Which is a Better Inflation Hedge, Gold or Houses?

Which is a Better Inflation Hedge, Gold or Houses? Here is something I never would have guessed at, via Dave Wilson of Bloomberg: If you want to be hedged against the risk of a pickup in inflation, you would be better off buying houses than gold. That’s according to...

Full-Blown Panic As People Ask “Where Is The Gold?”

http://economicrisis.com/full-blown-panic-as-people-ask-where-is-the-gold/5924 Full-Blown Panic As People Ask “Where Is The Gold?” Today legendary trader Jim Sinclair warned King World News about the full-blown panic that has erupted in both the financial world, and...

Gold Crush Started With 400 Ton Friday Forced Sale On COMEX

http://1goldinvestment.com/gold-crush-started-with-400-ton-friday-forced-sale-on-comex/ Gold Crush Started With 400 Ton Friday Forced Sale On COMEX The gold futures markets opened in New York on Friday 12th April to a monumental 3.4 million ounces (100 tonnes) of gold...

Why Is Gold Crashing?

Why Is Gold Crashing? Adding insult to injury, the Shanghai Gold Exchange overnight announced that following the tumbling precious metal prices and limit down drop in early trading, it may raise trading margins for its gold and silver forward contracts. Read More:...

Reading The Dow v. Gold Ratio

Reading The Dow v. Gold Ratio “I hate seeing myself misquoted, misinterpreted or just misunderstood,” says our friend Fusion IQ chief and Big Picture blogger Barry Ritholtz. We can relate, given the reaction we get when we start talking about Treasuries, why we hate...

The Secret: Why Obama Really, Really Wants to Cut Social Security

http://economicrisis.com/the-secret-why-obama-really-really-wants-to-cut-social-security/2101 The Secret: Why Obama Really, Really Wants to Cut Social Security On December 21, 2000, President Bill Clinton signed a bill called the Commodities Futures Modernization Act....

Overallotment makes GM IPO largest in World backed by Euro Money

The initial public offering of GM (IPO) is the world's largest at $23.1 billion. The underwriters are open to purchase large dividends of stock making the bid higher than the Agricultural Bank of China's IPO at...

Bernanke Defends Merrill Lynch Deal

Ben Bernanke, Chairman of the US Federal Reserve, is answering quesitons in Congress today, defending his role in the Bank of America takeover of Merrill Lynch. BofA CEO Kenneth Lewis claims that Bernanke threatened to have him removed if the takeover deal fell apart, a claim...

President Obama & NY Attorney General Cuomo Outraged by AIG

""Taxpayers of this company are now supporting AIG, and they deserve at the very least to know how their money is being spent." Andrew Cuomo, New York Attorney General. " When word got out that AIG, the failed...

Greg Fleming Leaves Merrill Lynch

Days after Merrill Lynch merged with Bank of America, Greg Fleming, Merrill's COO for more than 20 years, has announced his resignation. Fleming was one of the architects of the merger. Fleming will apparently...

Wall Street Mess and the Foreclosure Crisis

"When America woke up this Monday morning, the news that hit them is certainly something that one will not expect. Investment giants Lehman Brothers and Merrill Lynch were suffering from losses so huge that the...

Are the Republicans the party that wrecked America?

That is the view of James Kunstler in his most recent blog entry.  Kunstler has been forecasting the current financial crisis for a long time now."      We should be frightened...

Targeting of U.S. Citizens by Gov't Agencies: Root Cause of Wall Street Finan...

GET POLITICAL w/ VIC LIVINGSTONCould government "targeting" of American citizens outside the bounds of the judicial system be one of the root causes of the Wall Street financial meltdown that threatens to devastate the global economy?Victims of so-called "organized gang...

End of wall street bull fight, Investment bank dead, the Winner is the Commer...

Opinion Solarlife,  Money talks politcs: "people" VIDEO Wall street bull fightInvestment banks go, Commercial bank returned as winnerBorrowed money for speculation against saving accounts for business...

US stocks head for lower open ahead of Fed meeting

"NEW YORK - U.S. stocks headed for a lower open Tuesday, a day after Wall Street's worst day in years, as nervous investors awaited a decision from the Federal Reserve on interest rates. ...

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