Talison Lithium has a big ace in the hole, in the race for Lithium supremacy!

Talison Lithium (TSE-TLH) has been in the business for 25 years.  It supplies about 75% of the Chinese import market in lithium from its Greenbushes mining operation in Western Australia, and has 300 customers worldwide. Talison plans a 100% expansion of those resources in 2011, and the recent 110% run-up in its share price reflects these facts.

However it is Talisons resource in Chile which will propel it to the top of the lithium world, and solidify its position as the largest, pure lithium player on the planet.

Buy Physical Gold and Physical Silver Through a Commercial Bank and You May End Up With a Vault Full of Air

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December 2010  By - J.S. Kim the editor of Smart Knowledge University.

 

Recent news this week again proves that bankers are among the largest charlatans in the universe. First Jim Rickards reported that a Swiss bank refused to deliver roughly $40 million of gold bullion to a wealthy client for 30 days and only finally physically delivered his gold when the client brought in his lawyers and threatened to take his story to Reuters and other syndicated financial news networks.

Then later this week, James Turk reported that he is aware of another individual that has been trying to take physical possession of approximately $550,000 of silver for two months now from a Swiss bank with zero luck. Turk further elaborated that the bank has been trying to pressure the client into accepting the cash equivalent market value of the silver rather than deliver the physical silver to the client. In both of these cases, I presume that neither of these Swiss banks ever held allocated gold and silver for their clients or if they did, had then leased out the gold/silver or sold the same gold/silver to multiple clients, and thus were forced to stonewall their clients until they could secure the physical metal. Why else would a bank take 30 days to deliver something that was supposed to be sitting in a vault in an allocated account?

Gold or Coal for your Christmas, Retirefund Stocking?

Image by Jenn and Tony Bot via FlickrThis Christmas, should you put more gold in your Christmas stocking, or will a lump of coal actually increase your retirefund.

Well, if the choice is between the Euro and gold, I say gold, hands down!!  If the choice is between the U.S. dollar and gold, I still say gold. However, there is a growing chorus singing the praises of dirty old coal, as a solid, short term (6-12 month) investment for your retirefund, possibly, even better than gold.

Royal Bank loses coveted Triple AAA credit rating leaving TD Bank as the only Canadian bank with a AAA rating by Moodys

FT.com reported today that Moodys has down graded the credit rating of Royal Bank of Canada (RBC)  from the coveted AAA rating to AA1.

This leaves TD Bank as the only Canadian bank to keep the coveted triple A rating, along with only a handfull of banks worldwide.

Talison Lithium Doubles since going public on TSE in September!

Back in September, just prior to Talison Lithium listing on the TSE (after the takeover of Salares Lithium) I made it my conviction stock pick, predicting that TLH shares would double by Christmas and double again by spring.

Half of that prediction has come to fruition as Talison shares traded at $6.60 last Friday (Today trading at $6.79)  Since Talison went public at $3.30 per share, that is a double, and it occured several weeks before Christmas.

A marriage in the mobile web space could produce the power couple of power couples.

Marriages, by their very nature, can be rocky relationships. Arguments, diversions and power trips, money problems and hurt feelings can result in an ugly divorce.

Marriages can also bring together soul mates who bring out the best in each other, and all those around them, while producing strong offspring and enhancing their neighborhood and their community.

Image via CrunchBaseResearch in Motion (RIM-TSE) has been somewhat of a scorned bride this year.  The investing public used to be entirely enamoured of her technology charms and her extensive cash dowry, but of late, there has been money problems (share price drop).

A Santa Claus Rally, or a Christmas Crash? Tread softly, and carry a big bag of cash!

It's almost year end, and the big dogs of the managed mutual fund industry have quite a quandary on their hands.

They stayed out of the fall rally, hoarding cash, and subsequently made no money, while the market surged ahead.

Their problem:  Well, they now either have to make up all of that in the next two weeks, or be prepared to explain to their many clients why their investments did not keep up with the market, and in fact, performed well below it.

TNR Gold Corp, has many irons in the fire, and many reasons for us to like its stock in 2011!

While Sarah Palin busies herself with TV shows about Alaska, Junior gold miners are staking claims from Alaska to the Yukon as Gold prices head toward $1500 per oz and beyond.

Here we highlight one such stock, TNR Gold Corp.