Emerging Growth Stocks

Al Korelin interviewed on BNN

2012-02-09T12:45:00.000-08:00

All discusses the unusual volatility in today's markets.

Louis interviewed by Al Korelin at Cambridge House conference

2012-02-09T12:33:00.000-08:00

Al Korelin interviews me about the future economic outlook and my new SEO service.

Al must of liked what he heard, because later that day he signed on for it!

We've been down this path before

2011-12-03T11:06:00.000-08:00

As civilizations mature, they tend to make the same mistakes. We are in the middle of one of those mistakes right now
By Frank Giustra, Vancouver Sun December 2, 2011

This is one of the best articles I've read in a while. Mr. Giustra is one of Canada's top business people and he doesn't need to write attention grabbing articles like this. His conclusions are in-line with the Great Bust Ahead, and he doesn't even draw on demographics to make his argument - just dumb human behaviour which repeats itself every few hundred years. This article just confirms what we are expection - a long term bear market is here.

Just get used to it. (click title above to access article)

Will gold prices go way of Nortel stocks?

2011-08-26T00:30:00.000-07:00

Will gold prices go way of Nortel stocks?

Eric Sprott

Peter Schiff Exposes Classic Pump & Dump Scheme

2011-06-13T10:59:00.000-07:00

Can America's free-falling economic malaise be cured? May 10, 2011 - Vancouver Sun

2011-05-11T22:47:00.000-07:00

Very interesting review of a major new essay released today by the Institute for Research on Public Policy, written by Tom Courchene, an eminent economist and political scientist from Queen's University.

Why is saving hard? May 11, 2011 - National Post

2011-05-11T22:40:00.000-07:00

Do it now or face much more pain later in life

Overburdened with debt - April 6, 2011 Vancouver Sun

2011-04-07T21:08:00.000-07:00

Credit-and debit-card usage dulls our sense of 'purchasing pain' resulting in more impulse purchases

"Consumerism, or 'American disease,' has become a global pandemic."

Charlie Rose Talks With Jim Rogers - Bloomberg, Businessweek March 17, 2011

2011-03-18T20:57:00.000-07:00

Duke Energy's CEO discusses how Japan's nuclear crisis will affect the energy industry—and why a lack of new American plants threatens the U.S.'s future

Save, Invest, Speculate, Trade or Gamble? Doug Casey, March 10, 2011

2011-03-10T16:08:00.000-08:00

For some time I've been saying that the economy is in the “eye of the storm” and that when it emerged, the weather would be far rougher than in 2008. The trillions of currency units created since the Greater Depression began in 2007 have papered over the situation, but only temporarily.

Continued, click title.

2011-03-02T20:50:00.001-08:00

Taking profits in gold stocks - March 1st, National Post

2011-03-02T09:54:00.000-08:00

Shares of Canadian gold mining companies often climb along with good news released at the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada convention every March. Unfortunately, traders then sell on news and the shares fall.

Gold diggers hunt for 'a little flash in the pan' - Vancouver Sun Feb 7

2011-02-08T00:15:00.000-08:00

Baby boomers near 65 with retirements in jeopardy - Yahoo

2010-12-28T12:15:00.000-08:00

CHICAGO – Through a combination of procrastination and bad timing, many baby boomers are facing a personal finance disaster just as they're hoping to retire. Starting in January, more than 10,000 baby boomers a day will turn 65, a pattern that will continue for the next 19 years.

The boomers, who in their youth revolutionized everything from music to race relations, are set to redefine retirement. But a generation that made its mark in the tumultuous 1960s now faces a crisis as it hits its own mid-60s.

"The situation is extremely serious because baby boomers have not saved very effectively for retirement and are still retiring too early," says Olivia Mitchell, director of the Boettner Center for Pensions and Retirement Research at the University of Pennsylvania.

Vancouver firm brings green tech to the pavement

2010-12-10T13:42:00.000-08:00

Vancouver firm brings green tech to the pavement

Vancouver-based Greenscape Capital has just completed its first major project, a 4,200-car parking lot serving the airport in Denver Colorade. This is a shot of the new lot's canopies at nightfall. The lot incorporates a number of energy saving features including LED lighting, geothermal energy, solar and wind energy.

Self-storage: the poster child for America’s addiction to excess

2010-11-30T17:32:00.000-08:00

Commentator Peter Grandich issues report on our need for “stuff”; offers ways to save

B.C. vulnerable to breakdowns in global food supply, report says - Vancouver Sun, Nov. 4, 2010

2010-11-04T22:23:00.000-07:00

Spurred by the 2006 expansion of biofuels programs in the United States, prices for soy and corn began to rise, and a drought in Australia, a heat wave in California and extreme weather in Asia’s rice-producing nations conspired to triple the price of rice and more than double the price of wheat by April 2008. Many people in Africa and Asia were unable to afford staple foods, if they were available at all.

"B.C. managed to buy its way out of that crisis and absorb that price shock, but there were food riots in many countries on several continents," said Marc Lee, an economist with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. China, India, Indonesia and other nations closed their borders to rice exports. Russia, Ukraine and Argentina blocked wheat exports. In Vancouver, many stores ran out of rice while bread prices soared.

