The Lesson of Half-Hearted QE
Source: Adrian Ash, Bullion Vault  (2/15/12)
"Keeping banks on life support, as the Japanese experience shows, will mean extending and expanding QE indefinitely." More >

A Financial Perspective on Graphite
Source: Jessica Roberts, Industrial Minerals  (2/15/12)
"Graphite is gaining momentum, but understanding, education and interest are all low. Go, go, go, because graphite is going to be a race." More >

Rare Earth Metals Demand Is Unstoppable: Jeb Handwerger
Source: Sally Lowder of The Critical Metals Report  (2/14/12)
Not long after the New Year dawned, Gold Stock Trades Editor Jeb Handwerger noted certain rare earths emerging from their 2011 slumber to produce impressive gains. It's not yet March, but the good news keeps coming. Despite dire predictions that demand is drying up, Handwerger tells The Critical Metals Report in this exclusive interview that the world remains at risk of supply shortfalls. It's not strictly a rare earths story, either. Read on to see what he has to say about the nascent niobium space. More >

Oil Prices Make for Profitable ETF Trades: Roger Wiegand
Source: Brian Sylvester of The Energy Report   (2/14/12)
Today's retail investors have more options than ever before, but there is a shortage of practical information on how to manipulate different investment products, be they ETFs, options or equities. Enter Roger Wiegand, editor of Trader Tracks. In this exclusive interview with The Energy Report, Wiegand discusses his methods for energy investment and how to set tailor-made time and price windows to realize solid gains. More >

Gold's Demise!
Source: Guiseppi Borelli, The Unpunctured Cycle  (2/14/12)
"I view gold not as some smoky fantasy involving riches beyond my wildest dreams, but as a way to protect myself and my family from a future fraught with peril." More >

Why I'm Taking Gold Double Eagles on My Next Trip to Utah
Source: Martin Hutchinson, Money Morning  (2/14/12)
"Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke may think he has everything under control, but the truth is the monetary ground is literally shifting beneath our feet. That's why his loose monetary policy has some U.S. states looking to get into the gold coin business." More >

US Coal Has Major Export Potential
Source: Darren Epps, Platts  (2/14/12)
"A more diversified mix of metallurgical and thermal coal, as opposed to the singular focus on met coal in previous years, along with burgeoning industries in China, Japan, India and South America, are propelling the U.S. from a swing supplier to a strategic partner with world markets." More >

Why Not Thorium?
Source: Marin Katusa, Casey Research  (2/14/12)
"As proponents of the underdog fuel will happily tell you, thorium is more abundant than uranium, is not fissile on its own (which means reactions can be stopped when necessary), produces waste products that are less radioactive and generates more energy per ton." More >

2012: A Political Year for Gold
Source: Bob Kirtley, SK Options Trading  (2/13/12)
"Physical gold and silver will be the outright winners in this era of currency debasement." More >

Where a Nation's Gold and Your Gold Should Be Held
Source: Julian Phillips, The Gold Forecaster  (2/13/12)
"There are reputable vault companies in Switzerland that are entirely Swiss-based and so can offer the sort of security that their clients want. This is where foreign gold investors are the most secure." More >

Dollar Weakness Creating Gold Demand after Greek Deal
Source: Ben Traynor, BullionVault  (2/13/12)
"Spot market gold prices touched $1,733/oz as stock markets, commodities and the euro all rallied following Greece's vote in favor of new austerity measures." More >

Stock Market Repeating Itself: Michael Ballanger
Source: Brian Sylvester of The Gold Report   (2/13/12)
The resource markets have weathered some death defying ups and downs lately. But Michael Ballanger, senior investment advisor with Toronto-based Union Securities, is looking for a renewed period of growth in the TSX Venture Composite Index. Is it too soon to see such a heady rebound? In this exclusive interview with The Gold Report, Ballanger makes his case for history repeating itself. More >

The Great Energy Reversal
Source: Kent Moors, Money Morning  (2/13/12)
"The U.S. could finally become completely self-sufficient in its energy policy. But it does require that we change the way we approach investing in the energy market." More >

