worth?
At any given time, there's a single international spot price for an ounce of refined gold. Gold is priced in U.S. dollars: $1,076.50 per ounce as we go to press. But what about the gold an exploration or mining company has in the ground – how do we value that? 01/29/2010
Barrick Chairman Sees Upward Gold Trend Intact
There was no clear pattern in gold's price from the time that trading began in the Far East on Thursday morning... until shortly after Comex trading began in New York about 14 hours later. The gold price was in a $5 range either side of $1,090 spot. This erratic trading pattern lasted until gold recorded its high spike of the day around 9:10 a.m. in Comex trading... 01/29/2010
The Other Oil Play You Simply Can't Ignore
The biggest economic shift of our time is under way. Cheap and easy oil is gone for good. And given our addiction to low-cost oil, the results are about to put the squeeze on your pocket book. 01/27/2010
JPMorgan is 'Simply Outrageous'
As I pointed out in my closing comments yesterday, gold hit its high price of the day [around $1,102 spot] shortly after 10:00 a.m. in Hong Kong trading on Tuesday morning... the moment a dollar 'rally' developed. From there, it was it was a $10 slide in price... and at 8:00 a.m. [shortly before the Comex opened] the price really got stepped on. The absolute low price of the day came at 9:15 a.m. in New York... with the low tick reported at $1,084.30 spot. This is approximately the same time as the dollar rally came to an end as well. 01/27/2010
Tom MacNeill: Saskatchewan's Resources Enriching the World
As if the fairy godmother flicked her magic wand, once drab and droopy Saskatchewan has blossomed into the belle of the ball—and the healthiest economy in Canada. According to Tom MacNeill, undeniably one the province's most ardent fans, the transformed province will keep heads turning for the next century. 01/26/2010
Why I Hope Gold Falls to $1,000
As a self-professed gold bug, why would I possibly want my favorite investment to fall in value? Have the long hours finally caught up with me? 01/25/2010
Congress Sacks Samoan Economy
Like many football fans around the country, I recently tuned into a heavily promoted 60 Minutes segment on the uncanny ability of tiny American Samoa to produce a steady stream of NFL players. Although it was certainly interesting to learn how Pacific island warrior culture translated seamlessly into the disciplines of American football, and how the island's players adapted to the hard-scrabble terrain and poorly funded athletic fields, the most interesting aspect of the piece concerned economics rather than sports. 01/25/2010
Mickey Fulp on Precious Metals after the "Decade of the Aughts"
Itchy money made 2009 one of the best years on record for the junior resource sector, according to Mickey Fulp, the Mercenary Geologist. In sector terms, it won't be so easy to prosper in 2010, but nevertheless he's confident about the prospects ahead for specific companies that remain undervalued with respect to their peers. Further, he tells The Gold Report in this exclusive interview, by careful consideration of three key criteria—share structure, people and projects—investors have a strong chance of picking up equities that could double within 12 months. 01/25/2010
Dude, Is That Gold Bar for Real?
As the 10-year gold bull continues its stunning run, rumors of fakery seem to be cropping up as fast as new Eagles can be minted. Should you be worried? Do you need to run to the coin shop for a home test kit? 01/22/2010
Doug Casey: 'Stock Market Set to Crash'
Is th Stock Market really set to crash? Read what Doug Casey has to say about it... 01/20/2010
Technically Precious with Merv: For week ending 15 January 2010
For week ending 15 January 2010: Unexpected events often have a shock effect on the markets. The shock may last for some time or go away quickly. As far as the precious metals market is concerned, the recent earthquake should have only a minor effect. 01/20/2010
World Gold Council To Launch New Paper Gold in India
Monday's trading activity [Martin Luther King Day in the U.S.A.] is shown in the blue and red trace on the graph below. It was a very quiet trading day. But yesterday's action [red and green trace] was a completely different animal, as gold shot up quickly [on huge volume] in early trading in the Far East... but by shortly after 9:00 a.m. in Hong Kong... the buying either stopped, or the price was capped. 01/20/2010
Craig Stanley: Focus on Fundamental Drivers for Gold and Copper
