Hundreds of articles seem to be posted every day on why the prices of gold and silver are going north of $5,000 & $100 ozt. respectively, or conversely to below $1,000 and $15, respectively. Unfortunately most of what is written is self-serving and/or wishful thinking. Some is what I call nothing more than financial entertainment devoid of substance. Occasionally a thought provoking article is posted and when that happens munKNEE.com is there with it. Below are some such articles that are currently in the munKNEE.com vault.

Where are the cheapest and priciest areas located in the U.S.? Where do people make the most money? Some of the answers might surprise you.

The fuse on the global debt bomb has been lit. We are now officially in the crisis to which the 2008 meltdown was just the warm up. Here's why.

Chilling references to a potential (likely) financial crisis in Canada keep cropping up in official statistical data releases. First it was concerns about the housing bubble there and the high level of personal debt to income, now it's about how hard manufacturing is getting hit there in spite of the loonie (Canadian dollar) dropping 17% against the US dollar in the past 15 months. It really begs the question "Oh Canada, Are You Prepared For What's Coming?"

True, the markets are nervous, but there is virtually no sign that an unpleasant resolution to the Greek crisis presents any threat to financial markets or even the Eurozone economy. Here's why.

The Apple Watch is the first smartwatch that matters according to Tim Cook, CEO of Apple, and, based on initial sales numbers, this appears to indeed be true as illustrated in the infographic below.

Just don't do it. Don't buy diamonds, either shares of diamond miners and distributors OR as a personal "investment". Simply don't do it. Here's why.

History shows rather clearly that the stock market is prone to extreme events, aka crashes. The challenge is deciding when the risk for a repeat performance is unusually high... The leading factor, of course, is the business cycle but internal market issues can't be ignored either. With that in mind, I've developed what I think of as a crash-risk index for the U.S. stock market (S&P 500), which draws on signals from ten metrics that are reflecting different factors...

On Wednesday, June 24th, Ronald Stoeferle's 9th edition of the “In Gold We Trust Report - 2015", with a global reach of some 1 million readers, will be released to the public at large. THIS ARTICLE highlights 10 interesting charts from said report.

Copper is among the three most used metals in the world, and high quantities of the red metal must be mined every year but the problem is that copper is not being discovered fast enough to meet upcoming demand. There are several reasons as this infographic illustrates.