By Jeff Clark, BIG GOLD My local newspaper ran a story about the escalating battle between Amazon.com and the state of California. At issue is the collection of sales tax: Governor Jerry Brown signed a law requiring online retailers to collect state sales tax on purchases made by CA residents. Before the ink dried on […]
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By Doug Hornig, Casey Extraordinary Technology With cancer, early detection equals a greater likelihood that treatment will have a positive outcome. Physicians have known this for a long time, and the statistics back them up. Survival rates for those afflicted with many types of cancer have risen dramatically in the past few decades. And one
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Typically the best time to buy is when everyone else is selling. This one motto has made Warren Buffett a billionaire. He’s said,
Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it…
We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.  Warren Buffett
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According to former GOP Senator Judd Gregg, the U.S. government borrows 41 cents out of every dollar it spends. In other words, if they can’t borrow any more money it means they have to cut 41% of the budget. According to Gregg, “The practical effect of hitting the debt limit is not that the entire
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In a wierd twist of fate, Uzbekistan is sitting on a “Gold Mine” of scientific information about solar energy which because of cheap Siberian Oil has been totally worthless… Up until now. Â With the world’s interest turning to Solar once again this might be an opportunity for a forward looking company to snap up years
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Over the last few years it seems that China couldn’t get enough resources. All those U.S. Dollars were burning a hole in their pocket. Almost everywhere you turned China was buying up natural resources. An oil company here, natural resources there they appeared insatiable. They wanted to buy something tangible almost anything tangible. Well it looks
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We all know that Europe is a mess… there is more debt than they can repay and the European Union is coming apart at the seams while trying to put on a unified front for the investing public. The PIIGS (Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece, and Spain) are all in danger of default and yet out
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It’s important to continue to check our economic compass and keep a constant eye on the direction our economy and the world in general are headed. This will help to determine any adjustments necessary in our portfolios and/or our entire financial outlook. In today’s article David Galland looks at the direction of the economy and whether anything
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It seems that everywhere we look these days- from U.S.  shale to massive Turkmenistan reserves- natural gas seems to be the energy source of the future. Back in 2006 Turkmenistan claimed to have found a field of up to 24 Trillion Cubic Meters of natural gas. At the time BP was saying that the reserves were probably
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by Andrey Dashkov, Casey Research On June 13, the CEO of Newmont Mining (NYSE:NEM), the world’s second largest world gold producer, expressed his expectations of gold hitting US$1,600 this year, and higher next year. UBS Investment Research goes out on a limb with near-term projections: its one-month gold forecast dropped from $1,500 to $1,475, but
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