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March 18, 2011Original Analysis

Quake Response Puts Yen on the Line

By Peter Schiff One of the immediate financial consequences of the catastrophic Japanese earthquake is that Japan needs to call on its huge cache of foreign exchange reserves to rebuild its shattered infrastructure. To pay for domestic projects, Japan will require yen – not dollars, euros or Swiss francs. As a result of these conversions, […]

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March 14, 2011Original Analysis

Interest Rates Are on the Launch Pad

Michael Pento’s Market Commentary A few months ago, the chorus sung by the recovery cheerleaders reached a crescendo when expanding consumer credit statistics and surging US trade deficits provided them with “evidence” of an economic rebound. In declaring victory, they overlooked the very nucleus of this past crisis: namely, the enormous debt levels and bubbling […]

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March 7, 2011Original Analysis

A Little Understanding Goes a Long Way

By Peter Schiff As the world confronts one of the most critical periods of economic upheaval that it has ever seen, it is clear that our most influential economic stewards have absolutely no idea what they are doing. But, like kids with a new chemistry set, they are nevertheless unwilling to let that stand in […]

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March 3, 2011Key Gold Headlines

This Month in Gold – March 2011

China Gold Demand Growing at “Explosive” Pace Reuters – More detail is provided on the “explosive” growth of gold demand in China. Zhou Ming, deputy head of the precious metals division of Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, the world’s largest bank by market value, explains, “As [the] Chinese get wealthy, they [are] look[ing] to […]

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March 2, 2011Original Analysis

Silver Outweighs Gold

By Peter Schiff In the world of precious metals, silver spends a lot of time in the shadow of its big brother gold. Gold, with its high price-to-weight and distinctive yellow tint, has always occupied a special place in the human psyche. To many people across many ages, gold is simply the ultimate form of […]

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March 2, 2011Original Analysis

Commodities in Step with Precious Metals

The following article was written by Mary Anne and Pamela Aden for the March 2011 edition of Peter Schiff’s Gold Letter. The commodity market is on fire! Be it copper, cotton, cattle, corn, sugar, energy, or resources… most tangibles are at record highs or new highs. This is why the CRB index also recently hit […]

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March 2, 2011Original Analysis

Taps for the Dollar

Michael Pento’s Market Commentary It now appears that the United States has finally succeeded in its efforts to destroy confidence in the U.S. dollar. Given the currency’s reserve status, its ubiquity in financial markets, and the economic power and political position of the United States, this was no easy task. However, to get the job […]

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February 24, 2011Original Analysis

Arab Autocracies and US Inflation

Michael Pento’s Market Commentary Civil revolt is currently spreading across the Arab world. What began in Tunisia has now metastasized into Bahrain, Egypt and Libya. Though two dictators have been ousted, the chances that these regimes will fundamentally transform from autocracy to a system of free markets and property rights are also up in the […]

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February 21, 2011Original Analysis

Geithner’s Failed Makeover

Michael Pento’s Market Commentary To counter the increasing demands that government reduce its micromanagement of the economy, last week the Obama Administration offered a fig leaf in the form of a white paper entitled “Reforming America’s Housing Finance Market.” In addition to marking the official end of the Bush era “ownership society,” where increasing the […]

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February 10, 2011Original Analysis

The Two Faces of Ben Bernanke

By Peter Schiff Based on his recent public comments, Fed Chairman Bernanke seems determined to give the U.S. dollar the reputation of Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak: an unwanted relic of the past that everyone agrees must go, but stubbornly clings to a privileged position. The dollar is currently the world’s ruling currency, but, as with Mubarak, […]

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