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By Jim Amrhein “…The first of these was Al Gore’s reception of the Nobel Peace Prize, the second was the November 7 oil tanker spill in San Francisco Bay, and the third is that light, sweet crude came within a candy bar’s price…” More: continued here

By Dan Amoss “…As a student of speculative manias and bubbles, I have been lucky enough to witness two giant bubbles during my 10-year stay in the U.S. The dotcom/telecom bubble burst loudly…” More: continued here

By Jamie Ellis “…It didn’t take long for the dollar’s slide to reach the level of pop culture. But just as foreign governments and high-powered investors have turned their attention away from the dollar, so too has this powerful rap mogul…” More: continued here

By Adrian Ash “…“A similar treaty already governs the gold market in Europe,” continued Bofinger, one of the German government’s ‘Five Wise Men’ advisers. “It is something that the World Monetary Fund could coordinate.”…” More: continued here

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By Mike Shedlock “…Many corporations will do anything to improve their stock price. Instead of going about this the natural way, many are simply buying back their own shares in a way to reduce the supply on the open market…” More: continued here

Last month, Malt Advocate Magazine honored David Stewart of WilliamGrant & Sons with a Lifetime Achievement Award for his 45 years inthe whisky business. Stewart is the Malt Master for Grant’s, and isresponsible for both Glenfiddich and The Balvenie single malts, as wellas Grant’s blended Scotch. David shares his story with us in thisepisode…in the [...]

By Jamie Ellis “…Iraq, under Saddam Hussein, was one of the world’s largest oil producers. Many experts predicted that with Hussein out of power, Iraqi oil production would only rise. This has not been the case…” More: continued here

By Chris Mayer “…They were a staple of the Manchurian diet in Northern China. In the 1930s, a forward-thinking Brazilian friend asked Pu Yi if he could take some soybeans back to Brazil. Pu Yi, only a nominal regent by this point, complied…” More: continued here

By Adrian Ash “…“The dollar cannot remain solely the problem of others,” said Sarkozy before a joint session of Congress on Nov. 7, riffing on the (infamous) joke made by John Connally, treasury secretary to Richard Nixon in the early ’70s…” More: continued here