Currently being absolutely devastated that a friend spilled his orange juice a week ago on my MacBookPro, blogging will remain rather light until I get a replacement which may take up to 6 weeks for the new matt screens on the 15-inch Mac laptop. As I only have a HP 9000 with next no software on it ... Read more

Ben Bernanke did not have time to celebrate his reappointment for another 4 years as Federal Reserve chairman on Tuesday. The day before US president Barack Obama decided to keep Bernanke as Fed head information provider Bloomberg dropped a new bomb shell regarding a lawsuit initiated by the news ... Read more

Fretting around because my Mac did not like half a cup of orange juice and its owner simply hates clunky and illogical Softmicro "technology" I am delighted that Vancouver based Sean Rakhimov, editor of SilverStrategies , offered this guest essay about the trouble with persistently correct forecas ... Read more

as I have run my powerbook out of control - Screwdriver - blogging will continue only once my MacBookPro is repaired. Everything should be back to normal by next week. I apologize not to run my daily criticism until this hardware failure is revolved ... Read the full post ... Read more

Hedge Fund Manager Hugh Hendry Brief of Eclectica Asset Management has done some on-the -ground-research. Don't mistake it for Atlanta or Miami, this video was done in one of these south eastern China metropoles Westerners may have known until now as the figurehead of limitless Chinese economic g ... Read more

Austria's central bank OeNB will only sell minuscule amounts of gold in the next 5 years. OeNB executive Peter Zoellner said in an interview with Austrian Press Agency APA that Austria has no plans to sell any significant amount. Austria is a member of the 18-strong CBGSA . According to the OeNB ... Read more

Unicredit analysts have compiled a detailed study on the Central Eastern European (CEE) banking sector (HT Ed Hugh ). While I cannot share their wishful thinking in terms of a speedy recovery this is nevertheless a compact first-hand guide to the area that will decide the fate of Austria's major b ... Read more

I have absolutely no idea why this blog's homepage freezes when loading in Firefox since this morning. Maybe this happens only in my Firefox configuration and others fare better? As I am not the tech-wizard to find out or correct the mistake I kindly refer you to use Safari or Opera browsers meanw ... Read more

Gotcha! Stop immediately playing Klondike while waiting for the release of the Federal Reserve's Open Market Committee (FOMC) statement later on Wednesday. Here comes a version that was not agreed on next to the fire place in the FOMC meeting salon but that may be as non-committed as the official v ... Read more

Official Chinese TV announced last week that silver bullion is now available for the investing public. China, once on a silver standard where nobody knows today what happened to the hoard, now offers 500 gram, 1-, 2- and 5 kilo bars. The newslady alluded that silver is comparatively cheap to gold, c ... Read more