Financial Sense Blog

First off, farmlands produce agricultural commodities—which in an inflationary scenario would rise drastically in price. Thus one would think that owning farmland would be akin to owning a gold mine: A sure-fire hedge against inflation.

Why has Global Sticks , a manufacturer of wooden ice cream sticks, moving from Dalian, China to Thunder Bay, Ontario?

The action has fizzled. Home prices and sales stabilized, and housing seemed destined to bump along for a while, playing little or no role in the burgeoning government bond bubble.

I can think of a half dozen areas in Fan’s and Fred’s checkered past that should be exposed and made public. There is no way anything over at F/F should remain hidden. There is one area of inquiry that I think should be correctly viewed in the history books. Allow me a explain.

It is not clear whether the American financial community has the ability to observe and conclude that the US Federal Reserve is adrift and relies upon deception as policy in revealing its directions. Its position is to hold steady, inflate to oblivion, support financial markets in heavy volume secretly, and lie about leaving its trapped policy corner.

Since a high of 3,056 in mid-April, the Shanghai Composite Index has shed 10.3% to close at 2,741 this morning. I have shied away from Chinese equities, but this hammering prompted me to reconsider the situation.

Quite a lot of data came in last week as I was recovering from the jet lag generated by last week’s trip to the US, and for good measure, the PBoC then raised minimum reserve requirements Thursday evening. I discuss the numbers extensively in my newsletter, and of course there has been a lot of discussion in the press, but for this blog entry I want to discuss once again (and perhaps for the last time) the subject of copper imports.

Though economy does not appear to be poised for a total collapse, new numbers are increasingly bearish, and investor sentiment is dwindling.

Outside the circle of establishment politicians and beyond the eyes of the mainstream media… In fact, beyond the eyes of most alternative media, a quiet trend is gaining momentum. Utah’s passage of HB317, a law that establishes gold and silver coin minted by the U.S. government as legal tender, could very well be the butterfly effect in the global monetary order.

While growth in the U.S. has flat lined, per capita consumption in Asia and the emerging world has powered ahead. Does this mean a shift in global oil dynamics?