In 1917, the United States created the federal debt limit (or ceiling) to make it easier to finance World War One, essentially allowing Congress to borrow money to pay for the war effort by issuing bonds. By 1939 with World War Two looming, Congress passed the first aggre...
Richard (Rick) Mills
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October 8, 2019
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Major gold companies are running out of reserves and every year it costs more to mine. That is causing an “existential crisis” for the gold mining industry, as executives at gold producers like Barrick, Newmont Goldcorp, Randgold, AngloGold Ashanti, New...
Richard (Rick) Mills
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October 11, 2019
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Makers of cigarettes and the U.S. government must play a bizarre game... and not one American in 100,000 understands it. Everyone knows cigarettes are "evil." On Friday, the state of Kansas will ban smoking in indoor public places. And in San Francisco, they're cl...
Tom Dyson
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October 28, 2012
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“We’re going to go through the biggest short squeeze in history, and it just so happens to be on the dollar.” Dear Reader, If you aren’t paying attention to the global squeeze of U.S. Dollars then you need to...
Marin Katusa
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May 8, 2020
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U.S. companies have never had so much debt on their books as they do now. As of the fourth quarter of 2019, non-financial firms owed some $9.6 trillion in outstanding debt, a figure that’s up more than 57 percent from the financial crisis 10 years earlier,...
Frank Holmes
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April 3, 2020
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The U.S. manufacturing sector contracted for the fifth straight month in December, with the monthly reading from the Institute for Supply Management (ISM) hitting its weakest point in more than 10 years. The purchasing manager’s index (PMI) fell to 47.2,...
Frank Holmes
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January 8, 2020
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It might sound crazy when I say that Greek stocks could become a good long term investment soon. However, from a real contrarian point of view, it might not be that crazy. Here’s why. The Greek stock market has lost 93.3% from its top in late 2007 to it...
Willem Weytjens
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October 28, 2012
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Back in October 2018, Goldcorp was trading at its lowest level in 16 years. This was before Goldcorp merged with Newmont, one of the world’s largest and oldest gold producers. Goldcorp wasn’t alone. Shares of ...
Marin Katusa
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December 6, 2019
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A friend approached me a couple of years back about putting some money into a private placement for a young exploration company, Providence Gold Mines Inc. (PHD:TSX.V; PRRVF:OTCBB) , that had an option on a number of old gold mines in the California mother lode country...
Streetwise Reports
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November 13, 2019
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Doug is a legend in the business. Like with most legends, comes the peanut gallery that try to bash what he has accomplished to have their dorky voices heard among the roar of a legend. Ask yourself this, these trolls who bash, what have they accomplished? Doug has ...
Marin Katusa
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November 1, 2019
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