We have seen an unusually steady uptrend in copper this month, that has resulted in it appreciating by about 10%, which might not sound like much, but makes a big difference if you are a producer with fixed costs. What is remarkable about this uptrend is not only that it came hard on the heels of a high volume smackdown in the early days of the month that at the time looked bearish, but that we...Read More
By Gary SavageThis video provides a comprehensive examination of the expected price performance of the stock, energy, precious metals and currency markets in 2018. https://blog.smartmoneytrackerpremium.com/ Read More
Featured GuestsBill Murphy & CEO Dylan SenterShow HighlightsHappy New year. Spectiv CEO Dylan Senter and colleague Nick make their show d?but appearances. Spectiv is at the cutting edge of the 3D / Virtual Reality (VR) phenomenon, the future of YouTube video and gaming.VR is considered by many technologists as a key sector of the next 10 years. Proviso - Due to unforeseen technical issues, confe...Read More
By John MauldinObjects in MotionFed Pops Its Own BubbleThe Trump EffectWhat Could Go Wrong?What to Do Black-Eyed Peas, Hong Kong, Sarasota, and BostonIn addition to popping champagne corks and black-eyed peas (at least in the South) on New Year's Day, year-end brings something else for economists and portfolio managers: annual forecasts. People want to know what the coming year will bring. I wou...Read More
We have seen an unusually steady uptrend in copper this month, that has resulted in it appreciating by about 10%, which might not sound like much, but makes a big difference if you are a producer with fixed costs. What is remarkable about this uptrend is not only that it came hard on the heels of a high volume smackdown in the early days of the month that at the time looked bearish, but that we...Read More
By Gary SavageThis video provides a comprehensive examination of the expected price performance of the stock, energy, precious metals and currency markets in 2018. https://blog.smartmoneytrackerpremium.com/ Read More
By Michael J. KosaresWith such a solid end to 2017, it prompts the question what we might expect of gold in 2018. The most immediate question is whether or not it will pick up where it left off 2017 and continue its climb into the New Year, or fizzle and spend the year going sideways or worse, down. I have refrained from the perennial turn of the year prediction sweepstakes for a number years, b...Read More
In this final podcast of 2017, Chris sits down with Robert Helms and Russell Gray, better known as The Real Estate Radio Guys. They run one of (if not the most) popular podcasts on real estate investing.Chris and I got to know Robert and Russ well during this year's Summit At Sea, their week-long investing seminar, at which Peak Prosperity received a featured spot among the faculty. It was a prett...Read More
What are the real driving forces behind Bitcoin's volatile price? Why haven't gold & silver participated so far in this dramatic action? What are we most likely to see in 2018 for crypto-currencies vs. gold & silver? Will the central banks and governments be able to shut cryptos down? How can ordinary people position themselves to survive and thrive in the transition from our risky debt-bubble to...Read More
By now you know that my swing trading approach is to focus on the 5-6 Month Intermediate Cycle Low (ICL) to establish positions.It seem’s that everything that I track has the 5-6 month low to low cycle.Sometimes the ICLs come sooner at 4 months or later at 7+ months but the average is 5-6 months.Everything also has a Yearly Cycle Low (YCL) which is nothing more than two 5-6 mont ICLs. Cycles...Read More
Bullish commodity traders and investors in the likes of oil and gold also saw positive returns for the year as Oil ended at a strong high of $60 and Gold at $1310 both inline with my bullish expectations for these commodities for 2017. Gold had a bumpy but positive year, ending at $1310, up a healthy $160 pr 14% on the year which is inline with my bullish expectations for the precious metal. In fa...Read More
Bullish commodity traders and investors in the likes of oil and gold also saw positive returns for the year as Oil ended at a strong high of $60 and Gold at $1310 both inline with my bullish expectations for these commodities for 2017. In terms of the immediate outlook for oil, the price has broken out of a year long range capped at $56 that it will likely revisit (test) during the next few weeks....Read More
By now you know that my swing trading approach is to focus on the 5-6 Month Intermediate Cycle Low (ICL) to establish positions. It seems that everything that I track has the 5-6 month low to low cycle. Sometimes the ICLs come sooner at 4 months or later at 7+ months but the average is 5-6 months.Everything also has a Yearly Cycle Low (YCL) which is nothing more than two 5-6 month ICLs. Cycles...Read More
By Michael J. KosaresWith such a solid end to 2017, it prompts the question what we might expect of gold in 2018. The most immediate question is whether or not it will pick up where it left off 2017 and continue its climb into the New Year, or fizzle and spend the year going sideways or worse, down. I have refrained from the perennial turn of the year prediction sweepstakes for a number years, b...Read More
LIMA, Jan 1 (Reuters) - Consumer prices in Peru rose 1.36 percent in 2017, down from an increase of 3.23 percent in full year 2016, according to data released on Sunday by the government's official statistics agency. (Reporting by Marco Aquino; Editing by David Gregorio) Disclaimer: The views expressed in this article are those of the author and may not reflect those of Kitco Metals Inc. The auth...Read More
Porter Stansberry, founder and editor of Stansberry Research, joins Jim for an enlivening conversation about the business and financial world at large. 1:33 What do people want to do with their money?5:08 1999 and today8:01 The bitcoin pitch12:48 Where is the value?James "Jim" Grant is an American writer and publisher and the founder of Grant's Interest Rate Observer, a twice-monthly journal of th...Read More
"We can have deflation and inflation at the same time. If all of this debt that has built up, especially for households, if they are allocating more of their income to servicing debt, then they have fewer dollars to spend on other things. So, you are going to have deflation and inflation at the same time."Danielle DiMartino Booth spent nine years as an advisor to Richard W. Fisher at the Federal R...Read More
Happy New Year! We always approach a new year with anticipation, hope, and also some worries. Last year was one of the strangest political years I have seen in some time. A new Republican president spent his first year pursuing more or less the same foreign policy as his Democratic predecessor and the Democratic Party spent the year looking under every rock in the US for a "Russian connection" or...Read More