"I don’t think we can take for granted the abundance that we have at the supermarket today," Lee said, adding that our collective confidence in that abundance is the biggest barrier to change.

Food price rises stoke riot fears - FT.com

2010-11-04T00:50:00.000-07:00

Food prices have soared to levels last seen in the 2007-08 crisis after a big October rise, the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation said on Tuesday.
The increase will renew fears about a repetition of the wave of food riots that rocked poor countries from Bangladesh to Haiti two years ago.

Higher agricultural commodities costs will also hit consumers in richer countries, with food companies such as McDonald’s and Kraft already announcing price rises for 2011.

“The situation has deteriorated rapidly,” said Abdolreza Abbassian, economist at the FAO in Rome, adding that prices were “getting closer to the levels of 2008”.
The FAO said its price index, a basket of wheat, corn, rice, oilseeds, dairy products, sugar and meats, jumped last month to 197.1 points – up nearly 5 per cent from September and the highest level in more than two years.

The index has now surpassed the levels seen during the early stages of the 2007 food crisis, and it is only below the peak of the calamity between February and July of 2008.

..........Continued

(P.S.: Coming in the Next Issue of EGS later this week - emerging Bio-Feed producer in the world's largest emerging market)

Junior miner powers higher on China coal mine stake increase - Stockhouse.com

2010-11-04T00:46:00.000-07:00

ORONTO (SHfn) – Lucky Strike Resources (TSX: V.LKY, Stock Forum) shares climbed 34% to 41 cents on Friday after the micro cap miner announced an amendment to the terms of the letter of intent for the acquisition of the Changyun Coal Mine project in China with Cheung Wan (Groups) Energy Development Limited. Lucky Strike can now earn an additional 20% interest of the project bringing the total amount to 80% from the original 60%. The proposed purchase price increases from RMB 110 Million to RMB 150 Million, or to approximately US$22.06 million

2010-10-21T16:07:00.001-07:00

How High Will Gold Go This Fall? - Casey Research

2010-09-24T00:17:00.000-07:00

The gold price has been hitting ever-new records over the past couple weeks, now closing in on the $1,300 mark. Some gold followers are saying this is extremely bullish for the near-term price since it broke so decisively through its June 28th high of $1,261. If they're right, how high might this particular surge go?

While the endgame for gold is far off in my opinion, it's worth looking at short-term surges, especially if you're trying to determine to buy at a particular level. Plus, it's just darn fun. (click title above to continue...)

Equinox Incidator signals possible turning point just ahead

2010-09-23T14:40:00.000-07:00

Don Vialoux on BNN

2010-09-17T22:21:00.000-07:00

Don discusses seasonality for the overall stock market, tech stocks, gold and natural gas.

2010-09-11T22:15:00.000-07:00

NJ Governor Christie sets record straight - owns unreasonable treacher

2010-09-11T22:12:00.000-07:00

I will analyze any stock, Index or Commodity chart for $16

2010-08-28T16:17:00.000-07:00

Details here(How to order and recent examples)

Shortened Link: http://tinyurl.com/2fty5ek

2010-08-21T21:02:00.001-07:00

Emerging Growth Stocks Newsletter

2010-08-07T11:19:00.000-07:00

I will give overall stock market or commodity prognosis or technical analysis on individual stocks for $5.

2010-08-04T23:37:00.000-07:00

I will give overall stock market or commodity prognosis or technical analysis on individual stocks for $5.

One of the Best Gold Watchers

2010-07-31T12:05:00.000-07:00

One of the Best Gold Watchers (Frank Holmes refers to interview of Pierre Lasonde)
Pierre expects the Gold bull market to continue for another 5 years at least.

Go direct to Mineweb Interview Here

Put options can be a win-win for gold bulls - Stockhouse

2010-07-07T11:01:00.000-07:00

One of the best ways to achieve that is by selling naked put options. Sounds sexy – and it is.
Buy gold for $100 with put options

2010-06-29T00:06:00.000-07:00

China set to become largest importer of thermal coal - Financial Times.com

2010-06-25T12:59:00.001-07:00

Note: You will have to register at Financial Times to access this article. But the chart tells all - China has shifted from being an exporter to an importer of Thermal Coal.

Ted Ohashi interviews Bill Mavridis, President & CEO Caldera Resources and me in second portion

2010-06-25T00:40:00.000-07:00

2010-06-24T19:45:00.000-07:00

This is one of the more interesting comments in response to the last items posted. It clearly illustrates the dangers posed by the political left. We have some Ciceros - Ron Paul, Peter Schiff. But they are in danger and would be taken out by the left in a flash if they thought they could get away with it. We need to vigorously support them or face prospects of life without them.

"The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, the assistance of foreign lands should curtailed lest the Republic become bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance."

