The Forex is a trading system for international currencies, similar to every country’s stock exchange system. However, the main distinction is that the Forex is massive when compared to any stock exchange. In fact, it is enormous compared to all the stock exchanges in the world combined. The Forex is bigger than all the world’s stock exchanges together, turning over more than 2 trillion dollars a day, every day.

Why is the price of gold continuing to rise? Why, if the fundamentals are low enough to be negative, are the prices of some commodities skyrocketing? Gold has actually reached $1007 an ounce, the highest it has been since March 2008. That means there has been a 12% increase since April 2008.

Gold investing has always been popular among those that want to protect themselves from really hard times in the economy. Gold has indeed done better than stocks or bonds in the last couple of years and it has been a good choice to have at least part of your portfolio in it. However, with stocks doing so poorly, one might have thought gold would do even better than it has.

Are we missing the outrage for being sold down the river by a band of numbskulls in the mortgage crisis? Even our choice for presidential candidates show heavily embedded lobby and financial interests for a Marxist socialist solution or a watered down free market solution. Both are sleepwalking in lobby money and favoritism.