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The Super-Rich Are Spooked
November 2, 2009. A couple of seemingly unrelated articles in Friday’s Wall Street Journal illustrate how life is getting more complicated for the super-rich. First, it seems that the UBS debacle was not just a U.S./Swiss disagreement. Far from it. Now that the IRS has shown other high-tax countries how easy it is to pierce the veil of bank secrecy, the Europeans want their tax evaders too. And in Switzerland, theirs are a lot more numerous than ours. More...

So Many Shorts, So Little Time
October 14, 2009. U.S. stocks are up again today, bringing the S&P 500’s bounce off the bottom to 63%. All those buy-and-hold 401(K) investors (and the advisors who told them to hang in) are breathing a sigh of relief and hoping that “normal” times are here again. But the smart money is looking for a short-sale entry point. There’s no way to know whether this is it, of course, but each up day brings us closer to the level that we’ll look back on as the day we should have gone all-in. There’s also no way to know exactly what will set off the rout, but a few of the more reasonable possibilities are: More...

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Pierre Lassonde Interview – King World News
Canadian Says "Short Canada" – Mish
Not So Good – Michael Panzner
Who Cares About the Dollar? – Axel Merk
Beginning of the End? – Chris Puplava
Freegold – FOFOA
Con Job Continues – John Embry
Rare Earth Stocks – Bull & Bear
Worry About Japan – Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
Money Talk Continued – FOFOA
Confiscation of Gold – Howard Katz
Gold and Freedom – Jacob G. Hornberger
Hard Times In Sin City – Spiegel
The Nanny State – James Quinn
Catching Argentinian Disease – John Mauldin
Ron Paul Interview – King World News

Archive

Breaking News

The Economy
11/07 Lousy jobs, in such small portions – Peter Schiff
11/07 Mike Shedlock interview – King World News
11/06 About a half paradigm – Prudent Bear
11/06 Japan's fiscal woes deepen, making JGB investors wary – Reuters
11/06 Global quantitative easing – RunToGold
11/06 Nouriel Roubini: The coming commodities correction – HardAssetsInvestor
11/06 Unemployment in U.S. jumps to 10.2%, payrolls fall – Bloomberg
11/06 Ultimate conditions for recovery – 24hGold
11/06 If incomes are down, where is the economic spending coming from? – My Budget 360
11/05 Bob Prechter: bear market rally is over, stocks headed for new lows – Yahoo! Finance
11/05 U.S. stocks soar – Bloomberg
11/05 October retail sales fall short for many – Reuters
11/05 Productivity jumps 9.5 percent in third quarter – Associated Press
11/05 Jobless claims in the US decrease more than forecast – Bloomberg
11/05 Bank of England throws money at economy – Mish
11/04 Arrogance, ignorance recurring in economic history – PBS
11/04 Chicago metro area sales-tax receipts plunge, property taxes rise – Mish
11/04 October personal bankruptcies highest since 2005 law changes – Bloomberg
11/04 Peak Cheap Oil Update - Part I: The glass is half empty – iTulip
11/04 California economy and housing in depth – Dr. Housing Bubble
11/04 Asian stocks decline on growth concerns – Bloomberg
11/04 U.S. stocks finished mixed – TheStreet.com
11/04 Private-sector jobs fall 203,000, ADP says – MarketWatch
11/04 Prichard Alabama files bankruptcy over pensions – Mish
11/04 Japan spirals into bankruptcy? – Daily Bell
11/04 A wild ride in New York yesterday – Casey Research
11/04 John Rubino: Japan on the brink – HoweStreet
11/03 Jay Taylor envisions scary specter of '30s-style depression – GoldSeek

Precious Metals
11/07 Gold at both ends of the economic K wave – King World News
11/07 Ted Butler interview – King World News
11/07 Peter Grandich interview – BNN
11/07 GATA interview – King World News
11/07 Massive US bullion bank selling greets $1,100 gold – Casey Research
11/06 India's gold purchase – USA Gold
11/06 The past decade – SilverInvestor
11/06 Goldcorp's profit double – Yahoo! Finance
11/06 So... where to from here? – Casey Research
11/06 Three lessons from the LBMA gold conference – 24hGold
11/06 Canada's BNN interviews Agoracom's Peter Grandich on gold – GATA
11/05 Ira Epstein's weekly metal report – GoldSeek
11/05 The case for juniors – GoldSeek
11/05 Kinross announces unsecured US$450 million credit facility – Yahoo! Finance
11/05 Silver standard reports third quarter 2009 results – Yahoo! Finance
11/05 Lake Shore Gold confirms presence of large new gold system at Bell Creek – Yahoo! Finance
11/05 Take the long view for Gold and Silver – 24hGold
11/05 Why gold has a long way to go – 24hGold
11/05 Juniors poised for historic bull run – GoldDrivers
11/05 Fed statement may let gold continue upward course – GATA
11/05 Peter Brimelow: Is India clearing way for gold 'moonshot'? – GATA
11/05 Gold "targets $1100" as Beijing insider says China "can't buy enough gold" – GoldSeek

