Monthly Archives: April, 2016

Incredible Shrinking Bond Yields

0.10% is what you are paid today to lend the German government money for 10 years. It would take almost 700 years to double...

Worthy Reads: All that Glitters is Still Gold

All that Glitters is still Gold (WSJ) 5 Investing Lessons you Can Learn From Baseball (Money) Sub-zero Interest Rates Confound (WSJ) HSBC Calls End to Manufacturing Slowdown...

Abenomics in Trouble

Abenomics, aka printing money and crushing interest rates, doesn't appear to be working for Abe-san any longer. The yen is soaring and inflation expectations...

Worthy Reads: Mutual Funds Worst Performance in Two Decades

Active Managers have Worst Performance in Two Decades (Financial Times) What $350,000 buys you in San-Fransisco) (Fortune) Are Earnings Recession Positive for Stocks? (MarketWatch) Why Fannie & Freddie...

Gold/Silver Ratio Looks Good for Silver

The Fed has bailed out the market. For now that is. Which is why I’ve been spending more of my research time at the...

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When a Dollar is Gone, There is No Redo

One minute you’re climbing up Odell’s Gully in hurricane...

The Mysterious ALS Cluster in the French Alps: Is It Linked to Toxic Mushrooms?

Terence Monmaney of Popular Science reports that in Montchavin,...

Revitalizing U.S. Mineral Production

President Donald Trump signed the executive order Immediate Measures...

Venezuela’s Oil Trade Disrupted by Trump’s Tariff Order

On March 14, 2025, President Trump issued an executive...

Retirement: Do You Have a Guy to Help You Prepare?

Are you prepared for what you don’t know? “The...

Massive Copper Shipments Head to U.S. Amid Tariff Probe

Mercuria estimates 500,000 tons of copper are heading to...

Gold Price Surge Triggers Jewelry Sell-Off

Gold prices have soared more than 15% in 2025,...

META’s Undersea Cable Navigates Around Global Conflicts

Margo Anderson of IEEE Spectrum reports that Meta's new...

U.S. Tariffs Could Drive Canadian Lumber Mills South

Mrinalika Roy and Seher Dareen of Reuters report that...

Breakthrough Material Enables Ultra-Fast Battery Charging

Prabhat Ranjan Mishra of Interesting Engineering reports that scientists...