Five Ways To Ride Gold to $1500 Don’t be fooled. Understand the forces at work here. Then watch as gold prices soar.  Clinton did not raise 10mil in 24 hours: FEC reports-THEY LIED She raised 1.7 mil on April 23rd and 2.6 mil on April 24th.  36 Retail Stores Closing Doors From Foot Locker and Home Depot to Ann Taylor and Linens 'n Things, we round up more than 30 retailers that are closing.  George Soros: 'We face the most serious recession of our lifetime' This is a period of wealth destruction. The people who make money will be few and far between. There will be a lot more money lost than made.  US and European debt markets flash new warning signals The jump in corporate bankruptcies has not yet been picked up by the usual indicators, which tend to lag the market, lulling investors into a false sense of security   It’s not an Oil Crisis it’s a Dollar Crisis We can look for scapegoats all we want but the simply fact is Americans are going to have to get used to a much lower standard of living.  Bank failures to surge in coming years At least 150 banks will fail in the U.S. during the next two to three years.  More people are selling bling to pay bills She said she needed to put gas in her car, he recalled.  As gas goes up, driving goes down At a time when gas prices are at an all-time high, Americans have curtailed their driving at a historic rate.  Top Source Says Bush To Strike Iran By August Iran's inevitable response would send oil prices skyrocketing towards $200 dollars a barrel .  McCain economic policy shaped by lobbyist Swiss bank paid McCain co-chair to push agenda on U.S. mortgage crisis,  US-made oil disaster has mileage The short answer is that the US Federal Reserve was in large part responsible for the oil price explosion and its volatility.  Consumer confidence hits 16-year low in May "When you talk to people on the street they seem to be really being squeezed at the pump and the supermarket while their income isn't keeping up."  Weimar Inflation in America protect yourself and your family to prepare for the dollar’s inflationary collapse. Buy gold. Buy silver. Avoid the US dollar.  AMERICANS EMBRACING THE IRON FIST OF TOTALITARIAN GOVERNMENT Despite the massive, overwhelming documentation proving that elite groups around the world have been planning the complete annihilation of this constitutional republic for a more than a hundred years, Americans continue to deny, deny, deny.  You Think NAFTA, CAFTA & the Economy is Bad Now? Wait...   IMAGES OF TEHRAN THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA WILL NEVER LET YOU SEE.   Jimmy Carter calls for US to make friends with Iran after 27 years They are rational people like all of us in this room. Do they want to commit suicide? I would guess not. So what we have to do is talk with them now and say to them we want to be their friends..  How the Govt Kills Small Business an increasing number of well-meaning, unsuspecting small-business owners are being convicted and serving jail time for regulatory crimes and small business laws they did not even know existed.  Barr Wins Libertarian Party Presidential Nod “I’m sure will we emerge here with the strongest ticket in the history of the Libertarian Party,” Barr said in his victory speech..  Some Republicans sense disorder in McCain campaign hindered by resignations of staff members, a lagging effort to build a national campaign organization.  Poor ticket sales, expected protests scuttle Bush-McCain fundraiser at Phoenix Convention Center Anti-war protesters were planning to be out in force. President Bush's job approval rating stands at 31 percent, according to Real Clear Politics.com.  Housing & Gold Do you ever wonder how the Soviet Union so effectively crumbled literally overnight?   The Case for $1300/Oz Gold Our 2009 gold target of USD 1,300/oz does not factor in external elements such as geo-politics or the speculative herd-following frenzy..  Teeth Gritted, Drivers Adjust to $4 Gasoline Cory Asmus of Temecula, Calif., just bought a $4,800 motorcycle for his 20-mile drive to work so he could cut his gas bill to $8 a week, from $110.  Buffett sees "long, deep" U.S. recession "That's the problem," he said. "You can't steer it, you can't regulate it anymore. You can't get the genie back in the bottle."  Clinton invokes RFK assassination in summer 1968 among reasons to stay in race; later apologizes Sen. Hillary Clinton, in defending her decision to continue running for the Democratic nomination that almost certainly will go to rival Sen. Barack Obama, invoked the shooting death of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy in the summer of 1968..