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Posted on: November 11, 2011
To hear my brother-in-law boast about his investments in silver, you’d never have guessed that he was an amateur investor. That was, at least, until silver crashed roughly 40% within one week last April.
Tags: GLD, gold, QE1, QE2, QE3, silver, SLV
Category: Commodities | Commodities Corner | Gold, Silver, and Precious Metals | Top Stories | US Dollar and Forex
Posted on: November 2, 2011
Of the four biggest economies – the US, China, Japan and Germany – the US is the oddball. The only debtor in the bunch. The other three run huge surpluses each and every year.
Tags: Andrew Gordon, China, Debtor Nation, Germay, Insider Fortunes, Japan, Mervyn King, U.S.
Category: Top Stories | U.S. Investing | US Dollar and Forex | US Economy | US Government News | US Treasury
Posted on: November 1, 2011
In the US about 75 percent of the companies reporting results for the third quarter exceeded expectations. Even though that number sounds impressive, it merely ranks as a typical performance for American companies. In any given quarter most companies exceed expectations.
Tags: MSCI World Index, The economy
Category: Top Stories | U.S. Investing | US Dollar and Forex | US Economy | US Government News
Posted on: November 1, 2011
October is over. It was a great month for commodities, especially copper. It gained 14% this past month, thanks to steady spot demand in China and a mining strike in Indonesia.
Tags: Andrew Gordon, commodities, Copper, Insider Fortunes, US dollar
Category: Commodities | Natural Resources | Top Stories | U.S. Investing | US Dollar and Forex | US Economy
Posted on: October 24, 2011
The US wants to be treated as a first-class economic power but keeps acting as a second-class or third-class power unable to make the hard decisions in order to corral its engorged debt.
Tags: downgrade, Fitch, Moody's, Standard & Poor's
Category: The Politics of Investing | Top Stories | U.S. Investing | US Dollar and Forex | US Economy | US Government News | Wall Street News | Washington News
Posted on: October 23, 2011
About IF | Services | Newsletter Archives | IF Video Room | Contact Us Collateral Damage Never Looked This Good The US markets have been on a bit of a bad run until very recently. So I don’t blame you if you’re looking for
Tags: Antoine van Agtmael, Ashmore, EEM, EMM, ETF iShares MSCI Emerging Markets Index
Category: Emerging Markets | Newsletter | U.S. Investing | US Dollar and Forex
Posted on: October 19, 2011
Deflation now. And a bad bout of inflation later. Oh, yes, mixed in with no growth. So go the predictions of Loretta Napoleoni, an Italian economist best known for her work on global money laundering and the financing of terror networks.
Category: Bond and Treasury Market | The Economy | Top Stories | U.S. Investing | US Dollar and Forex | US Economy | US Government News | US Treasury
Posted on: October 3, 2011
US manufacturing did better than expected in September, according to the Institute for Supply Management’s manufacturing index.
Tags: Andrew Gordon, dollar, global wealth insider, guardian, Insider Fortunes, ISM, Supply Management’s manufacturing index
Category: Bond and Treasury Market | Small Business | The Economy | Top Stories | US Dollar and Forex
