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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 […]

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

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

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%

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

November 7, 2014    5:10PM, CST Dudley Pierce Baker http://CommonStockWarrants.com http://JuniorMiningNews.com What an incredible week for gold and that is an understatement. With gold crashing earlier in the week and trading in the low $1130s, today, Friday November 7th gold rallied and the rally continued into after hours trading and closed at $1178.50 up a whopping $37.20 for

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