Bill Bonner, resident voice of reason and chief columnist for The Daily Reckoning, UK Edition, analyzes this past week’s actions in the gold market, including its relationship to U.S. stocks activity.

Get ready for Stimulus Version 2.0. With unemployment in double-digit territory, credit still tight and consumers refusing to part with their cash, it’s obvious Washington’s first bailout did nothing but put the nation even further in debt and give China an even larger stake of the country’s financial future.

Bill Bonner, co-author of The New Empire of Debt, brings us his analysis of the latest U.S. economic news and the future of the ‘recovery’ for The Daily Reckoning.

Louis Basenese, Small Cap and Special Situations expert at Investment U, analyzes market forces in – and the potential of – Brazil.

Steve Sjuggerund, writing for The Right Side, analyzes the nature of bubbles, the trend in gold prices, and how trailing stops can be used to protect healthy gains.

David Stevenson, Associate Editor at MoneyWeek, UK, offers his analysis of the current state of British Banks and the implications for the global economy for the next few years.

Bill Bonner, co-author of The New Empire of Debt, brings us his analysis of the current market bubble, the current trends in commercial lending and the future of the ‘recovery’ for The Daily Reckoning, UK Edition.

Natural gas prices have plummeted. Natural gas storage is at a maximum. Producible gas reserves are up 35% in the United States. Demand for natural gas is down because of the economy.

Then suddenly a new-found U.S. natural gas producible reserve is suggesting that the U.S. in fact will be self-sufficient or close to it as soon as 2030.

Why are all of these things happening?

A bit of it, of course, is due to the drop in the overall economy, but it has a lot to do with the concept of gas shale, and that’s really what we are going to focus on today.

Chuck Butler, President of  EverBank® World Markets and author of The Daily Pfenning newsletter, offers his analysis of this week’s currency trends – and their implications for the global economic recovery – at The Daily Reckoning.

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Japanese Canaries in a U.S. Economic Coal Mine

Yesterday I told you how the overnight markets were selling dollars, and the NY traders were buying them, causing these swings in the currencies. The trading ranges aren’t huge in any sense of the imagination, but, they do cross significant levels each time… For instance, the euro (EUR) has crossed back and forth through the 1.51 level four times this week, and the Swiss franc (CHF) has crossed back and forth through parity a few…

Dan Denning is the author of 2005’s best-selling The Bull Hunter, analyzes current moves in the gold market for Whiskey & Gunpowder.