The Next Recession Will Be Triggered by Oil
Source: Toby Connor, GoldScents  (9/17/12)
"Any move of 100% or more in energy prices within a year has historically been the straw that breaks the camel's back. More >

'Cyborg' Tissue Blurs the Line Between Man and Machine
Source: Michael Robinson, Money Morning  (9/17/12)
"We're getting very close to the day in which we augment robots with 'smart' human tissue. We'll grow tissue in labs and equip it with onboard electronics made possible by nanotech circuits." More >

Medtronic Wants Drug Industry Partners for Alzheimer's
Source: Bloomberg, Michelle Fay Cortez  (9/17/12)
"The push into Alzheimer's would expand the scope of Medtronic technology that’s been used for two decades to treat pain and spasticity." More >

Apple's iPhone 5 Lightning Dock Could Drive Medical Devices to Bluetooth
Source: eweek, Brian Horowitz  (9/17/12)
"Medical devices that connect to the iPhone include glucometers, heart rate monitors and fitness sensors. The iPhone also can act as a Smart Ready hub to connect Smart peripherals, which collect data on patient vital signs." More >

Five Medtech Ideas to Leverage
Source: George S. Mack, The Life Sciences Report  (9/16/12)
Before spending the last decade as a sellside analyst, James Terwilliger, now with The Benchmark Company, worked at Johnson & Johnson and other medtech companies where he learned quickly that the way to a surgeon's heart is to bring shiny new technology into the office. Physicians who spend their working lives in interventional cath labs or hospital operating suites have a natural inclination to listen and learn about new ideas and see how the latest toys work. But medtech companies want to sell their mature product lines as well. "Face time with the physician is hugely important because that new product doesn't just drive the new business," says Terwillger. "It also puts the medical device sales force in the position to do a pull-through with other products." He learned all the tricks first-hand. More >

UAF Tapped to Research Rare Earth Minerals
Source: Fairbanks Daily News-Miner  (9/15/12)
"The UAF Minerals Industry Research Laboratory received a $297,000 contract to identify the best techniques for processing rare earth minerals, along with the best ways to handle waste rock." More >

Five Must-Haves for Junior Mining Companies: Aleksandra Bukacheva
Source: Brian Sylvester of The Gold Report  (9/14/12)
Valuation disconnects among producers, rising gold price and juniors facing funding crunches are among the factors fueling a spate of M&A activity. In her first exclusive Gold Report interview, Aleksandra (Sasha) Bukacheva, a mining research analyst with Fraser Mackenzie in Toronto, shares her list of likely targets and suitors in the zinc, copper and precious metals spaces. More >

How Long Before Money Collapses?
Source: Julian Phillips, Gold Forecaster  (9/14/12)
"Gold remains in the bulk of the world's leading reserves for that rainy day when something else is needed other than the currency issued by the nation's central bank." More >

The Printing Presses Are Now Running 24 Hours a Day!
Source: Ira Epstein, The Linn Group  (9/14/12)
"September is proving to be the month where market events have kicked in to drive gold up on a seasonal basis and I don't see much on the charts to stop this action." More >

The Bottom Line on Gold, the Dollar and the Euro
Source: Louis James, Casey Research  (9/14/12)
"The euro and the dollar take turns winning and losing against each other, but both are being debased, both are losing ground in the real world and both have lost a lot of ground against gold." More >

Analysts See Gold Hitting $1,900/oz
Source: Ben Traynor, BullionVault  (9/14/12)
"Gold held above $1,770/oz for most of Friday morning's London trading, hitting near six-month highs after the U.S. Federal Reserve announced a third round of quantitative easing yesterday, leading to warnings that the risk of inflation has risen." More >

Gold Reaches Six-Month High After Fed Move, Rally Slows
Source: Reuters, Eric Onstad  (9/14/12)
"Some analysts expected the market now to take a breather before tackling further milestones." More >

Casey Summit: How Investors Can Protect Themselves in a Politicized Economy
Source: Karen Roche and JT Long of The Gold Report  (9/14/12)
Right on the heels of the Republican and Democratic National Conventions, the recent Casey Research Summit in Carlsbad, California—cosponsored by SprottGlobal—focused on a timely theme: "Navigating the Politicized Economy." The somber revelations of the summit contrasted with the buzz of the party conventions. The Gold Report sat down with Louis James, Casey Research's chief metals and mining investment strategist, Rick Rule, founder and chairman of Sprott Global Resource Investments and chairman of Sprott US Holdings, and Marin Katusa, Casey Research's chief energy investment strategist, to discuss how investors can position themselves in a politically driven economy. More >

