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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…
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…
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…
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…
Toby Connor: I think it’s clear by the action in the dollar index this morning and the response by risk assets in general, that the bottom I have been looking for is here. Read more…
Jeb Handwerger: We have climbed the wall of worry for over twenty years as wealth in the ground becomes increasingly desirable in a world that is threatened with the ghosts of depressions past. We observe the doubters who regale us with such headlines Read more…
Michael Snyder: How is money created? If you ask average people on the street this question, most of them have absolutely no idea. This is rather odd, because 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…
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