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In 1926 F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote: “Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me.” Today, we don’t call people rich because that smacks of class warfare. Instead...
The failure of the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund to reach an agreement on a second bailout package for Greece, combined with a variety of other poor economic news, has...
Tiffany & Co. (NYSE: TIF) has not  noticed that there have been five weeks of selling off in the broader equity markets nor that the economic data has faltered.  Shares have held up better than...
Less than two weeks ago we were given an exclusive interview with Tom Winmill of the Midas Fund (NASDAQ: MIDSX).  Winmill told us he believes that gold will reach $1,700/ounce in 2011 and he also...
A respected gold fund manager still sees gold going to $1,700.00 this year, with a likely year-end price around $1,600.00 per ounce.  24/7 Wall St. got a chance to interview Tom Winmill, portfolio...
Tiffany & Co. (NYSE: TIF) has been an amazing stock.  Despite the rise in precious metals, the company has so far not been impacted by rising prices when it comes to sell-through rates.  It was...
It seems that being a junk bond credit investor still allows you to pick from a whole slew of companies that should not be junk bonds.  Unfortunately, you as an investor will probably never really...
Commodities have sold off.  You already knew that.  What has been seen in the precious metals complex looks a lot like what happened in the oil boom of 2007 to 2008, and many of the underlying...
Whole Foods Market, Inc. (NASDAQ: WFMI) had traded as though investors were expecting a breather going into earnings.  Those earnings are out and it turns out that the company continues to amaze. ...
The move of a generation in silver continues to rise in The Devil’s Metal.  The same logic two years ago for why silver was the better metal than gold for inflation hedging has come on in full...
Silver keeps rising against Gold.  Gold is supposed to be the ultimate inflation trade and hedge against world currencies, but perhaps silver is the better judge of that.  It is now the iShares...
Randgold Resources Ltd. (NASDAQ: GOLD) is a gold mining and exploration company with operations mostly in Western and Central Africa.  Needless to say, it operates in some countries where many of...
There is a new gold ETF on the market.  Yesterday marked the launch of the Global X Pure Gold Miners ETF (NYSE: GGGG).  Global X noted that its new ETF focuses globally on companies which are...
Another sector which may go unnoticed by many is the luxury retail and luxury goods sector where many companies derive huge profits from the Japan market.  It goes without saying that almost nobody...
There is a prevailing belief that higher oil prices act as a tax on the poor and middle classes because everyone pays the same for gasoline and energy regardless of income.  If that is true, then an...