“By End of 2012 Silver May Triple And Gold Should Be Priced Around $3800″

By Jack Kneafsey

Here are some significant comments from a very enlightening and extensive interview with Alasdair Macleod by Tekoa Da Silva for his site Bull Market Thinking. I thought you would definitely benefit from listening to this recent interview with the highly regarded Alasdair Macleod, whom I personally respect a lot, and who has been very accurate over the Read More »

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By John Browne, Senior Market Strategist, Euro Pacific Capital, Inc

As the year draws to a close, understandable confusion reigns in the minds of many investors. While short-term indicators, such as consumer confidence, appear to beckon recovery, the longer-term strategic issues remain shrouded in the smoke and mirrors of central bank monetary manipulation. From the perspective of someone who has keenly observed global economics for more than a half century, I see little Read More »

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By Peter Morici

Americans should be thankful that the values that define America — personal liberty and individual pursuit of happiness — are increasingly embraced around the globe.

The Arab Spring and upheavals in Russia are affirmations that even more of humanity finds hope in democracy. The remarkable economic progress of Brazil, China and others are tangible proof of the power of individual enterprise and ambition.

For much of the last century, America has used Read More »

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EDITOR’S COMMENT: Here are some additional insightful comments about the supposed “fair trade” between China and the U.S. Just this past week, China announced additional tariffs of about 22% on American-made cars and sports utility vehicles. As a result, according to the NY Times, a Jeep Cherokee that costs about $28,000 here in the U.S. will now cost about $85,000 in China.
That’s seems “fair” doesn’t it?

As we’ve remarked many times, we are Read More »

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EDITOR’S COMMENT: I thought these comments were very timely, given yesterday’s announcement by the White House that it is seeking to raise the debt ceiling again by another $1.2 trillion, which amazingly will only cover our deficit spending for less than twelve months. Remember that this request is part of the debt increase that was agreed to and signed into law this past August, which allowed for a total increase in the Read More »

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By Graham Summers

Few if any commentators understand what is happening in the US today. The reason for this is that the vast majority of investment professionals believe that what they’ve experienced in their lifetimes is the norm.

Put another way, an entire generation of investment professionals has:

1) Never witnessed a secular economic change

2) Never witnessed or invested during a bear market in bonds

3) Hasn’t studied enough history to know about either Read More »

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EDITOR’S COMMENT: Here is a rather contrarian viewpoint on the Euro sovereign crisis, which claims that survival is the only option for the EU, and that Germany has far too much at stake to allow the euro to collapse, or even worse disappear. Frankly, there are some pretty sound arguments for this conclusion, but I believe that it is a little premature to anticipate this mainly optimistic conclusion, but, as always, I Read More »

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By Charles Hugh Smith

Students stuck with gargantuan loans for life are bound in a bank-dominated “improvement” of indentured servitude.

Yesterday ( Risk is Necessary for Adaptation, Innovation and Success) I discussed the inevitable failure of systems in which risk has been transferred from those who reap the gain to others. In the case of student loans, the risk has been transferred to students who enter decades of indentured servitude.

Indentured servitude Read More »

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By Max Slavo

If the abhorrent unemployment numbers, the nearly 50 million on government food assistance, dwindling savings accounts, collapsing real estate values, and negative economic growth (when adjusted for inflation) are not enough to convince you that we are in a long-term depressionary cycle, then maybe these latest statistics of “near poor” Americans will:

Down but not quite out, these Americans form a diverse group sometimes called “near poor” and sometimes simply Read More »

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