Posts Tagged ‘ commodity prices ’

Was QE2 Money Creation with No Negative Consequences?

Mar 2nd, 2011 | By | Category: Featured, Macro Economics
Ben Bernanke says it’s all going according to plan. You see, all it took was buying government bonds with money the Fed conjured into existence. Buy enough government debt and interest rates go down. This prevents prices from falling and sends investors fleeing from low-yielding government bonds and into stocks. According to ...read more

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They Are Printing Too Much Money

Sep 22nd, 2010 | By | Category: Featured, Gold
There is too much money being printed. No rocket science is needed to reach that conclusion. The markets are giving us a clear message. For example, gold is trading at a record high, while silver has reached a 30-year high. Those new high prices are happening for a reason. The precious ...read more

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Falling Commodities and Inflation in the Wings

Nov 5th, 2008 | By | Category: Commodities, Emerging Markets, Macro Economics, Politics
Now to the big subject of the day: Inflation. You’d think evidence of even bigger deficits in the U.S. is clearly inflationary. But not everyone thinks so. The new prophet of doom, Dr. Nouriel Roubini, says at least four factors are setting up what he calls “Stag Deflation” (as opposed ...read more

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Commodities Market

Jul 16th, 2008 | By | Category: Commodities
2008 has been an incredible year for commodities. While this drastic shift in focus to our finite global resources may seem immediate to the vast majority of Earth’s inhabitants, it’s actually been coming for a very long time. Many of us out there who have been involved in commodities trading and ...read more

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Gold Price Dip

Jun 30th, 2008 | By | Category: Gold
It’s hard to be bullish on gold when there’s so much bad news in the world. After all, gold offers a refuge against bad times ahead. Like all good insurance, it’s best bought before trouble arrives — not during or after. And just how much worse can the news get from here? 1. ...read more

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Inflation and Commodity Prices

Jun 18th, 2008 | By | Category: Commodities, Currencies, Macro Economics
Last week, amid a stream of bearish economic news, the chairman of the Federal Reserve, Ben Bernanke, asserted his priority on price stability and uttered the word “dollar,” as if turning a new leaf. He did that to get your attention. Fed chairs rarely ever say that word, for reasons that Greenspan ...read more

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