Mr. Market has begun to show clear signs of split personality disorder in recent weeks. Now that investors have exhaled in relief that a deflationary apocalypse has been avoided, the new reality of reflation and stagnation is sinking in…

Get up, stand up… stand up for your rights…Get up, stand up… don’t give up the fight…– Bob Marley & The Wailers. Thanks to you, dearly beloved reader, Jim Amrhein and I have a friendly Taipan Daily rivalry going. It seems Jim’s time spent basking in the glory of an all-time reader response record (for “A Kind Word and a Gun“) was all too short.

As the markets would tell it, the swine flu epidemic is little more than a tempest in a teacup. But, sad to say, the danger here remains far greater than it seems…

On close inspection, there are only two possibilities for the Geithner “Rescue Plan”: It’s an honest effort doomed to fail… or a blatant scam that just might work.

As you may have figured out, these Taipan Daily missives are (usually) written the day before. That way they can hit your inbox in time for a read with the morning coffee.

With Monday’s surprise announcement, China dropped a bombshell on global currency markets. Action to take: Get out of the U.S. dollar. Now. Right now.

Is there a Sword of Damocles hanging over gold’s head? Here’s why U.S. and IMF gold holdings aren’t as big a deal as some think…

America may be banged up, but Europe is teetering on the edge of flat-out fiscal disaster… which helps explain the bizarre action in gold and the dollar as of late.

The gold-to-oil ratio is at ten-year highs – a single ounce of gold can now purchase 22+ barrels of WTIC crude. But what does it mean?

The much-vaunted stimulus bill has turned out to be a nauseating, pork-laden mess. Score one for the cynics as President Obama’s credibility takes a hard and early hit.