Miles Franklin sponsored this article by Gary Christenson. The opinions are his.Predicting the end of the world, physical or financial, is seldom helpful. If the prediction is correct, how do you profit from the insight? If the prediction is wrong and the "end of the world" is delayed (typical), you lose credibility.An estimate of risk versus reward based on an analysis of current information is...Read More
When it goes up, prices go down. It's going up... By Adam TaggartThis is a revisitation of a report I wrote back in late 2016, predicting the imminent end of zero-bound interest rates and warning of the downward pressure that rising rates, mathematically, must place on today's elevated asset prices.Since the publication of that report, interest rates have indeed vaulted higher. Look at how the...Read More
"Policy would need to become modestly restrictive for a time." This is the key quote from the recent FOMC minutes. This is not a reason for gold's joy. Fed Is Becoming More Hawkish Yesterday, the Fed released minutes from the recent FOMC meeting. As everyone knows, the Committee hiked interest rates by another 25 basis points in September. But what about the future stance? Well, the minutes si...Read More
By Avi GilburtFor many years, I have been a staunch bull. In fact, many commenters and contributors on Seeking Alpha and MarketWatch were quite vocal regarding how they thought I was crazy back in 2016 for expecting the market to go from 1800 to over 2600SPX, and potentially up through 3000. Needless to say, many of them remained bearish throughout that rally. When many were extremely bearish i...Read More
- Do you own gold in the safest way possible?- Do you own gold via an exchange traded fund, a digital gold provider or another form of pooled gold?- Have you ever thought about how you would sell or access your gold if the internet went down or if your gold provider became compromised or un-contactable?- In this episode of the Goldnomics Podcast, we discuss how Direct Access Gold ensures liqu...Read More
CloseGain/LossGold $1225.10+$1.30Silver$14.57-$0.06XAU70.05+0.28%HUI155.48+0.16%GDM556.39+0.27%JSE Gold1198.81+8.42USD95.97+0.39Euro114.59-0.46Yen89.37+0.02Oil$68.65-$1.1010-Year3.182%-0.009T-Bond138.00+0.09375Dow25379.45-1.27%Nasdaq7485.14-2.06%S&P2768.78-1.44% The Metals: Gold dipped $5.10 to $1218.70 in Asia, but it then chopped back higher in London and New York and e...Read More
Originally posted at ExecSpec.netThe October correction phase will continue until election day and beyond should Trump lose control of Congress to his rivals with echoes of the 2016 election uncertainty saga.On 09-28-18, three days prior to the the record stock market peak on October 3rd, our newsletter warned of an October correction parallel to 2016. The common characteristic being the fever-pit...Read More
If you're like me, you were taught that the way to make money was to get a job. I was programmed to be an employee. If you went through the American education system, you were probably programmed the same way. "Go to school, get a good job," and later, we were all told, "Invest in a 401(k)." That was and still is the American dream being shoved down the throats of students.That advice might have...Read More
For half a century it has been an act considered completely off limits...A taboo subject...Too dangerous to even mention.Leave it to the world’s most dangerous man to change all of that.Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) is the de facto ruler of Saudi Arabia. His father is the actual king, but he is in poor health and everyone knows that the Crown Prince is running the show.For mon...Read More
Oct 19, 2018 Guest(s): Frazer Tabeart Managing Director, PolarX As resources continue to deplete and discovery rates drop, large-cap miners look towards more mergers and acquisitions to increase their resource base, said Frazer Tabeart, managing director of PolarX. "The discovery rates have dropped, I think that's probably a reflection of people going 'undercover'. So, people are still exploring...Read More
Oct 19, 2018 Guest(s): Angelina Mehta Women In Mining Canada Bridging the gender gap in mining starts with educating young women about the industry as early as possible, according to Angelina Mehta, a board member of Women In Mining Canada, a non-profit organization focused on advancing the interests of women in the metals and mining sector. "Our whole objective with Women In Mining Canada is to...Read More
Former OMB Director David Stockman says the U.S. should stop propping up Saudi Arabia and that the stock market is overvalued.David Stockman is a former Republican congressman from Michigan and was President Reagan's budget director from 1981 to 1985. After leaving the White House, Stockman became a managing director at Salomon Brothers, and he later founded a private equity fund. David is the fou...Read More
Topics Include:*Cyberwarfare Update - Chinese embedding hacking chips onto server mother boards used in American Industry and Department of Defense Systems at the factory level*Why infrastructure will be most likely targets for cyberwarfare*How cyber financial-warfare versus financial systems, stock markets, banks is an evolving and real threat*How physical gold is resilient versus cyber financial...Read More
Could a US recession have relatively few job losses?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
A group of girls said a male classmate sexually assaulted them. He was escorted from school in shackles, charged with crimes, spent an entire summer indoors with an ankle monitor. Continue...Read More
I've been waiting for the recent spike in T-bonds in the U.S.A similar spike occurred in the early 1930s crash. Ten-year yields first jumped from 4.5% to 5.5% in 1931 and then fell all the way down to 2% - to the lowest level ever until recent years.Continue...Read More
Cryptocurrency markets have received an incredible amount of bullish news over the past few months, yet the price has barely budged. We believe this is adding fuel to the eventual fire that will ignite under cryptocurrency prices. In this article, we cover the latest bullish news and present our case for much higher cryptocurrency prices in the months ahead.NYSE Operator, ICE, Launches Bakkt Crypt...Read More
"Every nation gets the government it deserves," said 18th century French philosopher Joseph de Maistre.If true, and we suspect there is justice here... the United States is a nation of no-good deadbeats.For the nation hosts a spendthrift government perpetually on the borrow.By some metrics, the United States now takes on more debt in one year than it did in the first 200 years of its lovely existe...Read More
"I had myself found that Cheryl Mills had committed perjury and lied under oath in a published opinion I had issued in a Judicial Watch case where I found her unworthy of Continue...Read More
It's no secret that gold mining stocks are historically cheap and have been for several years. Traditional metrics Continue...Read More