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The Dollar Bears may still be promising the disappearance of the U.S. dollar from global commerce. But the Chinese seem to have other plans. As may all other countries who see their export industries’ competitiveness threatened by the low dollar…
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Financial editors like to point out obvious investing opportunities. But the obvious is not necessarily the profitable. Vice stocks, especially, are not quite what they’re cracked up to be. Watch the video now…
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As Hurricane Gustav fizzled, commodities prices have plunged… if gold, crude oil, and copper are moving with the weather forecast, it’s time to head for the relative safe haven of stocks!
by J. Christoph Amberger
Baltimore — (TFN): “For now, based on our analysis, gold’s bull market remains in force,” wrote the Aden Sisters on August 27: [...]
The subprime meltdown has taken down lenders and borrowers alike. That makes the U.S. national debt look like a double-edged sword — especially to global creditors. Watch the video now…
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by Peter Schiff
Baltimore — (TFN): For those holding out hope that the American economy can miraculously avoid a long and deep recession, consumer credit is often viewed as the wonder drug that can cure all manner of economic ills. As such, this week’s report showing $15 billion growth in consumer credit was widely heralded as [...]
by J. Christoph Amberger
Baltimore — (TFN): When U.S. manufacturers and exporters lobbied the Bush Administration back in late 2001 to reduce the valuation of the US dollar against currencies like the yen and the euro (which was about to replace all individual national currencies in the Eurozone on January 2, 2002), the reply was that [...]
Question: I opened my January 2008 issue of Taipan and found that the entire editorial crew has been changed. There was a note by one Sandy Franks that talked noncommitantly about change and growth. There’s one Justice Litle I have never heard about. I’ve been a Taipan member for years and don’t know those new [...]
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Baltimore — (TFN): Given recent volatility and the prospects of lowered consumer demand from the States, should we continue to invest in China and India? Where is the US economy headed in 2008? William Bonner, founder of Agora Inc. and bestselling financial author, comments on the demise of the dollar, its effect on other [...]
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"Tax hikes will suffocate economic growth and domestic demand, resulting in a widespread relocation of US economic bellwether companies offshore." — J. Christoph Amberger
by J. Christoph Amberger
Baltimore — (TFN): I'll be the first to admit that I was wrong. Based on the fall surge in the markets, I had pegged the Dow Jones Industrials [...]
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"In a bull market this strong, why meddle with options at all? Why not just buy gold and hold it? Well, firstly of course, only an idiot would put all of his money into a non-yielding asset – or so your financial advisor would say. (Just ask him yourself; he could probably do with a [...]
Baltimore —(TFN): We've asked Bill Bonner, financial bestseller author and chairman of Agora Inc., to destill the impressions he has gathered surveying his global media empire… and tell TFN viewers what he thinks we'll be in for during the coming twelve months. Bill analyzes the roots of the global crisis, the role of debt [...]
"We think you should be prepared for a recession next year. When people have less money, typically, they spend less money; the economy contracts. (…) Not a pretty picture. But is this a bad thing? Not the way we look at it. A correction is way overdue. Better late than never." — Bill Bonner
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