The silver market has long been talked of as ‘the second class gold’ investment for the poor or middle class, the lower priced alternative to buying gold. But the gold market has had 10 years of very strong growth amid the world political disenchantment involving Iraq and Afghanistan, where the safe haven for currency is [...]

According to an independent source on the blogosphere, the real reason the Afghan run-off election between Hamid Karzai and Abdullah Abdullah was canceled was because the latter was obsessed with watching the World Series. Apparently, Abdullah Abdullah is a huge Philadelphia Phillies fan and didn’t want to miss any of the games just to get [...]