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As investors predict that European debt will improve following a summit, copper hits a four-week high on the precious metal market.

Record number Silver American Eagles sold 1st day October by US Mint

The New Inverse Relationship of the Markets and U.S Dollar

Right now we as investors know a lot. There are stability and hope in the stock market.

Who's the smartest dictactor of them all and why is he seizing all the gold? Michael explains.

Forty years ago today, U.S. President Richard Nixon appeared on television to tell the world that the U.S. was severing the relationship between gold bullion and the U.S. dollar. Michael discusses how this event has affected our economy today.

What the gold-to-silver ratio is, why it's important and what it's telling us today.

Michael'sopinion on gold and the reasons he believes the metal will continue to rise in price have not changed.

Dear reader, the sad truth is that while the media and government have been pumping us with good news about the recovering economy, we are inching closer and closer to falling back into recession.

Gold and silver have both been pretty hot in the market lately. But which one stands out as the better trade?

It all started with June crude oil futures down about $9.00 a barrel, the U.S. dollar up sharply and the precious metals down.

We are seeing the market somewhat topping out at this time. Investors are greeting good earnings from brand-name companies with a little apathy.

Yesterday, President Obama said that he would cut $4.0 trillion from annual deficits over the next 12 years. He plans to raise taxes and cut government spending. The stock market hardly budged. The U.S. dollar and U.S. Treasuries hardly moved.

We witnessed a terrorist attack on American soil (Twin Towers, September 2001). We’ve experienced the biggest real estate boom market we’ve ever seen (2003-2005) and the bust of that market (2007 to today).

The government, if it were a business, would have been bankrupt years ago. Why? It spends money it doesn’t have. It borrows money from a bank (the Fed) that simply prints it and hands it over to a client (the government) that is insolvent.

While macro economic analysis issues such as reduced interest rates and a declining U.S. dollar have positive effects on the stock market, there is a direct correlation in the stock market

Something is terribly wrong in America today. Just about a year ago, when the debt crisis hit Greece, the uncertainty in Europe caused investors to run to the security of the U.S. dollar and U.S.

There’s so much going on in the world today…so much to tell my readers…and I believe it all boils down to one opportunity for investors.

For years, I have been advocating a trading strategy to my readers that can still be profitable today: buy American stocks in Canadian dollars.

There’s a real competition among industrialized countries going on. And it’s not about who has the fastest growing country or who is exporting more. The game is called currency devaluation.

The inflation trade is alive and well according to Bret Rosenthal, Principal of Rosenthal Capital Management, and founding partner of the Fortune's Favor Family of Funds.