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Dear Fellow Investor, I’m writing you today to invite you to watch the powerful new documentary, America’s Tax-Free Zone , put together by our colleagues over at Casey Research. In this free world premiere video, you’ll learn from top financial experts Doug Casey, Nicholas Prouty, Peter Schiff, and serious investors like hedge fund manager John Paulson about the current […]
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Axel Merk, Merk Investments November 11, 2014 On November 30th, the Swiss are voting whether to amend their country’s constitution on an initiative entitled ‘Save our Swiss Gold.’ The Swiss gold initiative appears widely misunderstood, both inside and outside of Switzerland. We discuss implications for gold, the Swiss franc and Switzerland as a whole. The
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[The Following post is by the Hard Metals Team] Since writing last month that inflation was on the rise, things have taken an abrupt turn. Look at the deflationary actions that have recently taken place: The US dollar has shot up The US bond market has rallied Precious metals prices have collapsed Base metal prices have
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By Nick Giambruno It’s undeniable that the window of opportunity is getting smaller… especially when you connect all the dots and see the big picture. To help connect those dots, it’s important to understand the things that make being an American citizen uniquely burdensome. First, Americans are the only people in the entire world who effectively
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By Tony Sagami The Wall Street crowd liked what they heard last week and pushed the Dow Jones to a new high. In particular, the trio of the Republican landslide victory, an overall positive Q3 earning season, and a good jobs report that showed unemployment dropping to 5.8% was behind the rally. And what a
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By Grant Williams Last week, appropriately enough on Halloween, the Bank of Japan did something truly scary.As shocks go, this one — though it had been fairly well-telegraphed to the markets that something wicked this way might be coming — was in a league of its own. I’m sure that by now you’re well aware of what
Things That Make You Go Hmmm: Hato No Naka No Neko Read More »
By Dennis Miller What do Siegfried and Roy have in common with Federal Reserve Chairman Janet Yellen? Shortly after the Bureau of Labor Statistics released unemployment data last month showing that joblessness had dropped below 6% for the first time since the 2008 crash, the Federal Reserve announced it would stop government bond purchases; Quantitative
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By John Mauldin For a central banker, deflation is one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: Death, Famine, Disease, and Deflation. (We will address later in this letter why War, in the form of a currency war, is not in a central banker’s Apocalypse mix.) It is helpful to understand that, before a person
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Source: JT Long of The Gold Report (11/10/14) Frank Holmes’ advice to investors? Chill. In his interview with The Gold Report, the veteran commodities investor shared some strategies that help him “sit back and stay balanced,” namely by diversifying and following the money. Find out about the indicators Holmes watches to read the market’s pulse, and why a +/- 35%
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By John Mauldin Today’s Outside the Box comes from Sam Rines of Chilton Capital Management in Houston, TX – a promising young economics contributor to The National Interest and a rising star who I met at Worth Wray’s wedding a few weeks ago. Worth and Sam have developed quite the friendship over the past several months, but it didn’t
Outside the Box: The Biggest Threat to U.S. Jobs: “The Contestability Nightmare” Read More »