Long-time DR sufferers are already familiar with our friend and colleague Dr. Marc Faber – author of The Gloom, Boom and Doom Report, and one of the foremost contrarian economists working today. Well, we’ve secured an exclusive interview with Dr. Faber – hosted by our own Dan Mangru – which will premier on Tuesday, November 24th…Read more…

It’s pretty clear that without tungsten, a lot of things in this world will — literally — grind to a halt. Now let’s ask, where’s the world’s tungsten? Here’s a recent pie chart of world tungsten reserves. In addition to its large reserve base (57%), China presently controls about 75% of the world’s output of tungsten. Characteristically,…Read more…

What happened yesterday? The Dow sold off 93 points. Investors had been hesitating. There’s supposed to be a recovery going on. But the latest news is unsettling. Housing and employment numbers are weak. What’s going on? Maybe this recovery is not a sure thing after all. “Record numbers late on US loans,” says a headline in…Read more…

The expensive stimulus procedure intended to save the economy from its depths has hardly worked. Perhaps it seemed at first like a simple nip and tuck… the rising market has at least made things look a little better. However, the operation actually came by way of extracting many of the economy’s critical organs — jobs, the…Read more…