Gold's luster going from bad to worse

Plus: How-to for advisers going solo, global investors bail on Obama, deflating market bubble babble
NOV 30, 2013
Gold analysts are striking a bearish pose now that Fed tapering is back in the conversation. The precious metal heads toward its first annual decline in 13 years The gold picture is brutally illustrated in the ETF space. GDX is now trading 40% below where it debuted seven and a half years ago Financial advisers planning to set up their own shops should pay close attention to the costs of the transition, among other things. How portable are the assets? Even as stocks charge to record highs, global investor confidence in Obama continues to tank. Global confidence in the U.S. president drops to the lowest level since the question was first asked What 10 big thinkers are saying about all this market bubble chatter. “A bubble in calling for bubbles” It is apparently never too early to debunk next year's economic predictions. China will become top dog After years of threatening to do so, Senate Democrats finally pulled the “nuclear option” yesterday. Here's the how and why of it all in a fun, easy-to-understand format. The simple majority

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