During the shutdown of the federal government, the Commitments of Traders report will not be published. When the federal government operations return to normal, CFTC will resume publication of the Commitments of Traders report.Read More
By David HaggithPresident Trump wants to blame the Fed Jerome Powell in particular for the stock market's nasty action this fall. If things keep going this badly, you can be sure the Fed chief will want to blame Trump and his treasurer Munchkin for recent tweets that killed Santa Claus and for trade wars and wall wars. Who is right? Who is really killing the stock market?In this round of Tru...Read More
Stock markets are forever cyclical, an endless series of alternating bulls and bears. And after one of the greatest bulls in US history, odds are a young bear is now gathering steam. It is being fueled by record Fed tightening, bubble valuations, trade wars, and mounting political turmoil. Bears are dangerous events driving catastrophic losses for buy-and-hold investors. Different strate...Read More
HighlightsBob Hoye of Institutional Advisors, and the host discuss the worst US stock market plunge in over 100 years, the "Mnuchin Massacre."The Dow Jones Industrials plunged 1600 points last week, falling 650 further on Monday, recording the worst monthly decline its 122 year history. The equities decline could foment a nascent PMs bull market with the potential to launch gold shares into orbi...Read More
There is a disconnection between paper and physical gold prices and the former has to catch up with the latter eventually. Myth or fact? We invite you to read our today's article about demand for gold coins and bars and find out whether it will save the yellow metal. The best stories are about the conflict between good and evil, or light and dark. In the precious metals market, we also have...Read More
I recently read an article on "Retirement Success: focus on the paycheck, not the savings number." I was intrigued. I didn't know exactly what it meant, so I read it.The article features an actuary named Vernon who is an expert in numbers, and also a retirement educator. I always like to hear what those guys have to say.Vernon's strategy is to not to focus so much on the retirement number, but ins...Read More
Peter Schiff is an internationally recognized economist specializing in the foreign equity, currency and gold markets. Mr. made his name as President and Chief Global Strategist of Euro Pacific Capital. He frequently delivers lectures at major economic and investment conferences, and is quoted often in the print media, including the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Barron's, BusinessWeek, Time...Read More
Maren Ueland, 28, of Norway and Louisa Vesterager Jespersen, 24, of Denmark were murdered while backpacking in the High Atlas mountains of Morocco. Both girls were stabbed Continue...Read More
Here in the brief period between Christmas and New year's, as a writer I am obligated to say happy, wishful things. I have to confess, I'm just not feeling it this year, so I'll just do theContinue...Read More
Continue...Marin Katusa has worked directly with and financed many companies of well-known individuals in the resource industry and has become one of the most trusted and well connected dealmakers in the junior resource sector. During this time, he has become one of the most successful portfolio managers in the resource sector, such as his 2009 Fund Partnership (KC50 Fund, LLC) which has outperfor...Read More
The number of US Treasury bond inversions took a big leap today. I count 5 inversions, three of them with the 1-Yr bill.Continue...Read More
"Nation states must today be prepared to give up their sovereignty", according to German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who told an audience in Berlin that sovereign nation statesContinue...Read More
"This is the first time we're going to be using it at a large-scale event," he said. "It's just going to give us an additional view of the crowd."Continue...Read More
Peter Schiff is an internationally recognized economist specializing in the foreign equity, currency and gold markets. Mr. Schiff made his name as President and Chief Global Strategist of Euro Pacific Capital. He frequently delivers lectures at major economic and investment conferences, and is quoted often in the print media, including the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Barron's, BusinessWee...Read More
Although yours truly has yet to completely jump on the bull bandwagon (which has revved up recently), I cannot ignore Continue...Read More
Click Here to Listen to the InterviewIn his own inimitable fashion, our old pal The Golden Jackass stopped by today to share his thoughts on the year that was and the year that soon will be.This podcast can be broken into two segments. In the first, Jim lists nine events or topics that dominated 2018. Some of these you'll know and some of these will no doubt be items you may have overlooked. In th...Read More
"Cyberbullying can cause just as much trauma as traditional bullying so it's important that it be considered a crime...With this bill, we are sending a message that bullying of any kind isContinue...Read More
LONDON, 28 December 2018 - Latest data and comment from BullionVault are quoted today by Thomson Reuters, the international news and financial data agency.For gold dealers, "Christmas 2018 has been a great vintage," says Reuters, relaying BullionVault's festive trading update - "the best in fact since 2012 with a sharp rise in both new gold investors and the total quantity of gold bought."The driv...Read More
LONDON, 28 December 2018 - Latest trading data from BullionVault feature in today's gold-price update from leading US finance and investment site MarketWatch.The data from BullionVault "reveals the most robust demand since 2012" for physical investment gold over the Christmas period."The comparison is based on both the quantity of gold bought and for the number of new first-time investors in the m...Read More
Weary investors who endured the September and October stock market "crash season" felt they should be richly rewarded for their incredible patience... with a wondrous Santa Claus rallyPlease click here now. The traditional Santa Claus rally has morphed into a hideous Santa Claws mauling of millions of US stock market price chasers. It's a gruesome sight. The good news, clearly, is that my p...Read More