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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Navigating the Other Side of the Storm By Doug Hornig, Editor, Casey Research The trillions in U.S. federal debt now exceed 85% of gross domestic product – and that’s not counting unfunded liabilities. Unemployment is breaking 20% as the government used to calculate it. The Federal Reserve is printing money like the paper it is. [...]

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You can download a free American Expatriation Guide written by a former citizen of the United States at the link below. I do recommend you read this full article by Doug Hornig first, though. Where’s the Land of Opportunity These Days? By Doug Hornig, Casey Research Recent decades have witnessed an amazing shrinkage of the [...]

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On the sands of Dubai.
The rest of the story is pretty well known. The crown prince, and later ruler, of Dubai had his way. His emirate became one of the richest and gaudiest places on the planet. Population shot to almost 1½ million, about 90% of them immigrants – from unskilled Bangladeshi laborers to software engineers from the U.S. – all lured by the promise of better-paying jobs than they could find at home.

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I’m betting not too many of you have the wealth to afford TOO many gold bars; after all, they are kind of expensive! Is the threat of counterfeit gold bars a reason to avoid them? As always, I think, deal with reputable firms. That’s one reason to buy only gold coins of stable countries from [...]

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The United States relies heavily on foreigners to buy our worthless paper, I mean U.S. Debt. This past year there have been auctions that have not gone well, but generally someone buys the stuff, if only to keep the value of what they already own from tanking. Doug Hornig has more to say: What If [...]

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Commercial Real Estate Crash Will Bring More Bank Carnage If you listen to the mainstream news media, and I hope you don’t, you would think that all is now well in the banking sector. Far from the truth. Hundreds of banks are operating zombies, not shut down because the FDIC cannot afford to. They recently [...]

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I am not too anxious to have all of my medical history “in the cloud” for any hacker, government hack, or minimum wage receptionist to access and sell. But it is probably going to happen anyway. The best we can do is position our investments to profit from it, right? That is one reason I [...]

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Gold, and the companies that produce it, have enjoyed a brisk runup of late, as the metal mounts yet another assault on the beckoning, symbolic $1,000 level. How much of this can be traced to what China has done, is doing, or may yet do?
We don’t know, but we suspect it’s not entirely coincidental. All rumor and speculation aside, as China clearly turns more and more bullish on gold, so will everyone else.

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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. [...]

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