- Marcus Tullius Cicero 55BC

Hopefully we don't continue to follow the habits in Rome much longer, because Civil War followed. Cicero, a true Patriot who worked to restore Rome to a Republic, was arrested in 48, had his head and hands cut off and placed in the senate forum where Mark Anthony's wife, sister of Augustus, pricked his tounge with her hair pin to the speakers mount. Arrogance at it's best.

We can be thankful that today miliatry commanders do not hire soldiers into armies and troops do not swear an oath to individual generals as they did then. The conquest for power might be as bloody.

"In Gold We Trust" - Special Report - Zero Hedge

2010-06-24T12:13:00.000-07:00

This report, with plenty of charts and graphs is long - 71 pages. I don't know what better, the report, or the comments below.

Why Coal Prices Will Soar - The Market Oracle

2010-06-19T23:30:00.000-07:00

Where does the power come from? About 80% of it comes from coal. Not just coal, but awe-inspiring amounts of the stuff. Consider that in 2000, China used about as much coal as the U.S. Here we are 10 years later, and China consumes three times as much as coal as the U.S.

Old-school fuel - National Post

2010-06-19T09:45:00.000-07:00

After BP disaster, coal may witness a comeback.

Gold on longest winningstreak since 1920

2010-06-19T09:41:00.001-07:00

Millions left in unclaimed B.C. bank accounts

2010-06-19T00:38:00.000-07:00

If you or a rich relative left money in an old account, you can get it back: Search Here Now

Pics from the World Resource Investment Conference

2010-06-01T11:22:00.000-07:00

Bill Murphy (GATA Chairman) & Guest @ Speaker's Dinner,
Large Gold Nuggets,
Marshall Farris (Ascenta Capital) & Daughter

New Radio Program to Highlight Business

2010-06-01T02:11:00.000-07:00

Peter Grandich to host new financial radio show comencing June 24th, click title above for details.

Gold Vs S&P Chart

2010-05-28T14:40:00.000-07:00

(Click on chart for larger version)

Meltup

2010-05-19T15:46:00.000-07:00

Where Is Gold on the Bubble Map? - Seeking Alpha

2010-05-03T23:49:00.000-07:00

If this chart is acurate, and if the bull market in Gold is to compare with other major historic bubbles, then the price may still have a long way to go yet.

Debunking the Post-CFTC Precious Metals Fearmongering Campaign - Erik Townsend, Financial Sense

2010-04-24T00:24:00.000-07:00

A detailed, lengthy and fairly critical discussion of what has been referred to as: "The Greatest Fraud in History"

U.S. Decline, Sloth Look a Lot Like End of Rome: Mark Fisher - Bloomberg

2010-04-24T00:20:00.000-07:00

The U.S. today is a mirror image of the Roman Empire as it tipped into chaos. Whether we blame our bloated government, a greedy elite or a lethargic population, the similarities between the two foreshadow a gruesome future.

Where to next for Gold? - Money Week

2010-04-24T00:16:00.000-07:00

"All previous attempts to base money solely on intangibles such as credit or government edict or fiat have ended in inflationary panic and disaster."

- Winston Churchill

Trader blows whistle on gold & silver price manipulation - New York Post

2010-04-14T12:28:00.000-07:00

There is no silver lining to the activities of JPMorgan Chase and HSBC in the precious-metals market here and in London, says a 40-year veteran of the metal pits.

The banks, which do the Federal Reserve's bidding in the metals markets, have long been the government's lead actors in keeping down the prices of gold and silver, according to a former Goldman Sachs trader working at the London Bullion Market Association.

Maguire was scheduled to testify last week before the Commodities Futures Trade Commission, which is looking into the activities of large banks in the metals market, but was knocked off the list at the last moment. So, he went public.

Read more: www.nypost.com/p/news/business/metal_are_in_the_pits_2arTlGNbMK7mb1uJeVHb0O#ixzz0l6YEa11v

The Great Con Job: Role of Government corruption in global financial crisis - CNBC

2010-04-13T10:23:00.000-07:00

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy

Truth In 2010 web site

2010-04-07T11:47:00.000-07:00

Facts

"The federal government keeps two sets of books…the set the government doesn't talk about reports a more ominous financial picture."
--Dennis Cauchon, USA TODAY

We've all heard about the federal debt. But most of us haven't heard the truth.

Politicians will tell you that the federal debt is around $11 trillion.

That sounds bad enough—but it gets even worse. Together with unfunded liabilities (all of the benefits that the government has promised to seniors, Baby Boomers, and other citizens) our nation is in the hole for nearly $62 trillion dollars.

That's more than $200,000 for every man, woman, and child in America, and it's growing every day.

"We have been diagnosed with fiscal cancer," says David Walker, the retired chief auditor of the United States government. "It seems clear that our nation's current fiscal path is unsustainable."

Huffington Post Exposes Gold Ponzi Scheme - Global Institute of Visionary Wealth

2010-04-07T00:11:00.000-07:00

Wow, I can’t believe the news that’s breaking! Yesterday a big story broke in the Huffington Post, and it is huge, but unknown news to many. I’ve been communicating the importance of this to your wealth over the last year, and thankfully, it is gaining more visibility now.

