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Tuesday, May 5th, 2009Sometimes, you can achieve the most privacy by hiding in plain sight.
With all the hullabaloo about offshore banking, remember the basic fact that databases only know what you tell them. Sometimes going offshore can raise red flags, and there are more discreet and private banking options in major OECD or G20 member countries themselves… [...]
Are Fake Gold Coins Really a Problem?
Saturday, April 25th, 2009A Guest Post by Doug Hornig, Editor, BIG GOLD
The Chinese Fake It
You probably remember movies about the Old West, wherein a shady-looking character would offer to exchange a gold coin for a horse, and the seller would bite down on the coin to verify its authenticity. That was about all you could do if you [...]
Why You Should Buy Gold Even if it is Manipulated
Saturday, April 18th, 2009Jon Herring recently asked on Investors’ Daily Edge how it is that gold – “the world’s greatest inflation hedge” – is roughly the same price today that it was in 1980, after 30 years of inflation?
There is a simple answer: manipulation of the markets by the Gold Cartel . That will be nothing new to [...]
“It’s Possible to Train People to be Crazy”
Friday, April 10th, 2009Guest post for petermacfarlane.net by Terry Coxon, Editor, The Casey Report
We don’t yet know how many trillions will be swallowed up by the government’s rapidly breeding herd of stimulus-bailout-help!help! measures. But additional bold steps are sure to come, some already in R&D and others to be invented on the fly to [...]
Depression Averted Says Bernanke
Tuesday, March 24th, 2009By the editors of Casey Research
“We’ve averted” the risk of a depression, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said this week. “Now the problem is to get the thing working properly again.”
Appearing on CBS network’s 60 Minutes, Bernanke told correspondent Scott Pelley that concerted efforts by the government likely averted a depression similar to the [...]