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By Gerald Nowotny   The tax benefits of Puerto Rican residency gained some attention and notoriety when hedge fund billionaire John Paulson went to Puerto Rico to “kick the tires.” He did not become a Puerto Rican resident (not yet, at least), but ended up buying a resort there instead. My theory is that John […]

By Alasdair Macleod Posted 14 November 2014 After a very strong rise last Friday precious metals drifted lower-to-sideways for most of the week, but behind this unexceptional behaviour there are some tectonic shifts under way. The chart below is of the gold price and open interest on Comex. When the price rose on Friday open interest

November 16, 2014 By Dudley Pierce Baker http://CommonStockWarrants.com   In my Thursday evening comments to our Gold subscribers, I stressed that we really needed a big move of $20 or more up in gold or Friday. Perhaps the powers to be listened because after early losses in gold an incredible rallly began which may, just

By Marin Katusa, Chief Energy Investment Strategist Vladimir Putin is stronger than ever and judgement day for the petrodollar is here says Marin Katusa, author of the bestselling book, The Colder War, in a new interview with Bloomberg Radio. Marin warns that America cannot achieve energy independence and that downward pressure on the price of oil

By Marin Katusa, Chief Energy Investment Strategist   In the wake of one singular event—the disaster at Fukushima in March 2011, the effects of which are still being felt today across the planet—nuclear power has seemingly fallen into utter disrepute, at least in the popular mind. But this is largely an illusion. It’s true that

By John Mauldin Two years ago, my friend Mohamed El-Erian and I were on the stage at my Strategic Investment Conference. Naturally we were discussing currencies in the global economy, and I asked him about currency wars. He smiled and said to me, “John, we don’t talk about currency wars in polite circles. More like

Thursday November 13, 2014 14:28 Chris Vermeulen Last week I met with a local professional trader who specialized in trading only Canadian stocks. While he mainly trades the 75 large cap stocks on the TSX which have the liquidity requirements he needs, he also trade penny stocks on occasion. When he pulled up the TSX

By Jared Dillian I have been a gold bull, unrelentingly, since 2005. It has been quite an adventure. Nine years ago, I was 31—still pretty young. I hadn’t read enough Austrian economics to even understand why I should like gold, but I did nonetheless. Besides, it was going up. And coincidentally, the folks at State

By Bud Conrad, Chief Economist Gold dropped to new lows of $1,130 per ounce last week. This is surprising because it doesn’t square with the fundamentals. China and India continue to exert strong demand on gold, and interest in bullion coins remains high. I explained in my October article in The Casey Report that the Comex futures market

Source: Peter Byrne of The Gold Report  (11/12/14) The key to finding gold is understanding the rocks. Thomas Schuster is a geologist and mining analyst with a deep understanding of where the gold hides. In this interview with The Gold Report, he talks about a number of gold explorers whose rocks are starting to shine. And gold is ready