Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:Questions are asked to get answers, but refusals to answer may be enough to permit conclusions to be drawn and thus in effect constitute answers as well.With all these recent refusals to answer, who really cannot believe that governments and central banks long have been manipulating the gold market so they might control the currency markets and thereby defeat all mar...Read More
Powell spoke yesterday. The gold market considered his remarks as dovish. And the market is always right, isn't it? Just Below Neutral On Wednesday, Powell delivered a speech "The Federal Reserve's Framework for Monitoring Financial Stability" at The Economic Club of New York. The majority of analysts judged the speech as dovish. Why? The key reason was Powell's view that interest rates were c...Read More
Wednesday's monster rally was just the beginning of a surge that can end only when the last die-hard bear has thrown in the towel. Although the short-covering panic goosed stocks into the clouds, the wild-blue-yonder, blow-off phase lies just ahead. Hundreds of stocks, most crucially AAPL, lifted from the danger zone, shifting the herd's tiny, fevered brains from bearish to bullish in the space...Read More
- Brexit no-deal would lead to "worst crash since 1930s"- Gold rose 0.6% in dollars and 1.2% in pounds today- UK economy could contract by 8%, house prices fall 30%, sterling fall 25% warns Bank of England- Sterling collapse would push Irish economy into recession- Carney's doomsday scenario sees the crippling of UK finances, the pound crashing and inflation soaring- BOE accused of "Project Fe...Read More
Gold and silver have just have formed a short term bottom after comments from the Federal Reserve chairman that interest rates are "just below" neutral range. This implies that the pace of interest rate hikes (after December) will be slower next year. This is just the catalyst needed for gold and silver bulls. The US dollar index should form a long term top over the next two weeks. Physical dema...Read More
Full Article: Gold Remains One Of Top Investments For 2019 - Legg MasonBy: Neils Christensen(Kitco News) - For the second year in a row, investors remain optimistic that gold will shine in 2019 as they search for stability in an environment of growing uncertainty and volatility, according to a survey conducted by international investment firm Legg Mason.According to the firm's Global Investment...Read More
It has been a wild ride for cannabis stocks in 2018. The largest cannabis producer, Canopy Growth Corp (CGC), had their share price rocket from $24 to $57 in the two months leading up to full legalization in Canada. This represents a gain of 137% in under two months. The share price has since corrected to around $33 and looks to be offering an attractive entry point once again.Shares of Tilray (TL...Read More
Many investors who avoid real estate are afraid of the anticipated difficulties of being landlords. They hear horror stories. They think to themselves, "I don't want to fix toilets," and "I don't want to get calls from tenants in the middle of the night." These are common excuses I hear from people avoiding a challenge.There are strategies for intelligently managing a property that any capable per...Read More
For investors, buying shares of an undervalued stock is good.But there is something much better.I’m talking about buying shares of an undervalued stock where there is also a near-term catalyst on the horizon that will force the market to properly value the company.Value with a catalyst. Yes, that is much better.With that in mind, I present to you Halcon Resources (HK).An undervalued opportun...Read More
Jeff Berwick interviews author of 'The Creature from Jekyll Island, G Edward Griffin. Topics include: entertaining ideas without accepting them, the federal reserve, cryptocurrencies are a volatile emerging market, intrinsic value, getting outside the current financial system, the California fires, abnormal high temperatures, vaporized ceramics, aluminium deposits, a plan to get people out of the...Read More
Google employees discussed whether to censor conservative media outlets in the company's search results as a response to President Trump's victory in 2016.Continue...Read More
Mike "Mish" Shedlock a registered investment advisor, representative for Sitka Pacific Capital Management and he operates one of the most popular websites about the economy and investing online: MISH'S Global Economic Trend Analysis.Read More
"This is an extraordinary phenomenon, and it gives us new, foundational knowledge of gold."Continue...Read More
Recent market and economic developments are positive for Gold and precious metals but conditions are not bullish yet.Continue...Read More
As you may have heard, there has been mayhem in the crypto markets.For a while, it seemed like crypto markets were immune to the carnage in stock and bond markets around the world. In recent weeks, that has changed in a big way. After a period of sideways trading and low volatility, the crypto crash of 2018 resumed in full force.The cryptocurrency market as a whole shed nearly $95 billion in eleve...Read More
"One martini is alright," counseled the late James Thurber."Two is too many"… "and three is not enough."As with the martini, so with debt.Today we tell a woeful tale of substance abuse…Assume an economy in doldrums. Debt appears to offer a hand up.The initial dose of debt brightens the economic spirits, livens the pace of commerce, sets the idle machines of industry awhir.The customer...Read More
... GE and GM are both telling us the US economy is in huge troubleby Michael Snyder of The Economic Collapse BlogAmerica's twin economic "generals" are both in very deep trouble.General Electric was founded in 1892, and it was once one of the most powerful corporations on the entire planet. But now it is drowning in so much debt that it may be forced into bankruptcy.General Motors was founded i...Read More
Any news of a deal between the USA and China on the trade war front will result in copper, zinc, lead, nickel and aluminum to rise five percent anytime. The Trump-Xi meeting is on Saturday. Before Saturday, all the speculation will move silver and industrial metals. How to trade in invest in 2019The year 2018 is not yet over. Each day till 31st December, a new economic data release or news/spe...Read More
Early investors could see a windfall as this invention unlocks $15.7 trillion in revenue.It's been called humanity's last invention...The "king of disrupters."And "the most important conversation of our time."Insiders are already predicting it will have a bigger economic impact than the steam engine, electricity and the internet...The World Economic Forum claims it will usher in the "4th industria...Read More
The yellow metal rose $10 in a few minutes boosted by a decline of the US dollar. Federal Reserve Chairman Powell mentioned the policy rate is just below neutral. Gold prices jumped following the release of Fed’s Chairman Powell speech that pushed the greenback sharply to the downside. The metal was moving in a small range between $1211 and $1215 and broke dramatically to the upside....Read More