Posts Tagged ‘
China ’
Nov 18th, 2009 |
By Dan Denning |
Category: Currencies, Economics, Featured
So this is what it feels like in an inflationary melt up. House prices were up 6.2% in the third quarter over the same time last year, according to data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics. House prices in the capital cities are surging. Stocks are surging. Gold and oil ...
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Tags: China, dollar, economy, Gold
Posted in Currencies, Economics, Featured |
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Nov 9th, 2009 |
By Byron King |
Category: Featured, Gold
Let’s review the big picture for gold. What's going on? And what are people saying?
For much of 2009, gold traded in the range of low-mid $900 per ounce. There was a dip over the summer, with a strong upswing starting in September. Gold is now trading well over $1,000 per ...
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Tags: China, dollar, Gold, India
Posted in Featured, Gold |
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Oct 5th, 2009 |
By Doug Hornig |
Category: Commodities, Featured
Rare earth elements (REEs) have been the mystery metals of the mining world for years. Now, suddenly, everyone’s heard about them.
Before we delve into the reasons behind all the publicity, here’s the basic skinny on REEs: One, they are rare, at least sort of. Two, they are indispensable to modern ...
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Tags: China, mining, rare earths
Posted in Commodities, Featured |
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Sep 28th, 2009 |
By Jeff Clark |
Category: Featured, Gold
If we’re right about where the price of gold is headed, the general public will someday clamor to buy all things gold. While gold stocks will be where the real leverage is, the rush will start with gold itself. As a gold editor, I have a very natural question: is ...
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Tags: bullion, China, Gold, gold coins
Posted in Featured, Gold |
15 comments
Sep 24th, 2009 |
By Linda Brady Traynham |
Category: Featured, Macro Economics
Looks like Boy Blunder Two is going to do it again, breaking campaign promises, endangering the economy by pandering to outraged union members, annoying the USA's biggest creditor, and imposing yet another enormous tax on the American people who drive cars. This time the Messiah proposes to increase the tariff ...
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Tags: China, tariff, unions
Posted in Featured, Macro Economics |
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Sep 18th, 2009 |
By David Galland |
Category: Featured, Gold
Inside sources have recently confirmed the Chinese government is actively promoting gold and silver investment to the masses.
Some analysts now contend that China can no longer afford to let the gold or silver price slump. The rationale behind that contention is that with the Chinese government now telling the general ...
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Tags: China, dollar, Gold
Posted in Featured, Gold |
10 comments
Sep 14th, 2009 |
By Doug Hornig |
Category: Featured, Gold
That’s a question that Westerners have been asking for, oh, several millennia now. Or at least since Marco Polo aimed his ponies down the old Silk Road in 1271.
Now as then, China keeps its own counsel. We know what they want us to know, plus what we can surmise from ...
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Tags: China, Gold, precious metals
Posted in Featured, Gold |
5 comments
Sep 2nd, 2009 |
By Chris Mayer |
Category: Featured, Gold, International
U.S. banks are going bad as quickly as a bunch of over-ripe peaches in the summer heat. On the heels of the Colonial Bank failure comes another sizable bank failure.
Guaranty Bank in Texas became the 81st U.S. bank to fail this year. It was the 11th largest bank failure in ...
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Tags: China, Gold
Posted in Featured, Gold, International |
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Aug 28th, 2009 |
By Dan Amoss |
Category: Energy, Featured, Oil
Always follow the oil market closely, because it will impact the fundamentals of many businesses -- including those we are selling short.
Drivers in the U.S. no longer determine the global price of oil. So oil prices can remain high despite a weak labor market -- as we saw in the ...
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Tags: China, inflation, Oil
Posted in Energy, Featured, Oil |
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Jul 20th, 2009 |
By Bill Jenkins |
Category: Currencies, Featured
I am very confident in the fall of the euro, despite the obvious and fatal problems with the dollar. Remember that currencies, because they are fiat by nature, are political things. While it is the fundamentals that drive them, one of the overarching problems in our market is the absence ...
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Tags: China, eurozone, fiat, governments. Australia
Posted in Currencies, Featured |
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