When Hedge Funds Go Short, Gold Goes Up
Bloomberg is reporting on the rising number of hedge funds shorting gold: Gold Bear Bets Reach Record as Soros Cuts Holdings Hedge-fund…
Read ArticleVelocity of Money and the Crack-Up Boom
Based on both recent history and mainstream economic theory the past few years should not have been possible. When you…
Read ArticleGolden Bullseye
One of the lessons that gold bugs are learning, in the most painful way possible, is that you can’t trade…
Read ArticlePreparing For Deflation
Signs of a slowdown are spreading. Here in the US, despite all the happy talk about rising stock prices and…
Read ArticleCurrency War, Part 9: What’s Wrong With These
Japan’s currency devaluation has worked beautifully. The yen is plunging, Japanese stocks are soaring, and the current account surplus —…
Read ArticleOne More Drop, Then Silver Back Above $25
In this week’s Q & A, National Numismatics’ Tom Cloud updates his near-term precious metals price targets and explains why…
Read ArticleWelcome to the Currency War, Part 8: US
It’s easy to understand the attraction of things like adjustable-rate mortgages and teaser-rate credit cards. They give you cheap money…
Read ArticleFirst-Quarter GDP: Way Worse Than It Looks
First-quarter GDP came in at an annualized rate of 2.5% this morning, which is not terrible as growth goes these…
Read ArticleNews Flash: Economists Clueless
Economist Robert J. Samuelson just published an unintentionally funny article in Capital Journal on the bemusement today’s economists feel after…
Read ArticleFor Gold, Friday’s COT Report Is Huge
The dominant explanation (in the sound money community at least) for the precious metals crash is, well, sabotage. The metals…
Read ArticleThe Long Wave Versus the Printing Press: Another
Marc Faber of the Gloom Boom Doom Report was interviewed by Bloomberg on Friday, and of course topic number one…
Read ArticleWelcome to the Currency War, Part 7: The
Based on the past few weeks’ stock market action, Japan’s decision to flood the world with yen looks like a…
Read ArticleGold’s Paper Price “Doesn’t Mean Anything”
In this week’s talk with National Numismatics’ Tom Cloud, he explains why the reported price of gold is not the…
Read ArticleThe Other Currency War
Most of the recent “currency war” talk refers to countries trying to lower the value of their currencies to gain…
Read Article“Risk-Free” Is So 2012
So you’ve got this pile of cash and you’re not sure what to do with it. Nice problem, as problems…
Read ArticleMoney In The Bank? No Thanks
In Niall Ferguson’s Civilization: The West and the Rest, he presents a list of institutional arrangements that turned a bunch…
Read ArticleIf This Isn’t The Gold Bottom, It’s Close
In this week’s talk with National Numismatics’ Tom Cloud, he covers the tightness in the silver market and why the…
Read ArticleIs the Bubble Back?
For a decade or so leading up to the 2009 crash, one of the highlights of Doug Noland’s Prudent Bear…
Read ArticleThe Coming Higher Education Bust: “Some Will Survive”
To understand how close many US universities are to catastrophic failure, let’s start with the story of Robert (not his…
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