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Gold takes it on the chin…what’s next?

There was a strong reaction last week to the elevated debt crisis in Europe, with commodities and equities being indiscriminately sold. Gold fell 3 percent this week, losing its safe haven status as the dollar grew stronger and the 10-year government note headed lower.

Frank Holmes - U.S. Global Investors | May 13, 2012 | 3:25 pm

Money slow down

Many have called for very high levels of inflation possibly leading to hyperinflation.

Richard Mills - Ahead of the Herd | May 13, 2012 | 2:59 pm

Coal, corn syrup and terrorist attack: Biden ranks what is most likely to kill an American

Maybe the Republicans will have fun with this one.

Michael Allan McCrae | May 13, 2012 | 2:18 pm

Stopping the helium fire sale

A quick sell down of the US Government's stockpiles of helium in the 90s crowded out the private sector and left the US with dangerously low levels of a key industrial material.

Michael Allan McCrae | May 13, 2012 | 1:25 pm

Germany’s mixed signals

Last week's media headlines focused on how the election results in France and Greece reflected a wave of rising public resistance across Europe to the austerity programs being championed by Germany, the IMF, and the EU.

Peter Schiff - Euro Pacific Capital | May 13, 2012 | 1:01 pm

Chart of the week: where global industrial production is coming from

Many have compared today’s economic recovery to the slow, stagnant growth Americans lived through in the 1970s.

Frank Holmes - U.S. Global Investors | May 13, 2012 | 11:40 am

Mulcair accuses the West of creating Dutch Disease, Clark says the NDP are speaking gobbledygook

British Columbia Premier Christy Clark pushed back after the NDP's new federal leader, Thomas Mulcair, said that the resource ramp up in Western Canada is coming at the expense of manufacturing jobs out east.

Michael Allan McCrae | May 12, 2012 | 10:21 pm