Banks are the new Hunts: highly bullish short position for silver! « Peter J...

"Silver investors owe a serious debt of gratitude to Theodore Butler for alerting the US regulators to the manipulation of the silver market in August by two major banks in one of the most blatant actions since the days of the Hunt Brothers in the 1970s. "

Will the Hunts buy silver again after selling Hunt Petroleum? « Peter J. Coo...

" Of course, the irony of the 1970’s episode may not have been lost on the next generation of Hunts. They did indeed select one of the best possible investment strategies for that decade, and if they had not gotten too greedy with margin trading their position would have...

AUSTRALIA: Email spy powers 'a licence for witch hunts'

Here we go again, with that fine line between good government and potential overbearing government, with the potential to spy on people's private emails  - the one and only true open source internet service we have. Our beloved Deputy Prime Minister Julia Dillard has me...

How Low Will Home Prices Go?

"My younger sister Melissa and her husband Joe are ready to move. Today the couple live in an apartment in New Jersey just across the Hudson River from Manhattan. At 33, Melissa's had it with city life, tired of dragging bags of groceries up steep flights of stairs,...

Iraq hunts for kidnapped Westerners - The Australian

" By Karim Jamil in Basra SECURITY forces are hunting for two Westerners kidnapped in southern Iraq after an American hostage was reportedly killed but two others rescued. Four US citizens and an Austrian, working as security guards for a Kuwaiti company, were kidnapped on...