By Eric McWhinnie On Tuesday, Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou surprised European leaders when he called for a referendum on the new aid package for Greece.  Since then, the referendum has already been cancelled.  It was the latest drop in the roller coaster ride that’s called Europe.  Concerns continue to mount on how Europe to fix Greece,...

By David Galland, The Casey Report While I haven’t made a scientific study of the topic, I suspect the leading genre for popular entertainment – and for popular delusions of crowds, for that matter – revolves around magical worlds. As illustration, the Harry Potter series will serve. The problem is that there is no such thing as magic, at...

Four times a year, investors and Wall Street watch the quarterly corporate earnings reports, trying to anticipate the trend in stocks. Another earnings season is upon us right now, so read this excerpt from our free Club EWI report, “Market Myths Exposed.” “Myth No. 1 – ‘The bottom line is earnings drive stock prices’...

By David Galland, The Casey Report Of all the social memes related to the economic and investment landscape, none is more dominant than that there is a small cadre of powerful Wall Street money men who, working behind the scenes, effectively control investment markets, the global economy and the politicians that play such a big role in that economy. Whether...

On 28 October Air China conducted its first trial flight of a passenger jet powered by a mix of biofuel and traditional aviation fuel.   The Jet A-1 biofuel kerosene used in the flight was derived from the seeds of tung trees, more commonly known as japtropha.   Air China’s Boeing 747-400 landed safely at Beijing Capital International...

Complete market wrap for 11/02/11. See what RANsquawk has to say about the action in the markets today!

Just yesterday, I talked to my friend David Galland of Casey Research, and we happened to discuss their publication for “big-picture trend investing,” as they call it, The Casey Report. The current issue truly shows the editors at their best: from Doug Casey’s 2012 predictions for the stock market, gold and silver, the US and global...

By Terry Coxon, The Casey Report Money market funds began as a bright and useful idea, became a habit, and recently have become a bad habit. Money market funds were invented in 1971 as an innovative end-run around Federal Reserve Regulation Q, which prohibited paying interest on demand deposits. The purpose of Reg Q was to stifle competition in the...

David Banister- www.MarketTrendForecast.com It’s been several weeks since I’ve written about Gold and we have had a wild ride since the 1910-1920 highs in August.  At the time as we approached I forecasted a major correction was nigh and we were shorting the rise from 1862-1910 prior to a huge $208 drop that took place over just a few days. ...

Ross Beaty, executive chairman of Alterra Power and serially successful mine finder, talks at the Casey/Sprott Summit When Money Dies about the differences between gold and silver, and why the silver price has gone up so much. Listen to Ross’s complete summit speech – plus those of nearly 30 other renowned financial experts – from the comfort...

Fallond Picks After the extremes (at least on the daily timeframe) of last week it was inevitable there was going to be a fall.  Early European action suggest there will be some follow through today. The S&P lost 200-day MA and the break of 1,260 support, trapping buyers above 1,260, but doing so without generating panic selling (trading volume...