Next week we’ll find out if the longest-ever will-they-or-won’t-they drama involving a virtually insignificant quarter-point interest rate change will amount to anything. But either way,
For about a decade there, Brazil was the Latin American country that got it right. Under a socialist but apparently reasonable government they kept their
Back when society’s balance sheet was reasonably solid, the occasional bear market was no big deal. A 20% drop in the average S&P 500 stock
That was sudden. After soaring at the open and holding big gains all day, US equities fell off the table in the last 15 minutes
For those who keep hearing about hedge funds but aren’t quite sure what they are: Think mutual fund with no rules. A hedge fund is
Normally there’s a distinct pattern to the impact of Federal Reserve statements on the financial markets. The tone of equities trading in particular starts to
A month ago China’s stock bubble was bursting and Greece was imploding. Yet the US Fed, in a violation of both headline sentiment and common
One of the most common pieces of advice in the gold-bug world is to get as much metal as possible for your money, which means
Bloomberg just posted an analysis of the recent correction in media stocks (Another major pillar of the bull market is collapsing) that contains some surprising,
Less than a decade after a housing/derivatives bubble nearly wiped out the global financial system, a new and much bigger commodities/derivatives bubble is threatening to
The Great Recession and its aftermath was actually the best of times for countries with natural resources to sell. The US, Europe and Japan ran
Sprott Asset Management’s Rick Rule is one of the smartest guys in the resource investing world — and one of the most reasonable — which
Since its inception, critics of the eurozone have been pointing to its incomplete nature — everyone uses the same money but keeps their own national
When talk turns to what might derail today’s debt-driven “recovery,” the big names and easy stories get most of the attention: China with its soaring
The past few days have seen another batch of blah economic reports in the US: Weak U.S. retail sales hint at slower economic growth (Reuters)
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