Archive - Feb 2014 - Blog entry

So it’s been Christmas and the holiday season and Santa had his sacks stuffed with chocolate. Then it was Cupid and Valentine’s Day and the chocolate got bought up in the shops and the loved one’s will be complaining that they put on too much on their hips or the boyfriend felt sick after gorging himself on the stuff and you still reply they look chocolate-boxy and fine.

If our inner self, our essence, is not centered and at peace, at best we will be ineffective and at worst just a miserable person.

Silver futures in Shanghai surged by 6% - the  daily exchange limit. Silver headed for the longest run of gains since at least 1968 according to Bloomberg.

Is the Treasury's rescue of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac unfair to private shareholders?  Yup.  And they deserve it. 

The Sickle of Liberty...

The dollar dropped a lot this week, though most would say gold and silver spiked. Gold owners have 4% more dollars and silver owners have 7.4% more. How much less are those dollars worth?

Overview of the events and data that will be of interest to investors. 

New figures show China's credit bubble continues to grow. President Xi Jinping hasn't done nearly enough to arrest the bubble and needs to act fast.

Two Nimitz Class blow hards...

The Inteligencia Financiera Global blog (Global Financial Intelligence Blog) is honored to present another exclusive interview now with GATA’s Bill Murphy.

"Well, of course, Kore­ma­tsu was wrong. And I think we have repudiated in a later case. But you are kidding yourself if you think the same thing will not happen again."

In the Garden of Fleece'em... 

Really? It's all climate change?

The US dollar lost ground against all the major currencies last week.  It looks poised for additional near-term weakness.  

The winner of a currency war is the country that ends up with the most gold.