Continue...Robert Shiller is an American economist, academic, and best-selling author. He currently serves as a Sterling Professor of Economics at Yale University and is a fellow at the Yale School of Management's International Center for Finance. Mr. Shiller has been a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) since 1980, was Vice President of the American Economic Ass...Read More
Gold prices should be targeting as high as $1,650 to $1,700 an ounce by the first quarter of next year, but fundamental events need to be pushing the yellow in the right direction, this according to Gary Wagner, editor of thegoldforecast.com."A lot of it has to do with fundamental events and the biggest one of course is whether or not they resolved the trade war, but if they continue to have the i...Read More
"Turkey's action is precipitating a humanitarian crisis and setting conditions for possible war crimes," Trump said on Monday.Continue...Read More
In this episode you will hear from four junior mining executives regarding what constitutes reasonable junior mining Continue...Read More
Perspective is everything when it comes to the markets. It is always most important to look at the long term charts first and then work your way back to the shorter timeframes. Long term charts also show where major support and resistance resides that can have a calming affect on ones emotions when the inevitable corrections take place.Its been several months or so since we last looked at this 30...Read More
In November 2015, the Chief Economist of the Bank of England gave a speech where he said that, within 20 years, 80 million jobs in the US and up to half the jobs in the UK would be lost to robots and algorithmic software (collectively referred to as ‘robots’).A 2013 Oxford University study backs him up. It predicts that, of the 700 jobs types it evaluated, half of them would event...Read More
"We were devoid of a fundamental understanding of Afghanistan. We didn't know what we were doing." So said Gen. Douglas Lute, who oversaw the US war on Afghanistan under Presidents Bush and Obama. Eighteen years into the longest war in US history, we are finally finding out, thanks to thousands of pages of classified interviews on the war published by the Washington Post last week, that General Lu...Read More
The Fed released the minutes from its last meeting yesterday. What can we learn from the new light they shine on the U.S. monetary policy? How will it affect the gold market?Minutes Show That FOMC Members Are More Worried NowThe minutes from the Sep FOMC meeting show that the Fed is more worried about the economy. The Committee members noted that downside risks had become more pronounced due to th...Read More
"Don't rely on Social Security": Inflation adjustments are punitively low, and benefits become more inadequate as you age.Continue...Read More
Gold has been battling around $1500/oz but cracked last Friday. It was its first weekly close below $1500 for the first time since July.Continue...Read More
"If 'Fairy Godmother Billy Porter' doesn't have an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor written all over it, we don't know what does." Continue...Read More
Adam HamiltonArchivesOct 11, 2019 Gold investment demand was strong in the months following gold's decisive breakout to new bull-market highs in late June. The metal's upside momentum fueled big capital inflows, accelerating its gains. But soon after gold's upleg stalled, so did the investment buying. With stock markets still near record highs, the normal portfolio-diversification motive for ownin...Read More
Olivier CrottazPosted Oct 11, 2019It is by forging that one becomes a blacksmith, says the maxim. In the mining sector today it is (currently) no longer the case. Why?Because drilling, discovering, developing is more expensive (or less profitable) than capturing undervalued assets.Indeed, the fall of mining stocks offers incredible opportunities for those who have 1) means 2) an asset also under v...Read More
This miner has taken a hit, but technical analyst Clive Maund explains why the stock may be a good buy at current levels. We got enthusiastic about Nexus Gold Corp. (NXS:TXS.V; NXXGF:OTCQB) earlier in the year, but we were too early and it proceeded to drop back near to its lows of last December. The error with this is easy to see in hindsight. Looking at the latest one-year chart, we can see tha...Read More
Also, a geochemical survey identifies four new exploration targets. Great Bear Resources Ltd. (GBR:TSX.V; GTBDF:OTCQX) reported in a news release additional results from its ongoing drill program at its Dixie project in Ontario's Red Lake district.Between the Bear-Rimini and Yuma subzones, hole BR-043 hit multiple gold intervals along 253.90 meters (253.9m) of core length, including 125m of 1.08...Read More
Positive expectations related to the US/China trades negotiations on October 10th prompted a moderately strong upside move in the US major indexes and the stock market. Additionally, the precious metals fell in correlation to the upside move in the US stock market and presented another opportunity for skilled technical traders to look for entries below $1500 in Gold and below $17.75 in Silve...Read More
Mortgage rates have been dropping for the past few months, with a 30-year fixed falling to 4% recently according to FreddieMac. And now there's the possibility that the Fed will lower interest rates again this fall. So this could be the ideal time to buy that home you've been eyeing.But suppose you have credit problems or haven't saved enough for a hefty downpayment (20% for most conventional loan...Read More
Join Greg Hunter as he goes One-on-One with award winning journalist and former Assistant Treasury Secretary Dr. Paul Craig Roberts.Paul Craig Roberts is an American economist and a columnist for Creators Syndicate. He served as an Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan Administration and was noted as a co-founder of Reaganomics. Dr. Roberts is a former editor and columnist for the Wall...Read More
Max interviews Alasdair Macleod of Goldmoney.com about negative interest rates, debt we owe to ourselves, and an inflationary depression.Alasdair Macleod is head of research for GoldMoney. He also runs FinanceAndEconomics.org, a website dedicated to sound money and demystifying finance and economics. He has a background as a stockbroker, banker and economist. Max Keiser is an American broadcaster...Read More
Rob Kirby is a financial commentator and former broker who worked on an institutional trading desk for most of the 1980s and right up until 1996. He also worked for 11 years at Prebon Yamane, an international inter-dealer broker of foreign exchange and interest rate products. He spent an additional year at another money/bond broker called Freedom Bond Brokers, then spent two years at Garban Inc.,...Read More