What a wild week it’s been forinvestors. The threat of global trade wars andcurrency wars sparked big swings across all major asset classes. Bond yields dove toward historic lows. Stocks plunged earlier in the week beforerebounding sharply by Thursday. Andprecious metals rode a huge safe-haven wave higher.Gold prices eclipsed the $1,500 levelon Wednesday for the first...Read More
All important factors are finally putting tremendous pressure on the USDollar. The weak economy will result in lower interest rates, thus more downward USD pressure. The enormous USGovt debt will result in further bond dumps in addition to trade settlement outside the USD, thus more downward pressure. The resentment for threatened hot wars, trade wars, economic sanctions, and SWIFT obstructions...Read More
Aug. 9th, 2019(S14-E708)Featured GuestsDr. Stephen Leeb &Arch CrawfordPlease Listen HereInterview RecapArch Crawford, head of Crawford Perspectivesfor 42 consecutive years rejoins the show.Arch's analysis indicates "the best gold buying opportunity in several years... add positions NOW!."If the recent breakout holds as expected, "... the upside could carry gold above $2,000-$3,000+." Slowing...Read More
David HaggithOh my gosh, what a load of BULL I keep reading among the gurus who whine about negative headlines and complain that this unmerited negativity is the only thing that is killing the bull market. Bull.The bellowing bulls cry every time someone runs a negative headline, "Stop, you're breaking our bull market with your negativity. That is the only reason it is going down." The real truth...Read More
By Avi GilburtThe Fed. The China trade deal. The House of Representatives impeachment proceedings. The Iranian aggression. North Korea firing missiles. Slowing growth in the world economy. As you can see, there are many issues worrying investors today. And, as the market moves up and down through these large gyrations these last two weeks, one excuse is paraded out after another.When the market...Read More
America has been gripped with violence for decades. While this is nothing new, the large number of mass shootings in 2019 is part of a growing trend over the last five to ten years. While some politicians seek to exploit every tragedy to push their own agendas, political gridlock prevents much of anything from being done on the national level. The Babylon Bee published a humorous graph illustratin...Read More
QUESTION: Hi MartyCan you enlighten us on what happened back in history to gold mining shares in terms of why shares did not collapse during the crash of 1929 compared to what happened to mine shares in 2008?What happened to the shares held by the public in 1933 when FDR confiscated gold?So you were safe holding the shares!GGANSWER: You must realize that gold was money under the gold standard. Yo...Read More
Aug 13, 2019 Guest(s): Anthony Scaramucci Former White House Communications Director Gold is a near-term safe haven asset, said Anthony Scaramucci, but the hedge fund manager and former White House Communications Director sees potential in other assets on a longer-term basis. "It's a near-term safe haven but long-term it really doesn't solve people's problems," Scaramucci told Kitco News. "I wou...Read More
Currency wars are leading to record gold prices all over the world. Will it soon be time for gold priced in U.S. dollars to shine?John Rubino is the founder and manager of the popular financial website DollarCollapse.com. Mr. Rubino is the co-author, with GoldMoney's James Turk, of The Money Bubble and The Collapse of the Dollar and How to Profit from It. He spent the 1980's on Wall Street as a Eu...Read More
China's shock currency devaluation last week begs the following questions: Is China a rising giant of the twenty-first century poised to overtake the United States in Continue...Read More
Markets are still digesting last week's Chinese devaluation that sent the Dow crashing over 700 points last Monday. And as everyone knows by now, the Trump administration Continue...Read More
We haven't seen anything like this since the Great Depression of the 1930s. Leading up to this year, farm incomes had been trending lower for most of the past decade, and meanwhile farmContinue...Read More
China's shock currency devaluation last week begs the following questions: Is China a rising giant of the twenty-first century poised to overtake the United States in wealth and military prowess? Or is it a house of cards preparing to implode?Conventional wisdom espouses the former. Yet, hard evidence suggests the latter.Your correspondent in the world famous Long Bar on the Bund in Shanghai, Chin...Read More
Markets are still digesting last week's Chinese devaluation that sent the Dow crashing over 700 points last Monday.And as everyone knows by now, the Trump administration labelled China a currency manipulator.The ironic part of it is that China has been manipulating its currency to strengthen it against the dollar.Here's the dynamic you need to understand…The Chinese yuan is softly pegged to...Read More
By: Ira EpsteinI would not be surprised to see gold pull back a bit before resuming to its upside. Gold market is very much in an uptrend.GDX / Gold Stocks - momentum locked in to the upside:Read More
- Ed SteerYESTERDAY in GOLD, SILVER, PLATINUM and PALLADIUMThe gold price jumped up the moment that trading began at 6:00 p.m. EDT on Thursday evening in New York. It ran into "all the usual" suspects" almost immediately -- and then chopped rather aimlessly sideways until the 2:15 p.m. China Standard Time afternoon gold fix in Shanghai. It was stair-stepped lower from there until the low t...Read More
By: Ira EpsteinI would not be surprised to see gold pull back a bit before resuming to its upside. Gold market is very much in an uptrend.GDX / Gold Stocks - momentum locked in to the upside:Read More
By: Ira EpsteinI would not be surprised to see gold pull back a bit before resuming to its upside. Gold market is very much in an uptrend.GDX / Gold Stocks - momentum locked in to the upside:Read More
- Ed SteerYESTERDAY in GOLD, SILVER, PLATINUM and PALLADIUMThe gold price jumped up the moment that trading began at 6:00 p.m. EDT on Thursday evening in New York. It ran into "all the usual" suspects" almost immediately -- and then chopped rather aimlessly sideways until the 2:15 p.m. China Standard Time afternoon gold fix in Shanghai. It was stair-stepped lower from there until the low t...Read More
The Big ConThe Usual SuspectsUnsafe at Any SpeedLooking for SolutionsMaine and MontanaI have a special treat for you. I'm at Camp Kotok, the annual economics/fishing retreat in Maine. Knowing internet connectivity would be scarce here, I asked good friend Larry Kotlikoff to be your guest writer this week.For those who don't know, Larry is a Boston University economist whose work spans an amazi...Read More