Here are the latest news items and commentary on current economics news, market trends, stocks, investing opportunities, and the precious metals markets. We also cover hedges, derivatives, and obscura. Most of these items are from the “tangibles heavy” contrarian perspective of SurvivalBlog’s Founder and Senior Editor, JWR. Today, we look at rapidly rising car prices — both new and used. (See the Tangibles Investing section.) Precious Metals: Reuters: Gold pops over 1% as U.S. jobs data miss cools Fed taper bets. o o o Capital Economics looks for silver prices to drop 5% to $21.50 before year-end. o o o …