I watched a video clip today from Yahoo! Tech Ticker where some youthful idiot was saying that since our Debt to GDP ratio was less worse than many other countries that everything will be Ok. Sure.
Richard Russell thinks differently, and I’m putting my money on Russell.
He had this to say:
“The US national debt is now [...]

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Dennis Gartman does not have a great track record on gold, so much so that many traders hate to be on the same side of a trade with him.
Dennis just commented the other day on gold’s tight and tighter trading range and wondering at what point it will shoot outside that range – and which [...]

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I have been profiting from Casey Research investment newsletters for about 10 years now and I always thought their newsletter prices were cheap.
Well, that’s about to change.
Some of the prices will go up about 300%!
But the good news is that if you subscribe now you lock in the old low rates for the duration of [...]

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If you are going to really participate in the run up of junior resource stocks that will likely accompany the coming bull market in gold and silver, chances are you are going to want to buy some Canadian stocks.
That can be a problem if you are an American.
If your online stock broker is Charles Schwab [...]

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Congressman Ron Paul has long been on a campaign to educate the American people on the Federal Reserve, a PRIVATE institution that almost no one understands. Now he has released a new book titled “End the Fed“.
This comes at a time when uber-idiot (my opinion based on video before & after financial crisis) Congressman Barney [...]

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I don’t think it really is in question by competent authority, but just in case it was, here is data from good ‘ol Uncle Sam himself that Peak Oil really is true.
After all, even if we could create crude oil in a lab or quickly, would it be sweet crude? I don’t think so. The [...]

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The days of the numbered Swiss Bank account are long since gone, but International Investing for the U.S. investor is not dead at all. Quite the contrary, with the witch hunt currently going on in Washington for new and improved ways to soak the rich, moving some investment assets to other jurisdictions makes more sense [...]

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This from David Galland of the Casey Report:
A recent article in Bloomberg suggested that the federal government has its sights on the muni bond market and is considering replacing their tax-free status with a credit that the federal government would adjust based on the type of bond and its “perceived benefit to the public.” It [...]

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I just saw a piece by Cal Thomas recommending a new book due out in a few days titled “National Suicide: How Washington is Destroying the American Dream from A to Z”.
Cal is a conservative writer, but I think very fair and balanced.
I could bash the Democrats and mention how they complained during Republican presidencies [...]

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Green Shoots or Greater Depression?
By Bud Conrad/David Galland, Editors, The Casey Report
While we aren’t contrarian for the sake of being contrary, more often than not that is the position in which we find ourselves. Today, with the media falling all over itself to paint a rosy outlook for the economy while simultaneously voicing encouragement to [...]

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