Let's hope the coronavirus is contained soon. Unfortunately, the damage to China's economy is already happening and will persist even if the virus is soon under control.Continue...Read More
A panel of experts advising Japan's government on a disposal method for the millions of tons of radioactive water from the destroyed Fukushima nuclear plant on Friday recommended releasing it into the ocean.Continue...Read More
The PBOC will "keep close contact with financial institutions and financial markets to stay fully on top of the liquidity situation and demand." Continue...Read More
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To Watch Update #10, CLICK HEREThe official data on the spread of the Wuhan coronavirus continues to suggest a geometric growth rate. Which explains why more and more infectious disease experts are now openly calling the virus a full-blown global pandemic. It's worth noting at this point that the data we do have, mostly from the Chinese government, is still scant and suspect. Many think the situat...Read More
1:12 Diminishing GDP returns7:34 Tax 2.0 and the "end of cycles"15:10 Shifting price action, shifting rationalizations17:03 What does the repo flare up indicate for the investment demand for public debt?James "Jim" Grant is an American writer and publisher and the founder of Grant's Interest Rate Observer, a twice-monthly journal of the financial markets. He is the author , most recently, of The F...Read More
Is this the black-swan event people have been predicting for years?Wolf Richter is the founder of Wolf Street Corp and the publisher of WolfStreet.com. Wolf has over twenty years of C-level operations experience, including turnarounds and a VC-funded startup. He has a BA, MA, and MBA (UT at Austin). In his prior life, he worked in Texas and Oklahoma, including a decade as General Manager and COO o...Read More
The coronavirus outbreak that is raging all over China right now has been making headlines on a daily basis all over the globe, and rightly so. At this point we don't know if it will ultimately becomeContinue...Read More
To Watch Update #8, CLICK HERELate yesterday, the US officially declared coronavirus a "national health emergency". Some are starting to claim that it's "too late" to do anything to stop the spread of coronavirus. Is it? Well, even if it's too late to stop it, we may still be able to slow the spread substantially.The latest numbers from China may be offering our first hope of that. At ~12,000, the...Read More
Investment advisor and former Assistant Secretary of Housing Catherine Austin Fitts says things in the global economy are out of balance and progress is not happening. Fitts says, "The other way to get back into balance is with war. . . . We have had lots of covert wars going on, and my concern now is we are going to have more overt war." Fitts says people need to get ready for dramatic challenges...Read More
"Are we then to understand that we have now reached a point the mere gathering of information, which our colleagues in the media may want to eventually do as thousands of people are afflicted daily by the CoronavirusContinue...Read More
The New York Times is reporting that President Donald Trump launched a drone strike that killed the leader of Al Qaeda's affiliate in Yemen.Continue...Read More
Continue...em>Bill Fleckenstein is the President of Fleckenstein Capital and writes a popular column 'Contrarian Chronicles' for MSN Money as well as the daily Market Rap column for his website: Fleckenstein Capital. Bill has appeared at one time or another in virtually all financial media including Bloomberg, CNBC, The New York Times, MSN, Marketwatch, Barron's and more. Bill is a highly sought a...Read More
Before the coronavirus outbreak, China was already planning on Wall Street helping to get them another $1 trillion dollars of American retirement savings over the next few years with China promising access to their futures markets and their $45 trillion dollar insurance market as cover for the bailout. However, the timeline for this bailout may be accelerated due to the coronavirus outbreak. Jason...Read More
The people who attend Davos are all welfare statists. They're not necessarily socialists, insofar as they don't want to see government nationalize industries. Most understand how totally dysfunctional Continue...Read More
When Mike Maloney talks about buying gold and silver, many people write in to ask whether he is buying coins or bars. Join Mike and Jeff Clark in today's video as they discuss the pros and cons of bars vs coins, and what they buy personally.Jeff Clark is editor and lead writer of BIG GOLD, the monthly gold-investment newsletter from Doug Casey's Casey Research. He is also the Senior Precious Metal...Read More
1. Markets are in rally mode again this morning. Yesterday, stocks stalled out as some money came off the table in the final trading session of November. But today it seems that money is flowing right back in. November was one of the best months that the market has ever had. Hard to explain why money flowed out yesterday and back in today. Markets have discounted the election for now. But Biden as...Read More
0:00 Introduction0:45 What is driving the general equities higher?4:10 How are you advising your clients to apportion their portfolios?5:35 Gold equities7:08 Educating clients regarding gold8:28 Gold price commentary10:01 Demand for precious metals compared to March-June 202012:40 Bitcoin versus gold16:34 Incorporating political analysis into one's investing approach20:23 Commodities that have you...Read More
Gold rose 2% on Monday, with silver up 5.5% on the trading session. Peter Hug, global trading director of Kitco News, said that fundamentals line up with this rally.Equities also saw a bounce. Hug said that talks of a new round of fiscal stimulus is adding fuel to the risk-on sentiment while driving money to precious metals at the same time.The U.S. dollar weakened on the trading session. Peter Hu...Read More
I believe towards the middle of next year reality could creep back into markets. The vaccine will help shift spending habits to restaurants, hotels, and airlines. Continue...Read More