John Ing

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• Gold: Robin Hood and Obamanomics

  Published 05 May 2009 | viewed 4,833 times

  http://www.cagle.com/ Public hangings have become the norm. Media stars such as Jim Cramer, columnists and portfolio managers alike missed the market collapse. Today the market…

• Gold: Plus Ca Change, Plus Ca Reste La Meme Chose

  Published 26 February 2009 | viewed 5,086 times

  (The more things change, the more they stay the same) A good part of the population voted for change but not less than a month…

• Gold: The Antidote To Our Problems

  Published 18 December 2008 | viewed 6,571 times

  After a prolonged bout of weakness, the US dollar rallied 20 percent as investors fled risky assets and hedge funds unwound bad bets to repatriate…

• Gold: Good Money after Bad Money

  Published 02 October 2008 | viewed 5,212 times

  Imagine a game of Monopoly in which one of the players wins, all the buildings, Boardwalk, hotels and railroads. Then in a reality moment the…

• Gold: Till Debt Do Us Part

  Published 29 August 2008 | viewed 6,362 times

  The Russians invade Georgia, raising fears of a proxy war with the U.S.. Oil through $150 a barrel? No. In fact, oil is $30 below…

• Gold: Addicted to Debt

  Published 30 May 2008 | viewed 6,212 times

  Despite the biggest jump in food prices in 18 years, the U.S. Labor Department reported that April's "core" inflation rate was an understated 2.3 percent.…

• Gold: The Nationalization of Wall Street

  Published 27 March 2008 | viewed 7,200 times

  Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke once said: "By increasing the number of U.S. dollars in circulation, or even by credibly threatening to do so, the…

• Gold: Lies, Lies And More Lies

  Published 31 January 2008 | viewed 10,487 times

  Weary of lies, Americans may now prefer to choose a politician or group that can offer the truth. And we're not just talking about the…

• Gold: The Emperor Has No Clothes

  Published 23 November 2007 | viewed 8,781 times

  Gold came within a whisker of our oft repeated target of $850 an ounce last reached in 1980. The main driver is the debasement of…

• Gold: The Collapse of the Vanities

  Published 14 September 2007 | viewed 5,715 times

  Today, there are parallels with the corrections following the Russian debt default in 1998, the collapse of the Long Term Capital Management hedge fund, the…

• Gold: Unsustainable Developments

  Published 23 July 2007 | viewed 11,215 times

  Gold has finally broken out of the narrow trading range between $640 and $665 an ounce, that has frustrated both bulls and bears alike. Gold…

• Gold Gone Wild

  Published 01 May 2007 | viewed 8,050 times

  Image courtesy of St. Louis Post-Dispatch Neither a borrower nor a lender be. And yet, if you have to choose, it is better to be…

• Gold: Rich Country, Poor Country

  Published 08 February 2007 | viewed 6,599 times

  Obituary writers are already preparing the death notices for commodities. Once a beneficiary of hot money, commodities began the New Year by crashing. Oil dropped…

• Gold: Deal or No Deal

  Published 08 November 2006 | viewed 10,278 times

  Oil has become the symbol of worldwide demographic, economic, environmental and geopolitical stress. The economic order is being remapped. Indeed, the possibility that the oil…

• Gold: Seismic Events

  Published 25 August 2006 | viewed 6,392 times

  Geopolitical shockwaves have fractured along fundamental fault lines. The hostilities in the Middle East intensified on two fronts. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict spread to Lebanon and…

• Gold: Bull Markets Climb Walls of Worry

  Published 08 June 2006 | viewed 10,143 times

  Conspiracy theories, self-doubt, testing 2,000 years of history? The Da Vinci Code? No. Gold. Gold bullion's performance continues to defy conventional wisdom. Gold broke $700…

• Gold: There's No Free Lunch

  Published 30 March 2006 | viewed 11,846 times

  In his State of the Union address, George W. Bush warned that "America is addicted to oil". Mr. Bush then vowed to reduce America's reliance…

• Gold: Texas Hold'em

  Published 21 January 2006 | viewed 9,344 times

  The gold market has been behaving as if inflation is back. Investors who believe otherwise need ask themselves: is past prologue? Gold has doubled in…

• Gold: The Sky Is Falling

  Published 28 November 2005 | viewed 9,269 times

  What a year 2005 has brought - hurricanes, tsunamis, earthquakes, terrorism and now Paris is burning. Aside from the sorry scenes of destruction, innocent deaths…

• Gold: The Sole Levee Against The Floodwaters of Financial Disaster

  Published 19 September 2005 | viewed 6,162 times

  Gold pulled back last month but held above the critical support level at $430 an ounce. We are now getting a rally triggered in part…