Many are the metaphors used to describe the agent that initiates a major crisis. Light the fuse, or pull the trigger, pull the rug out from under the room, or pull on the string for unraveling the sweater, these are commonly heard. What comes soon is the Bonfire of the Vanities, a term the Jackass prefers since irony is thick. Hardly the burning of objects deemed as tempting toward occasions of si...Read More
Last week the Senate confirmed Jerome Powell as Federal Reserve Chairman by a vote of 84-13. This is in contrast to the contentious debates and closer votes over Janet Yellen's confirmation in 2014 and Ben Bernanke's confirmation for a second term in 2010. Powell benefited from a perception that the economy's recovery from the 2007-08 meltdown proves that the Fed is a capable manager of monetary...Read More
Last week the Senate confirmed Jerome Powell as Federal Reserve Chairman by a vote of 84-13. This is in contrast to the contentious debates and closer votes over Janet Yellen's confirmation in 2014 and Ben Bernanke's confirmation for a second term in 2010. Powell benefited from a perception that the economy's recovery from the 2007-08 meltdown proves that the Fed is a capable manager of monetary p...Read More
By BullionStarThe traditional phrase "worth your weight in gold" has been used since Roman times, and is a well-known saying signifying that someone or something is very valuable, helpful, or to be treasured.But taken literally, what 'value' would a person be worth if they were worth their own weight in gold?For a given gold price, the answer not surprisingly depends on the person's weight, so...Read More
Predicting the likely path of the prices of the metals in the near term is easy. Just look at the fundamentals. We have invested many man-years in developing the theory, model, and software to calculate it. Every week we publish charts and our calculated fundamental prices.However, predicting the outlook for a longer period of time is much harder. The fundamental shows the relative pressures in th...Read More
By Gary SavageThis video explores the possibility that stocks are currently giving us a brief pull back before the next powerfully rising intermediate cycle begins.https://blog.smartmoneytrackerpremium.com/ Read More
By Rory HallFor the past year the mainstream media has attempted to sale the U.S. citizens that Trump colluded with the Russian's to rig the election and deny hillary her rightful position as President of the United States.Over the past several months we have learned that hillary and her top supporters, including former White House occupant, Hussein Obama, actually may have committed treason and...Read More
By Clint Siegner Those wanting a glimpse into the future of our federal government's finances should have a gander at Illinois. The state recently "resolved" a high-profile battle over its budget. Taxpayers were clubbed with a 32% hike in income taxes in an effort to shore up massive underfunding in public employee pensions, among other deficiencies. But, predictably, it isn't working. Peopl...Read More
- Property crisis in London as over half of 1,900 luxury apartments built 2017 fail to sell- London's still high priced property causes companies to locate offices elsewhere- At current rates, glut of London properties will take three years to sell- Leading London-based estate agents Foxtons' sees 42% drop in earnings, yoy- UK's largest estate agent issues second profit warning in three months-...Read More
Deutsche Bank and its associate group, UBS, HSBC etc have been fined by the CFTC for gold price manipulation. I am sure silver prices are being manipulated by a group of banks and hedge funds. Silver is undervalued. Long term industrial uses of silver will exceed production. Those who had invested in physical silver have lost all hope that silver prices can rise. Some of the silver investors are...Read More
- Completed 2017 Fall drilling results indicate presence of previously undiscovered zone of base and precious metal mineralization- 200-meter western step-out hole encounters gold, copper, zinc and silverELKO, Nev., Jan. 30, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- U.S. Gold Corp. (NASDAQ: USAU) today is pleased to announce the discovery of a new zone of base and precious metals mineralization west of the existing C...Read More
"What has really happened is they got so dirty that they tried a coup attempt. They tried to take over the government. They tried to negate an election."Bill Holter is currently a writer for Miles Franklin and Jim Sinclair's Mineset where he posts weekly commentaries on gold and financial markets. Prior to joining Miles Franklin in 2012, Bill Holter Worked as a retail stockbroker for 23 years, inc...Read More
Doug Casey of Casey Research explains why he thinks the next bubble will be in mining, and what investors can do to profit. Doug Casey is an American-born libertarian economist and advocate of the free market. He is a bestselling financial author, international investor, entrepreneur, and the founder and chairman of Casey Research, a provider of subscription financial analysis about specific marke...Read More
Christopher Martenson is a former American biochemical scientist. Currently he is a writer and trend forecaster interested in macro trends regarding the economy, energy composition and environment. He is the founder of PeakProsperity.com. As one of the early econobloggers who forecasted the housing market collapse and stock market correction years in advance, Chris rose to prominence with the laun...Read More
Just as the Fed accelerates its QE Unwind. Treasuries reacted.Continue...Read More
Rory of The Daily Coin sat down with Chris Powell, Secretary Treasurer, GATA, to follow up on the arrest of 6 bank employees convicted of rigging the precious metals markets, how GATA see gold and silver returning to the monetary system and what all these new gold backed cryptocurrencies mean for the monetary system.Read More
Feb 01, 2018 Guest(s): Jim Rickards Best-selling Author Industry heavyweights Jim Rickards, Rick Rule, and Peter Hug continue their debate on gold in Part 2 of the Ultimate Gold Panel at the Vancouver Resource Investment Conference. The discussion shifts to some of the fundamental drivers of the yellow metal's price. Have we reached peak gold supply? How will millennials, who have never acquired...Read More
Feb 01, 2018 Guest(s): Jim Rickards Best-selling Author Last year may have been ruled by bitcoin and the crypto space but is 2018 shaping up to be the year of the yellow metal? Watch the much anticipated debate between three titans of the gold space; bestselling author Jim Rickards, Sprott's Rick Rule, and Kitco Metals global trading director, Peter Hug give their matter-of-fact, point of views...Read More
Zapata Racing is testing a new hoverboard that is aiming to the Segway of the skies. Continue...Read More
The price of Bitcoin briefly dipped below $10,000 Tuesday morning on news that The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) had subpoenaed Tether and Bitfinex on December 6th. The irony of the U.S. government subpoena-ing a private company about the realness of their reserves is not lost on us. The gold that is supposedly at Fort Knox has not been audited since the 1950's. And the fact tha...Read More