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Source: Diane Fraser of The Gold Report 10/13/2010 Carlsbad is several hundred miles south of Sutter's Mill, but the experts and investors who gathered for Casey Research's recent Gold Summit were just as enthusiastic about the precious…

When faced with a balance sheet recession and anaemic demand growth, Japan pushed short-term interest rates to zero and preceded to print money. This created the infamous Japanese carry trade in which Japanese investors would buy…

by Edward Hugh According to an intriguing article I read in Bloomberg recently an alert signal has been sounded due to the fact that house prices in the Scandinavian countries have been rising very rapidly of late. Judging by what they…

Recently I pointed to some comments by Andy Xie which indicated he was taking a less apocalyptic stance toward the Chinese property market. It was difficult to discern how much of a climb down this was for the China bear. But, judging from…

I don't know exactly what to make of Andy Xie's quote near the end of this first CNBC video below. He says "It's not crashing like I expected in 2012," referring to the Chinese housing market. Is Xie saying: A. The crash is not…

Here's my initial reaction to Fred Sheehan's last post on Bernanke: inflation in goods, deflation in assets. I think this is something that Fred got into in one of his previous posts. Inflation versus deflation discussions are the…

George Soros has finally come out and said what he meant by his comments about gold being the "ultimate bubble." The National Post reports the following exchange from a Reuters interview. “Gold is the only actual bull market…

by Annaly Capital Management A quick follow up to our recent post on the Great Bond Bubble Debate , which was kicked off by an op-ed piece in the Wall Street Journal by Jeremy Siegel and Jeremy Schwartz. The seductiveness of the Jeremys’…

As you know, I have been back pedalling on my support for fiscal stimulus since late in 2009. I still think fiscal policy is effective – more so than monetary policy; quantitative easing is a bust because we are in a liquidity trap. But the…

Michael Burry, the former head of Scion Capital LLC, made a big name predicting the housing market’s decline by taking short positions against it as lionized in Michael Lewis’ book "The Big Short."