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One of the fascinating things about gold, is that it wears many faces…
It can trade as a commodity.
It can trade as a currency.
It can trade as a flight to safety haven.
And it can trade as the momentum flav’ Du Jour.
It can trade either positively, or negatively correlated to the US Dollar and/or Oil and commodities.
And [...]

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Saving and creating jobs, needs to be Job #1.
Americans are willing to tighten their belts, and take their medicine. But, what they’re not willing to do, is do it alone. So far, we’ve had our priorities backwards.
The mantra needs to be…
“What’s good for Main Street, is good for Wall Street.”
…not vice versa.
State and local governments [...]

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This has been a volatile, whipsaw trading environment for many gold, and gold stock traders. But, it shouldn’t be. Because gold, and gold stocks have been following a veritable bread crumb laden, yellow brick road-map.
Don’t believe it?
Balderdash, you say?
A little too much hubris?
We shall see…
But before I get to the bread crumb laden, yellow brick [...]

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What happened to the Ben Bernanke who just weeks ago, seized the “strong dollar” gauntlet from the Treasury Department, and led both Hank Paulson, and President George W. Bush in calling for a stronger dollar?
What happened to “that” Ben Bernanke?
Here’s all we got out of Ben Bernanke in today’s Fed meeting….
 
– No leadership.
– No guidance.
– And [...]

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“Monetary policy should allow a temporary rise in unemployment and inflation to let an economy find its balance from an oil-price shock.”
– Federal Reserve Vice-Chairman Donald Kohn
That comment on the heels of Bernanke breaking tradition, and taking the lead from the Treasury Department in talking up the dollar? That comment with Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson [...]

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