You’ve GOT to read these articles. Finally a reporter put all the information together in one place for people to read the truth! This is a very important financial story because it affects all of us and our money. Long ago Alan Greenspan wrote the way to keep the dollar stable was to short gold and keep the price down. When gold prices escalate, it draws attention to the fact that the value of the currency is declining against the value of what used to back the currency: gold. So keeping the price of gold low maintains the illusion that the currency hasn’t been flooded by the printing presses, which it certainly has lately.

Besides the price being manipulated, the problem is the physical gold that trades in the COMEX market is not backed by gold, it’s backed by paper. That means traders can force delivery of gold until it runs out and there’s one heck of a short squeeze, causing the price to skyrocket someday, as mentioned in the second article below. That would make George Soros’ quote come true: “Gold is the ultimate bubble.”

(Add to the fact that central banks have become buyers instead of sellers, and China has made it legal for its citizens to buy gold and silver now, and you’ve got serious new demand).

The reality is the big hedge fund managers are already on top of this and piling into gold, as I have written about John Paulson, Eric Sprott, Greenlight Capital, and others.

The Russians and Chinese have been openly reporting on the gold price control and sooner or later, everyone in the world will know about it.

Here’s the article:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nathan-lewis/its-ponzimonium-in-the-go_b_519893.html

Here’s how it may play out for huge gains in the future:

http://dollarcollapse.com/articles/the-coming-precious-metals-short-squeeze/

Just to reiterate, I’m not a “gold bug” or someone who has been bullish on gold forever. The reason I bring this to your attention is because there is a market manipulation happening that is invisible to most people, unless you see how it’s being controlled and what it means for the future. I expect there still could be wild price fluctuations. I wouldn’t rule out a big correction, but consider accumulating some gold and precious metals stocks on dips when you have the chance. Don’t buy GLD or SLV as they are only paper and not required to have physical gold (as per the prospectus). Longer term, the outcome I expect over the next several years, is for higher prices.

Shorter term, GDX and GDXJ, along with silver stocks are starting a technical breakout and could make a run to new highs soon.

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From the Author: Full disclosure: I own gold and silver stocks and ETFs.

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The Coming Precious Metals Short Squeeze - John Rubino, DollarCollapse.com

2010-04-07T00:06:00.000-07:00

With the gold price suppression scheme apparently breaking open — see this article and this interview — the question becomes when, not if, holders of futures contracts will start demanding physical delivery. Most will discover that the metal isn’t there, which will, ahem, unsettle the commodity and currency markets.....(Continued: >> Here)

Peter Schiff Challenges Alan Greenspan to debate.

2010-04-05T01:03:00.000-07:00

THE WORLD MONEYSHOW Vancouver Hyatt Regency April 6-8

2010-04-02T02:03:00.000-07:00

Advance Registration is over
You can Register at the Door
Schedule

Cherry Picking Speakers/Topics (Wednesday, April 7th)

1:00 - 1:45 Where Are We And Where Are We Going
Bill Hubard Chief Economist MIG Bank
1:00 - 1:45 Surviving and Thriving in This Bear Market and Beyond
Ross Healy Strategic Analysis Corp
2:00 - 2:30 Western Potash
2:00 - 2:45 Forecasts for the major markets
Mark Leibovit VRTrader.com

The Seasonality of Gold Has Broken Down - Interviewed by Ellis Martin, of The Gold Report 03/10/2010

2010-03-25T22:16:00.000-07:00

The Gold Report has again interviewed newsletter writer and commentator Lou Paquette, who launched the Emerging Growth Stocks in 1995 to provide investors and speculators with a unique alternative to what he saw was a growing problem with corporate governance and conflict of interest on Wall Street. He is not counting out the U.S. dollar quite yet as the euro waivers. He also believes that there is no longer necessarily a seasonality regarding gold and gold stocks.

Governments will keep on spending until we tell them to stop - Vancouver Sun

2010-03-09T23:40:00.000-08:00

No governing party in B.C. has ever left office leaving less debt than when it entered.

It appeared at the beginning of its mandate that the Liberal government led by Premier Gordon Campbell would turn the tide, with its commitment to eliminate the deficit as quickly as possible, which could have led to lower overall debt levels thereafter.

However, when it took the reins in 2001, total provincial debt stood at $36.8 billion; in the coming fiscal year, according to last week's budget, the provincial debt will amount to $47.8 billion, and rise to $55.9 billion in 2012-13.

America, the Fragile Empire - Comon Dreams.org

2010-03-09T21:23:00.000-08:00

Here today, gone tomorrow -- could the United States fall that fast?

The Dollar Bubble

2010-03-03T22:58:00.000-08:00

This isn't new, just a reminder of what is happening.

Mob Madness - Greece - You Tube video

2010-02-26T11:02:00.000-08:00

Greece is firmly entrenched in a downward spiral now that gets worse with each passing day.
Is this where other parts of Europe are headed? The U.S. too?

