Markets / Other

Dec 20, 2013 at 19:23

Fed provides impetus for year-end equities mark-up, while things deteriorate in China.

Dec 20, 2013 at 13:12

One of my favorite web spaces is meetinnovators.com. It interviews startup entrepreneurs, people who created something new and made it successful. Through casual conversation, it investigates their thinking, mode of…

Dec 20, 2013 at 13:00

After the recent publication of my piece "Fekete's Arbitrage Fallacy", I had to endure the wrath of the Fekete camp. However, a week later, I received an email by one…

Dec 20, 2013 at 12:59

We have been stating for some time the Federal Reserve was using quantitative easing (QE) as monetary lighter fluid to get the economic fire started again. The Fed desperately wants…

Dec 20, 2013 at 12:50

Silver has cratered in 2013, spawning a sentiment wasteland of extreme bearishness. Yet peak despair is the very best time to buy low. Silver prices have converged on multiple major…

Dec 20, 2013 at 12:34

Many times in our previous essays we have written that if you want to be an effective and profitable investor, you should look at the situation from different perspectives and…

Dec 20, 2013 at 10:02

The following blog post originally appeared on January 11th, 2011 and is part of a continuing year-end 'best of' series, calling up old posts that some readers may have not…

Dec 20, 2013 at 08:30

By November, the most recent month for which statistics are available, the US Fiat Money Quantity (FMQ) had grown to $12.351 trillion. This is $4.96 trillion more than it would…

Dec 20, 2013 at 06:19

This was the week the Federal Open Market Committee decided to start tapering. The result was gold traded below $1200 yesterday for the first time in nearly six months, and…

Dec 20, 2013 at 06:09

Accusations of manipulation in the Gold Market have been around for a very long time, whether from bodies like GATA who believe that there is a cartel whose purpose is…