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Blog Post - May 17th, 2012
Feature - May 16th, 2012
Even before the 2008 crisis, the United States and other debtor nations looked upon China as the Great Hope, as it cautiously introduced market reforms that promised, in time, to offer the debt-addicted world economy a brand-new marketplace, a trillion ...
All terms: buy gold, China, Credit, Current Analysis, economy, fiat currency, Inflation
Feature - May 16th, 2012
It seems everybody with a printing press (i.e. Central Banks) is on hold, as we noted in our May 10 post Bank of England Defers to Fed on Future Printing .
However, there is pressing new information concerning the monetary outlook, starting with ...
All terms: commodities, Current Analysis, cycles, Federal Reserve, Government Bonds, Hedge Funds, Inflation, Japan
Video - May 16th, 2012
As a prelude to the animated blockbuster we reviewed recently, Edgar the Exploiter , video-maker Tomasz Kaye brings us George Ought to Help , which offers a libertarian spin on mandatory taxation.
“Imagine you have a friend called Geor ...
All terms: Fundamentals
Blog Post - May 15th, 2012
Eduardo Saverin moved from Brazil to Miami with his family in 1992; he was 13 years old. Saverin became a U.S. citizen in 1998, eventually attending Harvard where he met Zuckerberg. They worked together on Facebook in school, with Saverin earning owners ...
All terms: capital gains, cycles, Debt, Debt, Government, Tax, U.S. Dollar
Blog Post - May 14th, 2012
With the recent Eurosis-driven bout of dollar strength, hopefully many of our readers are proud owners of hard money (gold and silver).
Many such folks save in quite creative places. Mattresses come to mind; caves have been in the media recently; an ...
All terms: banks, Commodities, Euro Crisis, Gold, Government, Michael Maloney, Silver, storage
Blog Post - May 11th, 2012
Mining is a risky and expensive business, as Michael Maloney has often said. The difficulty and high start-up costs of extracting precious metals contribute to supply pressure that has factored into rising prices. With gold and silver prices artificiall ...
All terms: Commodities, Gold, gold mining, Michael Maloney, Mining Stocks, Risk, Silver, silver mining
Blog Post - May 10th, 2012
One week ago, on May 3, we wrote ECB Holds Line on Interest Rates, More Printing regarding the coordinated status of central bank policy. We said:
“The Bank of England will decide next Thursday, May 10, if it will continue printing beyond the ...
All terms: Bank of Japan, Central Banks, Currency, currency inflation, ECB, Federal Reserve, GDP, Government, IMF, Monetary Policy, quantitative easing
Feature - May 9th, 2012
The populist trend of Latin American governments to repatriate and nationalize their resources continues, most recently with Argentina’s nationalization of the country’s largest oil company and, on May Day, Bolivia’s nationalization of its largest elect ...
All terms: Bonds, commodities, Current Analysis, Demand, gold prices, Investor Confidence, Oil Price, Resources, Risk
Feature - May 9th, 2012
Worries about Europe’s sovereign debt crisis sparked a wave of paper silver and gold exchanges at lower prices on JP Morgan’s COMEX after Europe’s credit markets opened for the first time this week on Tuesday.
For institutions, cash is seen as a mor ...
All terms: Bonds, China, COMEX, Deflation, ECB, Futures, gold prices, Inflation, silver prices, Fundamentals