- Clint SiegnerFirst, a bank's commodities trading department takes metals investors for a ride like unwitting victims in the back of Jeffrey Epstein's "Lolita Express."Now federal prosecutors have extended the same sort of cozy non-prosecution agreement to shield the bank itself from a criminal indictment.Federal prosecutors signed a non-prosecution agreement in June with Merrill Lynch Comm...Read More
StrengthsThe best performing metal this week was platinum, up 2.24 percent on hedge funds cutting short positions and flipped the futures composite to a net long. Gold traders and analysts in the weekly Bloomberg survey are split between a bullish and a neutral outlook on the yellow metal ahead of the Fed's meeting next week. Gold gained on Thursday after the European Central Bank (ECB) signaled...Read More
Keith Weiner, Monetary MetalsWe have spilled many electrons on the topic of capital consumption. Still, this is a very abstract topic and we think many people still struggle to picture what it means. Thus, the inspiration for this week's essay.Enterprise Car ServiceSuppose a young man, Early Enterprise, inherits a car from his grandfather. Early decides to drive for Uber to earn a living. Being...Read More
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Danielle DiMartino Booth spent nine years as an advisor to Richard W. Fisher at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. Danielle left the Fed in 2015 to found Money Strong, LLC, an economic consulting firm and launched a weekly economic newsletter She is the author of Fed Up: An Insider's Take on Why the Federal Reserve is Bad for America. DiMartino Booth began her career in New York at Donaldson, Luf...Read More
Watch the live Monday, July 29 edition of The Alex Jones Show, from 11am-3pm CT as he breaks down his warning to President Trump about the ongoing censorship of conservatives!Read More
For years, New York State has lagged behind its progressive-minded peers in the area of marijuana prohibition. As states like California, Massachusetts, Vermont and even Continue...Read More
The Federal Reserve is expected to cut rates for the first time since 2008 at this week's meeting but is likely to pause the rate cut cycle after that, this according to Peter Boockvar, CIO of Bleakley Advisory Group."It's usually not just one cut, it's usually the beginning of a rate cutting cycle, and they're hoping for more, but I don't think the Fed is initially going to give the market any ti...Read More
For some unexplained reason, investors naively believe that in a country where, by now everyone knows that all the official government data is fake and manipulated andContinue...Read More
"We have been clear in our assessments of Russian meddling in the 2016 election and their ongoing, pervasive efforts to undermine our democracy, and we will continue to provideContinue...Read More
"The E.U. and China will further lower interest rates and pump money into their systems, making it much easier for their manufacturers to sell product. In the meantime, and with very low"Continue...Read More
The Critical Investor looks beyond the headlines to analyze the factors behind the company's sale of its JV share to its partner. Puna Operation, Chinchillas MineGolden Arrow Resources Corp. (GRG:TSX.V; GARWF:OTCQB; G6A:FSE) surprised the markets with its sale of its 25% interest in Puna Operations to majority JV partner SSR Mining Inc. (SSRM:NASDAQ), right at a time where precious metals seemed...Read More
Sector expert Michael Ballanger muses on how the baby boom generation has impacted markets through time, and discusses how he will play the current precious metals bull."Destroyers seize gold and leave to its owners a counterfeit pile of paper." —Ayn RandThe baby-boom generation, of which I am a less-than-proud member, blew it.There was a time long, long ago when the mention of the words "ba...Read More
Bob Moriarty of 321Gold profiles a precious metals ETF that has "absolutely obliterated its main competition." The U.S. Global GO GOLD and Precious Metal Miners ETF (NYSE: GOAU) just had its two-year anniversary at the end of June, and since inception, the fund has absolutely obliterated its main competition.GOAU delivered a remarkable 41% since inception through July 24, crushing the hu...Read More
Everyone is discussing recession right now. But howmuch do they actually chatter about it? Does this talk reflect or changepeople’s perception? And the key question is: can the world-related indices predict the recession? Are theyuseful for the precious metals investors?It turns out that yes! At least to some extent.Let’s start with the R-word index createdby The Economist. Itcounts ho...Read More
- Clint SiegnerFirst, a bank's commodities trading department takes metals investors for a ride like unwitting victims in the back of Jeffrey Epstein's "Lolita Express."Now federal prosecutors have extended the same sort of cozy non-prosecution agreement to shield the bank itself from a criminal indictment.Federal prosecutors signed a non-prosecution agreement in June with Merrill Lynch Comm...Read More
StrengthsThe best performing metal this week was platinum, up 2.24 percent on hedge funds cutting short positions and flipped the futures composite to a net long. Gold traders and analysts in the weekly Bloomberg survey are split between a bullish and a neutral outlook on the yellow metal ahead of the Fed's meeting next week. Gold gained on Thursday after the European Central Bank (ECB) signaled...Read More
Keith Weiner, Monetary MetalsWe have spilled many electrons on the topic of capital consumption. Still, this is a very abstract topic and we think many people still struggle to picture what it means. Thus, the inspiration for this week's essay.Enterprise Car ServiceSuppose a young man, Early Enterprise, inherits a car from his grandfather. Early decides to drive for Uber to earn a living. Being...Read More
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