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America Isn't Ready For Its Future
The American spirit is rooted in the belief of a better tomorrow. Its success has been due to generations of men and women who toiled, through both hardship and boom times, to make that dream a...
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The Stock Market Is Long Overdue For A 5% Pullback
The film, Oz: The Great and Powerful, the prequel to The Wizard of Oz, premiered last week. The story of how the wonderful wizard overcame the risks and prevailed worked its magic on moviegoers and...
View ArticleMARC FABER: Investors Should Be Worried About China's 'Colossal Credit Bubble'
The next major risk for investors is China's "colossal credit bubble,"Marc Faber, editor and publisher of The Gloom, Boom & Doom Report told CNBC on Thursday.Many investors turned bearish on the...
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The Best Quotes From Jeremy Grantham's Interview With Charlie Rose
This is a must view, folks.The first half of the interview, which aired yesterday, is dominated by a discussion of the natural resource constraints the world will be facing in the next decade.The real...
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The 'Efficient-Markets Hypothesis' Is Incredibly Useful Despite What Critics Say
The "Efficient Markets Hypothesis" is a popular target of anger and derision among lay critics of the econ profession.How can financial markets be "efficient" when they just crashed and took our...
View ArticleGold and Silver Outlook for March 14
Gold and silver changed course and slightly declined on Wednesday. Their decline coincided with the drop of leading currencies against USD such as Euro and Aussie dollar. The U.S retail sales report,...
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Chinese Company Is Quietly Building Natural Gas Fueling Stations Across The US
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - ENN Group Co Ltd, one of China's largest private companies, is quietly rolling out plans to establish a network of natural gas fueling stations for trucks along U.S....
View ArticleFX: Down Under In Focus While Others Consolidate
The US dollar is firm against most of the major currencies, but momentum is generally lacking and the broad consolidative tone remains intact. The chief exceptions are the Australian and New Zealand...
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South Korea's $28 Billion 'Dream Hub' Real Estate Project Faces Collapse
A $28 billion real estate project in Seoul was facing collapse after developers acknowledged defaulting on a major loan repayment.Yongsan Development Corp. (YDC) missed a Wednesday deadline to pay 5.9...
View Article7 Articles ETF Investors Must Read: 3/14
Wall Street took somewhat of a breather this week as mixed economic reports had investors curbing recent bullish momentum. The National Federation of Independent Business reported that its...
View ArticleThe Dollar and S&P 500 Relationship Re-examined
The relationship between the dollar and the S&P 500 is a perennial concern for investors. Analysts, including ourselves, run correlations. There is different ways to conduct the correlations. We...
View ArticleWhat’s In My Precious Metal Basket ETF?
Gold is certainly the most popular precious metal to invest in. ETFs are available that cover every sector of this enormous market, but some investors may wish to achieve more broad-based exposure to...
View ArticleGreat Graphic: US Fixed Income--Blowing Bubbles?
There is debate raging on whether the Fed's asset purchases are creating another financial bubble. Some fund managers, like PIMCO's Gross has been quoted in the press suggesting there is "irrational...
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Beware Of The Freudian Put
We all recall the Greenspan Put.This was a term coined in the 90′s as market participants came to understand that then Fed chairman Alan Greenspan would lower the Fed funds rate and provide liquidity...
View ArticleBecause it worked so well for Stalin…
Reporting from Santiago, ChileFive-year plans in the Land of the Free? Apparently it’s not that far off from reality.Yesterday Senator Tom Harkin introduced S. 544, “a bill to require the President to...
View ArticleDependence Day
By: John Browne Monday, July 16, 2012 The Fourth of July week brought unwelcome birthday gifts to the United States in the form of poor domestic jobs data and similarly gloomy information from other...
View ArticlePromises, Promises
By: John Browne Monday, August 6, 2012 In the last week of July, ECB President Mario Draghi attracted investor interest worldwide by saying that he would do “whatever it takes” to solve the Eurozone...
View ArticleDamn The Torpedoes
By: Peter Schiff Friday, June 8, 2012 Last week in an interview on CBS Network News, Economist Mark Zandi, the chief economist for Moody’s, unwittingly revealed a central error of the global economic...
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The Fed Singled JP Morgan And Goldman Sachs Out For Having Weak Doomsday Plans
Many of the biggest banks in the United States got the green light from the Federal Reserve Thursday on plans to return profits to shareholders.Two banks, JPMorgan Chase andGoldman Sachs, got yellow...
View ArticleDaily ETF Roundup: Dow Sets Yet Another Record
Bullish momentum returned on Wall Street, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average logging its first 10th-straight winning streak since 1996 and the S&P 500 closing just shy of its all-time closing...
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