US Mint Gold Sales Surge To Highest Since 2009
First it was a tripling of gold sales at the UK Royal mint, and now with just 23 days in the month of April gone, it is the US Mint's turn to reports that more gold has been sold month to date than any...
View ArticleGuest Post: Abnormalcy Bias
Submitted by Jim Quinn of The Burning Platform blog,“The real hopeless victims of mental illness are to be found among those who appear to be most normal. Many of them are normal because they are so...
View ArticleThe One Line to Watch For Where Gold is Heading
Since 2011, the Fed and other global Central Banks have injected over $2 trillion into the financial system. They’ve also announced plans to continue pumping money ad infinitum. And yet for the period...
View ArticleItaly's Monte Paschi Got A Sovereign Bailout To Avoid Being Corzined
Those who think back to November 2011 will recall that it wasn't Jon Corzine's wrong way bet on Italian bonds that ultimately led to the bankruptcy of MF Global, well it did in part, but the real...
View ArticleThe Retirement Gamble
If you’ve been watching any commercial television lately, you are well aware that the financial services industry is very busy running expensive ads imploring us to worry about our retirement futures....
View ArticleJust What Is Going On With The Gold In JPMorgan's Vault?
We know that back in early October 2010, when gold closed at a then record high of $1,320, JPM decided to reopen its previously mothballed precious metal vault due to soaring demand for metal vaulting,...
View ArticleGuest Post: How The Boston Bombing Is Already Being Exploited To Introduce...
Submitted by Brandon Smith of Alt-Market.com,I have no personal experience in the business of false flag terrorism, but I imagine that engineering a successfully staged terror attack to be blamed on...
View ArticleAMZN In Six Easy Charts
All one can say is: "LOL"Operating Profit and Net Income for Three Months Ended March 31, 2010-2013: Amazon Free Cash Flow (Operating profits less CapEx): Amazon Operating Margin % Amazon LTM Operating...
View ArticleJPMorgan's Eligible Gold Plummets 65% In 24 Hours To All Time Low
We are confident that in the aftermath of our article from last night "Just What Is Going On With The Gold In JPMorgan's Vault?" in which we showed the absolute devastation of "eligible" (aka...
View ArticleChild Hunger Is Exploding In Greece – And 14 Signs That It Is Starting To...
Submitted by Michael Snyder of The Economic Collapse blog,The world is heading into a horrific economic nightmare, and an inordinate amount of the suffering is going to fall on innocent children. If...
View ArticleVisualizing The Dead-Weight On The Global Economic Recovery
Youth unemployment has become a worrying phenomenon with 74.6 million young people unemployed globally in 2012. Rising youth unemployment has a detrimental effect on economic growth, political and...
View Article"The Battlefield Is The United States Of America"
Submitted by Simon Black of Sovereign Man blog,When you’ve got a guy like Senator John McCain who says “The battlefield is the United States of America,” it tells you that almost nothing is safe in the...
View ArticleAbenomics Leads To Worst Core Deflation In Three Years
Six months in and a 30% devaluation in the JPY and it would appear Abenomics is not having quite the desired effect. With an oh-so-exciting 2% inflation target that we are sure will be appearing any...
View ArticleOn The Unsustainable Losses Of The Italian Banking System
While not in the throes of a real estate crash, Italian banks are seeing a sharp deterioration in the quality of their assets. And while Italy's bond spreads head back to pre-crisis lows, as BofAML's...
View ArticleGuest Post: Bitcoin As Cryptographic Gold?
Submitted by Detlev Schlicter via DetlevSchlichter.com,Could Bitcoin Be The Money Of The Future?The crypto-currency Bitcoin is still merely a speck on the global monetary landscape. It is young,...
View ArticleBonds 101: Yields, Prices, And Inflation
We recently showed 220 years of US Treasury bond yield history but all too often, the average investor is unfortunately unaware of the relationship between bond yields (interesting on a relative-value...
View ArticleGuest Post: It's A Bit Early To Declare A Winner In The Economic Debate
Submitted by Lance Roberts of Street Talk Live,Recently, Henry Blodget wrote that "The Economic Argument Is Over - And Paul Krugman Won." The premise of the article is that the ongoing debate between...
View ArticleFriday Humor (#1): Meet The New (Normal) Chuck Norris
It appears Chuck has finally met his match, and his name is Jamie...Jamie Dimon is richer than you.If you have Five dollars and Jamie Dimon has Five dollars, Jamie Dimon has more money than you.When...
View ArticleThe Week That Was: April 22nd-26th 2013
Succinctly summarizing the positive and negative news, data, and market events of the week...PositivesSpanish spreads ignore reality, continue to compressMarch new home sales beat expectations (average...
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