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Merk Economic Calendar: Week Ahead In US Financial Markets (June 23-27 2008)

Jun 20, 2008 at 00:00

The upcoming week will be dominated by the publication of the FOMC monetary statement on Wed. Later that night Vice-Chair Donald Kohn will be addressing an ECB monetary conference, which…

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SLV Silver ETF

Jun 20, 2008 at 00:00

One of the reasons investors originally liked SLV so much is silver consumers aggressively lobbied the SEC to kill it. The Silver Users Association wrote some fascinating letters to the…

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Silver -- Two Sides of the Story

Jun 20, 2008 at 00:00

What drives the price of silver? Certainly it is a function of buying and selling pressure, and primarily, this price setting mechanism takes place on the COMEX. However, so much…

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The Fed Unreserved

Jun 20, 2008 at 00:00

Throughout history, governments have always used crises to justify blatant power grabs. Often the crisis subsides, but the expanded government powers remain. In America this week, the tendency came into…

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Bank-Risk and Balance Sheets

Jun 20, 2008 at 00:00

...Ninety-five per cent of the credit created by UK banks in May went to buying back loans that they'd already sold to other investors...

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Merk Market Outlook: US Current Account -- Still A Drag On The Dollar

Jun 20, 2008 at 00:00

Lost amidst recent data on inflation, the rise in oil prices, a deepening crisis in the housing market and the uncanny ability of Goldman-Sachs to outperform market expectations was the…

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The Thin Red White and Blue Line

Jun 20, 2008 at 00:00

The issue with leveraged investments extends well beyond bad loans from the so called sub-prime crisis. It's now the global credit crisis. Everyone is leveraged. Consumer debt is at an…

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Is the LEI Biased Upwards Because of Mammoth Decline in Fed Treasury Holdings

Jun 19, 2008 at 00:00

The Fed is a price-insensitive buyer/seller of U.S. Treasury securities. But other participants in the U.S. Treasury securities market are more price or interest rate sensitive. It stands to reason…

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Not All Metals are Created Equal - Metals Review for 2008 and 2009 (Part I)

Jun 19, 2008 at 00:00

Oftentimes I talk to investors and I realize that they treat metals as a group. Particularly in the subset of base metals, most point out the price action of copper…

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Fed Ache

Jun 19, 2008 at 00:00

The Euro vs Dollar Currency War is back on the front burner. For years, it used to be a cold war, but now it's hot again - and Bernie can't…