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Gold broke out to a new high yesterday of $1084, and the yellow metal is glittering again today.More impressively, strategists note, gold prices moved higher on Tuesday even as the S&P 500 ticked

Russia Looking for $18 Billion Russia is looking to raise $18 billion in dollar-denominated securities in the first quarter of 2010 after the cost of borrowing for emerging market sovereign issuers f

“Let me tell you something my friend. Hope is a dangerous thing. Hope can drive a man insane.” --Ellis Boyd Redding, Shawshank Redemption Is anyone else having the strangest sense of vuja

  Once upon a time, Dubai existed as a vast desert of nothingness, inhabited by Bedouins and pearl divers. But then they built it, and they came. And then they left.

You can usually measure the cultural significance of a piece of architecture by how many times it’s been blown up in the movies. The Chrysler Building, for example, was struck by a meteor i

In science they say that matter can neither be created nor destroyed.I believe the same thing is true about risk. To me, there’s no such thing as less risk or more risk, just different risk. Ho

It never ceases to amaze me what hype people will believe. The latest is a series of posts by Jim Sinclair who, on August 14, started a countdown to dollar oblivion. August 14, 2009: The Motivation B

The US stock market may be having its sharpest gains for the first six months of the year since the Great Depression, but bond markets aren’t sharing the enthusiasm. According to Bloomberg, inv

I remember the column as if it were written yesterday. It was the middle of the summer in 2001 when I scribed The Long, Hard Road. It wasn’t a call to rush out and buy guns and food; it was a s