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The US Presidential Race As the US Presidential race enters its final leg, the skit performed by Johnny Carson as a Politician Taking a Polygraph Test on “The Tonight Show” – 1982, is as relevant today as ever. Prepare to burst out laughing. Johnny Carson skit on Presidential Promises...
From the New York Times Efraim Halevy was the director of the Mossad (the Israeli Secret Service) from 1998 to 2002 and the National Security Advisor to the Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon from October 2002 to June 2003. An article written by Efrain Halevy in Jerusalem. Original article in the New York Times, or...
Are Income Tax Havens a Good Thing The real negative effects of tax havens are not that paying taxes in the US are avoided. The real issue is that US policy is driving US $$$ away from the US. When money is put in a tax haven to avoid taxes, that money stays offshore. It...
What is Hot In every cycle, people jump on the bandwagon. Whatever is hot, becomes the darling of the day. In the last few years, it has been rare earth metals. Light rare earth and heavy rare earth metals, and any other deposit that may contain these metals, which in most cases is uranium. What...
A recent research paper by Erb & Harvey, Duke University – Fuqua School of Business; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), revised August 3, 2012 is titled The Golden Dilemma In this paper, many of the ‘street’s’ beliefs in gold are examined in a detailed and historical context. The paper is too lengthy for this...
Gold’s Breakout Commentators have filled the news recently commenting on the breakout in the price of gold. Gold broke out of its reducing triangle and following the Ernmor trap, started a strong move to higher levels. Expressions on the part of gold bugs led to predictions by many of $2,000 and $2,500 price levels per...
Gold’s Amazing Run to $1,900 In August 2011, gold broke out to new highs of over $1,900 per ounce. What a ride from November 2008 when gold rose from above $700 to August 2011 with gold at $1,900. Gold remained in an unbroken channel moving ever higher, until near the end of its run, it...
A Quote That is as Valid Today as Ever – by Abraham Lincoln Your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing Many investors have seen their portfolios punished in the last year. The big Mutual Funds tell you that you should measure your returns against the norm, or against the...
In an interview with Small Cap Power earlier this year, the interviewer asked whether it was was an opportune time to buy gold. At that time the US Congress was in a stalemate over raising the debt limit. There were daily increasing fears about debt defaults in Europe. China was entering a slowdown and the...
The Age of Instant Communication A feature of the revolutionary change in communications that has transformed society, is the almost instant universal awareness of every event, or concept. A recent discussion is a relatively new concept of governments printing a massive sum of money and depositing a proportionate amount of it in every citizen’s bank...