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POPSPalin: Dollar woes show need for energy independence THIS should be among the top 2 issues that Washington is addressing! How many of our economic problems could be solved just by going full-force on this desperate need? Can someone explain to me (other than the environmentalist's drumbeat) why this is so hard to implement?? I hear the talk but see no movement. Crisis indeed!!
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POPSFuturesTrading Futures trading is an investment option that allows an investor to speculate in prices of commodity, securities, Financial instruments and indexes. With high leverage margin advantage it gives the best possible Rate of return on investment.
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POPSoil price Mention about the great Free widgets on the site for financial commodities, Crude oil prices, Gold prices, Silver prices. There are charts, Data panels and even individual commodity prices – all for free and that people can publish on their own sites. Also that the site has great financial and commodity related articles
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POPSFood Firm Sound Alarm on Sugar Shortage Sugar prices are in the all time high. We are also consuming in an all time high loads of sugar, therefore, the demand of the sugar are high too. The drought in India drive the price of sugar even higher. No wonder my significant other quit eating chocolate expect for an occasional hot coco. I still would eat a nice ethical chocolate bars, but it would not be without sugar. The truth is that people would start cutting down on real sugar if the prices continue to go up or the name brand would substitute real sugar with glucose-fructose! Ewww! I can taste the difference and in no way I would buy chocolate with those in it. Drinks may be okay, but food, you can tell a great deal of difference. Even my pop prices are already in an increase, yikes!
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POPSPredicting the price of gold by looking at web site stats This has to be the most novel approach to valuing a stock or commodity i've ever seen. Kitco is a major web site for covering commodities. This analyst is basically saying that as the price of gold rises, so does the traffic to Kitco.com. So, he checked out Kitco's traffic on Alexa and came to the conclusion that since the traffic is relatively low, it is very unlikely that gold is overvalued. I have no idea if this is wise, but it sure it an interesting take.
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POPSU.S. Considers Curbs on Speculative Trading of Oil 
I am a little weary of this step in the regulation of futures markets. Though I do not have the complete information before me and I do realize the vital interest there is in price stability I question the role of government to overly regulate the energy futures market as futures markets do serve a function that is beneficial to more than the few. Though what that benefit is escapes me at the moment. In fact the price swings of late I’d say have little to do with futures markets and more to do with expected price fluctuations of a dwindling resource, i.e. this is an indicator that we have reached peak oil. There was a study (hey if you are interested in the details, let me know) that came out a few years back that showed the price curve of a commodity that suddenly reached the point of being a dwindling resource, meaning that new demand was coming on at a higher rate than supply. Contrary to expectations the price did not skyrocket forever but went through wild gyrations
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POPSPessimistic executives cash out of shares Here is the same story last month, except this month, the inside selling is more than last month's record! "US market’s best-informed participants do not find valuations compelling. April saw the lowest level of insider buying (by people associated with the company) ever recorded by research firm TrimTabs with insider selling 14 times as high. Likewise, companies sold 64 per cent more shares than they bought in April." http://openintelligence.amplify.com/?s=shares+selling
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POPSWhy it pays to be a Moderate Republican. Collins fights oil speculators. Collins was also one of only three Republicans voting in favor of Obama's economic stimulus bill, and that only after getting a promise of spending cuts and more school construction. Obama may need a handful of Republicans to revamp of financial regulation, including the oil markets. Will Collins demand something again from the president in exchange for crossing party lines? Offering a coy smile, Collins answered, "I do think the president has been receptive when I make suggestions."
