Doug Hornig

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• Can You Put Your Brainpower into Overdrive?

  Published 05 May 2015 | viewed 0 times

  Chances are, you haven't heard about nootropics yet. They're still pretty far out of the mainstream. But they're beginning to gather some steam as they…

• Don't Be a Freedom Wimp: Live from the Casey Research Summit in San Antonio

  Published 24 September 2014 | viewed 0 times

  On Day Two of the Casey Research Summit in San Antonio, the emphasis was decidedly on the "deep state," as Doug Casey termed it: what…

• A Turning Point in Junior Gold Stocks?

  Published 31 January 2014 | viewed 0 times

  It's not exactly news that gold mining stocks have been in a slump for more than two years. Many investors who owned them have thrown…

• The Technological Evolution of Nonlethal Weaponry

  Published 12 August 2013 | viewed 0 times

  The rise of humans from fearful creatures huddled around cave fires to the dominant species on the planet largely parallels the evolution of weaponry. Different…

• Is There Wisdom in the Crowd?

  Published 16 November 2012 | viewed 0 times

  Back in the 1960s, a clever but financially disadvantaged fellow placed a small ad in a national magazine that read something like: Money needed. Please…

• A Big Blast-Off for Windows 8

  Published 16 November 2012 | viewed 0 times

  Recent days have seen a blizzard of Microsoft-related activity, as a host of new products has blanketed the marketplace. First and foremost: the release of…

• What's Going on in CRM?

  Published 19 October 2012 | viewed 0 times

  In Mike Judge's wicked 1999 satire of corporate culture, Office Space, there's a delightful character named Milton. Poor Milton. He's all but invisible. No one…

• How to Navigate an Economy Weighed Down by Government Meddling and Cronyism

  Published 20 September 2012 | viewed 0 times

  If you wanted to sum up the just-concluded Casey Research/Sprott Inc. Summit titled Navigating the Politicized Economy, you could say "The situation is hopeless but…

• Big Changes Ahead: Gold Just Became Money Again

  Published 17 August 2012 | viewed 0 times

  On June 18, the Federal Reserve and FDIC circulated a letter to banks that proposes to harmonize US regulatory capital rules with Basel III. BASEL…

• Are High Frequency Traders Rigging the Stock Market?

  Published 07 August 2012 | viewed 0 times

  High-frequency traders (HFT) have no interest in any company whose stock they're trading. They don't care about its earnings, what sector it's in, nor who's…

• Why Your Health Care Is so Darn Expensive

  Published 19 July 2012 | viewed 0 times

  The cellphone in your pocket is NASA-smart. Yet it costs just a couple hundred dollars. So why is it that rising technical capabilities are leading…

• The State of US Surveillance

  Published 03 February 2012 | viewed 0 times

  Lovers of liberty have seemingly had a good bit to celebrate recently. First, there was an unprecedented outpouring of negative public sentiment about the Congressional…

• The US's Education Bubble

  Published 06 December 2011 | viewed 0 times

  In the world of finance, there is always talk of bubbles - mortgage bubbles, tech stock bubbles, junk bond bubbles. But bubbles don't develop only…

• A Raging Case of Bailout Fatigue

  Published 07 September 2011 | viewed 0 times

  I've used the term outrage fatigue on numerous occasions in this forum as a way of trying to explain why there has been such a…

• Tracking Gold

  Published 01 September 2011 | viewed 0 times

  Recently, we've received a number of emails from readers asking why the primary gold ETF, SPDR Gold Trust (NYSE:GLD), doesn't more closely track the price…

• Next Step: A Home Cancer Test Kit?

  Published 26 July 2011 | viewed 0 times

  With cancer, early detection equals a greater likelihood that treatment will have a positive outcome. Physicians have known this for a long time, and the…

• The Great Nugget Scam

  Published 01 July 2011 | viewed 0 times

  You know an asset class is hot when the scam artists start coming out of the woodwork. Such was the case during the real estate…

• Robotics, Part 1 - Where Are We Today?

  Published 23 February 2011 | viewed 0 times

  In the field of robotics, we have no Newton. No one who, assisted by a falling fruit, cried out, "Eureka, I have it, and it…

• Facecrime

  Published 12 November 2010 | viewed 0 times

  In late September, there was a modest gathering of law enforcement officers, military personnel, and mental health professionals in the small western New York town…

• China: Gaga for Gaming

  Published 29 October 2010 | viewed 0 times

  Developing nations are playing technological leapfrog. In the developed world, when we think of technology, the roots of much of what we do today were…