Pinetree Capital Resource Analyst Craig Stanley sheds some light for The Gold Report on how real interest rates are driving gold's rise. Although the 10-year real rate is positive now, he says if it goes negative, and stays negative, "Look out. The gold price could really spike." In this exclusive Gold Report interview, he discusses some of the junior exploration and development companies in Pinetree's portfolio. 01/19/2010
Yen’s Kamikaze Flight Trajectory
Forget about the flight to the dollar at the peak of the financial crisis: the yen was the ultimate beneficiary. The endlessly quoted unwinding of the carry trade was a factor, but there may have been a more important force at play. As that force may now be under increased pressure, the yen may be in trouble. The force we are talking about is the free market. 01/19/2010
Cheap Oil is Gone, and That's Good News
Over the next year or two, you will likely find yourself paying a LOT more at the gas pump. Big changes are taking place in the oil industry. With increased global demand and declining supply, easy oil is not so easy anymore. 01/15/2010
What the Deflationists Are Missing
An interesting article by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard came my way the other day. It’s worth a read, if for no other reason than that he paints an appropriately dark picture of the current state of the U.S. economy. You can read it here. 01/13/2010
Japan Heads Down the Currency Debasement Highway
Both gold and silver blasted out of the chute the moment that Monday morning trading began on the Globex in the Far East. This buying spree ran into enormous selling almost immediately... 01/12/2010
The Utica – An Emerging Canadian Shale Gas Play
Shale gas is natural gas that has been generated and trapped within the natural pores and fractures of shale. This natural gas has been accumulating because of the breakdown of high levels of organic carbon or kerogen within the shale. The right temperature, pressure and a lot of time – over millions of years - is needed to produce gas. Shale plays can hold enormous amounts of gas and once production has been stabilized gas wells from shales tend to have low decline rates and long production lives. 01/11/2010
'Get Your Gold the Hell Outta Here!'
It seems that everyone these days wants gold. Real, physical gold coins that they can hold in their hands, or bars that they’re assured are resting safely in a well-guarded vault. HSBC’s New York vault, for example, buried deep below its 5th Avenue tower, where it has stored people’s gold since it inherited the facility from Republic Bank a decade ago. 01/08/2010
Gold Down... Gold Stocks Up???
The gold price rose about $10 during Far East trading on Tuesday... and was obviously headed higher... but it appeared that some entity stepped in and ended it at precisely 3:00 p.m. in Hong Kong at gold's high price of the day... around $1,128 spot. From there, and in fits and starts, the price 'fell' for the rest of the trading day, with the low [$1,114.10 spot] occurring around 2:00 p.m. Eastern time... just after Comex trading session ended. Gold finished down $3.70 on the day... closing at $1,117.20 spot. 01/06/2010
The Biggest Financial Deception of the Decade
Enron? Bear Stearns? Bernie Madoff? They’re all big stories about big losses and have hurt a lot of employees and investors. But none come close to getting my vote for the decade’s most dastardly deception... 01/06/2010
Annus Horribilis
Now that 2009 has passed into history, analysts have flooded the public with their opinions on how the events of the past year will impact the coming years. While most are optimistic, I feel that last year's developments have greatly exaggerated the imbalances in the U.S. economy. Although we may see a temporary respite from the turbulence, these mistakes will hinder our long-term viability. I fear that we have gone down a road that will destroy the value of the dollar and may even threaten the political stability of the United States. 01/05/2010
Brent Cook: Successful Exploration Investing
No drill results? No worries. Good geology, good management, a good cash position and a good stock price are good enough to coax renowned exploration analyst (and geologist) Brent Cook into buying junior prospect generators and explorers. He finds his sweet spot being near the top of the batting order. If he waits for drill results to confirm what he expects them to reveal, he may miss the best time to buy. With year-over-year returns on his Exploration Insights portfolio averaging 80%—and one superstar at 10 times that!—Brent's clearly hit a few homers with his strategy. But in this exclusive interview, he cautions Gold Report readers against believing everything you read and hear. He says, "It's really, really critical to evaluate what a company's telling you." 12/28/2009
Are We Missing Something?
