We’ve moved the archives to the bottom of the page but they are still here. Of course you may always access the archives by clicking on the listed categories in the left hand column of this page as well. Learn the best ways to invest money during the developing dollar crisis, possible stock market crash, [...]

Today, I’m starting a new feature on my blog called “The Short of It”. Often, my daily responsibilities don’t allow me the time to blog here as often as I would like. Thus, I’ve decided to write more frequent posts called “The Short of It” on days when my spare time is at a premium. [...]

There are certain widespread practices that have existed in the financial industry for many years that seem to have no purpose but to defraud the retail investor that I’ve often wondered how they can still be legal. Window dressing is one such practice and as we approach the end of the second quarter 2009, now [...]

Below is a story that originated out of London today. In any event, it ties in nicely with my How the Financial Elites Enronized America story, so I’m just reposting it below for a quick review. It should be a self-evident truth that an honor system among regulators that have consistently failed to regulate is [...]

For the past couple of weeks, bank shares have grown in share price faster than a steroid-induced bicep. There has not been much reported by the media in terms of negative news about the US financial industry from Ben Bernanke, bank CEOs, or even the Federal Reserve, even though the bank stress tests resembled a [...]

More than 2-½ years ago when I predicted a global stock market crash on my investment blog, even foreshadowing the duration and the severity of the impending crisis by naming it the Peak Investment Crisis, many called my predictions ludicrous and far-fetched. In that article, I specifically stated that the declines in global stock market [...]

Every precious metals trader that has analyzed gold prices over the past several decades knows that a common ploy the IMF and leading global Central Banks utilize to suppress gold prices in the COMEX futures markets is to announce plans to sell gold despite their total lack of commitment to executing their announced plans. For [...]

The recent comments of many on our nation’s top banking executives have been so consistently disingenuous that the subject of this article has been long overdue for some time now. On March 20, 2009, Citigroup CEO Vikram Pandit issued a memo to all Citigroup employees in which he stated, “Our industry has recently seen a [...]

With FASB demonstrating no backbone this Thursday and voting to change mark-to-market rules with not a single dissenting vote (demonstrating that not a single FASB board member has the guts to stand up for what is right), the Big Deception is now in play for earnings season which starts tomorrow on April 7th. Despite the [...]

If there is a silver lining to this crisis, it is that most of the investment scams for the past two decades have now been exposed and the search to find solid investment guidance has genuinely become easier. The dirty secret of Wall Street and many commercial investment firms was that their hiring processes were [...]

Forget about the $50 billion Madoff Ponzi scheme. Forget about the $8 billion Stanford Ponzi schemes, forget about the $3.6 billion of bonuses paid to Merrill Lynch executives after the firm’s failure, and forget about the $200+ millions paid out to AIG executives. The biggest stock market scam of the century is now underway, hatched, [...]

October 25, 2007 – Here’s another story that belongs in the “More Worthless Manufactured Key Economic Indicators Released by the Government” statistic. Out of Washington D.C. at 10 AM this morning, this story was released WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) – Sales of new homes (in the U.S.) rebounded in September from summer sales levels that were much [...]

October 15, 2007 – I’ve often mentioned that the U.S. stock market can APPEAR healthy even when the underlying economy is in worse shape than an alcoholic on a kidney dialysis machine. And this is just one of those instances right now. As markets continue to climb higher on manufactured, political-agenda serving government statistics and [...]