Long-term trends grow from short term trends. We attampt to determine the short term trends and where they are pointing.
Throughout Europe regions that were once independent are seeking to shed the shackles of their non-productive neighbors. Those areas that feel they are paying more in taxes than they are receiving in benefits are looking to their historical roots and dreaming of independence. Among them are Scotland, Catalan, Spain and Venice, Italy.
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Russia and China could develop stronger economic ties as Europe pulls away in light of the annexation of Crimea. After all, Russia needs an outlet for its energy production and China’s energy needs continue to grow, so there could be a good fit there.
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Birth of a New Ukrainian Nation? Interview with Robert Bensh Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula is now Russia’s. It was done with an impressively organized non-violent military operation, and supported by the foregone conclusion of a referendum on independence from Ukraine. One Ukrainian soldier was reportedly killed on 18 March, after Russian President Vladimir Putin signed the
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Ukraine: Three Views By John Mauldin All eyes are on Ukraine as the drama continues to unfold. Today, for an early Outside the Box, I’m going to offer three sources on Ukraine. The first is a note that I got from the head of emerging-market trading at one of the world’s largest hedge funds. This
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If you’re ready to do some investing, you need a broker to be able to buy stocks, options, and pretty much anything else. Deciding on the right broker for you can be difficult. If you’ve made the rounds of the local brokerage firms you’ll notice a trend: they all charge a lot in commissions. If you start looking online you’ll notice the commissions are decidedly lower but are these brokers a good deal or just a good deal of trouble?
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It’s hard to believe that before the 1700’s, the pace of progress was so slow that it took roughly 350 years for a family to double its standard of living. Thus the average individual in the middle of the eighteenth century had no better than quality of life than the average individual 2000 years earlier,
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By Nick Giambruno, Senior Editor, International Man Recently, legendary crisis investor Doug Casey and I put our boots to the ground in Cyprus to search the rubble of one of recent history’s most significant financial crises—the financial collapse and bank deposit raid in Cyprus—for incredible bargains. And we found them. In this newly released video
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Papal Fallibility by Bill Bonner Uh oh! The new pope, Francis from the Pampas, has just warned us to beware the “tyranny of capitalism.” Each man worships his own gods. Some worship at the altar of Jesus of Nazareth. Some at the altar of the Almighty Dollar. The capitalists don’t bad-mouth Francis’s god. You’d think
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Tech companies are the wave of the global economic future. They will never totally replace the “traditional” sectors of the economy like manufacturing, energy, and agriculture, but there certainly seems to be increased integration between tech and old-line industries.
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Lately we have been hearing rumblings in the media that the market is getting “too frothy” and looking like a “bubble” and the media is wondering if we are nearing 2008 proportions. Usually as long as we hear talk like that the market is safe because when we are really nearing a top all the media
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