Precious Metals – Week of 2.5.12

Every year, farmers in the rural town Inakadate, Japan create rice field art by using red rice in with their regular rice in special patterns.

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By Zachary A. Goldfarb

After President Obama signs into law an overhaul of financial regulation at a ceremony set for Wednesday, his administration will turn to reforming an area at the root of the…

By Denis C. Theriault

A new report on who supplies — and who spends — California’s public dollars shows an interesting disparity between the givers and the takers:

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By John Naughton

Almost without noticing it, our world crossed a significant threshold last week. Jerry Brown, the governor of California, signed into law a bill that will allow driverless cars on …

By John P. Hussman, Ph.D.

The central issue in the current financial markets, in my estimation, is distortion. Because monetary distortion dominates the financial markets here (helped by fiscal dis…