Ben Bernanke is a dubious choice to be named “Person of the Year” by Time magazine. While Time’s Managing Editor Richard Stengel credits him with recognizing early and reacting appropriately to the ongoing financial crisis, in reality, he was wrong time and again with both his predictions and his remedies. Just remember these gems: 12/22/2009
#92 Electric Avenue
As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information. The Nuclear Age began on December 2, 1942 at the University of Chicago when Enrico Fermi created a chain reaction in a pile of uranium. Today, there are some 436 nuclear power reactors operating in 30 countries and nuclear energy provides approximately 15% of the world’s electricity. 12/21/2009
Porter Stansberry: Gold Is 'Nowhere Near the Top'
The U.S. dollar has reigned as the world's reserve currency for more than 30 years. That's a real anomaly in the history of paper money, according to Stansberry & Associates Investment Research founder Porter Stansberry, but the dollar's days on the throne are numbered. With a sea-change in the monetary system on the horizon—and drawing ever-nearer as more and more U.S. creditors turn toward hard assets and away from paper dollars—he tells The Gold Report in this exclusive interview that the world is approaching a return to "at least a de facto gold standard." Porter does not recommend bullion as "insurance" (because that suggests hope for the dollar when there is nothing to pin hope on) but rather as "the perfect natural money." 12/21/2009
The Eye of the Storm
At a recent Casey Research editors’ meeting, the team took on the question of whether the somewhat steady recovery since last February’s washout bottom in the broader markets had any of us thinking that the recession might be over. The gathering of minds included: Doug Casey, Managing Director David Galland, CEO Olivier Garret, Casey Chief Economist Bud Conrad, Senior Energy Analyst Marin Katusa (my counterpart on the energy side), myself heading the metals division, and several other editors. 12/18/2009
What Does Global Warming Have to Do with Energy Stocks?
Over the last couple of years, consideration of the effect of climate change has become increasingly important in analyzing a company or market trend — particularly in the energy sector. For example, our very bearish view on the thermal coal producers in North America is due exclusively to the high levels of carbon dioxide that coal-fired power plants generate, and the widely held belief that these emissions contribute to global warming. 12/16/2009
What Likely Lurks Around the Corner
In the short term, a catastrophic deflation is quite possible. But in the long term, extremely high levels of inflation are now inevitable. The situation is very serious. Gold is the best hedge against both of these things. The better part of your financial assets should be in gold, augmented by well-thought-out speculations. Doug Casey, November, 2009. 12/15/2009
Mission Not Accomplished
Although Barack Obama has refrained, at least for now, from delivering triumphant speeches in a naval flight suit, there is nevertheless a strong tone of accomplishment emanating from the President and his deputies. Over the weekend, top White House economic adviser Lawrence Summers even pronounced that the recession is now over. Without hedging his bets, Summers declared that thanks to the Obama Administration's wise stewardship, economic stimuli, and emergency bailouts, another Great Depression, set up by the prior Administration, had been narrowly averted. Summers saw no impediments to the return of sustainable growth. He may as well have delivered these remarks from the deck of an aircraft carrier. 12/14/2009
A Hot Future for Geothermal
Capturing energy from the earth’s heat is pretty easy pickin’s for geologically-active areas of the world like Iceland, Indonesia, and Chile. In some locations, hot fluids are so near the earth’s surface that heat from naturally-occurring hot fluids can be directly circulated through buildings for heating. Iceland, in particular, takes advantage of this low-hanging energy fruit. 12/11/2009
How to Predict the Price of Gold
Long-term readers know that gold moves inversely to the dollar, meaning if the dollar drops, gold tends to rise (and vice versa). This happens with about 80% regularity. But what many gold writers haven’t acknowledged is the leveraged movement our favorite metal has demonstrated this year to the world’s reserve currency. 12/10/2009
Canadian Gold Juniors Soar – Should You Buy Now?
For years, gold bugs like Doug Casey and his team have been saying that once gold takes off to stratospheric heights, it will take the gold mining stocks with it. It’s called the “Mania phase” of the commodity bull market. 12/08/2009
The Future of America’s Natural Gas
What You Need to Know About Natural Gas: Natural gas prices have plummeted. Natural gas storage is at a maximum. Producible gas reserves are up 35% in the United States. Demand for natural gas is down because of the economy. 12/04/2009
Buy Gold, Be Smart, Diversify
After a relaxing Thanksgiving break, I anticipated to return to work in a lighter frame of mind. However, the following item from FOX News crushed that hope right away... 12/03/2009
How and Why China Will Flood the Gold Market
As you read this, the Chinese government is doing an extraordinary thing... something nearly unheard of in the modern world... 11/25/2009
The Best Energy Investments in the World
In the past three years, Marin Katusa, senior energy analyst at Casey Research, has become one of the most respected and listened-to authorities in the investment advisory business. He spends the bulk of his time on airplanes and in far-off places studying the future of energy... and the best ways to make money from it. 11/24/2009
What If They Stop Buying Our Debt?
