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    Commodities and Currency
    Who Are The Ones Manipulating The Gold Price?
    By: QFinance | Date: 20 Jun 2013

    Gold has been touted a safe store of wealth, particularly when there are serious risks to global financial markets. However, gold suffers from wild price gyrations when the markets become too disruptive, and data suggests that gold prices are regularly manipulated for the benefit of large banks and to the detriment of any retail investor trying to protect their wealth by investing in gold. Read more

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    Iran Economy
    Iran: New Leader, New Hope?
    By: Stratfor | Date: 19 Jun 2013

    Winning a stunning victory in the country’s six-way presidential race, Iran’s new leader Hasan Rouhani has vowed to integrate Tehran into the international community, bolstering hopes for better relations with the West. A skilled negotiator and a moderate, Rouhani’s election could be the best news in many years for the future of the whole region – for Iran, its economy, the nuclear standoff, as well as diplomatic relations with Israel.Read more

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    Indian Economy
    Energy Diplomacy: India’s Great Balancing Act
    By: OilPrice.com | Date: 18 Jun 2013

    In its relentless quest for energy to fuel its booming economy, India, the second largest buyer of Iranian oil, has struck a neat diplomatic balance: Delhi has managed to maintain friendly ties and oil shipments from Tehran without antagonising Washington, while keeping Baghdad on the hook as it takes the necessary steps to fill the gaps left by international sanctions on the Iranian regime. Read more

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    US Economy
    How America Lost Its Edge in Communications Technology: Dan Steinbock
    By: Dan Steinbock | Date: 17 Jun 2013

    The United States' global primacy depends in large part on its ability to develop new technologies and industries faster than any other country. However, after decades of intensified globalization and the rise of the large emerging economies, such as China, the world’s factory, and India, the world’s technology back-office, the old U.S.-dominated information and communication technology ecosystem has not only disintegrated structurally but it has dispersed geographically.Read more

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    Pharmaceutical Industry
    Up in Smoke: Distrust of E-cigarettes Cement Big Pharma’s Monopoly
    By: David Smith | Date: 14 Jun 2013

    Over-zealous regulators in Europe and the US are threatening the growing market for e-cigarettes, reducing their revolutionary potential to save millions of lives in the 21st century by weaning smokers off the poisons in traditional cigarettes.Read more

    • Energy Industry
      Why Peak Oil Pundits Got It Wrong
      Date: 13 Jun 2013

      Many investors believe that global oil production would start to decline from 2014-15, a prediction based on the so-called peak oil theory that the world demand for oil would soon outstrip supply and send oil prices through the roof. For several years in the middle of the last decade, as oil prices climbed past $100 a barrel and analysts were betting it would cross $200, peak oil pundits were sure they had it right. Read more

    • European Union Economy
      Did Germany Force The Eurozone Into The Debt Crisis?: Michael Pettis
      Date: 12 Jun 2013

      As monetary policy across the eurozone was made to fit German needs, excess German liquidity – accumulated from years of trade surpluses and policy controls – was easily exported into Spain and other peripheral European countries which all saw their trade deficits expand dramatically.  In fact, the subsequent imbalance became so large that it led almost inevitably to the European crisis in which we are today.Read more

    • World Economy
      Are Current Oil Prices Crippling Growth?: Gail Tverberg
      Date: 11 Jun 2013

      For those who are wondering how high oil prices need to be to be considered “too high”, the answer is: We are already there. In fact, continued high oil prices may be the key reason behind the recessionary forces we are seeing around the world now, troubling developed countries like the United States and most of Europe, as well as the main drivers of global growth China and India. Read more

    Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.
    Wendell Philips
    He who controls the money supply of a nation controls the nation.
    James A. Garfield
    The moment that government appears at market, the principles of the market will be subverted.
    Edmund Burke