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When it comes to gold, the investment community suffers from a kind of financial Bipolar Disorder. It swings back and forth, from a pure lust for gold… to unmitigated contempt. …

Today marks the 70th anniversary of one of the largest amphibious attacks in history, with more than 4,000 ships, 11,000 warplanes, and 156,000 Allied troops; this day is known as …

Wannabe Soviet dictator Vladimir Putin spent over $50 billion-with-a-“b” on the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. All he got out of it was international derision, a crumbling, empty, never-completed Olympic …

If you scour the prose of contemporary economists, you’ll invariably encounter murkiness and subterfuge. President Truman was all too aware of the problem when he said “give me a one-handed …

Russian strongman Vladimir Putin struck back against Western sanctions, telling international multinational financial services companies Visa and MasterCard they must cough up a $3.8 billion USD “security deposit,” which they will forfeit …

Since the Russian invasion of Crimea in February, Vladimir Putin and Barack Obama have been in regular contact with each other, seeking to smooth over tensions in Ukraine. Regular, almost …

See more Living in… posts by Bruce Haring. Ray Charles never thought much about South Ossetia, Abkhazia, or other regions that comprise the country of Georgia. Located in the Caucasus region, the …

It seems there are a lot of places Russian strongman Vladimir Putin wants to invade, now that he’s given up any pretext of running the Russian Federation like a responsible …

The international community is reeling from comments made this week by Andrej Illarionov, president Vladimir Putin’s former chief economic adviser, that the Russian strongman has long term plans to reclaim parts of “Georgia, …

The Group of Eight (G8) forum, a coalition of the eight leading industrialized countries, is now the Group of Eight-minus-One. Russia, the last nation to join the former G7 in …