“I have always depended on the kindness of strangers,” said Blanche DuBois, in the final words of the play A Streetcar Named Desire. Well, don’t we all... 11/19/2009
Strong Dollar Policy: What??
“I believe deeply that it’s very important to the United States, to the economic health of the United States, that we maintain a strong dollar,” U.S. Treasury Secretary Geithner recently told reporters. Indeed, it seems to be a pre-requisite to apply for the position of U.S. Treasury Secretary to be able to utter these words. In the meantime, the greenback seems to be falling further and further; the ‘strong dollar commitment’ appears to have become a farce. Just what, then, would be a strong dollar policy? 11/18/2009
Louis James Shares Some of the 'Best of the Best'
In this exclusive interview with The Gold Report, Louis James, Senior Editor of Doug Casey's International Speculator, reiterates his conviction that the dollar is on death row with no one prepared to grant a stay of execution. Dismal as it is, this situation gives rise to increasingly positive prospects for gold and other commodities that may ultimately stand in as the world's reserve currency. And there are some pretty hot speculative prospects—Louis' "best of the best"—waiting in the wings for the market's next big leg down that he's been forecasting. 11/17/2009
Slow Down… or Else
On a whim following our Denver Summit – and despite truly abysmal weather – Casey Research CEO Olivier Garret and I cabbed it down to a local public golf course for a quick nine holes... 11/13/2009
How Will Niagara Falls Fit Through a Garden Hose?
Elmer Sutton’s eyebrows shot up when he saw the ad proclaiming gold stocks might make you wealthy. It sounded like the perfect solution for his stock portfolio, loaded with investments going nowhere. He vaguely recalled hearing a little about gold, but if what the ad said was true, he thought he could make a killing. 11/12/2009
If You Thought the Housing Meltdown Was Bad…
The next train wreck will be in commercial real estate. Couldn’t be worse than last year’s residential market crash? That remains to be seen. But it’s coming soon, probably as early as the second quarter of next year, and there’s nothing that can prevent it. The government will intervene, trying desperately to delay the day of reckoning, and may even succeed. For a while. But make no mistake about it, that train is going off the tracks no matter what. 11/10/2009
Why Gold Has a LONG Way to Go
A couple weeks ago, I had my TV tuned to a business show that loves to give predictions on the markets and the economy. On that day, one of the program’s regular guests declared it was time to “short” gold, that it had reached its top, and that the precious metals bull market was over. I’ll try to be nice in my rebuttal. 11/04/2009
HITECH – Your Medical History in the Machine
In the future, a visit to your family physician, or any specialist, will begin with a quick scan of the computer screen, where a few keystrokes will tell the doctor everything he or she needs to know about you – all the way from how much you weighed at birth, to X-rays of that bone you broke when you flipped your motorcycle thirty years ago, to how much you spent on blood work last year, right up to the hypertension pills you took after dinner yesterday (and maybe even what you ate, although hopefully not). 10/27/2009
When Will Inflation Really Hit Us?
Most of us are gathered at the station, watching for the Inflation Express to come rumbling in. But we've been waiting for a while now. Just when should we expect the big locomotive to arrive and start pushing the prices of most things uphill? 10/23/2009
Black Gold... Green Oil
This summer, there's been a flurry of new green announcements from the world's major oil firms. ExxonMobil, Chevron, Valero, Statoil, Marathon, and Sunoco have all thrown their hats into the green ring... 10/19/2009
The Dollar in Your Wallet Is Only Worth 18¢
It was the mid-‘70s. I was helping my Dad build a dirt road to our barn and he wasn’t happy. Not about the hard work or humidity, but from what was happening to the dollar. Inflation was starting to kick into high gear, grabbing headlines that even a girl-chasing teenager could understand... 10/15/2009
P2P – It’s More than Just Sharing Songs
You know that house down the street that’s for sale? The gigantic castle of a house, with an uncut lawn, a few weeks away from foreclosure? That’s your fault. After all, it was you who loaned the former owners the money for the house they could never afford. 10/09/2009
Into the Fourth Turning
The Fourth Turning is an amazingly prescient book Neil Howe wrote with the late William Strauss in 1997. The work, which describes generational archetypes and the cyclical patterns created by these archetypes, has been an eye-opener to anyone able to entertain the notion that history may repeat itself. At the time the book was published, the Boston Globe stated, “If Howe and Strauss are right, they will take their place among the great American prophets.” Read this visionary interview published in The Casey Report, and see for yourself. 10/08/2009
Why All the Fuss over Rare Earths?
