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Last May we covered a Financial Sense Newshour interview with Kirk Sorensen, founder of Flibe Energy – he made the case for little-known element thorium as the potential “silver bullet” to our energy problems. Today, Casey Research energy expert Marin Katusa dives into the thorium topic once again, to see if it has realistic hopes […]
Barron’s got a hold of Hugh Hendry to chat about his favorite topics – namely deflation, and shorting Asia! If you read our previous coverage of Hendry’s economic outlook, there’s not much new here, but it’s still probably worth a quick read. In summary, Hendry remains biased towards “hyperdeflation BEFORE hyperinflation”: The road to hyperinflation […]
Jeffrey Gundlach, CEO of DoubleLine Funds, put together a great presentation themed “The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire” – which highlights the dire situation now faced in present day America. Below are his slides – well worth a spin through. Hat tip Zero Hedge for posting, and Josh S. for forwarding along! 2-14-12 […]
If you’re interested in buying and storing physical gold, you probably want to do so outside of your home country. If you’re a US citizen, and the government goes FDR on you, you’re not going to want your bullion on US soil! But what’s the sanest country available for this purpose…now that the Swiss appear […]
China is projected to surpass India as the world’s largest consumer of gold this year. The South China Morning Post reports: China is poised to surpass India as the world’s largest gold consumer this year, with demand projected to climb 20 per cent, while India’s bullion buying will remain dampened by the weak rupee and […]
Last week I had a great lunch (yeah fried chicken at Magpie Cafe!) with my pal Aaron Klein, CEO and Co-Founder of Riskalyze. Aaron and his team are working to bring sanity, perspective, and guidance to the average investor with Riskalyze – a tool aimed at helping you get a grip on your risk tolerance […]
Technical extraordinaire Carl Swenlin puts on his fundamental hat here, as he gauges the current valuation of the S&P 500 at large. This seemingly cut-and-dry debate always seems to draw opinions that are all over the map! Swenlin, as usual, keeps a level-head in his analysis. A couple of points I found particularly interesting: How […]
One of our favorites, Felix Zulauf, joined Jim Puplava on his Financial Sense Newshour to discuss the global economy and ongoing European debt saga. Zulauf said “the euro was probably the dumbest economic decision Europe has made since World War II, but we have it and it’s very difficult to get out of it.” He […]
The Fed recently announced that it would keep interest rates low through 2014 – which in Fed-speak basically amounts to “forever.” And how do they intend to keep rates low? Well there’s only one way to do it, and that’s by purchasing the long-end of the yield curve with digitally created Federal Reserve notes. Our […]
Last week I attended the 2012 Sacramento Business Review, which was keynoted by Axel Merk, the President & CIO of Merk Investments. (Big thanks to my friend and budding Contrary Investing contributor legend, Jonathan Lederer of Lederer Private Wealth Management, for the great recruiting job!) Here are my notes from Axel Merk’s keynote speech: “In a […]
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