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Archive for May, 2008

30 May

Fire heavily damages Matt Brewing Company’s Bottling Facility

Tragic news from the Matt Brewing company, where a fire yesterday destroyed much of the building used for bottling beer there. Matt makes Matt’s, Utica Club, and Saranac beers and contract brews for other labels. Fire at Matt Brewing Company…
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28 May

Financial Bank Bear Market

With fuzzy math and a confusing balance sheet, Lehman Brothers has been able to hide a lot of troubled assets. But soon, it will all come to light and crashing down.
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28 May

Central Bank Mistakes

New financial instruments and hedge funds have grown at a rapid pace in the past decade while the world now faces a crisis in credit and a fiat currency bubble.
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27 May

Small-Cap and Junior Miners

The recent slide in the gold price looks to be ending. That makes now the perfect time to buy small-cap and junior miners.
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25 May

WhiskyCast Episode 146: May 25, 2008

It’s festival week on Islay, and we’ll hear about the plans for this week’s Islay Festival of Malt and Music from Laphroaig’s John Campbell, Ardbeg’s Michael Heads, and Jim McEwan of Bruichladdich. Every distillery on Islay and Jura has a special bottling for this week’s festival, and the guys will give us details on theirs. […]

22 May

North Dakota Oil

A large, untapped oil mine across Canada and the U.S. Northwest, may finally be able to be tapped.
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21 May

Making Money with Royalties

Investing in a resource royalty trust is a great, low-risk way to invest in resource mining while making money while doing nothing.
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20 May

Rising Oil Prices

The falling dollar and U.S. credit crisis have helped push oil to historical levels. But when the price boom peaks, where will oil be headed?
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19 May

Inflationary History

If the U.S. is planning on devaluing its currency in hopes of paying off the large national debt, we could be in for big trouble down the road.
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18 May

WhiskyCast Episode 145: May 18, 2008

One of the world’s great whisky bars sits in between a stationery store and a restaurant in Toronto’s Beaches neighborhood. Ian Innes has owned The Feathers since 1981, and his selection of single malts is amazing. There are 460 different expressions from almost every distillery in Scotland (and he probably had those at one time […]

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