The Silver Sleuth

By Jeff Clark, Senior Editor, BIG GOLD We once had an ongoing series in BIG GOLD called, "1001 Reasons to Own Gold." The idea was that there were so many valid reasons to own the metal that I wanted to track and report on them.…

Real Estate Investors or Speculators?

By Vedran Vuk A friend of mine met an interesting real estate investor recently. The guy claimed that he escaped the entire market crash relatively unscathed. At first, I didn’t really believe it, but his strategy made a lot of sense. I…

A Look at Stock Buybacks

(Chris Wood filling in for David Galland) Dear Reader, Stock buybacks have been in the news a lot lately. Sitting on piles of cash and too nervous to invest in new workers or plant and equipment, many companies have started to deploy…

FDIC Loses $25 Billion in One Year

by Alex Daley With talk of quantitative easing round 2 (or QE2 for short), the potential government bailouts of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and mounting problems with state finances, government pension funds, and funding for social…

The Future of Facebook

by Vedran Vuk filling in for David Galland Facebook will certainly be talked about in business books for a long time, but will it be the endless growth story that many predict? With a possible IPO in a few years, I thought to myself,…

More on the Case for Silver

by David Galland Warming up the digits today, I can’t help but note that gold broke in to new record territory – above $1,380 in the overnight markets. A new record in nominal terms, that is. To top the previous high in inflation-adjusted…

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