Conrad Black: America's faltering rivals - National Post February 25, 2010

2010-02-26T10:56:00.000-08:00

Europe has been harder hit than the U.S. by the economic crisis and is mired in spurious rhetoric, much of it in French, limning an illusory social-market variant to “cowboy capitalism.” This is like the Holy See’s ancient but sporadic search for a third way between socialism and capitalism. It is a vain pursuit of an economic system diluted by the imposition of self-indulgent European cultural fatigue, masquerading as gentility.

Russia is a fraud. Its population is in steep decline and chronically afflicted by alcoholism. The governmental system is authoritarian and corrupt, allied with protégés who have been given monopolistic concessions and who repay their rulers with obscene kickbacks.

Read more:

Civilization's Wrecking Crew - by J. R. Nyquist

2010-02-21T15:36:00.000-08:00

"....Once established, the intellectual class continues to feed politicians and bureaucrats with ideas that point toward one solution: big government, interventionism, wealth redistribution, and other egalitarian absurdities. The country is pushed, inch by inch, toward an unnamed catastrophe. Who will name it? Who will stop the pushing? The intellectuals are feeding at the public trough, and they are entrenched. It seems that the rest of society is helpless to stop them."

Faber's Bold Prediction: Both The US And Europe Will Default On Their Debt

2010-02-12T12:12:00.000-08:00

Dennis Gartman Bloomberg Interview: Reduce exposure to stocks

2010-02-11T13:46:00.000-08:00

Awash in a sea of debt - MacLeans.ca - February 2, 2010

2010-02-04T09:59:00.000-08:00

Oblivious to the risks, Canadians are piling on record debt loads

Excerpt:
When it comes to housing bubbles, the people who usually worry the most are those in the market for a home, or those who have recently bought one. Yet there’s mounting evidence that we should all be concerned about the serious problems brewing inside household finances. Not only are there scary similarities to America’s doomed housing bubble of a few years ago. We’re also starting to look like Americans in the way we’re wilfully ignoring the dangers of carrying too much debt. And that could pose a serious threat to any middle class recovery, and to the entire economy, as we try to crawl out of this recession. “If interest rates go up just two or four per cent we could see a crisis,” says Ian Lee, director of the MBA program at Carleton University’s Sprott School of Business, and a former mortgage banker. “This thing could blow up and drive us back into a recession.”

Doug Casey: The great parallels between the U.S. and ancient Rome

2010-02-04T09:44:00.000-08:00

While this was printed in December, it's fairly timeless, and often the theme of Doug's talks at conferences. For those of you who aren't able to attend these, I thought you'd enjoy this. And I couldn't agree with it more. The empire is indeed crumbling into an abyss of debt and corruption.

Eight per cent of American adults collect food stamps. While official unemployment is 10% - the true number is closer to 17%. And there is no end in sight to the housing crisis - the epicentre of the current crisis.

And we Canadians are falling into the same debt trap as our southern neighboors. It's as if collectively, we are totally blind of what they are now suffering from and we are determined to learn this lesson the hard way the way they are doing (see the MacLean's article, above).

Portugal, Spain Add to Fears in Euro Zone - MONEYNEWS.COM February 3, 2010

2010-02-04T09:33:00.000-08:00

Vancouver’s home prices rated ‘most unaffordable’ - Vancouver Sun

2010-01-26T00:04:00.000-08:00

Vancouver is the least affordable housing market in nearly 300 metropolitan markets worldwide, according to a study released Monday.

Median residential house sale value divided by the median annual gross household income.
(2009 / 2008 / change):
Calgary 4.6/ 4.8/ -0.2
Edmonton 4.1/ 4.2/ -0.1
Hamilton 4.2/ 4/ 0.2
Kelowna 5.9/ 6.8/ -0.9
Montreal 4.9/ 4.6/ 0.3
Ottawa-Gatineau 3.8/ 3.4/ 0.4
Quebec 3.6/ 3.4/ 0.2
Regina 3.5/ 3.5/ 0
Saint John, N.B. 2.8/ 2.7/ 0.1
Saskatoon 4.4/ 4.6/ -0.2
St. John’s 3.1/ 2.8/ 0.3
Toronto 5.2/ 4.8/ 0.4
Vancouver 9.3/ 8.4/ 0.9
Victoria 7.9/ 7.4/ 0.5
Windsor 2.2/ 2.3/ -0.1
Winnipeg 3.3/ 3/ 0.3
National Median Multiple 3.7 / 3.5 / 0.2
Source: Frontier Centre for Public Policy

Readers' comments below the article are as interesting as the article.

Pictures from the Vancouver Resource Investment Conference, January 17-18

2010-01-20T11:03:00.001-08:00

Bill Murphy, President - GATA

2010-01-20T10:58:00.001-08:00

Me with a subscriber

2010-01-20T10:56:00.001-08:00

Peter Spina - Goldseek.com

2010-01-20T10:50:00.001-08:00

Ed Steer - GATA, Joe Martin - Cambridge House Conferences, John Embry - Sprott Asset Management and Keynote Speaker

Bill Fleckenstein interview by King World News Broadcast December 17th

2009-12-19T22:41:00.000-08:00

An excellent interview with Fleck.

