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The Lost Decade: How the U.S. Financial Crisis Resembles Japan’s Ten Years of Misery - And How to Play it
If you think the “Lost Decade” Japan endured during the 1990s was deep and painful, stick around: As the global financial crisis that was jump-started by the meltdown of the subprime mortgage market continues to unwind, the U.S. economy is…
17Jul2008 | Money Morning | 0 comments | ContinuedCharting New Highs for Precious Metals
Precious Metals Poised for All-Time Highs
Taking a look at the longer term charts is always a fun proposition and this week things look exceptionally well. Gold is ready to fight for another all-time high in the near future, silver looks…
16Jul2008 | The Penny Sleuth | 0 comments | ContinuedInvesting in Vanadium
Finding Fuel Efficient Metals
Ultra high-strength and super-light steels are the plastics of the 21st century. There is high demand for these steels for use in everything from jet engines to rail components. In turn, there is a big push for…
16Jul2008 | Whiskey and Gunpowder | 0 comments | ContinuedRussian Oil Exploration — And Why The US Will Be Playing Catch-up
I told you so.
While the U.S. dawdles, hems and haws over offshore drilling, the Russians are committed to developing the Arctic.
And the Russians are going to do it. They will conquer the resources of the Arctic, just as their Czarist…
14Jul2008 | Energy and Oil | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Decade of No Returns
What a difference a decade can make! Over the last 10 years of the 20th century, anyone buying and holding U.S. stocks made a total return approaching 18% per year.
Their initial stake, as a 2002 research paper noted, increased five…
14Jul2008 | Whiskey and Gunpowder | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Coming Recession
By Lord William Rees-Mogg
London, England, U.K.
Still Burning
The downturn in the global economy is now 11 months old, if one takes the subprime crisis of August 2007 as the starting point. It has spread like the forest fires in California, establishing…
10Jul2008 | Whiskey and Gunpowder | 0 comments | ContinuedA Chart of Gold vs. the World
By Olivia and Tatiana Van Vredenburch
London, England, U.K.
Back in 1969 the International Monetary Fund (IMF) created a new kind of money — the ultimate form of international money, it believed — called the Special Drawing Right.
You can’t shop with an…
8Jul2008 | Whiskey and Gunpowder | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Four Tough Questions to Ask Yourself in a Tough Market
For investors who are used to living large, this has been the year from hell.
The markets are tanking. Food costs 25% more than it did a year ago. Inflation is on the march for the first time in decades. The…
1Jul2008 | Money Morning | 0 comments | ContinuedPrecious Metals Gearing Up
By Nick Jones
Editor, Real Deal
The PMs have taken the back seat in the most recent rally in commodities. While corn, soy beans, oil, and other commodities were making either fresh contract or all time highs on a daily basis, the…
26Jun2008 | Nick Jones | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Asian Skyscraper Boom
Asia Set to Scrape the Heavens
Constructing the Empire State Building consumed 60,000 tons of steel…10 million bricks…1,172 miles of elevator cables…6,400 windows…60 miles of water pipes and over 3,500 miles of telephone and telegraph wires.
But the world’s tallest skyscraper is…
25Jun2008 | The Penny Sleuth | 0 comments | ContinuedA Plan to Grant the Fed Additional Powers Will Only Exacerbate Current U.S. Woes
Throughout history, governments have always used crises to justify blatant power grabs. All too often, the “expanded government powers” that resulted from the moves remain in place - even after the crisis subsides.
This tendency has come into sharp focus here in…
24Jun2008 | Money Morning | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Airline Waiting Game…
More news on the Silent Spring front.
Northwest and Air Canada are cutting flights within the US, and grounding more aircraft.
Thing is, most of the airline cuts announced to date have not yet taken effect. The plane groundings and service cutbacks will…
24Jun2008 | Energy and Oil | 0 comments | ContinuedElection 2008: Why Poor Presidential Approval Ratings Make For Great Stock Markets
No question, President George Bush’s approval ratings have pulled an “Enron.”
A recent Associated Press-Ipsos poll conducted June 12-16 showed only 29% of the public gave Bush a favorable rating. It’s the least favorable approval rating for a U.S. president since Jimmy Carter’s…
20Jun2008 | Money Morning | 0 comments | ContinuedJoyful Assignment For The Next President: A Unified National Energy Policy
By his own admission, a certain former President was not keen on “the vision thing” as a general proposition. He never did get around to proposing a Unified National Energy Policy. The successor co-Presidency brought forth many initiatives, but a…
16Jun2008 | William Kurtz | 0 comments | ContinuedHouse of Cards
Economic theory tries to deal with a limited number of factors and the mechanisms by which they interact. The main factors are population, food, energy, property, and manufactures, all of which are physical realities capable of being counted. They are the…
14Jun2008 | Whiskey and Gunpowder | 0 comments | Continued-
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