When is the Best Time to Buy Gold? By Jeff Clark, Editor, BIG GOLD I bet you don’t own enough gold. Before you tell me I’m wrong, let me ask it this way… If inflation returns, or even hyperinflation… If the economic crisis persists and gets worse… If uncertainty and fear continue, and chaos and [...]

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It’s frustrating to me that the chart below shows we are in the longest recession since the Great Depression. After all, it’s only been about 8 months since the moron economists pulled their collective heads out into the light of day to admit what the rest of us had known for some time – YES, [...]

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The Gold Storage Solution: Switzerland A BIG GOLD Special Report At Casey Research, our task is to accurately forecast trends, do it early, and help investors profit from what we’ve found. Without claiming infallibility, we’ve gotten it right more often than not, and by distinctly profitable margins. But research to anticipate what to expect is [...]

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Short selling rules are likely to change soon. Whether or not the government will decide to enforce them is another question; whether or not they will apply to the “friends” of government, like Goldman Sachs (sometimes spelled “Sucks”) is yet another question. (Summer of 2008 saw restrictions on shorting the shares of financial institutions for [...]

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I think currency debasement is much like the frog getting slowly cooked in the kettle, you just don’t seem to notice the effects. My thanks to Ed Steer over at Casey’s Daily Resource Plus for the following two pictures of a 1929 postcard. Look what a few dollars would buy in car parts and labor [...]

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Dennis Gartman of the infamous Gartman Letter (one of the most expensive investment newsletters out there) has gone long gold again, not that long after saying he was staying away for a while. Mr. Gartman’s trading in gold reminds me of the action of a ping pong ball. I’m not sure he ever makes any [...]

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Why Healthcare Is Killing America by Bud Conrad, Editor, The Casey Report Healthcare is the biggest segment of our economy. In the debate over who should pay for what or, increasingly, for whom, most people don’t stop to understand just how large a portion of our society’s money is dedicated to healthcare. For some perspective, [...]

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Former President (41) George H.W. Bush intended to mark his 85th birthday in the same way he marked 75 and 80; with a tandem parachute jump. The weather in Maine may not cooperate resulting in a delay until tomorrow. It is reported that the tandem jump would be with the Army Golden Knights Parachute Team. [...]

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Tupperware and ATMs- Gold Goes Mainstream By Jeff Clark, Editor, BIG GOLD Are we there yet? Are we there yet? We gold bugs are like little kids on a trip to the zoo; we just can’t wait to get there. “There” being the elusive point in time when the gold mania (no, make that Gold [...]

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Jim Rogers was interviewed in IndiaTimes about his outlook on stock markets, commodities and countries to invest or avoid. On stocks, Rogers says he won’t short markets because even poor stock markets can go to unheard of heights when price in currencies that are becoming more worthless. He feels a currency crisis is within the [...]

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