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How QE and Stock Buybacks Reinforce Each Other

Published by Philippe Herlin | Mar 13, 2014

Funny how the Fed and Big Business are not true to their primary function (guarantee the value of the money, invest and increase profits) and would rather manipulate the tools at their disposal, for which they are responsible, that must be used to establish objective measures (dollars, stocks)in the...

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There is Still no Recovery in the United States!

Published by Philippe Herlin | Mar 6, 2014

We’ve said it before... but here we go again : THERE IS NO RECOVERY OF THE AMERICAN ECONOMY! There. This « recovery » has been touted these last few months with the mass media repeating it ad nauseam, and « no one should doubt it ». And quarterly growth numbers seemed to con...

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Gold’s Role in Wealth Management

Published by Dan Popescu | Mar 5, 2014

As the monetary crisis accentuates, a radical shift in economic thinking and the role of gold in wealth management will occur. It seems illogical to me to consider debt (bonds) safer than a real asset having demonstrated its role of preserving value for more than 5,000 years.

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Was Gold in a Speculative Bubble?

Published by Dan Popescu | Feb 24, 2014

The bull market in gold and silver that started in 2000 seems to have ended in 2011, and a bear market started in 2013. Was gold in a speculative bubble such as we’ve known in the ‘70s, or was it only in a cyclical bull market, itself part of a secular bull market, that would lead later (2014-2016)...

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