Is the U.S. Following the Soviet Collapse?

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Mike Kachanovsky: Scoop Up Resource Stocks on Dips

Source: By Ellis Martin and Karen Roche of The Gold Report

Over the course of the last 12 months, many analysts and newsletter writers have been discussing precious metals stocks as an alternative to fiat currencies. What opportunities remain—new and old—in Mexico, Colombia and elsewhere for investors? In this exclusive interview with The Gold Report, Mike Kachanovsky, aka ‘Mexico Mike’, (Investor’s Digest of Canada), discusses why he believes the market is better than ever for precious metals, as well as the abating political risk for mining companies in countries such as Mexico, Colombia and Vietnam.…

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Jon Stewart: In Layman’s Terms

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The Daily Show With Jon Stewart	Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c

You’ve heard of the BRIC countries, right? Brazil, Russia, India and China are the four top emerging markets. For various reasons, all have much better long-term prospects than most of the so-called “developed” markets.

Now there’s a way you can trade the BRIC stock markets with some new leveraged ETFs — but you need to be careful.

More on this opportunity in a minute. First, let’s quickly review what all the excitement is about …

BRICs Are the Future!

I don’t have to tell you that the U.S., Europe…

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Bottom Line of the Western Democracies

Safehaven, Ty Andros: In the United States and Euro zone, socialism is on the march and misery is being spread in ever-widening circles as the last vestiges of wealth creation are destroyed and fed to the elites, their government lap dogs, crony capitalists and their something-for-nothing constituents in a failing effort to rescue themselves. Fights over decreasing income are unfolding between the public versus the private, as there is a little less food on everyone’s plates. Everyone wants to be paid and have free healthcare, but no one wants to work, make products people want to buy at reasonable prices…

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Market News: Citigroup (NYSE:C), CIT Group (NYSE:CIT), Google (NASDAQ:GOOG), Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL), Bank of America (NYSE:BAC)

Primerica Inc., the insurance unit owned by Citigroup (NYSE:C), will sell 18 million shares in an initial public offering in addition to the $230 million in stock a private-equity firm plans to purchase. The stock will be sold at a range of $12 to $14 a share, the Duluth, Georgia-based company said today in a regulatory filing. Underwriters have the option to purchase as many as 2.7 million additional shares, the filing said, which would bring the total to $290 million at the higher price. -Bloomberg

CIT Group (NYSE:CIT) reported fourth-quarter…

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New Baghdad and the Collapse of Capitalism

By Doug Hornig, Casey Research

Forty years ago, it was a small town on the Persian Gulf, merely one of seven sheikdoms joined in federation in 1971 to create the United Arab Emirates. Basically, there was nothing there but sand. Yes, oil had been discovered under that sand, and the city/state was enjoying its first economic boomlet. From about 60,000 in 1968, population tripled by 1975, doubled in the next ten years, and nearly doubled again by 1995.

Problem is, especially compared with many of its Gulf neighbors, it didn’t have all that much oil to begin with,…

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Damage Done By Nigeria’s Contentious Oil Bill May Be Tough To Undo

Nigeria’s controversial oil industry bill is expected to eventually pass but the government may find it tough to later shift gears as international oil firms targeted under the legislation scale back their investments.

The Nigerian parliament is debating the Petroleum Industry Bill, an attempt at oil-sector reform in which Abuja can negotiate “downward” a foreign firm’s share of profits and impose higher royalties and taxes, said Peter Pham, director of the Africa Project at the New York-based National Committee on American Foreign Policy and an associate professor at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia.

Despite potentially spending billions of dollars,…

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The Economy Is Not Always the Stock Market Driver

In the long run, economic development and — especially — corporate earnings are the main drivers of stock market performance. But this relationship is very loose. It becomes tight only if your time horizon is measured in decades.

Shorter term, economic development and corporate earnings are often relatively inconsequential for the stock market. Why? Economic changes are superimposed by changes in the fundamental valuation of the stock market. That means investors’ perceptions and their willingness to pay for risk and income streams are unsteady. Over time, investors are paying…

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