Dumb, Dumber and Dumbest: Trading Gold for Oil
Source: Mickey Fulp, Mercenary Geologist  (2/13/12)
"Buying oil with gold is not a viable economic, monetary or political strategy for China or India." More >

Sideways Trading for Gold and the HUI Index
Source: Vin Maru, TVD Gold Trader  (2/13/12)
"Unlike gold, the HUI index has not broken above the negative trend line just yet, so for the moment mining shares are still underperforming the gold price." More >

Of Jobs, Debts and Budgets
Source: Rick Mills, Ahead of the Herd  (2/12/12)
"November 2011 was a bad month for consumers: Revolving debt went up more than 8% and this dubious accomplishment was accompanied by the biggest month-to-month growth in overall consumer debt since 2001." More >

Gold Seasonality: Can We Profit From It?
Source: Sam Kirtley, SK Options Trading  (2/11/12)
"Investing or trading based on seasonal patterns alone is a little unwise, considering the fragile state of the global economy and the variation that can occur within the model." More >

OPEC Cuts Call on Crude to 30.04 MMbl/d
Source: Platts, Margaret McQuaile, Richard Swann, Jacinta Moran, Kate Dourian  (2/11/12)
"In its latest monthly oil market report, OPEC trimmed its forecast of the call on OPEC crude for 2012 as a whole to 30.04 MMb/d from the 30.15 MMb/d projected a month ago." More >

The Gospel of Gold According to Peter: Peter Grandich
Source: Brian Sylvester of The Gold Report   (2/10/12)
Peter Grandich believes that we're in the midst of a stealth gold bull market. Grandich, editor and publisher of The Grandich Letter, recently penned the book Confessions of a Wall Street Whiz Kid, the moniker "Good Morning America" gave to him after he predicted the Black Monday stock market crash in 1987. He's now predicting gold to top $2,350/oz in this exclusive interview with The Gold Report. More >

Platform Technologies Promise Big Payoffs: Juan Sanchez
Source: George S. Mack of The Life Sciences Report  (2/10/12)
Platform technologies promise big payoffs because they offer the prospect of nearly unlimited assets that might be developed to combat disease, but they make investors very nervous because of their propensity to burn cash in a hurry. In this exclusive interview with The Life Sciences Report, Ladenburg Thalmann & Co. Vice President and Senior Analyst Juan Sanchez makes his case for a few companies that could produce numerous products from their technology-rich pipelines. More >

Profit in the Investment Ecosystem: Catherine Austin Fitts
Source: Karen Roche of The Gold Report  (2/10/12)
When money managers refer to total return funds, they're generally talking about investments that promise to deliver returns that beat the prevailing rate of interest while preserving capital. Investment advisor and Solari Report Publisher Catherine Austin Fitts takes the totality concept to a whole new level by focusing on net positive total returns. As she explains in this exclusive interview with The Gold Report, she hunts for companies that offer value not only to stockholders but for society. More >

How Bull Markets Evolve into Bubbles
Source: Jordan Roy-Byrne, The Daily Gold   (2/10/12)
"Gold stocks have made little net progress in the last four years while gold has nearly doubled." More >

Profit from Volatility in Gold and Silver Prices
Source: Jeb Handwerger, Gold Stock Trades  (2/10/12)
"One must not be discouraged or give up during volatile selloffs like 2008, 2010 or 2011, and run to cash. One must use short-term volatility to one’s advantage and go against the latest fad." More >

Critical Rare Earths Face Looming Shortage
Source: Philip Burgert, Resource Investor  (2/10/12)
"The most optimistic of projections suggests a shortage of 20,000 tons of critical rare earth metals is likely to develop by 2015, a review of the sector's status concluded at the Investing in African Mining Indaba conference." More >

Winners and Losers: All Quiet on MLP Front
Source: Hinds Howard, MLP HINDSight  (2/10/12)
"MLPs had a slightly positive week, compared with a slightly negative week for stocks and gold and a mixed week for oil and natural gas." More >