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Rare Earth Investment Update

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Rare earth elements (or REEs) is a generic name for 17 metals widely used mostly in high-technology devices, such as mobile phones, laptops, flat screen televisions, hybrid car batteries, lasers, optics, and military equipment. New uses for these metals are being constantly found, but more on that later. Despite the name, these metals are not actually rare in nature. The name refers to the fact that they are rarely found in a pure form and are usually mixed with other minerals, which makes extraction complicated and costly. Further, mining and refining of rare earth metals is environmentally challenging, due to acidic and radioactive byproducts.

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Want to Know Who’s Going to Be President? Ask the Stock Market

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A recently-published, landmark research paper shows the link between stock market performance and presidential election winners. What’s the biggest influence on the outcome of presidential elections? Many observers would identify the role of campaign spending by super PACs, a candidate’s debate performance, and, of course, the health of the economy (“stupid”). Yet if you want

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Stock Market Is Not Physics: Part IV

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The following series is excerpted from two classic issues of Robert Prechter’s Elliott Wave Theorist. Although originally published in 2004, the valuable series has been re-released in the Independent Investor eBook, along with over 100 pages of other reports that challenge conventional economic thinking. Here is Part IV of the series. Click these links to

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Stock Market Is Not Physics Part III

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We have already seen that economic performance, earnings and inflation do not necessarily coincide with movements in apparently related financial markets. Is there any evidence that dramatic news events that make headlines, such as terrorist attacks, political events, wars, crises or any such events are causal to stock market movement?

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The Stock Market Is Not Physics: Part I

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The following series is excerpted from two classic issues of Robert Prechter’s Elliott Wave Theorist. Although originally published in 2004, the valuable series has been re-released in the Independent Investor eBook, along with over 100 pages of other reports that challenge conventional economic thinking. Here is Part I of the series. Check back in a

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The ABCs of Re-hypothecation in Gold and Securities Markets: What You Need to Know

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By Kevin Brekke, Casey Research A new polysyllabic term has entered the Wall Street lexicon and is sweeping through the investing world like a brush fire through a dry canyon: “hypothecation.” With its connection to the MF Global bankruptcy and aftermath, it engenders the kind of fear a homeowner might feel while monitoring the approaching

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European Union Agreement: Good or Bad for the Dow Industrials?

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Did European Union leaders make the sovereign debt crisis “go away” last week? Not even close. What they did agree on is tougher budget rules: “…17 countries of the euro zone…agreed to run only minimal budget deficits in the future and allowed the European Court of Justice the right to strike down national laws that

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