Gold has big year in 2020 and outlook for this year robust. Learn about monetary expansion and gold future prices.Read More

The gold futures price reached US$1,767/ounce this week before retreating, which was the second time it has surpassed US$1,760 in the past two months, marking some of gold's highest levels in several years.Read More

By: Larry LaBorde To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven. Ecclesiastes 3:1 Last month Bill Bonner wrote an interesting article about trading the Dow/gold ratio. He recommended selling the Dow and buying gold when the ratio was above 15 (the Dow is too high compared to gold) and selling gold and buying the Dow when the ration was below 5 (the Dow...Read More

By John MauldinThis Is NutsFrom Pyramid to RectangleRedefining RetirementDemographic Problems and OpportunitiesPuerto Rico, Cleveland, and Boca RatonIn an increasingly divided world, we all share one great desire: self-preservation. Not just humans, either. The survival instinct exists in almost every living thing. Humans simply have greater ability to do something about it.In fact, we have been...Read More

By Keith WeinerWhat is inflation?Any layman can tell you and nearly everyone uses it this way in informal speech that inflation is rising prices. Some will say "due to devaluation of the money."Economists will say, no it's not rising prices per se. That is everywhere and always the effect. The cause, the inflation as such, is an increase in the quantity of money. Which is the same thing as sayin...Read More

By Gary TanashianThe Fed blinked. This was not news to Macro Tourist Kevin Muir or readers of Biiwii.com, which is very pleased to publish his work.Fed Finally BlinksAmid a weakening global economy, gathering signs of weakening in the US economy and a dump in inflation expectations, Jerome Powell implied that the Fed may be going on hold for a while after a December rate hike.This graph from SG...Read More

By Avi GilburtFor those literary enthusiasts amongst us, you would recognize the title as the line supposedly penned by Mark Twain when it was inquired of him while in London regarding a published obituary written in the United States. However, more accurately, his response to the reporter's inquiry was "The report of my death was an exaggeration." But, I digress.When Mr. Powell reported that...Read More

Back in 2017, when some countries were handing power to populists promising variations of "drain the swamp," France went for continuity with Emmanuel Macron, a young, moderate-sounding technocrat from the world of finance who promised to modernize the country without threatening the elites, the welfare state or the bureaucracy. Fast forward a couple of years and Paris is in flames, literally. Fr...Read More

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., Dec. 03, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- via NEWMEDIAWIRE - Gold Resource Corporation (NYSE American: GORO) (the "Company") today announced the continued expansion of the Arista Mine's Switchback vein system with intercepts including 16.95 meters of 6.21 grams per tonne (g/t) gold, 80 g/t silver and 4.50% zinc. These new results extend the strike length by approximately 100 m...Read More

By Greg Hunter's USAWatchdog.comThe International Monetary Fund (IMF) previously deemed Deutsche Bank as the most systemically dangerous bank in the world.Professor of Economics and Law, William Black, knows why and contends:"Deutsche Bank (DB) poses as what is called a 'National Champion' bank and the largest bank by far in Germany, but it's actually the largest criminal enterprise in Ge...Read More

Turkish domestic steel scrap prices have continued to weaken in line with the falling prices for steel and imported scrap over the past week, sources said on Monday December 3.Fastmarkets' weekly price assessment for domestic auto bundle (DKP grade) ferrous scrap was TRY1,590-1,780 ($304-340) per tonne delivered on Monday, down from TRY1,650-1,850 per tonne on November 26.Steel producers and a maj...Read More

Just when you thought it was safe to go outside, there's major rioting in Paris and other European cities. Is this a case of they're mad as hell and not gonna take it any more or have we reached a tipping point. Elections seem to produce the most unlikely of candidates who say many things but do the same old stuff once they arrive in office. What's an Austrian Economist to do? And what about Trump...Read More

Buying activity in most of the export outlets for CIS billet remained quiet at the beginning of December, with customers still getting over the shock caused by the sharp drop in Chinese billet prices last week.Besides that, customers in Egypt, one of the major outlets for CIS billet, were cautious because of the possible introduction by the Middle Eastern country of safeguard measures against stee...Read More

Gregory Mannarino started his financial career working for the securities and trading arm of the now defunct Bear Stearns before the dot-com bubble. He is an active trader of the capital markets and has published several books pertaining to finance, global economics, and equity trading; His most recent book is titled Ultimate Guide To Money and The Markets (free ebook). Gregory currently hosts a b...Read More

Microsoft wants "Silicon Valley to know just how ethical and honorable a tradition the military has."Continue...Read More

The books "caution students to avoid friendship with members of other religions [...] encourage both violent and non-violent jihad against non-believers [and] espouse the Continue...Read More

The G20 summit in Argentina has concluded. Are we better off? Will the temporary pause on new US/China tariffs hold? Anything positive from the brief Trump/Putin meet and greet? Missed opportunities? We break it all down in today's Liberty Report.Dr. Ron Paul is a physician and former twelve-term congressman from Texas who ran for president in 2008. He is the author of eight books, including the N...Read More

Major US stock markets were up again with DJIA up 0.7%, S&P 0.4, NASDAQ down 0.8% and Russell 2000 off 2.5% both off last month's record levels. Emerging markets were down again 0.6%. TSX down 1.2% and TSX-V down 2.2% due to week gold prices. Bitcoin the always volatile digital currency was off 7% last month. Gold was down another 0.7% and Silver was up 1.1% but broke $14 during the month. Pt up 3...Read More

The austerity measures of the EU are having a profound impact in Europe. In Paris of December 1st, 2018 (right on time with our volatility models for December) there Continue...Read More

Chinese rebar prices bounced back in a big way on Monday December 3 after a 90-day truce was agreed in the tit-for-tat trade war between China and the United States.Domestic Eastern China (Shanghai): 3,960-4,000 yuan ($569-575) per tonne, up 160-170 yuan per tonneNorthern China (Beijing): 3,720-3,750 yuan per tonne, up 200 yuan per tonneAn agreement between the leaders of the world's two largest e...Read More

A version of this article appears in print on Nov. 21, 2018, on Page A6 of the New York edition with the headline: 17 Years After 9/11, Militants Have Steadily Multiplied, Study Says. Continue...Read More

"Together, AWS and Lockheed Martin are providing satellite operators increased flexibility, resiliency, and scale in a complete connectivity solution, ground architecture, and cloud Continue...Read More