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By Sy Harding U.S. Treasury Secretary Geithner says the debt crisis in Europe is Europe’s problem, and Europe has the means to resolve it if its governments would stop squabbling among themselves and take action. That seems to be the opinion globally, including among eurozone countries themselves. But when it comes to getting beyond the […]
Who’s Right About Commodities: Bears or Bulls? By Marin Katusa, Casey Research In the last few weeks a slow slide in commodity prices – metals in particular – has turned into a full-scale nosedive. All through 2011 copper had remained essentially between US$4 and $4.50 a pound, but on September 11 it dropped below that range […]
Where’s the Economic Growth We Were Promised? by Chuck Butler, President, EverBank Have you ever wondered, at least recently, if the markets are just playing games with investors? It’s like a game of good cop, bad cop… On one day, the markets will be all about the euro (EUR), and the prospects for a solution […]
Economic naysayers, eat this – can you spot the mega-trend in food stamps? Click to enlarge. You might want to sit down first. Source: USDA.gov Here’s the key constituency for the 2012 election…more bread for the food stamp recipients! 45 million total recipients today – holy cow. Maybe if there’s one surprise, it’s that our […]
Is the air starting to leak out of the latest technology bubble? Venture capital firms are taking it in the chin, finding it much harder to raise money when Crazy Bernanke is not running the printing presses as fast as he can. The LA Times reports (Hat tip Carson for sending this along): Firms raised […]
Here’s a great Felix Zulauf interview – the most in-depth I’ve heard in months – courtesy of GoldMoney’s James Turk. Zulauf remains bullish on gold, bearish on the future of the Eurozone, and generally cautious about the global economy. And here’s some more recent coverage of Felix Zulauf. Hat tip JL for the heads up […]
By Carl Swenlin The National Association of Active Investment Managers (www.naaim.org) takes a weekly poll of its members that results in a pretty good sentiment poll. Approximately 40 NAAIM member firms who are active money managers are asked each week to provide a number which represents their overall equity exposure at the market close on Wednesday. […]
By Sy Harding Consumers, businesses, and stock markets hate uncertainty, and they sure have been subjected to more of it than they can handle so far this year. As a result, consumer and business confidence is at very low readings, and stock markets around the world are in serious corrections, many down more than the […]
A big congratulations to my good friend Aaron Klein, a serial entrepreneur here in the Sacramento area, who launched his new startup, Riskalyze, this week. Riskalyze is a free investing tool that uses questions and math to help you determine what your risk profile is as an investor. Then, it helps you create a portfolio […]
What happens when the lender of last resort has had enough? Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble was quoted on Saturday ruling out a higher German contribution to the euro zone’s rescue fund beyond the 211 billion euros approved by parliament last week. In an interview with the Super-Illu newspaper published on Saturday, Schaeuble said Germany would […]
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