Rare earth elements (REEs) have been the mystery metals of the mining world for years. Now, suddenly, everyone’s heard about them. Before we delve into the reasons behind all the publicity, here’s the basic skinny on REEs: One, they are rare, at least sort of. Two, they are indispensable to modern technology. Three, the number of active, dedicated producers is tiny, with more than 90% of the world’s supply coming from China. 10/03/2009
Japanese Politics and the Yen
The U.S. dollar has been getting a beating from all sides, but its woes may be far from over – recent developments in Japan, China, Germany and the United Kingdom, not to speak of domestic developments in the U.S., are pointing to a rocky road ahead. Today’s focus is on Japan and, more specifically, how a country on a downward economic spiral can have a strong currency. 10/01/2009
The Road to Zimbabwe
Sprinkled among all the official talk about efforts to end the current recession, you’ll hear assurances, notably from Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, that when the economy does revive, it won’t be allowed to blast off into runaway inflation. The Fed, we’re being promised, will prevent such a launch by reabsorbing the hundreds of billions of dollars of excess liquidity it recently created to halt the credit crisis. 09/29/2009
What If Everyone in the World Wanted a 1-ounce Gold Coin?
If we’re right about where the price of gold is headed, the general public will someday clamor to buy all things gold. While gold stocks will be where the real leverage is, the rush will start with gold itself. As a gold editor, I have a very natural question: is there enough to go around? 09/25/2009
A Look at Strategic Oil Reserves – Who's Buying Oil?
As the U.S. strategic petroleum reserve (SPR) approaches capacity (721.5 million barrels filled out of a total possible 727 million, and will be filled by January 2010), the federal government will fade out of the oil-buying business. Some bearish traders believe that this factor can weigh in on prices, since most petroleum stocks in the United States are government-held rather than private. Bullish traders have also used the filling of the Chinese SPR as a reason that oil should go much higher. 09/23/2009
Is the Treasury Out to Kill Money Market Funds?
Tim Geithner, the Goldman Sachs Secretary of the Treasury, has gone on record as saying that the government will withdraw its $3 trillion backstop guarantee from the money market fund industry, on schedule, this September 18. 09/18/2009
Could China Push Gold to the Moon?
Some analysts now contend that China can no longer afford to let the gold or silver price slump. The rationale behind that contention is that with the Chinese government now telling the general populace to buy precious metals, it would be highly problematic should gold and silver subsequently take a nose dive... 09/18/2009
What the Heck Is Going on with China?
That’s a question that Westerners have been asking for, oh, several millennia now. Or at least since Marco Polo aimed his ponies down the old Silk Road in 1271... 09/11/2009
Green Shoots or Greater Depression?
While we aren’t contrarian for the sake of being contrary, more often than not that is the position in which we find ourselves. Today, with the media falling all over itself to paint a rosy outlook for the economy while simultaneously voicing encouragement to the new administration in its remake of the nation in previously unimaginable ways, it’s hard not to question our conviction that the worst is yet to come. 08/24/2009
What You Have in Common with King Nebuchadnezzar
“There’s no reason to invest in gold,” said the finance editor of a major newspaper interviewing me. “If gold goes up because of inflation, then so does everything else, so why buy it? It’s not really a good investment.” 08/12/2009
We are witnessing a new renaissance, and gold is ready for $1,000/oz
This is a follow up to the Q1 2009 Summary On Gold And Various Markets issued on March 31, 2009 ( http://new.goldmau.com/article.php?id=1610 ) In the first quarter of 2009, we reached the climax of US banking collapse. Global central banks hurried to apply fiscal and monetary stimulus, including unconventional 08/03/2009
Bad for Business: Bailouts diminish our entrepreneurial spirit
As the U.S. government started on the slippery slope of intervening in the private sector, it will receive more and more such request for assistance... 07/16/2009
The Carbon Cap: The Newest Form of Taxation
It’s possible that no concept in history has ever come so far, so fast, and with so little substance behind it, as “global warming.” Or, to be precise, anthropogenic global warming (AGW) – the kind caused by us puny humans rather than by that fireball that keeps the planet habitable. 07/15/2009
A 20-Year Bear Market?
In November of 1997, my partner and co-editor of The Casey Report, Doug Casey, wrote an article titled “Foundations of Crisis,” which leaned heavily on the research of Neil Howe and the late William Strauss. 07/09/2009
