Archive for January 9th, 2012

By Mark Motive GoldSeek.com Monday, 9 January 2012 The global economy is in turmoil. Europe is on the verge of collapse, probably taking the US down with it. As the euro-crisis worsens, we march ever closer to outright monetization of European debt by the ECB and, covertly, by the Federal Reserve. The developed world... »

BY CHARLES HUGH SMITH FinancialSense.com 01/09/2012 Ben Bernanke’s zero-interest rate policy (ZIRP) and command-economy efforts to maintain mispricing of risk, debt and assets are destroying capital and capitalism. No wonder his policies have failed so miserably. To understand why Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke’s efforts to restart economic “growth” have failed so completely and... »

Mac Slavo January 9th, 2012 SHTFplan.com Presidential hopeful Rick Santorum, who came out of Iowa with a surprisingly strong finish last week, may not be everything he’s cracked up to be. For those who have been following the Republican primary, Santorum’s questionable ethics were called out by Congressman Ron Paul, but likely dismissed by... »

by JOSEPH FARAH WorldNetDaily.com 1/9/2012 In July 2008, presidential candidate Barack Obama vowed to create a “civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded” as the U.S. military. Apparently no one else in the national press found that promise newsworthy, because I was the first to call it... »

by: Ethan A. Huff Monday, January 09, 2012 As long as law enforcement officials claim to have reasonable suspicion that you might be involved with committing a crime, they are free to affix a GPS tracking device to your car without your knowledge and monitor your every movement. At least this is the opinion... »

Ben Walsh BusinessInsider.com Jan. 9, 2012 After most recently addressing his ire at the mental instability of the executives running Wall Street’s major institutions, Bill Cohan this week examines the shrinking competition among the largest Wall Street firms and makes a well-argued case that it represents a pattern of behavior stretching back to the... »

CommodityOnline.com GOLD High : $2100 Low : $1590 Average : $1765 Black swan events are by nature high-impact, hard to predict and beyond the realm of expectations. By that reckoning financial markets are awash with them and forecasting for Goldin this environment is treacherous. Never has forecasting been so difficult – gold’s fortunes are... »

By: Przemyslaw Radomski MarketOracle.co.uk The new year started off with a bang with precious metals out-shining the competition. Is this a harbinger of things to come? We think so and we are not alone. Forecasts for gold for 2012 include a price per ounce of $2,200 by Morgan Stanley, $2,050 by UBS, and $2,000... »

By Tekoa Da Silva BullMarketThinking.org …. Additionally–Will the sucking sound of this first filing be one of many to vacuum away market capital which would otherwise have been allocated to mine financing? It appears likely. But the major elephant in the room remains MF Global. The ramifications of their bankruptcy event have yet to... »

DEBKAfile Monday, January 9, 2012 US, Russian French and British air and naval forces streamed to the Syrian and Iranian coasts over the weekend on guard for fresh developments at the two Middle East flashpoints. The Russian carrier Admiral Kuznetsov anchored earlier than planned at Syria’s Tartus port on the Mediterranean Sunday, Jan. 8,... »