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Touradji Goes for Gold

And why is it significant what Paul Touradji does?

Is Silver Really a Better Investment than Gold?

It depends on your point of view.

Lots of people don't see recovery, but instead continuing recession particularly in the United States--thus no support for silver.

Conversely since there is strong, bipartisan support in the U.S. to destroy the value of the dollar (both parties support massive, increasing budget deficits, printing massive amounts of dollars, crony capitalism--banking and other bailouts)--so the case for gold is very strong.

Five ETFs for a Global Recovery

Lots of people see little recovery, particularly in the United States.

Max Keiser: 'World Entering Phase Two of Global Economic Crisis'

Grumann, Max Keiser has a website, so you can see the kind of stuff he talks about:
maxkeiser.com/
Here is an article about him:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Inflation or Deflation: What 'Quantity Theory of Money' Can Tell Us

While the OP's thesis might be true if there were a responsible central bank; the United States does not have one: instead it has the Federal Reserve. The Federal Reserve is in the bubble business--look at the massive housing bubble it created. The Federal Reserve's considers its primary mandate NOT to be limiting inflation, limiting unemployment and maximizing economic growth--but instead to be to be maximizing short-term bank profits.

Why Silver’s Breakout Could Bring It Out of Gold’s Shadow

"Silver, unlike gold, is more of an industrial metal used in a wide array of applications, including photography, dentistry and electronics. Its performance is more tied to the global economic cycle than gold and therefore is not to be confused as a pure hedge against monetary chaos or financial turmoil."

So unless the OP sees a massive explosion in the economy, I don't see how there is any reason at all to suggest silver will have this 300% increase--and most people I have read see the economy as more or less sputtering around where it is.

Why the Stock Market Should Crash

It is not a question of what the authorities can and cannot do; it is a question of what they are likely to do and why.

The big thing you need to think about is why the authorities did nothing about the housing bubble, the collapse of which has done so much damage.

And I think the answer is that the Fed considers its primary responsibilities NOT to be controlling inflation, minimizing unemployment and maximizing economic growth--but instead to
maximize short-term bank profits.

On Nov 18 07:13 PM Brian McMorris wrote:

The authorities can take
> out the liquidity whenever desired just by selling the accumulated
> assets back into the market, once it is safe to do so. They can
> also leave in the liquidty as long as desired.

Copper, Gold and Coal Poised to Break Out

How successful has his mutual fund been?

First Trust to Launch Smart Grid Energy ETF

"it also features allocations to multinational mega-caps such as General Electric (GE), Siemens AG (SI), and WESCO (WCC)."

This is idiotic. GE's risky financial investments (GE Capital...) probably have 100 times the impact compared to GE's smart grid technology on the GE stock price.

Rachel Benepe, Co-Manager of First Eagle Gold: Buy Gold as a Market Hedge

The safest form of gold is not in some other companies bullion vault, but in your own personal possession.

Shipping: Three High Risk, High Reward Options

Shipping rates should only be going up if international trade is going up. Is this happening? (My impression from Calculated Risk was the in the U.S. it was mostly flat).
www.calculatedriskblog...

Priceline: Are Shorts Grasping at Straws?

$207!!. This is depressing. I remember when it crashed in the dot.com bust to about $2/share. I could have bought, but instead bought junk which went down instead. Anyone else remember those days?

Surviving the Recession of 2010

I am more concerned not about next year, but about surviving the economic hard times of the next twenty years (after which I expect to be dead), caused by the massive debt overhang, exploding health care costs, peak oil, Baby Boomer retirement, the transfer of American manufacturing overseas, the corrupt/incompetent political parties and the mortgage the next generation philosophy of the general public.

Weekly Recap: Is the U.S. Going Bankrupt?

(sorry, above comment got posted prematurely)

"Why he wanna split his highly priced BRK.B shares and make it appeal to average John Q. Public investor ?"

I read it was a requirement of the BNI merger--so that when the share exchange was done, small investors would be able to remain invested in the merged firm.

Work Projects Administration: Is It Too Late?

I believe there have been quite a few shovel ready projects done in the highway area (I have noticed a higher number of road resurfacings than usual).

Basically construction is much different now than it was in the Work Projects Administration era. Back then projects could be designed in a short period of time; now it takes years to design projects (including environmental reviews...) Back then any able-bodied person could participate: now construction is only something specialists do.