By Ellen Brown [T]hreatening to default should not be a partisan issue. In view of all the hazards it entails, one wonders why any respon...
May 30, 2011
May 28, 2011
Oil, Democracy and 'Drill, Baby, Drill' (Guest Post)
By Dr. Mark J. Perry The chart below is from a Bloomberg article and shows that "Most of the world's oil is produced in states t...
China Stocks: It's A Matter Of When (Guest Post)
By Prieur du Plessis Since a high of 3,056 in mid-April, the Shanghai Composite Index has shed 10.3% to close at 2,741 this morning. I have...
May 27, 2011
$80 Oil By September: When Fundamentals Smack Big Banks in the Face
By EconMatters (A Seeking Alpha exclusive ) In notes published Monday, May 23, Goldman, reversing its commodity bear call just six weeks ...
Fadel Gheit Throws Wall Street's Big Banks Under The Oil Speculating Bus
By EconMatters Public Relation people at Goldman Sachs can not be too happy about this. Fadel Gheit, a veteran of Oppenheimer and oil an...
May 26, 2011
How America's Unemployment Crisis Saved the Rich (Guest Post)
By Mark Provost Christina Romer, former member of President Obama’s Council of Economic Advisors, accuses the administration of “shamefull...
May 25, 2011
CFTC: The Cross Market Oil Trading Scheme of 2008 (Guest Post)
By Bob van der Valk The gated community of Rancho Santa Fe has not seen so much excitement since Michael Blevins, owner of now defunct di...
Natural Gas: When Believers Stop Believing (Guest Post)
By Kurt Cobb Only two years ago Chesapeake Energy Corp. president Aubrey McClendon was telling us about the limitless future of natural g...
May 24, 2011
Gold and Dollar Pop on Euro Debt Crisis
By EconMatters A year after Greece received a €110 billion ($158 billion) bailout package from the European Union (EU) and IMF, the re...
May 23, 2011
5 Dead Money Plays in Technology
By EconMatters (A Seeking Alpha Exclusive ) There are some distinct trends in technology stocks that are worth pointing out to investors....
May 22, 2011
US Gasoline Price: 10% Drop in Two Weeks? (Guest Post)
By Bob van der Valk The market bounced back from steep lows last Friday putting crude oil prices back on track up to the $100 a barrel mar...
May 21, 2011
A Coming Global Economic Downturn: How Bad Will It Hit The U.S.? (Guest Post)
By Prieur du Plessis The world is headed for an economic slowdown, according to the Economic Cycle Research Institute's (ECRI) Long Le...
Gold: A Tale of Western Fear and Eastern Love (Guest Post)
Commodities Now The World Gold Council (WGC) released its quarterly Gold Demand Trends report this week and, as always, it was filled with...
May 18, 2011
Is Gasoline Price Too High? (Guest Post)
By: Bob van der Valk Consumers are once again being told with gas price stories we see on TV and read in newspapers gas prices are too hig...
May 17, 2011
Markets Drop When Dollar Pops (Guest Post)
By Ilene Just two weeks ago, the financial media was buzzing about the U.S. Dollar’s steep decline and surging prices in commodities and p...
May 15, 2011
U.S. Housing Market: 6 Million Final Stage Foreclosures by 2014 (Guest Post)
By Andrew Butter A Bank Repossession (REO) is the final stage of the foreclosure process that typically requires three foreclosure notices...
May 14, 2011
Slow Relief at the Pump As Gasoline Decouples From Crude Oil
By EconMatters The Reuters Jefferies CRB Index is down 8% so far in May with almost every single commodity in the index registering red. E...
May 13, 2011
Silver Bubble and Volatility (Guest Post)
By Charles Rotblut, CFA The recent plunge in silver prices provides lessons for all investors, regardless of whether you invest in commod...
May 11, 2011
Barclays Capital Survey Says China and Commodities Still Favorable (Guest Post)
By Commodities Now Barclays Capital held their 4th annual China Commodities Seminar in Suzhou last week of April, 2011. The seminar was at...
May 10, 2011
Social Network: Why So LinkedIn?
By EconMatters Dubbed as the Facebook of business professionals, Linkedin has expanded into many parts of the globe with 101.5 million m...
May 9, 2011
Don't Give Up On Commodities Just Yet (Guest Post)
By Commodities Now The prices for many commodities suffered the worst week in recent memory at the start of May. Oil prices dipped below ...
May 8, 2011
Going Behind The Rise in Oil and Food Prices (Guest Post)
By Ilene Danny Schechter at Al Jazeera interviews Philip R. Davis, founder of Phil's Stock World , about excessive speculation in the...
May 7, 2011
Is Euro Another Bullish Argument For Gold and Silver? (Guest Post)
By Ashraf Laidi at ashraflaidi.com This headline-charged first week of May has been dominated by the announced death of Osama Bin Laden...
Gasoline Prices: Why Are They Fast To Spike, But Slow to Fall? (Guest Post)
By Bob van der Valk This year's Cinco de Mayo Mexican holiday may go down in US oil trading history as the day the oil prices spun dow...
May 6, 2011
Is Speculation The Reason For High Oil and Gasoline Prices?
By EconMatters WTI (West Texas Intermediate) Crude Oil futures traded at its lowest in almost two months in New York on Thursday, May 5 i...
May 5, 2011
The Bin Laden Effect on the Oil and Gasoline Market (Guest Post)
By Bob van der Valk The oil market turned around this week and spot market gasoline and diesel prices in turn went back down the week of ...
May 2, 2011
Profitable Trade Setups for the Coming Gold, Silver and Dollar Reversals
By EconMatters (A Seeking Alpha exclusive ) It is inevitable that there will be a sizable and significant correction in these three marke...
May 1, 2011
A Sunday Vertical Drop of Gold, Silver, Platinum and Palladium
By EconMatters I was fully expecting a non-eventful Sunday afternoon when out of no where, precious metals started their contest of verti...
Exxon Q1 Pays $1M Income Tax per Hour: Who's Not Paying Fair Share of Taxes? (Guest Post)
By Dr. Mark J. Perry ExxonMobil reported its first quarter 2011 earnings on April 28, which came in at $10.65 billion, an increase of 69% ...
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