Kerry Lutz's--Financial Survival Network

Bob Mazur spent five years undercover infiltrating the criminal hierarchy of Colombia’s drug cartels. The dirty bankers and businessmen he befriended—some of whom still shape power across the globe—knew him as Bob Musella, a wealthy, mob-connected big shot living the good life. Together they partied in $1,000-per-night hotel suites, drank bottles of the world’s finest champagne, drove Rolls-Royce convertibles, and flew in private jets. But under Mazur’s Armani suits and in his Renwick briefcase, recorders whirred quietly, capturing the damning evidence of their crimes. Now his story is coming to the silver screen with Bryan Cranston playing Bob. It promises to be a great movie and a real shocker. 

Joe Messina joined us today for a closer look at a world that gets wackier by the moment. Did you hear about the Walmart Clerk who refused to print out the couple's picture because they were holding shotgun? Or how about New York, where the police are turning their backs on their mayor, Comrade deBlasio? What is a semi-sane person to do? Listen to FSN, that's for sure!

Rick Ackerman has been successfully investing in the stock market during the current run up. He's done it using his Hidden-Pivot system. While the market might be taking a bit of a breather right now, Rick believes that there's a good possibility that it will take off again soon. However, using his system, you're able to play the market in both directions with little risk. It's worth taking a look at. 

John writes, a few years ago (when the world was very different) veteran mining analyst Jay Taylor told me something that seemed counterintuitive: Deflation can actually be a good thing for the gold and silver mining business — if the prices of mining inputs like oil fall faster than the price of precious metals.

In other words, it’s not inflation or deflation per se that matter, but the distribution of price trends. “With quantitative easing,” said Taylor, “the liquidity being pumped into the system has caused energy and labor costs to rise, which has more than offset higher precious metals prices. Historically, the miners have actually done better in a deflationary environment in which gold and silver are seen as monetary metals and the cost of getting them out of the ground declines due to lower energy and labor.” 

So the relationship of gold to the rest of the commodities complex is a good indicator of the mining environment. Gold might be down, but if it’s relatively strong, the mining equation is favorable. Today it's improving.