November 2014

By Marin Katusa, Chief Energy Investment Strategist The stakes couldn’t be higher. Vladimir Putin has launched a devastating plan to turn Russia into an energy powerhouse. And Europe, dependent on Russian natural gas and oil for a third of its fuel needs, has fallen right into his hands: Putin can bend the EU to his […]

Thursday November 06, 2014 15:34 Jay Taylor We now have a 10-year triple bottom for gold shares as measured by the HUI Index. Have we now seen a capitulation in the gold shares? Or are we destined to go still lower? Actually, in terms of the TSX-S&P Gold Share Index shown below on your left,

By Jared Dillian   Ten years ago, when I worked on the equity index derivatives desk at Lehman, we used to sit around and dream things up. Like, we wondered out loud if you could actually create a volatility ETF. It seemed like a brilliant idea. Who wouldn’t want to buy volatility? There were some

By Marin Katusa, Chief Energy Investment Strategist Back on September 11 and 12, there was a summit meeting in a city that involved an organization that most Americans have never heard of. Mainstream media coverage was all but nonexistent. The place was Dushanbe, the capital of Tajikistan, a country few Westerners could correctly place on

By Dennis Miller   When the tech and real estate bubbles burst, many of my friends lost 40-50% of their retirement portfolios almost overnight. Is a similar downturn looming? Take a look at the chart below showing the S&P’s performance since 2008. Caution is in order. We may see a major correction, a huge downturn,

November 4, 2014 12:19PM We all know that print journalism is dying a slow death and migrating to its online afterlife, where the eyeballs are. However, there is another dimension to this process: the death not just of journalism, but of the human editor. What’s happening to news is similar to what has happened to

JEFF DESJARDINS on October 23, 2014 at 8:45 pm The Net Worth of Every US President In the modern US political system, it costs billions of dollars to rise through the ranks and eventually make a run for president. While not necessary, it is definitely helpful to have some personal wealth to facilitate years of

by The Daily Coin · November 5, 2014  from Silver Doctors The US Mint has just issued an alert to Primary Dealers across the US that Silver Eagle inventories, which according to the Mint began today at over 2 million ounces, are now SOLD OUT as of 12:30pm EST. The Mint has reportedly sold through over 2 million

Montag, 3. November 2014, 10:31 Uhr | Eingetragen von Goldreporter Precious metal dealers in Germany have literally been run down after the latest slump in gold and silver. Wholesalers already expect deferred deliveries. The latest plunge in gold and silver late last week has led to a sharp increase in demand by German precious metals investors, which also

By Nick Giambruno, Senior Editor, InternationalMan.com The chaos that one day will ensue from our 35-year experiment with worldwide fiat money will require a return to money of real value. We will know that day is approaching when oil-producing countries demand gold, or its equivalent, for their oil rather than dollars or euros. The sooner