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Economists insist that recovery is at hand, yet unemployment remains high, real estate values continue to sink, and governments stagger under record deficits. The End of Growth proposes a startling diagnosis: humanity has reached a fundamental turning point in its economic history. The expansionary trajectory of industrial civilization is colliding with non-negotiable natural limits.
Francois Trahan, Co-author of The Era of Uncertainty
Global Investment Strategies for Inflation, Deflation, and the Middle Ground

'Institutional Investor Magazine' has rated Francois Trahan the #1 Portfolio Strategist for the past 3 years and #1 in 5 of the past 6 years.

Do you ever think the stories you hear about great trading, and the gains produced, sound like luck? Do ever wonder if there is a real method and philosophy behind the success stories? The concepts condensed into Trend Commandments were gleaned from Michael Covel's 15 years of pulling back the curtain on great trend following traders.

CPM Group's Silver Yearbook 2011 is the most comprehensive source of information, statistics, and analysis on the international silver market. The report begins with a thorough review of silver market trends and fundamentals. It continues with an in-depth analysis of each silver market segment, including mine production, secondary silver recovery from scrap, government disposals, fabrication demand by region and by use, and investment demand. The CPM Silver Yearbook 2011 is used by active silver market participants globally as both a statistical reference guide and tool for understanding the fundamentals and expectations for the international silver market.

CPM Group's Gold Yearbook 2011 is the most comprehensive source of information, statistics, and analysis on the international gold market. The report begins with a thorough review of gold market trends and fundamentals. It continues by assessing the impact of economic and financial market trends on the gold market. The Yearbook concludes with an in-depth analysis of each gold market segment, including mine production, secondary recovery, bullion and futures market activity, central bank holdings and transactions, fabrication demand, investment demand, prices, and other important aspects of the gold market.

The price of oil is negatively impacting both companies and consumers. In Oil's Endless Bid: Taming the Unreliable Price of Energy to Secure Our Economy, energy analyst Dan Dicker recalls his experiences as an oil trader and reveals the changes that have taken place in the oil markets during the past twenty years, and particularly the last five, as investment banks, energy hedge funds, and managed futures funds have come to dominate energy trading and wreak havoc on prices.



The next twenty years will be completely unlike the last twenty years. The world is in economic crisis, and there are no easy fixes to our predicament. Unsustainable trends in the economy, energy, and the environment have finally caught up with us and are converging on a very narrow window of time—the "Twenty-Teens." The Crash Course presents our predicament and illuminates the path ahead, so you can face the coming disruptions and thrive--without fearing the future or retreating into denial. In this book you will find solid facts and grounded reasoning presented in a calm, positive, non-partisan manner.

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