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How can you buy physical gold? It’s a question that’s coming up more and more these days…as demand for gold bullion is going through the roof. Jeff Clark points out a few resources that you should take a look at, if you’re looking to purchase some physical gold. And it’s probably a great time to […]
From Reuters: A German asset management company plans to set up 500 “Gold-to-Go” ATMs in Germany, Switzerland and Austria this year. A gold-dispensing automatic teller machine (ATM) was on display at Frankfurt’s main railway station for a one-day marketing test yesterday. A one-gram piece of gold, the size of a child’s little fingernail and about […]
Despite record harvests last year, corn and wheat stocks are still sitting near 30-year lows. Which means, anything short of a bumper crop could send the grains skywards once again. Here are some very cool charts, courtesy of Chris Mayer at DailyWealth, that depict the stocks-to-use ratios of of wheat and corn since 1970, versus […]
Common wisdom holds that depressions are inherently deflationary. The United States in the 1930’s. Japan in the 1990’s and 2000’s. Combine a depression with other deflationary factors going today in the US – demographics, deleveraging, falling asset prices, even productivity – and you’ve got some serious deflationary headwinds. (As a side note – I’ve warmed […]
Regular readers know that we’ve been anxiously awaiting the decoupling of commodities and currencies from stocks. These asset classes are historically uncorrelated. That changed late last year when the financial world ended, and everything went down the crapper at about the same speed. Except, of course, the US dollar and bonds…but I digress… Today stocks […]
Another “lost decade” is probably about the best Americans can reasonably hope for, based on this compelling case made by Mike “Mish” Shedlock over on his blog. Bottom line is that, over the last 20+ years, Americans spent too much money, and ran up too much debt. Now, like it or not, we’ll be forced […]
The trend is our friend…and right now, the trend in the Australian dollar is up, up, and up. Source: Barchart.com A couple of weeks ago, we took note of the rally in the Aussie – and decided to initiate a position. Boy am I glad we did…since that time, the A$ has rallied nearly 4-cents, […]
“You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they […]
Famed hedge fund manager and Silicon Valley guru Andy Kessler says this is a sucker’s rally…you can’t print prosperity, it comes from productivity. “Bernanke’s cranking the handle on the printing press to help the public fund the bank problems instead of the US government…as soon as he stops cranking the handle, the bottom falls out […]
The Market for Liberty, by Linda & Morris Tannehill, is an extremely thought provoking book that asks the outrageous question: Is government itself an unnecessary evil? The Tannehills do not just make the case for smaller government…for less government in our lives. They make the case for NO government! This was a challenging concept for […]
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