This week I want to share with you one of the more important tools in my arsenal for keeping up with what is going on in the world. As I've told you before, George Friedman and his team at Stratfor are my go-to guys for geopolitical intelligence. Their insights into this facet of the world are simply...
Whip Inflation Now Where Can We Get Help on Inflation? The Patient Died Anyway Inflation in Asia and Europe There Are No Good Solutions President Nixon instated price controls on the 15 th of August, 1971. Inflation was a little over 4% at the time. Price controls manifestly did not work (resulting in...
When Bubbles Collide Unemployment Jumps to 5.5%, On Its Way to 6% What the Tax Numbers Show What's Up With Oil? America on a Diet Montreal, a New Book, and a Wedding I remember in the summer of 2006 I would face my blank computer screen on a Friday and wonder, what I could write about? The media...
Goldman Sachs recently forecasted that oil would be at $141 a barrel by the end of the year, and rising to $200 a barrel in the not too distant future. I have seen other forecasts calling for oil to slip significantly under $100 a barrel before starting yet another bull market. I have written for years...
by David Galland Casey Research- International Speculator The current "battle" in the gold market is around the $900 level, a fairly steep retrenchment from the recent highs of $1,011. Some investors, their hopes dashed that $1,000 would be quickly and decisively overrun, are seeing disaster...
Written: April 25, 2008 Dear Reader, What an interesting week! Having been a single parent for two weeks, with the kids on spring break for the second of those, I have attained a whole new level of appreciation, yes, I think that's the word, for the difficulty associated with holding down the home...
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