Quotable

[Currencies] “don't spring up spontaneously just because the Chinese cent

"Any house bought for 'No Money Down' should become a no money home, a free gift to the debtor. How's

Key News

The revised rescue package was approved by the Senate yesterday. The money market is still in shambles and as long as this is the case, the tur

"...The current surge in gold prices doesn't only reflect Dollar weakness. Confidence in all official currencies is evaporating fast

Robert Formaini, a Senior Economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, recently published an interesting essay on the Tech Central Station webs

The Charm Offensive

I send you Outside the Box each week not to make you comfortable but to make you think. Usually it is on some financial topic, but life is more

There is a reason I call this column Outside the Box. I try to get material that forces us to think outside our normal comfort zones and challe

It's been 21 months since two Bear Stearns hedge funds defaulted setting off a series of events which have led to the gr

Why Obama’s Stimulus Package Is Doomed to Failure

Paper mill on the Potomac

The paper mill on

Helicopter Ben Bernanke has earned the new moniker of Banana Ben. He has earned the new name because of his desire to make the United States re

Forget 12% a YEAR … How much is 30% per MONTH worth to you?

Casting aside 46% in open profits on our primary

After the 1929 October 24, 28 and 29 market crash, the weekly entertainment industry magazine Variety (on October 30) published its most famous

Global Research , February 22, 2009

The more they do, the worse it gets

In an age of illusion, the guise of truth is often heresy

The gathering of the world’s economic elites in Davos, Switz

What’s in a Depression?

Is the USA in a Depression yet? It’s a question that a lot of us are asking cur

Peter Grandich, creator and producer of The Grandich Letter for a quarter century, allied himself with AGORACOM in October, bringing his w

The inimitable Dennis Gartman, who has been publishing his popular commentary since 1987, took a break from one of his busy days to chat wi

There are those who are arguing that the equity markets are due for a bounce – maybe even an upward surge in prices. Some are very season

On June 15, 2007, Ron Paul introduced HR 2755: Federal Reserve Abolition Act. There were no co-sponsors, no further action was taken, and the l

Notwithstanding the success of a 2nd American Revolution

Politicians, Bankers, Pow

Basic Income Guarantee Network Annual Conference, New York , N.Y. , February 27-March 1, 2009

This syst

Prior to the recent market meltdown, the market for junior mining companies had already been experiencing a severe correction since its peak in

Keeping track of the ever mutating bailout debate is becoming increasingly difficult. With the Federal money spigots now thrown wide open, and

"The problems we face today cannot be solved by the minds that created them"  Albert Einstein 

By Olivier Garret, Casey Research

In this interview with The Gold Report, Sprott Resource Corp. President and CEO Kevin Bambrough—who is also

David Skarica, author of the Addicted to Profits newsletter, gives The Gold Report an exclusive

• Electing the Janitor-in-Chief
• Can't Borrow on Your Home? Whip out the Credit Card!
• Deficits as High as an Elephan

"The great inter-war slumps were not acts of God or of blind forces. They were the sure and certain result of the concentrat

The Greatest Lie Ever Told

Now that the authorities essentially have received what they asked for, it will be with great interest th

This article was written just prior to the announcement of the rejection of the bailout bill but has been qualified to reflect current conditio

I just got the chance to read the op-ed penned b

The Treasury Secretary Paulson and Fed Chairman Bernanke bailout plan calls for $700 billion in taxpayer funds to be used to purchase assets that

Gold Standard University Live

Introduction

Gold mining executives would like to forget the hedging fiasc

We are entering the next stage of the credit crisis, and one which is potentially more troubling than what we have seen over the past year, absen

The engine used to run on premium, e.g. gold and silver; now it's being run on credit which over time will destroy the engine and everything

In the last 15 years or so, as a society we have had access to more information than ever before in modern history because of the Internet. There

It's staggering to think that as we march toward a seventh year at war, Iraq (let alone Afghanistan) is hardly an issue on the campaign trail

The Twilight of Irredeemable Debt

Wagner's opera Götterdämmerung is about the twighlight of pagan gods.

