Markets

Sep 13, 2013 at 19:51

Silver: Though steep, the move down from 25.12 is corrective thus far. Given the duration and sideways nature of the plausible 2-wave down to 19.10, and despite its depth, the…

Sep 13, 2013 at 17:25

Neither paper currency nor deposits have value as commodities, intrinsically; a 'dollar' bill is just a piece of paper. Deposits are merely book entries.

Sep 13, 2013 at 14:01

It's hard to know exactly what you're looking at - when it's sitting right smack in front of you. There's a complexity up close that could be confused with many…

Sep 13, 2013 at 12:46

Only emerging-market savers need gold and silver, right? This Sunday, September 15, marks the five-year anniversary of the collapse of Lehman Brothers. The week before it happened I recall receiving…

Sep 13, 2013 at 12:38

On August 1, in India Housing Bubble Still Expanding I posted a series of charts by Deepak Shenoy, an economic blogger at Capital Mind in India. Those charts showed the…

Sep 13, 2013 at 12:20

Of all of the many sound investing principles that legendary teacher and investor Ben Graham put forward, he believed that his concept of "margin of safety" was the most important…

Sep 13, 2013 at 11:54

When most people think about the biggest threats to the U.S. economy they usually mention things like the budget deficit, the national debt or the trade gap. What rarely gets…

Sep 13, 2013 at 10:51

The Federal Reserve's upcoming decision on whether to slow its third quantitative-easing campaign's debt monetizations has to be this year's most-highly-anticipated market event. Traders have been trying to game the…

Sep 13, 2013 at 10:22

A natural-resource insider asking who Lukas Lundin is would be like a Brit asking who the current queen of England is. You just know. Fact is, there is no stronger…

Sep 13, 2013 at 10:09

Today, gold in the global market reversed early gains and fell to its lowest in more than a month as U.S. futures extended losses on fears the United States would…