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Please enjoy this insightful guest article by Doug Casey, as he shares his forecasts for the 2009 economy and beyond. I strongly agree with Doug’s outlook for gold and interest rates. The contrarian in me wants to be more optimistic about the economy beyond 2009, so for the sake of the world, I hope Doug’s […]
As our Fed prints money to battle this current “deflationary spiral”, the economically pragmatic Girl Scouts are bracing their sales force for the very real effects of inflation. Here are some “Fingertip Facts for Girls and Families” listed on the Girl Scouts website, so these brave girls can educate their neighbors about the very real […]
Now that we’re on the other side of the investment madness that was 2008, Casey Research’s Doug Hornig reminds us to keep the big investment picture in perspective. As we’ve discussed in this space, there were only a few asset classes that gained value in 2008 – the US dollar, US Treasuries, cocoa, and gold […]
Do we finally have the opportunity that many of us have been waiting for…the mouth watering chance to short US treasuries? First, a quick review of the fundamental facts, which we have discussed at length in this space. On October 19, we outlined 7 Reasons to Short US Treasuries – and then we promptly went […]
GoldMoney’s James Turk reports that 2008 was the eighth year in a row that gold has climbed against the US dollar. Since 2001, when the streak began, gold has appreciated an average of 16.3% per year with respect to the US dollar. Turk also lays out gold’s performance against the major currencies, where, to my […]
Here’s a video of Jim Rogers on CNBC’s Larry Kudlow & Co. from December 13, 2008. They start talking commodities around the 2:20 mark. Rogers’ insights: The Fed has gone too far in their money printings Commodities are not down because of fundamentals – they are down because of the forced liquidation of every single […]
We’ve discussed before how the paper market for gold can easily be manipulated – including recently that three US banks allegedly account for the majority of all net short positioning on the COMEX. In the following article, the editors of Big Gold, a Casey Research publication, discuss how gold prices on eBay are the best […]
Bloomberg reports that “In the worst year for commodities in at least five decades, hogs rose 6.6 percent, the second-biggest gains on the Reuters/Jefferies CRB Commodity Index, behind cocoa.” The article quotes fund manager Mark Greenwood: “We’re going to have 3 to 4 percent less pigs next year, and that should be very supportive to […]
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 […]
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