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Daniela Pylypczak: To investors’ relief, the Fed sent yet another strong signal that it is preparing to take action to boost the nation’s lackluster recovery. According to the minutes released on Wednesday, the central bank has “judged that additional monetary Read more…
Dominique de Kevelioc de Bailleul: Gold bugs salivate at the turbo-bullish implications of this recent discovery by two economists of an oddball indicator that investors can compare with the U.S. Commerce Department’s jury-rigged GDP number. Read more…
Dominique de Kevelioc de Bailleul: Commodities investor extraordinaire Jim Rogers of Rogers Holdings strongly suggests battening down the hatches, because the global economy is headed for the rocks, taking stocks with it. To protect wealth from a deepening of the mostly Western side of the global depression, Read more…
Dominique de Kevelioc de Bailleul: On Friday, it’s now official: Greece defaults. Zerohedge called the event: The biggest debt writedown in human history. Strangely, or not, there was no press conference by the ECB, no bold-letter headlines about the event. Nothing. There was nothing but an Read more…
Joseph Hogue: Emerging market funds recorded a tenth week of inflows last week, the longest run since 2010, as investors put global risk (pronounced eurozone crisis) behind them. Despite the continued inflows, the average emerging market (NYSEArca:VWO) equity portfolio lost 3.1 percent as investors Read more…
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Dominique de Kevelioc de Bailleul: Jim Rogers fears an attack on Iran will happen, calling a military confrontation with the world’s fifth-largest oil producer, “madness.” The 69-year-old chairman of Rogers Holdings also favors commodities over paper assets as investment for the remainder of the Read more…
Dominique de Kevelioc de Bailleul: As global investors fret about the March 20 deadline for Greece to demonstrate whether it will sink or swim, Jim Rogers of Rogers Holdings advises to hold gold, silver Read more…
Dominique de Kevelioc de Bailleul: In an article authored by famed investor Warren Buffett, titled, Warren Buffett: Why stocks beat gold and bonds, he attempts to dissuade investors from accumulating gold (again) as insurance during the ongoing financial crisis. Read more…
Martin Hutchinson: Forget about lost decades. Forecasts that we’ll be turning Japanese couldn’t be further from the truth. Here’s why. It’s simple, really. Deflation is not in the interest of anybody in power, so it’s very unlikely to happen. Read more…
Dominique de Kevelioc de Bailleul: Speaking with GoldSeek Radio host Chris Waltzek this week, Euro Pacific Capital CEO Peter Schiff expects the re-inflation trade to dominate in an unprecedented way in 2012, as money mangers send oil, gold (NYSEArca:GLD) and other dollar-sensitive assets much Read more…
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Jeff Nielson: To date, I and every other economic commentator have failed dismally in our efforts to communicate the insane manner in which all Western economies have been mismanaged Read more…
Jonathan Yates: Central bank buying, along with George Soros and Steven Cohen, is contributing mightily to the increase in the price of gold, with the exchange traded fund, SPDR Gold Shares (NYSEARCA:GLD) up almost 4% for the week. Read more…
Brian Sylvester: Jay Taylor believes the biggest challenge facing the U.S.—deflation—could mean a better year, or even decade, for junior gold stocks (NYSEARCA:GDXJ). Taylor, editor of Jay Taylor’s Gold, Energy & Tech Stocks, has ridden some equities to the bottom of this punishing market and is Read more…
Kerri Shannon: The damaging global economic effects that Europe’s unfolding debt crisis pose have caused a sharp reversal in China’s monetary policy – one that will lead to a greater expansion of the Red Dragon’s economy. Read more…
Keith Fitz-Gerald: I just finished a battery of media appearances on Fox Business, Bloomberg, BNN and CNBC Asia, and without exception I was asked about two things: President Barack Obama’s jobs bill and the U.S. Federal Reserve’s “QE3.” Read more…
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