By Doug Hornig, Editor, BIG GOLD
Tuesday, October 9, 2007 started as a nice day in New York City. A lovely early fall day, with the temperature still a balmy 80° at 2:00 in the morning. By evening, though, the temperature had dropped twenty degrees, the clouds had rolled in, there was thunder and rain.
As with [...]

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Richard W. Fisher, the current president of the Dallas Federal Reserve Bank, is well known for his eloquent speeches.
Two recent speeches are, as usual, quite instructive (the first is also rather long).
The first one listed below took place at the University of Beijing, China in April 2009. The second was held on May 15th, in [...]

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Mary Anne & Pamela Aden, known for decades as the Aden Sisters – highly respected investment newsletter writers, are making a rather bold call in the gold market right now. Not that they are al0ne, but they are NOT known for making wild calls whenever the mood overcomes them.
So I think you should take notice.
The [...]

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Paul van Eeden currently has no newsletter to sell, no axe to grind that I know of. Here’s his current thoughts on the financial crisis, de-leveraging and how long it will take to unwind:
Paul van Eeden on BNN
Paul doesn’t see de-leveraging getting over with any time soon. It took us 27 years to get here [...]

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‘When gold breached the $1,000/oz mark this February, the mass media were full of reports of unprecedented coin demand and long wait times for bullion buyers. You couldn’t open the paper without seeing a piece about the gold rush.’

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It’s not just people “going John Galt” and working less since they know they can keep less; that won’t show up yet. But the U.S. Government’s tax revenues are falling; and that’s going to make the projected deficits way off – way low that is.
Deficits will be larger than the Obama administration is admitting, and [...]

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The Price of Oil
How did it get here, and where is it going?
By Marin Katusa, Senior Editor, Casey Energy Opportunities
What a difference a year makes.
While March lions and April showers were at work in 2008, so were these factors in the U.S. and global economies:

The Dow Jones Industrial Average remained steady above 12,000.
The leading [...]

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Gold Stocks – the Best Strategy for Portfolio Building
by Jeff Clark, Editor of BIG GOLD
October 27, 2008 was the gold mining sector’s Black Monday, the day nearly every stock hit rock bottom. Hindsight makes it plain they got caught in the violent deleveraging that sucked down every equities market in the world.
The broader markets were [...]

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In case you aren’t old enough to remember the names Nixon, Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Dean and Watergate, it was a scandal that brought down a Presidency in the early 1970’s.
Could this Bank of America scandal be bigger yet?
The following guest editorial gives you a nice executive summary of what you probably have NOT heard in the [...]

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Global Economics on Tilt – How to Protect Your Ass(ets)
By Jeff Clark, Editor, BIG GOLD
Gold isn’t going to $2,000 an ounce.
Before you gag on your coffee or suffer chest pains, allow me to explain.
We’re about eight years into the bull market, and gold has breached the $1,000 level twice and has spent weeks trading above [...]

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