Renewed Oil Exploration Coming Up Short By Chris Gilpin Casey Energy Division Casey Energy Speculator Since 2000, oil companies working in the U.S. have doubled the number of wells drilled per year – with a glaring lack of results. While more investment dollars have been flowing into oil exploration, less oil has been flowing out [...]

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So Is Now The Time to Buy Gold or Sell It? Dr. Gary North is an Austrian Economist, and student of the great Ludwig Von Mises. Gary North claims a perfect timing call when 2 weeks ago he suggested selling Gold (although keep your core holdings of physical Gold). His argument is that the Fed [...]

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Jim Rogers agrees with Ron Paul: “Abolish the Fed” Jim Rogers, legendary investor extraordinaire, not only says we will have a recession anyway in spite of the Federal Reserve’s huge rate cut and buying garbage mortgages from troubled banks, but that they are doing more harm to America’s 300 million citizens than good. Ron Paul [...]

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Doug Casey: “Gold is Going to the Moon” An interview with the editors of BIG GOLD, Casey Research As part of our survey of expectations for gold in 2008, one of our BIG GOLD editors interviewed famous contrarian investor and Casey Research Chairman Doug Casey. Here’s his take on what’s to come. BIG GOLD: Gold [...]

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Is it time to return to the Gold Standard? Dr. Ron Paul is again calling to abolish the Federal Reserve, calling them an illegal and immoral institution. The Fed is supposed to be bringing stable money, but instead they are really involved in price fixing. Ron Paul points out that the Federal Reserve is not [...]

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Question: Is it a train or a rocket ship? Ted Butler had a great commentary with guest article by Israel Friedman. In it he makes the argument that the price of Silver should actually surpass that of Gold. He makes this argument based on the industrial consumption of silver which, combined with the current investment [...]

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Inflation Is Baked into the Cake By David Galland and Casey Research The word “inflation” covers two different concepts, and it’s important to keep them separate. One concept is monetary inflation, which is when the supply of money increases faster than the supply of goods and services. The other concept is price inflation, which is [...]

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Bear Stearns, #5 Investment House, Folds Up It didn’t take long for rumors to turn into reality. Bear Stearns succumbed to a liquidity crisis, JP Morgan Chase & and the Federal Reserve jump in with buckets of money to bail it out. Bear Stearns is now up for sale, pennies on the dollar. I hope [...]

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Gold Breaks the $1000 Barrier Well, it finally happened. Gold broke the $1000 per ounce price barrier intraday, closing above $990 for the first time ever. Keeping in mind that 7 years ago in 2001 Gold was trading at about $270 per ounce, this is quite a stunning achievement for what was touted then as [...]

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Recession, GDP and Inflation: Conventional Wisdom or Data By Bud Conrad, Casey Research  That we are moving into – or already are – in a recession is practically a given. But what will it be: inflationary or deflationary? Casey Research’s Chief Economist Bud Conrad weighs in with his findings…  The debate is coming to a [...]

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