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Sugar is quietly staging an impressive rally off its October lows, when it briefly dipped below the 11-cent mark. Since then, we can see that sugar prices are clearly moving from the “lower left to the upper right,” recently hitting a 5-month high. Is it time to buy sugar? I think so. Fundamentally, there are […]
Gold & Silver Up – Everything Else Continues to Circle the Bowl Gold, silver, and – of course – the US dollar – continued to rally this week. They were about it, as the stock market swooned, commodities got whacked, and every asset class continued to circle the bowl. Stocks have now gone nowhere in […]
Earlier this week, Chinese officials commented that they will continue to buy US Treasury bonds, because they have no other viable vehicles to park their cash. From the Financial Times: Luo Ping, speaking at the Global Association of Risk Management’s 10th Annual Risk Management Convention, said: “Except for US Treasuries, what can you hold?” he […]
Reuters reporting on George Soros’ testimony at the U.S. Conference of Mayors – whatever the hell that is: Soros said the United States needed “radical and unorthodox policy measures” to prevent a repeat of the Great Depression of the early 20th century that include recapitalizing banks and writing down the country’s accumulated debt. Also, he […]
According to a Reuters report, Jim Rogers is still very bullish on Asia, and still very bearish on the US dollar and Treasury Bonds. Jim Rogers accused U.S. authorities of consciously trying to devalue the U.S. dollar by flooding the market with liquidity — or in his words, “turning on the printing presses” — and […]
The New York Times reports: China has bought more than $1 trillion of American debt, but as the global downturn has intensified, Beijing is starting to keep more of its money at home, a move that could have painful effects for American borrowers. I have no doubt, Dear Reader, that you’re way out in front […]
Battle of the FlationsBy Bud ConradChief Economist, The Casey Report One of the most hotly debated topics among financial talking heads these days is, “Deflation or inflation, what is it going to be?” There is no question that we are currently experiencing asset price deflation and economic slowing. But we, the editors of The Casey […]
Everbank’s Chris Gaffney comments that the Fed is now out of ammo and into uncharted territory, trying to employ untested methods which are likely to lead to higher inflation. So Chairman Bernanke has used up all of his remaining ammunition for the main weapon against the economic crisis, and now has to move to other […]
According to Everbank’s Chris Gaffney, the dollar index has fallen below its 55-day moving average, a key technical indicator. But even before the automakers got the bad news from the Senate, the dollar was falling faster than we’ve seen in the past few weeks. Chuck shouted out across the trade desk around noon yesterday that […]
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