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AN INVESTMENT RARITY This is “survivor’s week” in Market Notes. For the next four days, we’ll feature a stock that survived the greatest “stress test” thrown our way in decades: the 2008 credit crisis. Classic investment wisdom says if a stock can hold steady or make new highs during a horrible market environment, it’s incredibly … Continue reading

Pinetree Capital Resource Analyst Craig Stanley sheds some light for The Gold Report on how real interest rates are driving gold’s rise. Although the 10-year real rate is positive now, he says if it goes negative, and stays negative, “Look out. The gold price could really spike.

Inflation-Adjusted Wages Fell 1.6% in 2009

Fannie and Freddie = Rat Holes

Remember that Japan is about 10 years ahead of the US, in terms of its economic crisis. The deflationary forces that have plagued Japan are now plaguing the US. Because of its domestic savings……

A lot of investment focus for outlook 2010 is geared toward inflation based assets such as gold and oil. What a change from the turn of the last decade when the rage was totally based on paper assets such as stocks, bonds and yes folks, even the US Dollar. Indeed the age of the Dot.Com stocks was the zenith of the paper world.

The biggest changes in holdings in the September-December period were for the IMF, which sold 212 tonnes of gold, while India (200 tonnes added), Russia (39.3), Sri Lanka (10) and Mauritius (2) all saw an increase in their gold holdings.

Why Gold Beats the Market Manipulators By Martin Hutchinson, Contributing Editor, Money Morning There’s one investment that Wall Street manipulators can’t touch – and neither can the Fed or the U.S. government. Right now that investment is gold. Take Goldman Sachs for instance… After bailouts from the U.S. Treasury Dept, they just posted $16.7 billion … Continue reading

Coming Soon: The Bill for the Massive U.S. Debt Americans could be in for a rude awakening in coming months when they discover the true scope of the massive national debt racked up by the U.S. government. In fact, the $1.6 trillion deficit expected for 2010, which is above 10% of gross domestic product (GDP), … Continue reading

The price decline in 30-year Treasury-bond prices has been even more dramatic: An historic 27-point plunge from 142.62 on December 19, 2008, to 115.67 on June 18, 2009 … followed by a feeble recovery … and now, as with Treasury notes, a new, ominous price decline and surge in yields.