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Entries for the ‘Commodities’ Category

The Best Businesses Are Adapting To Change

It seems that the media is a constant stream of gloom and doom. Between the lack of jobs, the struggling housing market and the spiraling budget deficits it’s easy to believe that all is hopeless. As an independent business owner I have a strong survival instinct and understand the need to constantly adapt to changing [...]

Have The Metals Bottomed?

Over the years I’ve had much more success trading precious metals than the stock market. Even though they tend be more extreme or erratic than the stocks, they tend to move in more predictable patterns. The best market for trading in the second half of 2010 and the first quarter of 2011 was silver. After [...]

The Reason Bernanke Isn’t Worried About Inflation

If you peruse many of the financial newsletter sites you have undoubtedly run across numerous articles about the hyper-inflation that is headed our way. It seems that nearly all newsletter writers have the same opinion that the dollar is on the verge of collapse and that hyperinflation is going to be the result. This is [...]

Silver Bubble Ahead – How High Can It Go?

Silver has gone up more in the past 7 days than it was actually worth 10 years ago. Crazy! I’ve been trading silver futures for years and I don’t recall a time where the market has been so energetic to the upside with so little volatility on the down side. The past couple weeks remind [...]

Dollar Crash – Is It Imminent?

If you have been exposed to one of the presentations calling for the End Of America you may be concerned about the coming Dollar Collapse where our standard of living will be cut by 50% overnight. As we saw in 2008 things can change in the blink of an eye, so nothing is out of [...]