Cyclical investing works if the timing is right. The key question is: "Is this the right time?" Our current expansion (begun in 2009) is getting long in the tooth. Sectors that typically lead the market later in an expansion include the capital goods sector including manufacturing stocks, basic materials including mining stocks, gold and precious metals stocks and energy stocks.The standard defini...Read More
Britain’s National Health Service (NHS) is a shining example of everything socialized medicine has to offer.The NHS prevents parents from seeking experimental treatments for terminally ill children.The government can deem patients close to death, and remove feeding tubes to starve them to death. This was once called the Liverpool Care Pathway, which has since been renamed, but not changed.Th...Read More
Britain’s National Health Service (NHS) is a shining example of everything socialized medicine has to offer.The NHS prevents parents from seeking experimental treatments for terminally ill children.The government can deem patients close to death, and remove feeding tubes to starve them to death. This was once called the Liverpool Care Pathway, which has since been renamed, but not changed.Th...Read More
1. Have Physical, Tangible Assets Secured on Hand.Sovereignman tells you why you should buy a safe, and store some cash and silver in there. Don’t be dependent on institutions.2. Start Today Towards Obtaining a Second Passport, and a Foreign Bank Account.It is always good to have options. Secure some money out of your government’s hands. Secure your ability to travel without your gover...Read More
1. Have Physical, Tangible Assets Secured on Hand.Sovereignman tells you why you should buy a safe, and store some cash and silver in there. Don’t be dependent on institutions.2. Start Today Towards Obtaining a Second Passport, and a Foreign Bank Account.It is always good to have options. Secure some money out of your government’s hands. Secure your ability to travel without your gover...Read More
Junior mining stock analyst Mike Kachanovsky reveals a zinc mining stock that he says combines able management, a prudent acquisition strategy and competent operating strength at a strategic moment in world-wide zinc markets.I am a mining guy, and feel very comfortable holding a large chunk of my portfolio in resource stocks. That typically involves a large weight towards precious metals, but some...Read More
“Big government is the problem!”“No, big business is the problem!”What if their coexistence on such a large scale is the real problem? They each rely on the other for power. A corporation is a government creation, with legal definitions which protect it from market forces. And government laws and regulations are largely designed by corporate special interests.It is a vicio...Read More
“Big government is the problem!”“No, big business is the problem!”What if their coexistence on such a large scale is the real problem? They each rely on the other for power. A corporation is a government creation, with legal definitions which protect it from market forces. And government laws and regulations are largely designed by corporate special interests.It is a vicio...Read More
Adults should be able to identify as any gender they want. Modern science means they can even change their physical characteristics and take hormones, which will mimic the opposite sex.I may not understand it, but it doesn’t affect me, so I should have no say in how another adult lives his, her, or its life.Bathroom policies should be decided by business owners. If a public school has a bath...Read More
Adults should be able to identify as any gender they want. Modern science means they can even change their physical characteristics and take hormones, which will mimic the opposite sex.I may not understand it, but it doesn’t affect me, so I should have no say in how another adult lives his, her, or its life.Bathroom policies should be decided by business owners. If a public school has a bath...Read More
Rising interest rates have historically benefitted cyclical securities like mining stocks, fertilizer stocks and gold stocks. The Money Reporter picks a mutual fund with broad exposure to the sector, a fund more narrowly focused on mostly gold stocks and a small cap mutual fund which may benefit from a strengthening stock market.With the Bank of Canada bent on raising interest rates, materials sto...Read More
Conflicts are inevitable when a city wide government is also beholden to a larger state. In the United States, it is even worse. Local, state, and federal governments claim control of the same land–not to mention individual land owners.Sometimes the smaller governments want to be left alone and fight for control over their own affairs. But other times they think the larger government should...Read More
Conflicts are inevitable when a city wide government is also beholden to a larger state. In the United States, it is even worse. Local, state, and federal governments claim control of the same land–not to mention individual land owners.Sometimes the smaller governments want to be left alone and fight for control over their own affairs. But other times they think the larger government should...Read More
Canadian junior miner CanAlaska Uranium (TSX-V:CVV) reached a milestone this week as partner Cameco Corporation (TSX: CCO; NYSE: CCJ), the world's top listed uranium producer, kick started summer drilling at the West McArthur uranium project.Work at the asset, located immediately next to Cameco's Fox Lake uranium discovery, will be carried out by a helicopter-supported team based at Cameco's near...Read More
The state is deciding who is fit to be parents, keeping parents from treating their sick kids, and arresting parents if their kids skip school. Oh but don’t worry about that smart device in the home. All that info it’s collecting on your kids could never fall into the wrong hands.1. State Decides If You Are Smart Enough to Keep Your KidsParents in Oregon have had two of their children...Read More
The state is deciding who is fit to be parents, keeping parents from treating their sick kids, and arresting parents if their kids skip school. Oh but don’t worry about that smart device in the home. All that info it’s collecting on your kids could never fall into the wrong hands.1. State Decides If You Are Smart Enough to Keep Your KidsParents in Oregon have had two of their children...Read More
Gold bugs are rarely, if ever, bearish on gold. To them, it's the only real currency in a world of money-printing central banks endlessly devaluing their fiat (that is, paper) currencies. There are few people who believe so fervently as gold bugs.But bitcoin fanatics come pretty close. These folks believe that this decentralised digital currency is the ultimate means of easily transferring value w...Read More
Gold bugs are rarely, if ever, bearish on gold. To them, it's the only real currency in a world of money-printing central banks endlessly devaluing their fiat (that is, paper) currencies. There are few people who believe so fervently as gold bugs.But bitcoin fanatics come pretty close. These folks believe that this decentralised digital currency is the ultimate means of easily transferring value w...Read More
A recent MoneyLetter survey of published securities analysts' reports on junior mining stocks found three precious metals penny mining stocks with interesting gold and silver prospects.SilverCrest Metals Inc. (TSXV-SIL) has discovered another high-grade vein at its Las Chispas silver and gold mining project in Mexico. Named Giovanni, this vein has defined dimensions of 400 to 500 meters along stri...Read More
Where are you from? Seems like a simple question. As I have been traveling recently outside of the U.S. it has come up a lot. When someone asks me where I’m from, I want to rattle off some stats. Where I was born, where I moved to; I name the broader regions and the closest cities. I am from Massachusetts, outside of Boston, but I moved to Florida. No, nowhere near Miami or Orlando. On th...Read More