Gary Johnson is running for the Republican nomination for president. If you didn’t know that, you’re not alone. Precious few people do. He is the longest of long shots, with little money, a bare-bones grassroots organization and parsimonious media coverage, to say the least. He has had to fight through the indignity of being uninvited […]
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By David Galland, The Casey Report While I haven’t made a scientific study of the topic, I suspect the leading genre for popular entertainment – and for popular delusions of crowds, for that matter – revolves around magical worlds. As illustration, the Harry Potter series will serve. The problem is that there is no such
By David Galland, The Casey Report Of all the social memes related to the economic and investment landscape, none is more dominant than that there is a small cadre of powerful Wall Street money men who, working behind the scenes, effectively control investment markets, the global economy and the politicians that play such a big
“Earnings estimators are too pessimistic at bottoms and too optimistic at tops,” explains EWI’s president Robert Prechter Four times a year, investors and Wall Street watch the quarterly corporate earnings reports, trying to anticipate the trend in stocks. Another earnings season is upon us right now, so read this excerpt from our free Club EWI
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The MIP (Moore Inflation Predictor) is our proprietary index that projects future inflation rates one year into the future. It uses a “fan” style with varying level of likelihood that certain rates will be attained. If you are considering refinancing (see When is it Right to Refinance? ) naturally you want the best rate. In
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By Terry Coxon, The Casey Report Money market funds began as a bright and useful idea, became a habit, and recently have become a bad habit. Money market funds were invented in 1971 as an innovative end-run around Federal Reserve Regulation Q, which prohibited paying interest on demand deposits. The purpose of Reg Q was
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Source: JT Long of The Gold Report (10/26/11) The end of 2011 is a golden opportunity to participate in an anticipated upside for mining equities, says Tocqueville Asset Management Senior Managing Director John Hathaway. We caught up to him at the Casey Research/Sprott Inc. Summit “When Money Dies” for this exclusive interview with The Gold
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By Jeff Clark, Casey Research The following conversation took place between a friend’s son and me; he’s a bright but relatively young investor. He had purchased some gold based on some things I’d told his father. Shortly afterward, the price dropped hard. As you’ll see, he was not very happy with my advice and said
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By Bud Conrad, Casey Research Foreign central banks buy US Treasury and Agency debt through accounts at the Federal Reserve, where it is held in custody. Without these central banks buying our debt, the US federal government would have to find a new source of funds or the result could be higher interest rates. Looking
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An excerpt of Doug’s musings on why “the problems we’re facing are 100% caused by the US government” – from the recent Casey/Sprott Summit When Money Dies. Listen to Doug’s complete summit speech – plus those of more than 27 renowned financial experts – from the comfort of your home. More than 20 hours of
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