Deal or no deal? American politics may be becoming a bit less dysfunctional. In big annual speech to Congress, Barack Obama made several promises. He pledged to raise the minimum wage for those contracted to the federal government, to create a new tax-free savings bond to encourage Americans to save, to work for the closure of the Guantánamo Bay prison, to push immigration reforms and to ve...Read More

World risks deflationary shock as BRICS puncture credit bubbles … As matters stand, the next recession will push the Western economic system over the edge into deflation … It is a remarkable state of affairs that the G2 monetary superpowers – the US and China – should both be tightening … Half the world economy is one accident away from a deflation trap. – UK Te...Read More

Written in 1993 by Tommy Emmanuel & David Hirschfelder for the album, The Journey, which went double platinum in Australia and won the Aria award for Best Adult Contemporary Album of the Year in 1994.The original recording had 72 tracks, featuring a full band as well as orchestra, bagpipes, didgeridoos, indigenous percussion and even real thunder!Get the CD from official store (double album with C...Read More

Canadian Mutual Fund Adviser, MPL Communications Inc.133 Richmond St.W., Toronto, ON, M5H 3M8. 1-800-804-8846Most investment strategies stress one of two approaches. One of these is to chase after the action; that is, buy and sell often, in hopes of getting into markets or sectors that are rising and getting out with some of your profit intact, or at least with limited losses. The other, the one w...Read More

Money Reporter, MPL Communications Inc.133 Richmond St.W., Toronto, ON, M5H 3M8. 1-800-804-8846VERESEN INC. Veresen is the former Fort Chicago Energy Partners L.P., and is principally invested in the energy infrastructure business. It has interests in two pipeline systems, the Alliance Pipeline and the Alberta Ethane Gathering System; a midstream business with interests in a natural gas liquids;...Read More

Consign forward guidance to the bin … It would be better for the Bank of England to go back to the simplicity of inflation targeting "With a solid recovery finally in prospect, the earlier the Bank of England ditches the extra stimulus that is no longer required the better" The Bank of England's forward guidance is achieving nothing useful and could become dangerous. It is time...Read More

Why 'anti-European populists' won't win big in the European elections … For months EU politicians have been warning us about the upcoming elections for the European Parliament (EP), to be held in May in all 28 member states. European Commission President Jose Barroso recently predicted "a festival of unfounded reproaches against Europe" as a consequence of the EU-wide &...Read More

Consign forward guidance to the bin … It would be better for the Bank of England to go back to the simplicity of inflation targeting "With a solid recovery finally in prospect, the earlier the Bank of England ditches the extra stimulus that is no longer required the better" The Bank of England's forward guidance is achieving nothing useful and could become dangerous. It is time...Read More

Why 'anti-European populists' won't win big in the European elections … For months EU politicians have been warning us about the upcoming elections for the European Parliament (EP), to be held in May in all 28 member states. European Commission President Jose Barroso recently predicted "a festival of unfounded reproaches against Europe" as a consequence of the EU-wide &...Read More

Mines Management.I own shares.The company has not paid me to write this article. www.minesmanagement.com Market Cap: $20 million at $.70/share Primary Asset: Montanore Project.Net Present Value about $700 million.Source: page 10 of the recent company presentation.Company Presentation.pdf Let the PDF load for a bit, be patient. If the stock price goes up to match the net present value of the proje...Read More

TORONTO, Ontario (January 30, 2014) - On July11, 2013 Mega Uranium Ltd. (TSX:MGA) ("Mega"or the "Company") announcedthat it had entered into a non-binding farm in and joint venture terms sheet ("TermsSheet") with Cameco Australia Pty Ltd ("Cameco"), a wholly owned subsidiary ofCameco Corporation (TSX: CCO, NYSE: CCJ), in respect of certain grantedtenements and tenement applications that comprise M...Read More

Jayant Bhandari, is an anarchist and has been running the "Capitalism and Morality Seminar" since 2010. By profession he is an analyst and a value-investor. Over one year, he has been advising funds on investing in the junior mining space. This takes the form of helping them with taking a portfolio decision or analyzing a specific company in details or to quickly see if a company is worth looking...Read More

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Iraq is poised to flood the oil market by tripling its capacity to pump crude by 2020 and is collaborating with Iran on strategy in a move that will challenge Saudi Arabia's grip on the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries. "We feel the world needs to be assured of fuel for economic growth," Hussain al-Shahristani, Deputy Prime Minister for Energy in Iraq told oil industry d...Read More

From Austerity to Abundance: Why I Am Running for California Treasurer … Governor Jerry Brown and his staff are exchanging high-fives over balancing California's budget, but the people on whose backs it was balanced are not rejoicing. The state's high-wire act has been called "the ultimate in austerity budgets." … There is another way to balance a state budget, one th...Read More

Iraq is poised to flood the oil market by tripling its capacity to pump crude by 2020 and is collaborating with Iran on strategy in a move that will challenge Saudi Arabia's grip on the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries. "We feel the world needs to be assured of fuel for economic growth," Hussain al-Shahristani, Deputy Prime Minister for Energy in Iraq told oil industry d...Read More

From Austerity to Abundance: Why I Am Running for California Treasurer … Governor Jerry Brown and his staff are exchanging high-fives over balancing California's budget, but the people on whose backs it was balanced are not rejoicing. The state's high-wire act has been called "the ultimate in austerity budgets." … There is another way to balance a state budget, one th...Read More

Bitcoin Foundation's Shrem Charged in Silk Road Drug Case … Two men tied to the illicit online market Silk Road, including Bitcoin Foundation Vice Chairman Charlie Shrem, were charged by U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara today in a complaint filed in Manhattan federal court. The vice chairman of the Bitcoin Foundation was charged by federal prosecutors with conspiring to launder more than $1 m...Read More

Tony Blair says that religious extremism has become the biggest source of conflict around the world. Tony Blair has reignited debate about the west's response to terrorism with a call on governments to recognise that religious extremism has become the biggest source of conflict in the world. Extremist religion is at root of 21st-century wars, says Tony Blair … – UK GuardianDominant...Read More