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October 28
$200 Oil? It Could Be Asia's Gift to World: William Pesek Jr.
Soaring Fuel Costs Undermining Airlines
October 28
Nervous Cubans Swap Yankee Dollars for Pesos
Buyouts, Layoffs Included in FDIC Plan to Cut Staff
Oil Slumps Below $51 a Barrel
Cuba's Banks, Exchange Houses Gear Up for Start of Large Scale Conversions to Dump Dollars
China Pressures Wal-Mart, Other Investors
October 27
Ominous: The US Deficit vs the Dollar
NY Gold, Silver Rise Early On Lower Dollar
OPEC Asks U.S. to Tap Emergency Reserves
Ruble Keeps on Climbing
ATA Airlines Files for Chapter 11
Putin: Why Not Price Oil in Euros?
October 26
Oil Ends Above $55 on Winter Supply Fears
Stocks Jump; Insurers, Home Builders Help
U.S. Consumer Confidence Fell to a Seven-Month Low
Gold and Gold Stocks Appear Ready to Soar
Euro Hits Eight-Month High Against the Dollar, as High Oil Prices Push U.S. Currency Down
Gold Licks at Near 16-Year Highs
China Dumps Dollars for Oil and Gold
Cuba to End Circulation of US Dollar
October 25
Russian Central Bank Begins Supporting Dollar
Gasoline: Rising Prices, Falling Mileage
Global Markets-Oil Hits Record High Again, Dollar Slides
Tokyo Stocks Plunge in Morning Trading After Deadly Earthquakes; U.S. Dollar Lower Against Yen
Crude Oil Prices Hug All-Time High
Is a USA Economic Collapse Due in 2005?
Dollar Slide Accelerates on Rising Oil Prices
The Greenback Could Be on the Edge of a Cliff
October 23
Russia’s Gold and Forex Reserves Exceed $100 Billion
October 22
Dow at Year Low as Crude Hits Record
U$D Selloff Continues in Eastern Bloc
Central Bank Stops Supporting Dollar
October 21
Top US Airlines Suffer Heavy 3Q Losses
Can Delta Avoid Bankruptcy?
October 20
Dollar Drops to 8-Month Low on Concern About Foreign Investors
Kerry’s Tax Plan Means Hikes For More People Than He Claims, Deroy Murdock
October 19
Is Oil Heading For $100?
U.S. Core Inflation Hotter Than Expected
October 18
Silver Musing XV (and rants, ramblings and digressions)
Crude Oil Price Surges Past $55
South African Gold Groups Poised for Merger
Predictions on Oil Price: $60
Gold Investors are Happy
October 14
Gold and Currency Reserves Show Record Increase
GM Europe to Cut 12,000 Jobs
October 12
US Black Budget
Oil Jumps Over $54 on Winter Fuel Worries
Crude Oil Prices Breach $54 Mark in Asia
Crisis Ends Dream of Early Retirement
October 11
McTeer Says U.S. Trade Imbalance May Cause the U.S. Dollar to Fall Rapidly
October 8
Dollar Falls After U.S. Economy Adds Fewer Jobs Than Predicted
Sept. Jobs Growth Weaker Than Expected
October 7
AT&T to Cut About 7,000 Jobs
Bank of America Cuts 4,500 Jobs
October 6
Where is the US Headed? BIS says, In Only 5 Days the US Could be Gone
Twin Deficits are Back
Oil Extends Record Run to $51.48 Peak
Asian Doubts Regarding the Dollar
October 5
Oil Sets Record on U.S. Supply Outage
The Looming National Benefit Crisis
October 4
The Other Side of Outsourcing
October 1
U.S. Official Confident Chinese Economy Can Avoid Crash
Jobless Claims Jump by 18,000
September 30
Dollar Weakens as Traders Shrug Off Data
Ignore Danger Signs Of The Coming Financial Catastrophe At Your Own Risk
September 29
Crude Oil Prices Surpass $50 Per Barrel
Crisis Looms Due to Weak Dollar
September 28
Pensions Grounded?
September 27
Oil Sets Record As Nigeria Concerns Mount
Pressure Grows on G7 To Agree Dlr Devaluation
Oil Hits Record
San Diego Close to Bankruptcy
China Minmetals In Exclusive Talks to Buy Noranda
September 23
Fannie Mae Woes Show Strong Regulator Needed-Snow
IMF Warns on Global House Prices
Crude Oil Surges Above $48 a Barrel
The Issues: Credit Card Debt
September 21
Crude Climbs As Traders Bet on a Big U.S. Supply Drop
Fed Is Expected to Boost Rates Again
September 20
Tally of Damage Shows No Part of Florida's Economy Unscathed
Currency Crisis Means Bull Market for Gold & Silver
September 17
May I See Your Documents Comrade?
September 14
The Gun-Wielding Gold Bug Raving Lunatic Is Back
Bush's Agenda Could Top $3 Trillion
September 13
Speeches Ignore Impending U.S. Debt Disaster
US Airways Files for Bankruptcy
September 10
Sudden Drop in US Bond Demand
Thousands of Jobs on the Line at VW
September 9
Delta Cuts 7,000 Jobs
September 7
Everything (Un)Hinges on the US Consumer
September 2
Washington Put on Pensions Alert
Ford, GM Sales Drop; Both Cut Production
September 1
China and Brazil and the Global Economy
August 31
Is a USA Economic Collapse Due in 2005?
August 31
Ming the Mechanic
Silver - Investment Opportunity of the Decade
August 27
Deutsche Bank Hit Again by Phishing Attack
August 25
Alcoholics Anonymous View of US Financials
Money Is Fleeing Russia Again, Going Abroad
August 20
US Airways to File Again for Bankruptcy, May Fold
August 19
Your Checkbook Just Became Obsolete
Secretive Bank Faces Calls for Transparency
August 18
Hundreds of Fleet Layoffs Expected
August 17
Major Foreign Holders of Treasury Securities
August 16
Where US Interest Rates and Inflation Are Heading
Dim Forecast for Stocks
August 13
Tax Burden Shifts to Middle Class
Wholesale Prices Up, Trade Deficit Soars
August 12
Doomed
August 9
Gold Market Commentary
Thoughts on the Economy by David J. Smith
August 6
Do You See a Pattern Here?
Only 32,000 Jobs Are Added in July
August 3
Read GOP Lips: No More IRS