Long-term trends grow from short term trends. We attampt to determine the short term trends and where they are pointing.
By Jeff Clark, Casey Research While we’re convinced that our gold and silver investments will pay off, they don’t come without risk. What do you suppose is the biggest risk we face? Another 2008-style selloff? Gold stocks never breaking out of their funk? Maybe a depression that slams our standard of living? Though those things […]
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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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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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Over the last several decades jobs have migrated to China as they have kept their currency undervalued and thus Chinese labor has been cheaper than it would have been (which was already significantly cheaper than labor in the U.S.) but now at last that trend may be changing… as the following article by Martin Hutchinson shows. Tim
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Dubai: The Good and the Bad of 2011 The great slump of 2008 jolted Dubai real estate, so much so that even after three full years, it has still not returned to its former glory. Despite the efforts of the government and the private sector, properties in Dubai have faced a continuous decline in prices for several
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Source: Karen Roche and JT Long of The Gold Report When the currency system as we know it dies, some people will become very wealthy. In this special report from the Casey Research/Sprott Inc. Summit “When Money Dies,” The Gold Report cornered Global Resource Investments Founder and Chairman Rick Rule, Casey Research Senior Editor Louis
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An eye-opening interview with renowned speculator Doug Casey, conducted by Karen Roche and JT Long of The Gold Report. Doug explains why fiat currencies around the world are destined for collapse… and what investors can, and should, do to protect themselves. If dollar-dumping turns from a trickle into a flood, look out. Exploding prices (aka
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