Imagine living amongst a race of immortal, super-human creatures with superior intellect, abilities, resources and power. Further, imagine that t

Part I - Legislating Denial or Sweeping Change for Better or Worse
Part II - Central Bank Insolvency Cri

The official number for employment suggested a loss of 63,000 jobs. But could it have been more like 200,000? And I will make a case for 2,000,00

The IMF and Its Phantom Gold Sales

The IMF as the linchpin of the fixed exchange rate regime

The International Monetary Fund

Barron Young Smith is a financial journalist whose piece What Would Happen If We Adopted the Gold Standard? is appended below. He descri

Adaptive Trading and Investment Perspectives

Since we first began offering our market forecasting and analysis services to the public s

A sequel to "The Double Whammy of Geopolitical Global Gold Games"

In my last article I suggested that the superpowers China,

Even the most rabid silver bugs admit the possibility that the Chinese are the Big Silver Shorts. This suggests that the Big Gold Shorts are also

GOLD WINS! PAPER EQUITIES LOSE! The headlines for investing in 2007, and the previous ten years, can now be written. Forget all

Investment Landfill, Part 1

"...If only I could make a thumping

The markets rebounded strongly this week, bouncing off a 10% drop in the previous weeks. Is it a signal of renewed economic vigor? Or is it a dea

Executive Summary

Very few people understand the "continental drift" that threatens with a fracture of the U.S. (and hence, t

The turning gears of Bernanke's beautiful machine continue to sound like music to the ears of precious metals investors! G

This week we look at length at an outstanding new book just hitting the bookstores by good friend Paul McCulley (of Pimco fame), called Y

I'm sure by now many traders have noticed what's really been going on. It sure does feel as though the capitulation phase I've been w

What are the odds of a recession? According to a recent Fed study, they may be 51.9%. Close enough to 50-50 for government work. We analyze this

It has been a few weeks since I've written on the subject of deflation, and in the meantime Mish has had a couple of good articles (

Dear Subscribers,

I hope every one of you has had a great New Year's, not to mention a great  2006. The year 2006 was especi

Dedicated to the Memory of Ferdinand Lips (1931-2005)Student and Advocate of the Gold Standard

On the Occasion of the Inauguratio

For the better part of four years now, commodity prices have been rising as the unexpectedly rapid pace of urbanisation of Asia, running in a not-e

If you're one of the few remaining citizens in the country who still thinks the US has a free press, take a look at the covers of the international

Inflationomics, in popular terminology, indicates the sway of inflation thought in education and the affairs of government. It permeates political

This week we look into my worry closet and ponder whether the Dubai port debacle is a one-off thing or does it signal a rise in protectionism. The

'Neff Said ...In the wonderful first edition of the Barron's annual roundtable discussions that hit the Street a few weeks back, we saw a

Specter of the Gold Standard

A specter haunts executive mansions, chambers of legislatures, and halls of universities: the ghost of th

Not practicing what one preaches

I inadvertently opened a can of worms in writing the essay "

Abstract

Our revisionist theory of the gold standard takes the bill market and the discount rate into full account. Greater availabilit

Dear Subscribers and Readers,

We switched from a neutral position to a 25% short position in our DJIA Timing System on the morning of Jul

Last week we looked at how technology has the potential to slow and possibly reverse aging within the next two decades. Marvelous cures for the mai

Opening Whisper

The Wall Street Journal published an article on Thursday September 15 titled "Credit Derivatives And Their Risks Are O

We switched from a neutral position to a 25% short position in our DJIA Timing System on the morning of July 14th at DJIA 10,616. The Dow Indust

Survey Says...It's no huge secret that the US Treasury yield curve has been flattening for some time now. And it's not like we haven't li

Moneyization: The global financial phenomenon of individuals and businesses moving their funds to monies in which they have the highest confiden

Overture

This is a rejoinder to a piece of the same title by Paul Krugman, MIT professor (now at Princeton) and staff writer of Th

The Federal Reserve Open Market Operations Desk placed two large Repurchase Agreements ($9.250 billion & $6.000 billion) as well as placed Securiti

Projection

We are approaching a KEY and pivotal Event in the next 8-10 trading days.

I am 100% non-repentant in suggesting Go