Remember $4 gasoline? Oil speculators are back
Kevin G. Hall McClatchy Newspapers WASHINGTON — Despite weak demand in the U.S. and Europe, oil prices climbed this week to near $90 a barrel…
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Crude jumps above $90 on cold snap, dollar
Reuters NEW YORK – U.S. crude oil futures prices rose sharply on Tuesday, pushing above $90 a barrel for the first time in 26 months as cold…
What’s behind the 2010 gold rush?
Investors and central banks are buying up the yellow metal at unprecedented levels, but will its allure last as fears over the global economy ease?…
Want JP Morgan to crash? Buy silver
The campaign to buy silver and force JP Morgan into bankruptcy could work, because of the liabilities accrued by its short-selling Image: Woodpile Report Max…
‘BP’ (Big Picture) Investing: The Only Way to Go
Jeff Clark, Senior Editor BIG GOLD Wanna know how to make a small fortune in the stock market? Start with a large fortune and buy…
Feds Warrantlessly Tracking Americans’ Credit Cards in Real Time
Ryan Singel Wired Federal law enforcement agencies have been tracking Americans in real-time using credit cards, loyalty cards and travel reservations without getting a court…
Wheat-Crop Quality in Australia’s Queensland Is Hurt by Rains, Growers Say
Wendy Pugh Bloomberg More than half of the wheat crop from Australia’s Queensland state may deteriorate to feed grade following heavy rain, tightening milling-quality supplies…
CHART OF THE DAY: Global Food Prices About To Break An All Time High
Gregory White Business Insider Inflation in emerging markets is hitting food prices hard, and now we have raw data from the UN to confirm. The…
Rice May Triple in 18 Months as Supplies Tighten, Duxton’s Peter Forecasts
Chanyaporn Chanjaroen Bloomberg Rice, the staple food of more than three billion people, may as much as triple in 18 months as flooding in exporters…
Tighter food supplies, high prices to persist
Svetlana Kovalyova Reuters World food prices are set to remain high in 2011/12 with supplies tightening and demand running strong, the United Nations’ food agency…
More than 8 million drop out of credit card use
Eileen AJ Connelly Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) – More than 8 million consumers stopped using credit cards over the past year. The decline…
How the U.S. Government Guaranteed the Coming Global Food Crisis
Steve Sjuggerud Market Oracle Porter Stansberry with Braden Copeland write: Over the last several years, I’ve written constantly on the growing likelihood of a global…
New Food Crisis Looms
Food Aid Pakistan -Athar Hussain/Reuters Toni Johnson Council on Foreign Relations The world experienced a major food crisis in 2008 that led to civil and…
Goldman In Insider Trading Probe?
Matt Taibbi Rolling Stone News leaked out today that the feds will soon be herding a whole pen full of Wall Street firms into court…