Archive for: inflation

Gold, oil & 44 Bars per Minute

Gold, oil & 44 Bars per Minute

“Girls love to spin.” — Wayne, Dance Instructor, Howard County Parks and Rec. I’m taking dance classes at the local Parks & Rec. with a stunning...

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After the crisis, a worldwide rise in unrest?

After the crisis, a worldwide rise in unrest?

Peter Apps Reuters Feb 28, 2011 With the Middle East in turmoil, other authoritarian states jumpy and post-crisis economic pain prompting protest in western Europe...

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Of Government and Famine

We never completed our reflections on why you need a refuge…a place to retreat…a family stronghold. As society becomes more complex, each man depends...

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Superleverage: Limiting Your Risk While Boosting Your Returns

The greatest misconception about options is they are full of risk. But if you understand my secret technique called Superleverage, you’ll quickly realize just...

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Fleckenstein Pins High Prices on the Fed

Fleckenstein Pins High Prices on the Fed

Here’s a great video in which Bill Fleckenstein explains the root cause of soaring prices in practically everything to Dylan Ratigan . Not surprisingly,...

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How Fear of Economic Shock Drove China’s State Control and Forex Hoarding

In an interview by The Browser discussing Yasheng Huang’s book, Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics: Entrepreneurship and the State, Northwestern University...

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Weekend: The Tipping Point Has Arrived

Weekend: The Tipping Point Has Arrived

Welcome to the Wealth Daily Weekend Edition— our insights from the week in investing and links to our most-read Wealth Daily and sister publication articles....

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Go Inside the $56 Billion ‘Black’ Budget

The Pentagon dropped its $533 billion budget this week. Some line items get a thorough public debate — like stealth jet engines and soldier health care. Others...

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Silver Near a 31-Year High

Silver Near a 31-Year High

Filed under: Major Movement , Competitive Strategy , Barrick Gold (ABX) , Commodities , Federal Reserve Back in the late 1970s, the Hunt brothers from Texas tried...

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Market Week Wrap-up

– Leading global equity indices continued floating upwards this week while the inflation drumbeat just kept getting louder. In the US, the January y/y CPI...

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Urban Magnets for Disaster

When it comes to bad stuff the sky’s the limit. It’s gonna happen, eventually…one way or another. And it could be real bad. And when bad stuff happens, you’re...

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Gallup:  The Unemployment Rate is 10%

Gallup: The Unemployment Rate is 10%

Jobs…jobs…jobs… I’m beginning to sound like a broken record but it’s true: This economy is going nowhere unless we start creating...

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