Gold Breaks 200-day Moving Average
The precious metals continue to trade not so precious.Gold broke its 200-day moving average today. The yellow metal seems to be suffering the same fate as Apple going into year-end. Some investors...
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2013 Will Be A Huge Year For Silver — Analysts, Traders And Investors Agree
Prices again crept gradually higher in Asian trading prior to some retrenchment in early European trading but dollar weakness was supporting gold and silver.Further weakness could be seen and it is...
View ArticleEgypt’s 'Arab Winter' Has Begun
It’s been almost two years since the “Arab Spring” swept North Africa and the Middle East, and with it, grand hopes for change. Sometimes, change doesn’t happen as quickly as the people would like, and...
View ArticleGold is no hedge for Apple
A friend of GMac Monitor tweets on our last post on gold: “so gold is no short-term hedge for Apple?”When in doubt, go to the charts…Short answer. Nope!Didn’t the Mayans write about this correlation?...
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There's A Smart Way And A Dumb Way To Cut The Federal Debt
At last check, President Obama is offering $1.3 trillion in revenue increases and $930 billion in spending cuts, not including saved interest expense, in his fiscal cliff negotiations with House...
View ArticleThe Irreversible Plight of the Aging Welfare State
Eighteen years ago, Morgan Stanley’s Investment Strategist, Byron Wien, quipped, “Unless Europe engages in an extensive program of restructuring, in 20 years it will be a vast open-air museum.”But...
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Here's The Real Reason Why Obama Won The Election
For all the talk about Team Obama’s amazing campaign machine, it sure didn’t hurt that the economy turned in a pretty solid performance in the the third quarter.The Commerce Department has upwardly...
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13 European Housing Markets Sure Look Like Bubbles
Could Sweden or Finland be the scene of the next European financial crisis? It is actually far likelier than most people realize. While the world has been laser-focused on the woes of the...
View ArticleThird Generation Sunkist Grower Goes Solar
“As a third generation Sunkist grower, Nick Bozick has always understood the value of sustainability and as President of Richard Bagdasarian Inc., he is expanding that commitment with the launch of a...
View ArticleThe Entitlement Cliff
The Welfare States of the Developed World are “long growth.” Without it, their finances are doomed.First, a little background…Generally, investors will pay more for a dollar’s worth of earnings from a...
View ArticleThis Gold Strategy Is About To Payoff…
Gold dropped $30 yesterday, $60 in the past three days, $110 in the past month, and $130 in the past three months…Before you ask “Hey! What the heck is happening!?”Let’s take a step back and take a...
View Article3 ETF Sectors Facing Tax Uncertainty
For investors, the last few months have been dominated by two words: fiscal cliff. The combination of automatic expiring tax breaks and across-the-board government spending cuts scheduled to become...
View ArticleA Violence-Added Tax for Hollywood
For those in Hollywood who are proponents of redistributed wealth, how about a VAT tax on both the purveyors and consumers of violent media to help fund the mental health care system? We put heavy tax...
View ArticleWorkers will have MORE money in their pockets AND will have paid for a longer...
There are a number of well thought out plans to handle the problems proposed by opponents of Social Security and also those concerned about its sustainability. To have our political and media debate...
View ArticleAdam Liptak, gun legislation, the Supreme Court
More on gun legislation and law: ...the bottom line is that Liptak's spot-on, and that I think that the Supreme Court will use that Illinois case that Liptak discusses to make clear that the Second...
View ArticleOne simple question you need to ask yourself
December 20, 2012 Sovereign Valley Farm, ChileEveryone has a catalyst. A breaking point where we finally say, “enough is enough” and finally begin to take action.Maybe it’s watching your beautiful...
View ArticleThe political-economy of water…all in auctions
From David Zetland comes this re-posting from Aguanomics on addressing issues in the political economy for water.The political-economy of water...all in auctions I've been working on this idea for...
View ArticleGive the Gift of Capitalist Understanding
The enormous tragedy for young people today is that so many are sealed off by law from any involvement in the commercial marketplace… until it is too late. This means that they know not the heartbeat...
View ArticleIraq Quadrupled Its Gold Reserves In The Last Three Months
Gold is marginally lower in dollars today and on course for its largest weekly drop since June (-2.6%), as COMEX speculators continue to have the upper hand over store of wealth buyers including...
View ArticleBruce Bartlett and Yves Smith on Overhyping the Fiscal Cliff
This video featuring Bruce Bartlett and Yves Smith on Overhyping the Fiscal Cliff is worth watching. Independent political and economic analysts Bruce Bartlett and Yves Smith join Bill in a discussion...
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