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The Dollar
11/07 The dethroning of the US dollar - coming soon! – Q Wealth Report
11/06 Retro-taxes – Casey Research
11/06 Economic crisis yields idiocy at Wall Street Journal – Daily Bell
11/06 Protect your wealth from the Bank's money printing madness – MoneyWeek
11/05 The long bond – GoldSeek
11/05 Fed and ECB on different planets? – Merk Funds
11/05 Bank of England expands quantitative easing, holds rates steady – Reuters
11/05 Could the dollar be in a new bull market? – MoneyWeek
11/04 Fed sees rates near zero for "extended period" – Reuters
11/04 Show us the jobs, the Fed says – MarketWatch
11/04 The Treasury bubble is about to burst – MarketWatch
11/04 'Mother of Carry Trades' leading to "asset bust' – CNBC
11/04 The end of the supercycle in fiat money – Daily Reckoning
11/04 Could the dollar be in a new bull market? – MoneyWeek

Real Estate Bust
11/06 Flying blind – Housing Bubble
11/06 L.A.-area real estate agents are holding open mansions – Los Angeles Times
11/06 Getting serious about your house and the market – New York Times
11/05 Avoid foreclosure: Rent your own home – CNN Money
11/05 Report: Foreclosure activity up in October – South Florida Business Journal
11/05 Sterling selling foreclosures online – MSN Money
11/05 Fannie Mae asks for $15 billion in additional funding – MarketWatch
11/05 "Wells Fargo Madness" a reader reply to fear and shame tactics – Mish
11/05 More walk away from homes, mortgages – USA Today
11/05 Commercial real estate and REITs - it's about that time, again... – SafeHaven
11/05 Watch out: the housing market is about to turn back down – MoneyWeek
11/05 "This loan is an example of what went wrong with America" – Huffington Post
11/04 Australian third-quarter home prices surge to record – MarketWatch
11/04 Foreclosure filings spike in collar counties – Chicago Tribune
11/04 Pulte Homes posts $361.4M loss for Q3 – Associated Press
11/03 Homeownership can be a Nightmare – Calculated Risk
11/02 Fantasy island – MarketWatch
11/02 Real homes of genius – Dr. Housing Bubble
11/01 "Strategic defaults" a mortgage broker comments on fear and shame tactics – Mish
11/01 Plan C as in commercial real estate – My Budget 360
10/30 Just not upside up enough – Housing Bubble
10/30 Fannie Mae: delinquencies increase sharply in August – Calculated Risk

Offshore Investing and Privacy
11/03 How to stop expatriation in its tracks – Mark Nestmann
10/27 Switzerland: universal wealth tax could save bank secrecy – Mark Nestmann
10/21 What it's really like to expatriate – Mark Nestmann
10/16 Are the Caymans broke? – Sovereign Society
10/13 The good, the bad, and the ugly of Google Voice – HowToVanish
10/05 If you have any connection to an offshore trust, you need this book – Mark Nestmann

Clean Tech
11/08 The latest clean-tech news – GreenStockInvesting
11/07 Dow’s reverse osmosis tech picked for Australian desal plant – Cleantech
11/07 GE to close its solar-panel manufacturing plant in Deleware – CNN Money
11/07 Wind sector cash inflow may blow small firms away – Reuters
11/07 AES to sell stock, wind-power stake to China's CIC – Bloomberg
11/07 Railroads & windmills: Berkshire's "green" bets – Wall Street Journal
11/06 Philippines eyes $2.5bn geothermal investment – BusinessGreen
11/06 Smart grid's low-tech savings: fewer truck rolls – GreenTech
11/06 HP's data center smart grid: two trends in one name – GreenTech
11/06 EnerNOC posts first quarterly profit, ups guidance – Boston Business Journal
11/05 EnerNOC reports third quarter 2009 financial – Yahoo! Finance
11/05 U.S. fast-tracking six California solar, wind farms – MarketWatch

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