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China is buying up the world - big time! Take a look. It's all shown here in one map.

For the first time in 2013, Silver and the Gold/Silver ratio are breaking above their falling resistance lines and that's a positive for Silver. The last time the Gold/Silver ratio broke resistance in 2010, Silver rallied well over 100% in a matter of months. Are the patterns suggesting another 100% rally in Silver?

What am I missing here?? This is a company that has publicly said it may never make money! Why would people trip over themselves to buy this company's shares when they do not know if they can ever turn a profit? It's absolutely madness!!

The Misery Index is a lens through which to look at quality of life and, from an American perspective, such misery has risen steadily since 1994. How miserable is your state (and your state of being)? Take a look..

So you think you own some gold because you own a gold ETF. Right? Think again! At best you share your gold with 55 other supposed "owners" What a sham the gold market is. An utter sham! Here's why.

Some of the finest and most highly regarded minds in the world of PMs have been saying gold and silver are going higher...[but] the charts have “said” otherwise, and that has been the correct read...The fundamentals may be as bullish as can be [but] the charts are sending a different message.

[Given the] big swings in enthusiasm for owning common stocks [we thought it timely to present] our opinion on the current temperature of the U.S. stock markets as to what's hot and what's not and the reasons why that is the case.

The real value of the stock market is positively correlated, over time, with the amount of freight hauled by the nation's trucks (in other words, the physical size of the economy has a lot to do with the real, inflation-adjusted value of the economy) and the latest numbers (see chart) strongly suggest that we are not in a stock market bubble.

It's been an amazing run in the stock market but...I start to feel a bit uneasy about things when I see all news reported as good news, because it either means the economy is getting better or more QE is coming. The fact, though, is that the market is just driving higher on what looks like sheer optimism of continued QE and little else. You can see this optimism in two indicators you'll recognize.

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