By Chris Vermeulen The past few months have been tough for those holding precious metals stocks, PM futures contracts or physical bullion. With silver is trading down 41%, precious metals stocks down 30% and gold 15%. It has...
Read MoreBy Bob van der Valk News from Bloomberg dated Dec. 21: “The Obama administration and European governments are seeking help from Arab and Asian allies to reduce Iran’s oil revenue in the dispute over its nuclear...
Read MoreBy Stratfor Global Intelligence It has often been said that Iran’s “real nuclear option” is its ability to close — or at least try to close — the Strait of Hormuz, which facilitates the movement of...
Read MoreBy EconMatters The latest last-ditch temporary fixes to avert another embarrassing political stalemate came on Saturday, 17 Dec. when the U.S. Senate passed a plan to extend the payroll tax cut for two months. However, thanks to...
Read MoreBy Karim Rahemtulla of Wall Street Daily We’re slap-bang in the middle of a very dangerous game – one where the culprits aren’t thieves or terrorists, but our very own Federal Reserve and other central banks...
Read MoreBy Michael Snyder Never in the history of the NFL has there ever been anything like this. Today, Tim Tebow engineered yet another miraculous 4th quarter comeback. Almost everyone has been expecting this unprecedented string of...
Read MoreBy Russ Winter I’m sure some, or many of you have read or are aware of James Rickards’ Currency Wars. I am pretty much in agreement that QE3 is on the way. It may be announced as soon as January or perhaps more...
Read MoreBy Louise Basenese of Wall Street Daily This week we’re tackling the pesky little debate about Peak Oil and America’s overreliance on oil imports.Near the height of the energy crisis in 2008, the Republicans...
Read MoreBy Bruce Krasting The bumbling fools in D.C. have done it again. They’ve screwed us all one more time. The low rent morons who are running the show have kicked the can down the road for (get this) two months. On Saturday,...
Read MoreBy Frank Holmes It wasn’t a pretty week for gold prices. The eurozone’s epic endeavor to conquer its sovereign debt issues forced some institutional investors to liquidate profitable gold positions to meet a rising...
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