By EconMatters Our research analyst John Gray was interviewed by Carolyn Cui from Wall Street Journal regarding why we believe CME should have raised margins on silver earlier and had missed the best opportunity to do so....
Read MoreBy Dr. Mark J. Perry Scott Grannis points to this excellent Salon article “Everything You’ve Heard About Fossil Fuels May Be Wrong” about natural gas and fracking, here are some excerpts: “According to...
Read MoreBy Prieur du Plessis I was interviewed in Cape Town by Chris Mayer, author of the Capital & Crisis newsletter. The interview was broad-based, but emphasized my views on platinum and the South African stock...
Read MoreBy Andrew Butter The recent events in Greece are reminiscent of when Soros “busted” the Bank of England. That crisis was caused by an artificial peg of the Pound to the Euro which restricted the ability of UK to...
Read MoreBy EconMatters Unlike crude oil, which is traded globally via tankers and pipelines, natural gas trading remain primarily isolated within the producing regions and lacks the infrastructure to be a true global...
Read MoreBy Charles Rotblut, CFA Income-oriented investors have yet another reason to be upset with the bond markets. Junk bond yields fell to a record low a few days ago and are staying near those levels. As of the evening of Wednesday,...
Read MoreBy Andrew Butter For more than two years students of Econ-101 have been chattering about how the irrefutable logic of the “insanity-of-America’s-money-printing and fiscal mismanagement” would cause yields on...
Read MoreBy EconMatters As global economy slowly recovers from the Great Recession, market confidence starts to return, Microsoft finally decided to join the M&A party and made the biggest acquisition in its 36-year...
Read MoreGuest Post By Prieur du Plessis “A number of technical indicators have been very helpful in timing the end of prior corrective phases when cyclical equity conditions were still generally constructive, i.e. a sustainable,...
Read MoreBy Ellen Brown [T]hreatening to default should not be a partisan issue. In view of all the hazards it entails, one wonders why any responsible person would even flirt with the idea. ~ Alan S. Blinder,...
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