The Rarest Earth (Metal)

Those who keep up with business news will have no doubt read about the recent developments in the category of minerals known as rare earth elements (REE’s). These are minerals that are vital to modern industrial applications, ranging from lasers, batteries, alternative energy, and superconductors to all sorts of important high-tech applications. There are 17 minerals classified as REE’s with exotic names like scandium, yttrium, lanthanum, cerium, and praseodymium. Don’t worry, this is not a technical discussion and this will probably be the only time I write about rare earth elements.

Since I’m not a REE expert why am I writing about them? The answer has to do with silver. Silver shares many characteristics with the rare earth elements and there is a lot to learn from them in our analysis of silver. In fact, the purpose of this article is to make the case that silver is the rarest of all the rare earth elements.

http://news.silverseek.com/SilverSeek/1297276845.php

After a Period of Heavy Money Printing WAR Follows

Marc Faber & Nassim Taleb at Russia Forum : Is Russia the Best or Worst in BRIC?
Marc Faber explains why oil is the best investment right now, whether you’re bullish OR bearish on the world economy. Marc Faber starts at 24:24 minutes and Nassim Taleb at 40:00
http://vimeo.com/19516143

Interview between Alasdair Macleod and James Turk

Steve Forbes: If printing money was the way to wealth then we should legalize counterfeiting

If printing money was the way to wealth then we should legalize counterfeiting , but the government does not like competition that's way Peter Schiff added . On the Peter Schiff Show, Steve Forbes declared: "If printing money was the way to wealth, then we should legalize counterfeiting"

2011 – The year when money starts to die

Many of us recognise the government debt bubble, which ensures that today’s rulers are relieved by the artificially low cost of their debt.  But most of us are unaware of the other bubble, that of the value of money, which is also held up at artificially high levels.  The money bubble is inflating primarily in quantity rather than price, making it easier to deceive the public. There is also a fundamental difference from the usual bubbles, which end with a collapse while money’s value is unaffected: in this dual bubble both  debt and money will eventually collapse together; the former as nominal yields rise and the latter being reflected in rising precious metal prices.

http://www.financeandeconomics.org/Articles%20archive/2011.01.05%20Money%20dies.htm

Shocking Video: Man Politely Robs Washington Store

A sign of things to come during hyperinflation. A man politely robs a convenient store. He has since been identified and arrested after police received tips from this surveillance video.

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