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POPSDay of reckoning for US dollar, 
Day of reckoning looms for the U.S. dollar The U.S. dollar's day of reckoning may be inching closer as its status as a safe-haven currency fades with every uptick in stocks and commodities and its potential risks - debt and inflation - are brought under a harsher spotlight. Ashraf Laidi, chief market strategist at CMC Markets, said Wednesday a "serious case of dollar damage" was underway. "We long warned about the day of reckoning for the dollar emerging at the next economic recovery," Mr. Laidi said in a note. Mr. Laidi said economic recovery would weigh on the greenback as real demand for commodities, coupled with improved risk appetite, caused investors to seek higher yields in emerging markets and commodity currencies. This would draw investment away from the U.S. dollar, which was dragged down by growing debt and the risk quantitative easing would eventually spark a surge in inflation. The U.S. dollar slid against most major currencies Wednesday, hitting a five-mont
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POPSReuters: U.S. could face second recession next year "It may fuel expectations for a return to inflation, adding to the uncertainty concerning the pattern and path of economic recovery," he said. The U.S. economy has the potential for a "double-dip" recession, Van Ark noted, similar to 1980 and 1982, as commodity prices rise on the back of a falling dollar and monetary easing. He added, however, that the likelihood of this scenario taking place is small as deflation risks are great, while government stimulus spending should stem further economic decline and ease the flow of job losses. The U.S. economy could contract by 2.6 percent in 2009, the largest annual decline since 1946, the Conference Board said.
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POPSThe Seeds of Inflation Another sign of a bubble. Don't we know we should be experiencing cognitive dissonance in place of our denial?
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POPSBe Careful What You Protest For Unable to remove the guarantees and unwilling to properly charge for them because the banks remain too weak, they will try to limit the risks through more intrusive regulation. The results should be clear enough: lower bank profits, less capital generated, less credit created, lower economic growth and more bureaucratic control over the banks and the wider economy. The protesters should be careful what they wish for.
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POPSMorgan Stanley predicts economic collapse worse than depression I just left someone that has his house under foreclosure .. man its just a shame -- meanwhile these execs get to keep their funds and act like nothing happened! I'm not really surprised cause we certain few know whats going on but for the ameri-idiots out there they must be freaking out.. 'oh no, our beloved govt. can't be doing this to us ha ha I'm kidding they are still distracted by Rhianna and Arod.. ha ha silly me like the public is that smart.. ha ha
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POPSNation’s Food System Nearly Broke This is a pretty dire picture being painted here. It seems Americans have been getting off cheap with low food prices, but that’s about to change. None of us want to see family farms go out of business, they simply cannot survive on subsistence earnings any longer. If you have a space to grow your own food, I suggest you start learning how to make it very productive and learn to can the excess. "Any time a country neglects its family farm base and allows it to become financially bankrupt, the entire economy of that country will soon collapse. It may take generations to rebuild the farm economy and that of the country." Concerned citizens can call the White House, 202-456-1111, or your members of Congress, 202-224-3121, to urge them to support policies that enable farmers to earn a fair market price
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POPSDown On The Farm... A refresher on the farm subsidy programs. Interesting that Obama would dare take on such an entrenched group in his state of the union, especially when he appointed former Gov. Tom Vilsack of Iowa to Agriculture Secretary, whose state was top in direct payments under the farm subsidy program for 2007.
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POPSOil Speculation: It's Back: And This Time, It Really Is Making Oil More Expensive ($12 a barrel higher, to be precise) than the spot price - a scenario futures traders call a "contango" market. (The opposite scenario - spot prices higher than futures prices - is known as "backwardation.") "The steepening of the contango has opened up carry-trade arbitrage opportunities that are slow to be closed due to constrained credit conditions," Goldman Sachs wrote in a recent research report. Translation: this is a great time for investors to be hoarding oil. Today's market is giving Goldman clients and other well-heeled investors an opportunity to buy oil in the spot market for $50 a barrel, sell it forward in the futures market for $62, and then pocket the $12-a-barrel difference, less storage costs.
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POPSBlaming Ag Sector For Global Warming, Obesity, Stroke, Heart Disease, etc He is blaming our agriculture policy for global warming, obesity, stroke, heart disease, etc. If he is willing to "bankrupt" the coal industry over global warming, what's he going to do to the agriculture sector which "actually is contributing more greenhouse gases than our transportation sector"? It's only failing businesses he likes apparently.
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POPSGold, silver ETFs see strong buying pressure At least some investors seemed to welcome last week’s pullback for the two most popular precious metals. How do we know? Well, not just because of what my good friend Thom Calandra who writes Ticker Trax for Stockhouse says. He’s usually on trend and usually right, though, and he’s looking for much higher gold prices over time.
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