Investing with terrible luck beats doing nothing and sitting in cash.

Investors from Europe own about half of all foreign holdings of US stocks, per Bloomberg

Aluminum basically used to cost the same in the US as it did in Europe and Japan.

"Bian Ximing has built the largest net short position in silver on the Shanghai Futures Exchange, with a bet on the metal's collapse now worth almost $300 million

Another sign of silver speculation becoming a mania.