The present contains all possible futures. But not all futures are good ones. Some can be quite cruel. The one we actually get is dictated by the choices we make. For the last few months I’ve b

There has been a lot of debate lately as to whether proposals such as health-care reform will turn America into a socialist state.Considering what I’ve learned in 35 years working for nonprofit

Japan has gone through two lost decades, in and out of deflation, with nothing to show for it but increasing debt to GDP and a stock market still 70% below its peak.Now, Richard Koo of Nomura Researc

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Numerous people have asked me to comment on the Zero Hedge article Exclusive Smoking Gun: The Fed On Gold Manipulation. The "Smoking Gun" is a now declassified document about gold that was&

  There’s just one problem with corn-based ethanol: It takes 29% more fossil energy to produce a gallon of ethanol than the ethanol release when burned as fuel. The disparity betwee

Home sales fell last month, and so be it. Every home that doesn’t get sold is another bailout I don’t have to finance.Congress included an $8,000 tax credit for first-time home buyers as

Editor's Note: The following article was written by Raymond James Chief Investment Strategist Jeff Saut. It has been reproduced with permission for the benefit of the Minyanville communit

When it comes to portfolio construction, perhaps the most important and basic question investors must answer is this: Are we confronting an environment of rising or falling prices in the future? It&r

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