By the editors of Without Borders, Casey Research

If you’ve made your way over to Europe in the last few years, you may recall being inundated with flyers, billboard messages and seminar advertisements for Spanish property, particularly if you were in the UK. British buyers were scooping up ”cheap” homes in Spain at a blistering rate, reenacting the turn-of-millennium Florida boom. Builders followed the trend, doing what comes naturally to them, until there seemed to be an off-plan Spanish condo for every man, woman and child in Great Britain. The nice thing about real estate is that demographics can be counted on to resolve any supply and demand anomaly, even if painfully. 

President-elect Barack Obama is getting closer to beginning  the push for a massive package of tax cuts and spending proposals aimed at reviving an economy mired in recession.

Unlike the previous monthly reports I am going to deviate from that format in order to answer questions that are continually addressed to me as to where and what will happen in the market place near term and in the long term future. Below is that list of questions and my answers to them.

My father-in-law, Dr. Franco Cosco, is a learned and wise historian, and he loves to quote the ancient Greeks and Romans.

I've been writing this series of articles because all of us face some tough choices and decisions as to how to take advantage of the schizophrenic, deflationary drama that is playing out in the commodities like energy and metals.