by Adam Hamilton, Zeal LLC:

Silver has suffered horrendously in 2013’s opening months, plunging dramatically to miserable lows. This exceptional weakness has naturally kindled extreme bearishness. Predictions abound for silver to continue selling off indefinitely. But amidst this severe carnage, the silver bullion held by the flagship silver ETF has remained flat. This [...]

from Pete Santilli:

from Sovereign Man:

Last week when I arrived to Bangladesh, the immigration officials there were positively ecstatic to see a foreign tourist entering the country.

I’ve also been to places in Africa and the South Pacific where you’re greeted upon arrival by dancing tribespeople singing songs of welcome.

It’s not quite the same in the [...]

by J. D. Heyes, Natural News:

The financial institution that came to epitomize the “too big to fail” concept should have been left to its own economic destruction during the days of the Great Recession it helped to cause back in 2008-09, because had it been allowed to go under, its criminal behavior would [...]

by Pater Tenebrarum, Acting-Man.com:

The Misguided Urge to Close Loopholes

As ‘Der Spiegel’ reports, there are efforts underway in the EU to close the tax loopholes used by multinational corporations to quite legally avoid taxes. Allegedly it is a ‘tough battle’ as a few member states are not very happy about these plans. Recently [...]

from BullionStreet:

Paper Gold must cease to function, said Veteran gold trader Jim Sinclair.

He predicts that physical gold is going to replace the paper gold of the futures market to set the price of the yellow metal.

If it is not today, the reality that paper gold is not gold is going to [...]

by Doug Hornig, Casey Research:

A little over a year ago in this space, we called your attention to a developing situation in the pharmaceutical industry, as shown by the chart below that dramatically illustrates the arrival of the so-called “patent cliff”.

Today, the results are in from 2012. The IMS Institute for Healthcare [...]

from Democracy Now!:

During President Obama’s first major counterterrorism address of his second term, he said the United States cannot continue waging what he described as a boundless global war on terror. He also discussed his administration’s efforts to close down the U.S. military prison at Guantánamo Bay. He was repeatedly confronted by CodePink’s [...]

from corbettreport:

by Jeff Nielson, Bullion Bulls Canada:

There was “good news” on the U.S. economy, and so its stock markets fell — just like they should, according to the mainstream media. This is because good news is now “bad news.”

That sort of perversity in market reaction is not necessarily unheard of. However, it’s the [...]