After a brief hiatus, Sino-Forest (TSX: TRE; Pink Sheets: SNOFF) has once again taken the main stage on the fraud circuit after a temporary trading halt by the Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) on Friday August 26 followed by a not-so-temporary extension at … Read More →

Sino-Forest (TSX: TRE; Pink Sheets: SNOFF) is the biggest Chinese stock fraud of all time according to Carson Block of Muddy Waters LLC as detailed in a 39 page “research” report published on June 2, 2011 and followed by a bullet … Read More →

Although we’ve been looking for a while, we haven’t found any big picture technical views of commodities that we really like. Therefore, we… Login or Subscribe to Read More →

NOTE: We were planning to complete a generic gold and silver market update earlier this week but current events are very much being driven by a single geopolitical force at the moment so we thought it would be more appropriate … Read More →

We started talking about the upcoming crash in China this past summer and the upcoming crash in copper prices this past December. We said China… Login or Subscribe to Read More →

Over the past year or so, I’ve written several times about the interesting situation in the crude oil market that essentially allows a few big players to lock in an arbitrage profit by storing crude oil in tankers offshore and … Read More →

Brent Cook wrote an excellent article last week, Pig Farmers are Making Brent Nervous. This is a must read and in many ways reinforces the… Login or Subscribe to Read More →

There is no “dollar carry trade”. Yes, FOREX traders are short the U.S. dollar in massive proportions and part of the reason for this… Login or Subscribe to Read More →

Last Friday gold tried mightily to attain a new closing high on the weekly chart but could not manage it, setting up the possibility, at… Login or Subscribe to Read More →

Today oil reversed and climbed back above $70 per barrel as the Energy Information Administration reported a “surprise” 8 million barrel drop of crude oil in storage… Login or Subscribe to Read More →