Doug Casey, outspoken analyst on an expansive range of world and economic affairs, best-selling author of "Crisis Investing," "Strategic Investing," "Speculator," and "Drug Lord," and founder of InternationalMan and CaseyResearch, visits Finance and Liberty to care his thought-provoking views on:- 5G,- Argentina Financial Crisis and Opportunities,- Fed Bond Repos,- Governments as the Source of Maj...Read More
From a macroeconomic perspective, several of the longer-term problems that would be bullish for gold will likely manifest in 2020, including a recession and an escalation of the trade wars tensions with China, this according to Peter Hug, global trading director of Kitco Metals."From a physical perspective, if you're an investor from a medium to longer term perspective, you just stay with this mar...Read More
We are currently witnessing the death of Youtube right before our eyes. On December 10th 2019 YouTube will begin enforcing its newest terms, leaving content creators concerned about having their channels deleted due to the overly vague term "not commercially viable". YouTube will begin targeting channels that produce "borderline content" begging the obvious question... who should get to decide wha...Read More
Wall Street continues to be convinced that the economy is edging back up again after a stall following the tax cut boost and near 3% GDP figures in 2018.Continue...Read More
Global central banks have been pumping the liquidity spigots 24/7 and the US Fed is starting to go that way as well. This during a time of supposed economic splendor and fruitfulness (it is these contradictions that are the windows into a ginned up, leveraged economy dependent on monetary policy) while the S&P 500 breaks through the bull turnstile to blue sky. A real economy and real stock mar...Read More
…the financial systemexperienced some serious liquidity shortages in August 2007, and the Fedinjected funds to help keep financial markets operating effectively so thatthey would continue to support ongoing economic activityFederalReserve Bank of San Francisco, August 2007In August 2007, a credit crunchswept global markets forcing central banks to provide billions in emergencyliquidity to e...Read More
Dear Rich Lifer,The so-called Golden Age of Television started back in the 1950s when TV sets began their explosive growth.You might remember shows like I Love Lucy, Toast of the Town with host Ed Sullivan, and Gunsmoke.These classics paved the way for networks to start adding even more content.In the '60s, TV networks started showing full-length movies that had played in theatres. As the supply o...Read More
Nov 13, 2019 Guest(s): George Milling-Stanley Chief Gold Strategist, State Street Global Advisors A shift of sentiment last week to a more risk-on appetite by investors led to some selling of save haven vehicles, including $600 million of GLD, the world's largest gold-backed ETF, but in the larger picture, holdings of gold ETFs have still increased, said George Milling-Stanley, Chief Gold Strate...Read More
"RCEP was hard fought, but a choice made easier by the calculation that Asia needed to push back against protectionism even as the United States chose that path." Continue...Read More
"The core issue is that sites are not being ranked according to user data, they are being ranked against Wikipedia."Continue...Read More
Gold had a strong selloff on Tuesday of last week (November 5th) when the price opened near the 50-day moving average and then promptly collapsed all the way down to around $1482. It ended Thursday below a key support level at about $1480 that had supported the gold price for multiple weeks. To make things worse, it then ended the week below the next support price of $1465.From a technical analyst...Read More
Bob Moriarty of 321gold discusses the stock price of this explorer with a major gold resource in the Yukon. White Gold Corp. (WGO:TSX.V; WHGOF:OTCBB) is one of those companies with great partners, Kinross Gold as well as Agnico Eagle, over 1.7 million ounces in a gold resources in one of the best gold camps in Canada but can't seem to get any respect. At the end of December of last year the share...Read More
Australia’s Mineral Resources (ASX:MIN) said last week it is pausing operations at its Wodgina lithium project, a joint venture with US-based Albemarle, due to “challenging lithium market conditions.” “Given the current challenging market conditions for lithium, the MARBL Lithium Joint Venture believes there is more value to be delivered in the long term by placin...Read More
Make no mistake: Oil and gas companies may be doing some serious cost-cutting and slimming-and-trimming to stay competitive after the shale boom binge, but when it comes to employment, it’s still one of the best industries to hit up for a job.Jobs are booming, just as much as U.S. oil and gas production is.US oil production has increased from 11.7 million bpd at the start of 2019 to 12.6 mil...Read More
A line chart can give you a different perspective vs a bar chart which is why I like to use them both to help uncover a potential pattern. Line charts can often times give you a quicker heads when a stock is breaking out.Below is a weekly line chart for GLD which shows you why I’m so concerned about the PM complex right now. As you can see this weekly line chart shows a triple top with the b...Read More
Something has changed in the gold industry. During high gold-price periods the trend was to produce as much as possible - in many cases, irrespective of higher extraction costs per ounce. In a way you can’t blame them for making hay while the sun shone. The gold price rose for 12 consecutive years, hitting an all-time high of $1,907 an ounce in that heady summer of 2011. Why wouldn’t i...Read More
O.G. Shadow is a former Mexican cartel affiliate who has openly admitted to being a drugs and arms trafficker. He served multiple years in a Mexican prison for his crimes. After receiving permission from top cartel management to peacefully leave his cartel (something that rarely happens), O.G. Shadow decided to live a peaceful life without crime. In his own words his goal is to "inform the public...Read More
Even the upper middle class loses share of household wealth to the 1%. The bottom half gets screwed.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 de...Read More
Technically Gold cracked last week and the downside momentum coupled with the relatively high net spec position argues thatContinue...Read More
Australia’s Mineral Resources (ASX:MIN) said last week it is pausing operations at its Wodgina lithium project, a joint venture with US-based Albemarle, due to “challenging lithium market conditions.” “Given the current challenging market conditions for lithium, the MARBL Lithium Joint Venture believes there is more value to be delivered in the long term by placin...Read More