FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Aug 24, 2010 Casey Research named to Inc.’s TOP 5000 Companies Respected Economic Research Firm Among Fastest-Growing Private Businesses in America Stowe, VT—Renowned investment newsletter firm Casey Research (www.caseyresearch.com) has been named to the prestigious Inc. 5000 list of the fastest-growing, privately held companies in America. The annual list published by Inc. [...]

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Florida – Much Worse Problems Than the Oil Spill By Doug Hornig, Senior Editor, Casey Research Media coverage of the oil spill’s effect on the Gulf focusing on tourist income lost by the waterfront towns – with footage of empty beaches, restaurants and T-shirt shops – dominates the news. Interviews with devastated business owners are [...]

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It’s kind of ironic, I find, that the very same people who are quickest to scoff when hearing the phrase “This time it’s different” – namely the professional investing class – apparently see nothing to worry about in the idea that the world’s largest debtor can run the world’s largest deficits… and do so at historically low interest rates.
To which I would comment, “Trust your eyes.” If it seems as though the situation is untenable, it very likely is. The only real question in my mind is, how long can this fiction persist? To that I don’t have an answer, but I suspect that when the truth of the situation is revealed – possibly by the roundabout path of seeing one or more of the large Asian economies come unglued – things will get far uglier, far faster, than most people suspect.

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Simply, the nation – and most of the so-called developed world – is broke. As is the model that these modern-day economies have been built on – a model that foolishly assumed that politicians could be trusted to manage a currency in a responsible fashion.
Consider, in the 1940s central bank reserves were 70% gold. Today, official reserves are only about 10% gold, even though the price of gold is far higher. The balance of those reserves, for all intents and purposes, is nothing more than IOUs.

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Double Dip Recession? The only place for a double dip, since it’s summer, is two people getting in the swimming pool or a double dip of ice cream. Face it, though, with the economy the way it is, who can afford two scoops? Alex Daley, the technology and emerging technologies guru at Casey Research and [...]

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For a while today, the stock market was up in part based on some reassuring words from “helicopter” Ben Bernanke, Chairman of the Federal Reserve. The man known as “The Bearded One” stated that his institution, the Federal Reserve, would do “whatever is necessary” to keep this recovery rolling along. Now, those of you without [...]

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Preparing for What’s Next By David Galland, Managing Editor, The Casey Report Oh, what a tangled web we live in. On one side of the Atlantic, there is a fundamentally broke European Union. On the other, the world’s largest debtor nation, these United States. Rotate the globe and you discover China, the world’s most populous [...]

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There is a lot of “noise” being tossed out by the politicos and their preferred pundits about how the U.S. economy is on the mend. Thus it is important to try and separate fact from fiction about where things really stand.

FICTION: Though sporadic, the U.S. economy will continue to improve.
FACT: The U.S. is headed for a currency crisis.

While having learned to cover their butts by adding some modest modifiers to their generally rosy forecasts, the administration’s shills (Geithner, Bernanke, Summers, et al.) are unified in telling us that the worst is over.

The fact is that the U.S., nay, the world, is headed for fiat currency crash. Let me push forward some evidence in support of that contention.

In this fiscal year, the U.S. government will run its second trillion-dollar-plus deficit. Concerned about the political heat going into the November elections, the Democrats have been making noise about cleaning up their sloppy spending…

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Just yesterday on a forum a poster  agreed that maybe gold is a good thing to have but that “since the gold price is at a record high, maybe now is not the time”. Yep. People been saying that for 5 years now, and while the price has doubled they still don’t own any. All [...]

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To ascertain what move the government is most likely to take next, we must first assess the probabilities.
In order to do that, we start by restating the central question, “How does the U.S. government spend, spend, spend (a minimum of $10 trillion in red ink over the next decade) and yet maintain today’s historically low interest rates?”

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