Fed's Plan Boosts Gold Producers
Source: Associated Press  (9/14/12)
"Shares of gold mining companies rose a second day on higher gold prices after the Federal Reserve launched an open-ended, aggressive program designed to improve economic growth." More >

Casey Summit: How Investors Can Protect Themselves in a Politicized Economy
Source: Karen Roche and JT Long of The Gold Report  (9/14/12)
Right on the heels of the Republican and Democratic National Conventions, the recent Casey Research Summit in Carlsbad, California—cosponsored by SprottGlobal—focused on a timely theme: "Navigating the Politicized Economy." The somber revelations of the summit contrasted with the buzz of the party conventions. The Gold Report sat down with Louis James, Casey Research's chief metals and mining investment strategist, Rick Rule, founder of Global Resource Investments and chairman of Sprott US Holdings, and Marin Katusa, Casey Research's chief energy investment strategist, to discuss how investors can position themselves in a politically driven economy. More >

Miners Catching Up to Metals; Huge Run Coming?
Source: ETF Daily News, John Rubino  (9/14/12)
"The big miners, represented by the gold miner ETF GDX, have outperformed gold itself since July." More >

Investing in Silver: Price Rally Gets Legs
Source: Deborah Baratz, Money Morning  (9/14/12)
"Silver's recent volatility, which is always higher than its fellow precious metal, gold, is a reason for its outperformance. The price ratio between the two precious metals since mid-August has moved about 10% in silver's favor." More >

QE3 Removes Price Ceiling for Gold and Silver
Source: Eric McWhinnie, Wall St. Cheat Street  (9/14/12)
"With more dollar devaluation on the way and gridlock in Washington, gold and silver prices look set to rise even more." More >

Vanadium Oxide Bronze: A New Material for the Computing Industry?
Source: R&D Magazine  (9/14/12)
"The reason that these nanowires are so special is that they perform a rare trick: When exposed to an applied voltage near room temperature, the wires transform from insulators that are resistant to carrying electricity to metals that more readily conduct electricity." More >

Seven Innovative Biotechs That Could Soar by Year-End: George Zavoico
Source: George S. Mack of The Life Sciences Report  (9/13/12)
Biotech has a breeze to its back, and successful progression through the phases of drug development also help propel the industry forward. In this exclusive interview with The Life Sciences Report, George Zavoico, senior analyst and managing director with MLV & Co., describes solid milestones by which investors can tick off success in the biotech space, and suggests a number of innovative biotech companies whose success will blow profits into investors' pockets. More >

Uranium Fundamentals Are at a Tipping Point: Alka Singh
Source: Peter Byrne of The Energy Report   (9/13/12)
Uranium prices may be down, but so are supplies. Demand for the heavy metal is rising fast, says Independent Researcher Alka Singh of Mine2Capital. In an exclusive interview with The Energy Report, Singh notes that with the flow of enriched uranium from Russia drying up, the pressure is on for the mining industry to produce millions more pounds of yellow cake each year. More >

Nuclear Sector Seeks to Regain Trust After Fukushima
Source: Reuters, Karolin Schaps  (9/13/12)
"The global nuclear industry, traumatized by Japan's Fukushima accident 18 months ago, needs to redefine itself to regain public trust and better cooperate to improve safety, senior executives of the sector said on Thursday." More >

Casey Panel: The Energy Crisis Is Here—Here's How to Play It
Source: The Energy Report Editors  (9/13/12)
Oil and gas reserves around the world are growing scarcer by the minute, and people are looking to their governments for answers. However, leaders' responses are often motivated more by the desire to boost approval ratings than by the need to find real, long-term supply solutions. The individual investor may not have the power to shift the tone of the emotional debates surrounding the oil and gas industry, but he or she can devise a strategy to profit. Sprott's Rick Rule, and Casey's Marin Katusa and Louis James sat down with The Energy Report to discuss what it means to participate in a politicized market and how politics affect their buy and sell decisions. More >

How to Play the QE3 Rally
Source: Ben Gersten, Money Morning  (9/13/12)
"While the market probably has factored in some of QE3, the move will nonetheless add more liquidity to the market, devaluing the U.S. dollar, meaning an increase in gold and silver prices." More >

Loose Money Is Here Again (and Gold Stocks Love It!)
Source: Clif Droke  (9/13/12)
"As was the case with the previous two quantitative easing programs, gold and the gold stocks love the idea of loose money." More >