The United States and the Federal Reserve are trying to inflate their way out of the debt crisis, says James Rickards, best-selling author of Currency Wars: The Making of the Next Global Economic Crisis . The problem is, Rickards explains, history sh ...
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Blog Post - February 21st, 2012
The Federal Reserve holds eight regularly scheduled meetings annually, and other emergency meetings as needed. These meetings are where the carefully crafted Fedspeak message is painstakingly explained for us rubes. We believe that there is a clear diff ...
All terms: Currency, Debt, Federal Reserve, fraud, FRBNY, Housing Market, Monetary Policy, Ponzi Scheme, speculative bubble, Toilet Paper
Blog Post - February 17th, 2012
Investor appetite for gold is heating up, in part because of signals from hedge fund guru John Paulson, the guy who saw the real estate meltdown coming in 2007 and became a billionaire as a result.
The Paulson & Co. founder “told investors it’s ...
All terms: buy gold, central bank, Central Banks, Currency, Debt, Free Market, Gold, Hedge Funds
Blog Post - February 16th, 2012
Fewer and fewer investors are participating in the stock market after $395 billion more dollars have left equity mutual funds than have gone in (below) since the summer of 2008 to the present (data source: ICI ).
NY stock exchange volume h ...
Feature - February 15th, 2012
Nowhere in the world is gold a more significant cultural touchstone than India. Last Sunday, CBS broadcast news magazine 60 Minutes examined India’s deep cultural and religious attachment to gold , a connection that has made India one of the world’s ...
All terms: BRICs, buy gold, Current Analysis, fiat currency, financial education, financial history, Gold, India, Monetary History, Money
Feature - February 15th, 2012
Oftentimes, gold and silver investors are accused of being stuck in what we call the “permabear echo chamber,” a mental state in which someone only looks for news and information that complements or confirms their natural leanings. Investopedia describe ...
Video - February 15th, 2012
Could the technology be already in place for the next “big thing”? The investment philosophy behind WealthCycles is to keep a weather eye on asset cycles as they ebb and flow, and to use our understanding of the historic movement of cycles to enter our ...
All terms: Fundamentals
Blog Post - February 14th, 2012
Earlier in February, President Barack Obama came to the podium to announce that “The economy is growing stronger…the recovery is speeding up. We’ve got to do everything in our power to keep it going.” Yesterday we profiled the recent jobless rate in a b ...
All terms: Barack Obama, Commodities, Debt, depression, economic recovery, Government, Government Intervention, shipping, U.S. Treasury
Blog Post - February 13th, 2012
During July of last year we went though the details about the manipulation of the rate of unemployment. We showed how the decrease in the quantity of the people considered “in the labor force” leads to a lower rate of unemployed than is in fact ...
Blog Post - February 10th, 2012
After long months of wrangling, the U.S government and 49 states announced yesterday a settlement agreement in the bank foreclosure scandal. But despite the tough negotiating stances taken by some states attorneys general, the end result represents only ...
All terms: bailout, banking, Bankruptcy, Barack Obama, Fannie Mae, financial regulation, Government, GSE, Housing Market