Bill Fleckenstein interview Bloomberg - Oct 8, 2009

2009-12-19T22:27:00.000-08:00

You see and example of poor intelligence, leftist ideology below, here's the flip side IMO - one of the more intelligent and honest analysts out there...discussing what may be lying ahead.

Interesting how he closed out his short hedge fund in March - pretty much the bottom for the market - a shrewd move indeed on Bill's part.

Best Buy, Krugman and the Carry Trade

2009-11-29T22:41:00.000-08:00

On ABC’s "This Week" show there were some interesting thoughts from Paul Krugman. He remarked:

“The cost of the deficit is only 1.2% real rate of interest at the Federal level.”

This is economic speak. What Mr. Krugman was saying is that the Government can borrow long term at 3.2% and inflation is 2% so the real cost of debt is only 1.2%.

In response, George Will made the point:

"In ten years the interest cost of servicing the debt will go to $700 billion per year!"

Mr. Krugman responded:

In ten years GDP will be $20 trillion, debt service would still be 3.5%. “That doesn’t sound too bad”.

Mr. Krugman believes in the ultimate carry trade. His view is that growth will come from affordable (cheap) debt capital. He thinks that the US can go to 100% Debt/GDP without upsetting the applecart. I think he is dead wrong.

(Click title at top for complete article)

End of Empire – Propaganda and the American Myth

2009-11-27T18:27:00.000-08:00

“Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive”….ourselves. With apologies to Sir Walter Scott.

If only life were as neat and orderly as my ancient history text book showed it to be. There it was on glossy paper, spread out across two sets of adjoining pages, maps of the ancient and modern world. Including time lines top and bottom, with countries outlined and identified. Underneath their modern English names were one or two older names in smaller stylized script, often including exact beginning and end dates. I remember one in particular that caught my eye. “United States of America” followed by the year 1776. But with no end date indicated, it looked like unfinished business to me. You’ve got to love those historians and their exact dates.

Of course, in reality there are no exact dates for the birth and death of city/states, other than in the author’s mind. Children continue to be born, the old still die, and life goes on under different circumstances. But you’re rarely informed of the subjective nature of historical events when you’re young and impressionable, so they’re presented in the history books as fact. The last thing the reigning Empire wants is to appear uncertain about previous Empires. Even before we begin to read and comprehend on our own, we’re presented with the illusion of a beginning and end to everything, often with very clear lines of demarcation. This concept is continuously reinforced through our daily indoctrination of carefully scripted news stories, care of our modern media saturated existence. Naturally, critical thinking is optional and definitively not encouraged.

A sick ecomony - Conrad Black National Post

2009-11-27T14:28:00.000-08:00

Washington’s massive spending stimulus and money-supply expansion have staved off the feared collapse into depression. But unemployment has continued to rise, and the economy has not really revived. Americans, who’d been encouraged by their fiscal and monetary guardians for over a decade not to save anything, but to binge on unaffordable housing and non-essential goods whose production had been outsourced to China and Japan, have rediscovered the virtues of savings. Banks, heavy-laden with the taxpayers’ money, are still too shell-shocked to lend, and the public is too shaken to spend. Personal and corporate loans are being sensibly paid down, to a large extent with money created for the occasion by the Federal Reserve.

Gold and Investments - Stuart Wilde

2009-11-20T20:27:00.000-08:00

"When the banks can't manipulate the market any more, then gold will steadily move up to the $1500 range."

Gold Finger - A New Take On Operation Grand Slam With A Tungsten Twist - Goldseek.com

2009-10-31T01:40:00.000-07:00

Crazy rumours about gold bars "salted" with tungsten...

Frank Holmes answers question: Is it over for gold?

2009-10-31T01:38:00.001-07:00

David Bensimon on BNN

2009-10-29T23:11:00.000-07:00

David predicts TSX 26,000 and Gold at $2,600 by 2014 based on a US Dollar falling by one half.

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2009-10-29T12:12:00.001-07:00

Sell gold or hold till February - National Post

2009-10-25T11:09:00.000-07:00

Either way, investors in an enviable position

The short and intermediate outlook and trading tips from seasonality trading specialist, Don Vialoux

David Frum: Beware the gold bug - National Post

2009-10-23T14:16:00.000-07:00

Prosecutors still pursuing vigilante shopkeeper - National Post

2009-10-23T13:26:00.000-07:00

Lorne Gunter: How to catch a thief in Toronto Read more: http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/10/23/lorne-gunter-how-to-

2009-10-23T13:23:00.000-07:00

There are so many things wrong in the case of David Chen, it's hard to know where to begin. Mr. Chen is the Toronto grocer who back in May performed a citizen's arrest on a serial thief, but now faces charges of assault, kidnapping and forcible confinement for his actions. Let's start, though, with the aspect of this case that grinds my nerves the most: Crown prosecutors made a plea bargain with Anthony Bennett, the thief, in return for his testimony against Mr. Chen.

