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I heard this about Bell, California on the car radio this morning. The sums involved are absolutely astronomical for a town of 37,000.  This may be an extreme case but it far from isolated. Hundreds of residents of one of the…

An interesting wrinkle in the recently passed healthcare legislation involves language inserted into the bill to track gold bullion sales. For gold dealers, the problem is the paperwork because they now have to file 1099 forms for every…

Courtesy of FinViz.com, these heat maps give you an idea of the breadth of the stock market rally. Look at the year's heat map to see what a broader recovery in shares looks like over a longer time frame. My takeaway is that the rally in…

Here's a video with Michael Mauboussin talking about his recent piece for Legg Mason called "Untangling Skill And Luck." Here, he talks about trying to resist the classic temptation to be a closet momentum investor who runs and…

By Jeff Clark, Senior Editor, Casey’s Gold & Resource Report While we’re convinced gold and gold stocks are destined for much higher levels, buying when prices are low can mean the difference between a double or triple and a…

John Hussman is out with his latest weekly commentary. He continues to make good points about the market's overvaluation despite the forward earnings crowd's cries that P/E ratios (see Hussman: US shares are 40% overvalued). While Comstock…

By Marshall Auerback and Edward Harrison. Marshall's view Ed has asked me to deal specifically with the issue of Ricardian equivalence, the theorem used by anti-government proponents to argue that fiscal deficits are counterproductive and…

The latest weekly commentary by Comstock Partners. We stated in the 4th of July holiday comment that we would discuss valuations in the "special report" we wrote last week. As it turned out the "special report" got…

I am on BNN in Canada today at 1215 ET to talk about matters financial. So as a lead-in to what I am going to say there, I wanted to write here about the retail sales numbers, earnings season and the economy. Retail sales were weak. The…

John Hussman is out with another good piece this week in which he deconstructs all of the short-termism and technical analysis dominating the talk of market followers in the US. He opens saying: Perhaps the best way to begin this week's…