Preserving the U.S. Post Office: The Models of Kiwibank and Japan Post
By Ellen Brown Neither rain nor sleet nor snow may have stopped the Pony Express, but the nation’s oldest and second largest employer is now under attack. Claiming the Postal Service is bankrupt,...
View ArticlePresident Obama’s Favorite Chart
By Louise Basenese of Wall Street DailySeeing that the Republican primary season is well underway, I figured we’d mix in some politics, too. Yeah, yeah, I know – I’m asking for trouble. And I fully...
View ArticleTurning Coal To Natural Gas In Pakistan
By. John C.K. Daly As we start a new year, consider the miserable plight of the average Pakistani electricity consumer. With about 50 per cent less electricity generation capability than the actual...
View ArticleGuest Commentary: Oil prices Weekly Outlook January 16-20
Oil prices didn’t do much during last week after they had sharply inclined in the first week of the year. From the supply side, there are still growing concerns of the rising tension between Iran and...
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How Many Times Will You Fall for the Same Thing?
Isn’t this exciting! The pre-markets are up 1% after a long weekend. That hasn’t happened since – two weeks ago! Of course last Tuesday, we were jammed up as well and the Tuesday after Christmas, we...
View ArticleGuest Commentary: Gold & Silver Daily Outlook 01.17.2012
Gold and silver continue their upward trend of recent weeks despite their decline on Friday’s trading. Following the recent downgrade of France and eight other EU countries by the credit rating...
View ArticleCharting Jobless Claims vs Jobs
By Tyler Durden of ZeroHedge Tomorrow the BLS will announce that last week’s initial claims number was revised to over 400K, the first time this important level has been breached, this time in an...
View ArticleWashington vs. The Internet: How Congress Plans to Rule the Internet
by Martin Denholm Just when you thought the proposals from the United States Congress couldn’t get any more ridiculous, I give you “SOPA” and “PIPA.” The latest fancy acronyms lumbering through the...
View ArticleDollar and Weak Earnings Indicate S&P 500 Is Near A Top
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View ArticleDon’t Frack Me Up
By Marin Katusa, Casey Research To many walking the planet, fracking has a seriously bad reputation. Thanks to hyperbole and misinformation, fracking opponents have convinced a lot of people that the...
View ArticleReviewing The Small-Cap & Value Factors
By James Picerno of The Capital SpeculatorThe academic case for using a multi-factor model to maximize the realized equity risk premium is old news, but documenting the empirical evidence is forever...
View ArticleChina and Saudi in Nuclear Power Cooperation
By John C.K. Daly Ever since the end of World War Two, the U.S. has come to regard Saudi Arabia as almost its exclusive oil producing enclave. In February 1945, after the Yalta Conference with Soviet...
View ArticleWhen Will Silver Reach a New High?
By Andrey Dashkov, Casey Research In last week’s Metals, Mining, and Money from Casey Research, Jeff Clark estimated that given the magnitude of the correction that started last September, it may take...
View ArticleMonday Market Musings – More Monetary Madness
Courtesy of Phil of Phil’s Stock World More Free Money – OR ELSE! That’s the rally cry from the new IMF chief (appointed under mysterious circumstances). Lagarde gives the cry in Berlin this morning...
View ArticleGuest Commentary: Gold & Silver Daily Outlook 01.11.2012
Gold and silver continue to rise along with the rest of the other commodities including oil. The Australian dollar appreciated against the US dollar. This rally in the Forex market may have also...
View ArticleThree New Risk Control ETFs from Direxion
Today Direxion announced they have launched three ETFs whose intent is to match their exposure to an underlying equity index based upon current levels of market volatility. The new ETFs are as follows:...
View ArticleVIX Has Smallest Intraday Range Ever!
If ever there was a day to be short the volatility of volatility, it was today. In fact, today established a new record for the smallest (in percentage terms) intraday range for the VIX, a mere 1.14%....
View ArticleGuest Commentary: Gold & Silver Daily Outlook 01.12.2012
Gold and silver rose again in yesterday’s trading despite the drop in the other commodities such as oil and the depreciation of the Euro against the USD. Today there is the ECB rate decision which...
View ArticleGuest Commentary: Gold & Silver Daily Outlook 01.13.2012
Gold and silver continued their upward trend of the past couple of weeks. Yesterday the ECB decided to keep interest rates unchanged which in turn may have helped keep the Euro strong against the US...
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