A short time ago I relayed a favorite joke about Fort Knox. In the joke, there is no gold left in Fort Knox.
But is there really?
Today, GATA (Gold Anti-Trust Action committee), publishes a full page ad in the Wall Street Journal asking that very question.
There has been no audit of Gold in Fort Knox since [...]

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Gold hit a new record high today, US$930 per ounce spot price. Platinum continues to soar, setting a new record in the US$1720’s.
Are you profiting by this, or just wishing you had bought at lower prices?
You need top notch information; usually gained these days by a good financial newsletter with a great website that covers [...]

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Will Gold Crash in a Recession?

By
Bud Conrad and David Galland, Editors
BIG GOLD from Casey Research
From the 1990s until today, Americans have maintained their life style by borrowing.
As the American consumer is about to find out, the bill for that life style is coming due.
 
So where will that lead the U.S. economy? Simply stated, surveying the [...]

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The January 2008 edition of Without Borders Without Borders from Casey Research has just been released.
I won’t give it away, but just tease a bit.
This month’s highlighted locale is not necessarily a place for expatriates to domicile, but more a business location for a rather non-modal type of establishment - say, an internet business? For [...]

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I have heard this joke many times but I still laugh every time.
It goes like this:
When George W. Bush became President he said there were a few things he always wanted to do but never could; and now that he is President, he gets to.
The first was that he always wanted to see the Gold [...]

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David Galland writes a weekly column titled “The Room” for Casey Research. Here he sums up the activity of the week and provides perspective from not only himself, but other members of the Casey team as well as other analysts.
Today, in light of the market activity, David favored us with some in depth commentary to [...]

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I just received these photos of the beautiful wine country surrounding the home sites at La Estancia de Cafayate in Argentina and I thought I would pass them along.
This is exactly the type of living that is pursued in Casey Without Borders newsletters.

Looks mighty inviting, especially when it’s 15 degrees outside in January where I [...]

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The Federal Reserve cut the Fed Funds rate by 75 basis points in a special pre-meeting move. Apparently in an 8-1 vote by conference call, Ben Bernanke and company listened to the markets and decided that they would help stem the hemorrhaging that was surely to befall U.S. Stock markets on Tuesday.
This cut really shouldn’t [...]

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Global stock markets crashing; U.S. Markets taking the day off for what I call African American Voter Appreciation Day - MLK was just the excuse to do it.
Monday was the type of day to buy some quality precious metals shares for big discounts; heck, it was like Black Friday shopping, only on Black Monday.
What, you [...]

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I just uploaded a new page to this blog on How To Profit From Peak Oil.
Casey Research has spent the last year building out a top quality energy research team because of the trend they see in energy. In this particular case, they interview investment banker Matt Simmons. In 2005, Matt Simmons published “Twilight in [...]

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