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By John Mauldin “The significant problems that we have created cannot be solved at the level of thinking we were at when we created them.” – Albert Einstein “Generals are notorious for their tendency to ‘fight the last war’ – by using the strategies and tactics of the past to achieve victory in the present. […]

  Tuesday,November 04, 2014     [The following post is by TDV Chief Editor, Jeff Berwick] Life is changing on Planet Earth thanks to little known legislation. Although much talked about in financial and banking circles, most of the world’s population is totally oblivious to it even if it might have major implications for their

  By Dudley Pierce Baker     CommonStockWarrants.com Fear is in the streets again for resource investors as gold plunged late last week and closed at $1172 having been as low as $1160. Over the weekend I looked over the charts which I access with Stockcharts.com and a close look to me reveals that the

Cecilia Jamasmie | November 3, 2014 Mining in the Antarctic is not likely to happen any time soon, as scientists believe the treaty that exploration and exploitation of the region’s resources may be revised in the next century Speaking at a polar law symposium, former head of the Australian Antarctic Division, Tony Press, said the Antarctic Treaty —

By Jared Dillian   October 31, 2014 I had an instant-messenger conversation with one of my clients the other day. It was pretty annoying—he wrote things like “BULL MARKET, DUDE,” and harangued me about my net-short positioning.Then he started telling me that the market was going to rip if the Republicans took both houses of Congress in the

By Casey Research Vladimir Putin is stripping America of its superpower status. But he’s not using bombs or tanks to do it. He plans to destroy the one thing that underpins demand for the dollar and Americans’ way of life: the petrodollar system. This was the secret pact Kissinger struck in the vast oil rich

The 10th Man: Midterm Elections: Would a Republican Win Be Bullish for the Stock Market? By Jared Dillian I had an instant-messenger conversation with one of my clients the other day. It was pretty annoying—he wrote things like “BULL MARKET, DUDE,” and harangued me about my net-short positioning.Then he started telling me that the market

Source: Karen Roche of The Gold Report  (10/29/14) Between a rising U.S. Dollar Index and black swan events around the world, it’s looking like bunker time for Bob Moriarty. In his latest interview with The Gold Report, the 321gold.com founder delivers a frank overview of U.S. international policy and lambasts commentators who look to their tea leaves in search of the

Outside the Box: The Colder War By John Mauldin   The story of energy is the story of human expansion. From the days when we roamed the African savanna, we tamed first fire and then other forms of energy, using them as tools to control our environment and improve our lives. The control of energy

October 29, 2014 by MerkInvestments.com Any doubts about why I own gold as an investment were dispelled last Saturday when I met the maestro himself: former Fed Chair Alan Greenspan. It’s not because Greenspan said he thinks the price of gold will rise – I don’t need his investment advice; it’s that he shed light