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Michael Snyder: Is the petrodollar dead? Well, not yet, but the nails are being hammered into the coffin even as you read this. For decades, most of the nations of the world Read more…
Tony Sagami: If you ask me, all our politicians on a federal level are overcompensated. Every darn one of them! Not just the elected politicians themselves, but also their armies of support staff on the payroll. Read more…
Dominique de Kevelioc de Bailleul: In Max Keiser’s Friday edition of On the Edge, veteran mainstream-journalist-gone-straight Greg Hunter of USAWatchdog.com posited an interesting endgame scenario to a failed globalist agenda of financial consolidation Read more…
Padma Nagappan: With Japan set to restart reactors and Russia’s Megatons to Megawatts program near its expiration date, Analyst Edward Sterck thinks uranium stocks (NYSEARCA:URA) could pick up momentum, Read more…
Japanese companies have a problem. Several of them, in fact. Their nation’s fiscal situation, in many ways, is worse than that of Greece or Spain. (Debt as a percentage of GDP, for example, is more than 225%.) The Japanese economy is growing at an anemic Read more…
Dominique de Kevelioc de Bailleul: As the sovereign debt crisis in Europe dominates media coverage of both financial and main street news, Washington’s deliberate cover up of a far more serious Read more…
Joseph L. Shaefer: Wouldn’t it be nice if we didn’t need to rely upon those dreadful fossil fuels like coal, oil, and natural gas? If only we could be warmed in winter by the gentle rays of the sun and cooled in summer by harnessing that sun to power our air conditioners. If only we could employ the gentle breezes Read more…
Keith Fitz-Gerald: Like it has been for other Japanese families, this past year has been a tough one in my household, too. Perhaps not surprisingly, Sunday’s one-year anniversary brought long-buried emotions to the surface 12 months to the day after the horrific earthquake and the tsunami it spawned Read more…
Dominique de Kevelioc de Bailleul: Reports of the USS Enterprise aircraft carrier battle group setting course to join battle groups USS Lincoln and Vinson in the Arabian Sea and today’s back-to-back announcements regarding the complete termination of Iran’s financial transactions through SWIFT Read more…
Bryan Rich: The theme of the global financial markets is now moving more toward the realization that growth will be ultra-slow (if not recession like territory), unemployment will remain persistently high and global economic shocks will continue to roll through. This is an important realization. Read more…
Sy Harding: There was much anticipation in advance of Friday’s Labor Department employment report for February. The report has a reputation for often coming in with a big surprise in one Read more…
Chris Martenson: At the circus, you are sometimes treated to the spinning plate act where a performer tries to keep an improbable number of plates spinning at once, racing from one plate to the next as their wobbles indicate the need for another dose of momentum. Considering the number of spinning Read more…
EconMatters: Oil futures (NYSEArca:USO) spiked more than 2% in one day to their highest level in nine months on Tuesday Feb. 21. WTI front month contract closed at $105.84, while Brent ended at $121.66 on ICE, primarily on investors fear of potential conflict over the escalating tensions between the Read more…
Sy Harding: Kudos to central banks. The eurozone debt crisis produced two years of fears that it would result in financial collapse and a severe recession in Europe (NYSEArca:VGK) that would spread Read more…
The Gold Report: Roger Wiegand, editor of Trader Tracks, says cycles will bring gold (NYSEArca:GLD) and silver (NYSEArca:SLV) higher in the first half of 2012: gold up to $2,050/oz and silver up to $44/oz or even $50/oz. He sees plenty of opportunities for volatility given the political and economic Read more…
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