2009-10-18T12:39:00.000-07:00

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The Frightening Spike in the Price of Gold - The Washington Post

2009-10-06T12:07:00.000-07:00

"It's not the fear of an event of some sort," such as a terrorist attack, said Peter Boockvar, equity strategist at Miller Tabak, whom I spoke to this week. "It's the fear that the piece of paper in your pocket you call money will devalue over time."

To stave off a liquidity crisis last year, Bernanke's Fed turned on the money spigot, flooding the system -- and world -- with dollars. In the short term, that helped avert a second Great Depression. But in the long term, with each new dollar introduced into the system, each dollar you hold becomes worth less. That's more than just inflation, which we think of as simply rising prices. That's debasement of not only our currency, but the globe's reserve currency. And that makes countries like China -- which holds the greatest percentage of U.S. debt -- very nervous.

Gold Jumps to Record as Inflation Outlook Fuels Investor Demand

2009-10-06T07:10:00.000-07:00

Gold futures for December delivery traded $18.30, or 1.8 percent, higher at $1,036.10 an ounce at 9:08 a.m. on the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange. Bullion for immediate delivery in London gained as much as 1.9 percent to a record $1,036.30 an ounce.

Peter Schiff interviewed on Yahoo Finance

2009-09-29T00:51:00.000-07:00

'Barrelling toward collapse' - National Post

2009-09-18T00:00:00.000-07:00

Chris Hedges, the American author and Pulitzer Prize winner, does not care much for the popular notion of optimism, the idea that every situation has a silver lining or a neat solution. It is far better, he said, given the awful state of his country, to be realistic.

"I was a war correspondent for many years and we never used the words optimism or pessimism," said the former New York Times reporter, who spent 20 years covering conflicts in Latin America, the Middle East and the Balkans. "Either you had a realistic and sober understanding of what weapons were at the end of that road, and the capacity of those people at the end of the road to use them and kill you, or you didn't last long. The first capacity, the most important element that creates a capacity for change, is the acknowledgement of what's real."

And what's real, in the grim and steely-eyed Hedges world view, is that America, in its morality, its culture and economy, is crumbling.

"It would be a gigantic step in U. S. culture to at least acknowledge what we've become and what's happening to us," said Mr. Hedges, in Toronto recently to promote his book, Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle. "Until that happens, there is no hope for any positive change into a direction that can sustain the country."

WARNING: Deflationary Collapse Dead Ahead - 321gold.com

2009-09-17T23:05:00.000-07:00

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Gold - COT Data Warns it is Time to be Wary - 321Gold.com

2009-09-17T23:00:00.000-07:00

Pics from the Chinese Investment Conference in Richmond last Sunday

2009-09-17T22:50:00.000-07:00

Me and guys
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Me and Val Cheer
my partner

Nick Nicolaas
Eagle Peak Res.

Emily, future investor

2009 International Chinese Investment Forum

2009-09-11T12:21:00.000-07:00

2009 International Chinese Investment Forum

Sunday, September 13th, 2009 at River Rock Show Theatre, 8811 River Road, Richmond, BC 10am to 6pm

Frugality, America's Lost Virtue - BNN

2009-09-11T11:27:00.000-07:00

Interview with Lauren Weber re: her new book: "In cheap we trust"

Stockhouse threatens suppliers with bankruptcy - Canada Stockwatch

2009-09-04T11:17:00.000-07:00

Excerpts:

Stockhouse Inc., a stock market website company, reveals in notes to its second quarter financials that it is pressing its long-suffering information suppliers for debt forgiveness -- or bankruptcy may loom on Oct. 31, 2009. That is the date upon which a $557,000 (all figures U.S. except stock prices) debenture comes due, and the company does not have the money to pay it out.

Recently Stockhouse voluntarily ended its registration with the Securities and Exchange Commission, explained as a cost-cutting measure. The proxy material for the upcoming AGM were the last documents filed with the SEC.

The AGM

Shareholders of the two-cent stock have much to consider at this year's AGM, which the company delayed to Sept. 30, 2009, from June 30, 2009. It blamed the delay on the SEC's examination of its proxy material. As mentioned, one of the matters is issuing Mr. New, who earned $254,160 in 2008, shares for the $200,000 (Canadian) debt.

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Gold investors 'set for September surge' - World Gold Council

2009-09-02T22:55:00.000-07:00

Wednesday, 2nd September 2009 (101 views)

Investors in gold could see their assets surge in value during September, as the month traditionally sees a sharp rise in demand for the precious metal, an expert has said.

According to Moming Zhou of MarketWatch, gold has seen an increase in value during September for 16 of the past 20 years, with prices jumping by more than five per cent in the past seven.

"Gold tends to do well in September because it's the run-up to several events that can drive up gold consumption," the analyst said.

In India, jewellers build up their gold stocks ahead of the Diwali religious festival, which takes place in October. September also sees the start of the post-monsoon wedding season.

According to Reuters, demand for gold jewellery in India accounted for over 20 per cent of the global market last year.

Jewellery makers also tend to buy up gold ahead of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, as many families give gold as gifts during the Eid ul-Fitr holiday that marks its end.

