Precious Metals Starting To Produce Some Winners
Everybody who’s owned gold and silver mining shares through a couple of cycles has their favorite story of the stock that took off and ran
Everybody who’s owned gold and silver mining shares through a couple of cycles has their favorite story of the stock that took off and ran
Wow. Portugal just did something extraordinary. In its most recent election, parties of the left — anti-austerity, anti-business, mistrustful of the euro and other extra-national
New Age monetary policy has begun to resemble the form of insanity in which a patient repeats the same behavior while expecting a different outcome.
If you ignore their recent volatility, the financial markets are painting a fairly happy picture. The S&P 500, for instance, is closer to its 12-month
Companies like Walmart and McDonalds’s have made their investors rich by squeezing costs and cutting prices. But it turns out that low-cost means low-wage, and
Wal-Mart just announced flat year-over-year sales, causing its shares to fall by 9% and wiping $20 billion from its market cap. Which would be unremarkable
The UK’s Guardian newspaper, of Edward Snowden leaks fame, just published a good overview of the world’s recent financial missteps titled The world economic order
What’s the opposite of a gift that keeps on giving? A mistake that keeps metastasizing. Which pretty much sums up the US role in the
The US markets awoke to news of several big, disturbing overseas events: Glencore implodes. Think of Swiss commodities giant Glencore as a modern version of
The Dow and S&P 500 have fallen by around 10% since August, which in normal times would be hardly worth mentioning. But below the surface,
Or: Gold Miners’ Doom Is Streaming Companies’ Boom. The gold and silver miners are in crisis, as metal prices hover around break-even for many and
After borrowing — and largely wasting — $15 trillion during the Great Recession, China now looks like a typical decadent developed-world country, complete with slow
Not only did the Fed vote to keep interest rates stable yesterday, it did so overwhelmingly — with just as many members apparently favoring lower
Money center banks — which over the past few decades have grown into the biggest financial entities the world has ever seen — appear to
The intellectual groundwork is being laid for the next stage of the Money Bubble, and it’s going to be epic. Here are excerpts from two
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