By Annalyn Censky CNN Money Thursday, September 2, 2010 NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — The economic outlook doesn’t have to be entirely rosy for investors to shy away from the safety of Treasurys. Sometimes, all it takes is a little news that isn’t ...
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A weak economy got a little lift Thursday with new data suggesting companies are not pursuing large layoffs. New applications for unemployment benefits declined for a second week after rising in the previous three. And more people signed contracts to ...
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Nouriel Roubini, or “Dr. Doom” as he’s also known, is a New York University professor and co-founder of Roubini Global Economics. As his nickname implies, his opinions tend to be on the gloomy side, and in this recent interview ...
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(Reuters) – Copper rose to its highest in more than four months on Thursday as recent macroeconomic data from the world’s two largest economies, the United States and China, brightened the outlook for metals demand. Following Wednesday’s manufacturing data from ...
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By TENNILLE TRACY WASHINGTON—A drilling rig owned by Mariner Energy Inc. has caught fire 80 miles south of Vermillion Bay in Louisiana, stranding at least 13 rig workers in the water, said the U.S. Coast ...
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By Frank Aquila BusinessWeek Thursday, September 2, 2010 In the wake of Barack Obama’s historic and decisive victory in 2008, we were reminded that a crisis was a “terrible thing to waste.” But recognizing an opportunity—and seizing it—are two different things. Clearly the ...
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By Jason Kelly “I’m not a goldbug, but there are times when I feel like an evangelist for it,” says Thomas Kaplan, an Oxford-educated historian and chairman of Manhattan-based Tigris Financial Group. “To my amazement, it’s a hard sell. The ...
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By James West The signals emanating from the global economic indicators that can be considered unbiased and leading indicate strongly that we’re edging closer to another brink of some sort. Nobody can see over the edge, but ...
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By James West MidasLetter.com I first wrote about Golden Hope back in 2008 when the company was trading at around $0.12. At the time, I wasn’t overly excited about the project, because it ...
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By Aaron Hoddinott Pinnacle Digest We all know buying stocks with leveraged money is a dangerous game. Why isn’t the same said for investing in leveraged ETFs? Read ...
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By Kenneth J. Gerbino It is the paper money created out of thin air that creates the unfair distribution of wealth that is making the middle class fall more behind and the poor more poor. Newly created money ...
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Gold is speaking to us, in its gleaming, grinning, golden silence, from its distant historical perch in the affairs of commerce among humans. Its telling us what fools we are to believe in the fiat paper issued ...
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By Sean Fieler and Jeffrey Bell American Principles Project Washington’s elites are quietly preparing a post-election fiscal compromise that will fund much of President Barack Obama’s domestic spending agenda with huge tax increases. They aim to create a ...
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