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 ...
Tag: Current Analysis
Feature - May 16th, 2012
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
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
Video - May 9th, 2012
Hedge fund founder and former Bear Sterns boy wonder Kyle Bass in this video interview comments on asking the COMEX, one of the world’s largest commodities exchanges owned by the CME, if they have enough physical gold in its vaults to redeem all its out ...
All terms: Current Analysis
Feature - May 2nd, 2012
Transformed in a handful of years from a tiny fishing economy to an international banking powerhouse to a poster-child victim of the global crash, Iceland provides the perfect microcosm for observing the end results of cheap, plentiful cash and governme ...
All terms: banking, Current Analysis, Dollar, economic recovery, Euro Crisis, Financial Crisis, global economy
Feature - April 11th, 2012
The world is running out of silver.
According to the USGS , 17 billion ounces of known silver supply remain in the ground globally--the troy ounces of silver equivalent of the 530,000 metric tons reported in the table below.
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All terms: commodities, Currency Manipulation, Current Analysis, global economy, market fundamentals, Price, Silver
Video - April 11th, 2012
First we had SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act), then PIPA (Protect IP Act). Now there’s CISPA (Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protect Act), HR 3523, the most recent so-called cyber-security legislation that, internet activists and privacy advocates say, may ...
All terms: Current Analysis
Feature - April 4th, 2012
China and Singapore aren’t the only ones leery of banking on the viability of the U.S. dollar—similar preparation is also occurring within the United States’ own borders.
Utah became the first state last spring to enact legislation allowing the use ...
All terms: Ben Bernanke, capital gains, Current Analysis, Gold, Inflation, Numismatics, Silver, U.S. Dollar
Feature - March 28th, 2012
The destroyed commodity brokerage firm MF Global is back in the news recently as stonewalling company executives are hauled before Congress. The gist of the alleged criminal case seems clear—someone high up at MF Global—probably former New Jersey Govern ...
All terms: commodities, Current Analysis, Derivatives, fiat currency, Gold, Inflation, investment market, JPMorgan, Risk
Video - March 21st, 2012
In this fiery news clip, Irish journalist Vincent Browne confronted the European Central Bank’s Klaus Masuch about the insistence that Ireland pay off unguaranteed bonds to European financial institutions at the expense of the Irish people.
Browne a ...
All terms: Current Analysis