Elsewhere, gold demand typically rises in China between National Day on October 1st and the Chinese New Year in January or February.

Investors Are Going for Gold As Price Nears $1,000 Again - CNBC Reuters

2009-09-02T22:27:00.001-07:00

Shares of global gold miners jumped 10 percent Wednesday while options activity in the companies spiked, as economic pessimism and a weak U.S. dollar spurred gold to its highest level since June.

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We've been down this path before

As civilizations mature, they tend to make the same mistakes. We are in the middle of one of those mistakes right nowBy Frank Giustra, Vancouver Sun December 2, 2011

Will gold prices go way of Nortel stocks?

Peter Schiff Exposes Classic Pump & Dump Scheme

Can America's free-falling economic malaise be cured? May 10, 2011 - Vancouver Sun

Why is saving hard? May 11, 2011 - National Post

Do it now or face much more pain later in life

Overburdened with debt - April 6, 2011 Vancouver Sun

Credit-and debit-card usage dulls our sense of 'purchasing pain' resulting in more impulse purchases

"Consumerism, or 'American disease,' has become a global pandemic."

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Charlie Rose Talks With Jim Rogers - Bloomberg, Businessweek March 17, 2011

Duke Energy's CEO discusses how Japan's nuclear crisis will affect the energy industry—and why a lack of new American plants threatens the U.S.'s future

Save, Invest, Speculate, Trade or Gamble? Doug Casey, March 10, 2011

Taking profits in gold stocks - March 1st, National Post

Gold diggers hunt for 'a little flash in the pan' - Vancouver Sun Feb 7

Baby boomers near 65 with retirements in jeopardy - Yahoo

Vancouver firm brings green tech to the pavement

Self-storage: the poster child for America’s addiction to excess

B.C. vulnerable to breakdowns in global food supply, report says - Vancouver Sun, Nov. 4, 2010

Food price rises stoke riot fears - FT.com

Junior miner powers higher on China coal mine stake increase - Stockhouse.com

How High Will Gold Go This Fall? - Casey Research

Equinox Incidator signals possible turning point just ahead

Don Vialoux on BNN

NJ Governor Christie sets record straight - owns unreasonable treacher

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Put options can be a win-win for gold bulls - Stockhouse

China set to become largest importer of thermal coal - Financial Times.com

Ted Ohashi interviews Bill Mavridis, President & CEO Caldera Resources and me in second portion

"In Gold We Trust" - Special Report - Zero Hedge

Why Coal Prices Will Soar - The Market Oracle

Old-school fuel - National Post

Gold on longest winningstreak since 1920

Millions left in unclaimed B.C. bank accounts

Pics from the World Resource Investment Conference

New Radio Program to Highlight Business

Gold Vs S&P Chart

Meltup

Where Is Gold on the Bubble Map? - Seeking Alpha

Debunking the Post-CFTC Precious Metals Fearmongering Campaign - Erik Townsend, Financial Sense

U.S. Decline, Sloth Look a Lot Like End of Rome: Mark Fisher - Bloomberg

Where to next for Gold? - Money Week

Trader blows whistle on gold & silver price manipulation - New York Post

The Great Con Job: Role of Government corruption in global financial crisis - CNBC

Truth In 2010 web site

Huffington Post Exposes Gold Ponzi Scheme - Global Institute of Visionary Wealth

The Coming Precious Metals Short Squeeze - John Rubino, DollarCollapse.com

Peter Schiff Challenges Alan Greenspan to debate.

THE WORLD MONEYSHOW Vancouver Hyatt Regency April 6-8

The Seasonality of Gold Has Broken Down - Interviewed by Ellis Martin, of The Gold Report 03/10/2010

Governments will keep on spending until we tell them to stop - Vancouver Sun

America, the Fragile Empire - Comon Dreams.org

The Dollar Bubble

Mob Madness - Greece - You Tube video

Conrad Black: America's faltering rivals - National Post February 25, 2010

Civilization's Wrecking Crew - by J. R. Nyquist

Faber's Bold Prediction: Both The US And Europe Will Default On Their Debt

Dennis Gartman Bloomberg Interview: Reduce exposure to stocks

Awash in a sea of debt - MacLeans.ca - February 2, 2010

Doug Casey: The great parallels between the U.S. and ancient Rome

Portugal, Spain Add to Fears in Euro Zone - MONEYNEWS.COM February 3, 2010

Vancouver’s home prices rated ‘most unaffordable’ - Vancouver Sun

Pictures from the Vancouver Resource Investment Conference, January 17-18

Bill Fleckenstein interview by King World News Broadcast December 17th

Bill Fleckenstein interview Bloomberg - Oct 8, 2009

Best Buy, Krugman and the Carry Trade

End of Empire – Propaganda and the American Myth

A sick ecomony - Conrad Black National Post

Gold and Investments - Stuart Wilde

Gold Finger - A New Take On Operation Grand Slam With A Tungsten Twist - Goldseek.com

Frank Holmes answers question: Is it over for gold?

David Bensimon on BNN

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