Silver's Use As An Antibacterial Agent Has Huge Potential For Growth

By David Levenstein: For centuries, humans have used silver as an antibacterial agent for medicinal and food storage purposes. It was used by the Greeks and Romans as an anti-bacterial agent for healing and cleansing.....read on

Confidence Slides, Heightening Risk of a Slowdown

From Bloomberg: Confidence among U.S. consumers tumbled in July to the lowest level in a year, heightening the risk of a slowdown in economic growth.

The Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan preliminary index of consumer sentiment decreased to 66.5, the lowest since August and less than the most pessimistic forecast of economists surveyed by Bloomberg News.....read on

Fed's volte face sends the dollar tumbling

From the UK Telegraph: The euro rocketed to a two-month high of $1.29 and sterling jumped two cents to almost $1.54 after the Fed confessed that the US economy may not recover for five or six years. Far from winding down emergency stimulus, the bank may need a fresh blast of bond purchases or quantitative easing.

Usually the dollar serves as a safe haven whenever the world takes fright, and there was plenty of sobering news from China and other quarters on Thursday. Not this time. The US itself has become the problem.....read on