In Corrupt Global Food System, Farmland Is the New Gold
Stephen Leahy IPS News UXBRIDGE, Canada, Jan 13, 2011 (IPS) – Famine-hollowed farmers watch trucks loaded with grain grown on their ancestral lands heading for…
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Who, How and Why: $140 Oil and $5 Gas
Llewellyn King Oil Price According to a loosely-organized apocalyptic Christian movement, May 21, 2011 will be the “end of days.” On or about that same…
US Mint Reports Unprecedented Buying Spree Of Physical Silver
Image: Woodpile Report Tyler Durden Zero Hedge Three days ago we noted that in just the first week of January, the US Mint had sold…
S&P, Moody’s Warn On U.S. Credit Rating
Mark Gongloff, Mark Brown, Nathan Boschat Wall Street Journal With attention focused on sovereign-debt worries in Europe, two major credit-rating firms reminded investors again that…
The ‘food bubble’ is bursting, says Lester Brown, and biotech won’t save us
Crops destroyed by Aussie floods Tom Philpott Grist For years — even decades — Earth Policy Institute president and Grist contributor Lester Brown has issued…
Failing Elite Food Gambit?
Daily Bell Sarkozy takes G20 case to Obama as food prices soar … French President Nicolas Sarkozy takes his campaign for greater global food price…
New Year’s Resolutions for Your Gold Portfolio
Jeff Clark Casey Research It’s exciting to think we may be nearing a mania in gold. The price will likely double or more within a…
Alaska Pipeline Closes, Oil Pushes $100 per Barrel
Drop in Production by BP, Others Threatens to Push Oil Toward $100 a Barrel Guy Chazan Wall Street Journal BP PLC and other oil producers…
7 Reasons Food Shortages Will Become a Global Crisis
Activist Post Food inflation is here and it’s here to stay. We can see it getting worse every time we buy groceries. Basic food commodities…
How High Will Gold Go in 2011?
Jeff Clark Casey Research After stellar years for both gold and silver, what prices will precious metals hit in 2011? Here’s an analysis based strictly…
Is the World’s Richest Man Getting Into Silver?
Eric King King World News A source in mergers and acquisitions out of Europe has alerted King World News that Carlos Slim may be looking…
The Elite Now Have Unlimited FDIC Coverage for Deposits
Activist Post A little known clause in the gigantic Dodd-Frank financial reform bill went into effect January 1st. All funds in a “noninterest-bearing transaction account”…
Credit card withdrawal – Banks pull the plug on consumer revolving debt
My Budget 360 When people talk about the credit bubble they typically refer to the housing bubble and the trillions of dollars of debt secured…
Will Silver Be Worth More Than Gold In The Coming Decade? (VIDEO)
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