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Jared Cummans: The past few years have seen the global economy fall on some hard times. At the head of it all has been the U.S., whose fiscal policies and rampant immoralities led to some of the biggest banks in the world bringing down the local economy. Read more…
Carrington: Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke spoke to the U.S. Senate Tuesday and yesterday (Wednesday) in his two-day biannual meeting with Congress – and failed to make any promise to institute more stimulus measures. Read more…
Keith Weiner: I have written other pieces on the topic of fractional reserve banking duration mismatch, which is when someone borrows short-term money to lend long-term and how falling interest rates actually encourages duration mismatch. Falling interest rates Read more…
Stocks posted solid gains on Wednesday, as trade quickened. The advance was led by the Nasdaq. By the closing bell, the tech-rich index had posted a 1.1% gain. The Dow Jones Industrial Average tacked on 0.8% while the S&P MidCap 400, S&P 500 Read more…
Jeb Handwerger: The rule of the casino emphasizes that in order for one to be right in the market, the consensus has to believe that you are wrong. The majority goes home empty handed while the few emerge winners. Today there is extreme volatility, nevertheless the few players Read more…
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…
Dominique de Kevelioc de Bailleul: With longstanding U.S. strategic plans to control oil production in Syria and Iran taking shape with the attempted overthrow of the Bashar al-Assad government in progress, a pretext for U.S. involvement to takeover from American Read more…
Stoyan Bojinov: Investors of all walks have embraced ETFs as the investment vehicle of choice when it comes to accessing virtually any asset class in the global market. Read more…
Toby Connor: Is it a bear market, or is it a bull market, that is the question. Read more…
Kevin McElroy: The end of the dollar’s supremacy as “world reserve currency” is on an irreversible path towards destruction. Read more…
Thomas Carreno: Here we are in the midst of the slow summer trading season and the market continues to try to press higher. So it would appear that the market still has a chance to press higher but now in the short to intermediate term there are some patterns Read more…
Dominique de Kevelioc de Bailleul: While incessant and escalating incidences of blatant assaults upon the Bill of Rights of the American people riddle the pages of the full spectrum of media, it is now not a matter of, will a state of emergence message by the president Read more…
Michael Johnston: Filling in what had become one of the most glaring holes in the ETF lineup,ProShares last week introduced a product that will allow investors to bet against the beleaguered currency of the Euro zone. The new ProShares Short Euro Read more…
EconMatters: The EUR/USD index edged up to 1.2533 on Wednesday, U.S. 4th of July holiday Wednesday in subdued markets ahead of the ECB rate decision to be announced on Thursday. As expected, ECB officials meeting in Frankfurt will cut benchmark Read more…
Przemyslaw Radomski: Let’s start by stating that the title of this essay refers to the current situation on the gold market not to the long-term fundamental picture. In fact, up to this day, no paper currency has survived in its original form while gold has been used as money Read more…
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