Bob Moriarty ArchivesJun 11, 2019When we first started 321gold back in 2001 I went to a lot of shows and met most of the players in the resource business. Many of the other writers felt there was something special about silver and it was going to go up far more than gold. My response was that it was a commodity and like every other commodity it would go up and it would go down. Actually when the s...Read More
Stewart Thomsonemail: stewart@gracelandupdates.comemail: stewart@gracelandjuniors.comemail:admin@guswinger.comJune 11, 2019 A lot of Americans getting a myriad of government entitlements thought that President Trump would recreate the 1950s for them. If Trump had eliminated the PIT (personal income tax), capital gains tax, and corporate income tax, I’ve estimated that around $100 trillion i...Read More
Americans' trust in institutions, from the federal government to banks to the news media, has been deteriorating for decades. Sixty years ago, three quarters of Americans expressed faith in the government to do the right thing "most of the time" or "just about always." Today, only one in five people, a near-record low, believes our leaders make decisions in the country's best interest.The news m...Read More
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:Responding to your secretary/treasurer's observation Sunday that central bank and government interventions against gold have been becoming more obvious --http://www.gata.org/node/19134-- our friend C.W. writes that the more obvious interventions against gold become, the more effective they are."As more investors see that the gold market is relentlessly and successful...Read More
By: Clint SiegnerA "perfect storm" is brewing for midwestern farmers. Unending rains have led to the flooding of tens of millions of acres of farmland. The deluge comes on the heels of years of low crop prices.It has the makings of an agriculture disaster on a scale never seen before.The nation may see a "perfect storm" in terms of food inflation. Prices for some farm commodities figure to be a...Read More
By: Ira EpsteinHow dovish will the FOMC be next week? Gold lost its trend, support in lower $1,300's:Read More
Although the S&P 500 and the Dow Industrials have been in explosive rallies for the last five days, traders appear skeptical, if not to say skittish. As the take-no-prisoners short squeeze has unfolded, a widely watched 'fear indicator' has refused to give ground; this, despite a 700-point burst in the Dow Industrials and a corresponding gain in the S&Ps over the last three days. The VIX Volatil...Read More
Gold needs to trade over $1339-$1345 zone to start another wave of rise. Chances of correction will be high as long as gold does not break this zone. Silver needs to fall below $1445 or break and trade over $1492 for direction. Momentum is down for silver. Copper can see a temporary rise. Crude oil can fall first and then rise. Trend is still down for gold and silver. Buyers and investors will...Read More
David Stockman warns that President Trump's trade war and easy money policies will plunge the U.S. into a recession.David Stockman is a former Republican congressman from Michigan and was President Reagan's budget director from 1981 to 1985. After leaving the White House, Stockman became a managing director at Salomon Brothers, and he later founded a private equity fund. David is the founder of Da...Read More
Mike "Mish" Shedlock a registered investment advisor, representative for Sitka Pacific Capital Management and he operates one of the most popular websites about the economy and investing online: MISH'S Global Economic Trend Analysis.Read More
Max interviews Alasdair Macleod of Goldmoney.com for his thoughts on the gold market as the US Federal Reserve chairman calls for the end of the use of the word 'unconventional' when referring to QE and other new monetary policy tools. They discuss whether or not interest rates will go to zero in the US as billionaire investor Stan Druckenmiller believes and what happens, in that case, to Europe w...Read More
Gregory Mannarino started his financial career working for the securities and trading arm of the now defunct Bear Stearns before the dot-com bubble. He is an active trader of the capital markets and has published several books pertaining to finance, global economics, and equity trading; His most recent book is titled Ultimate Guide To Money and The Markets (free ebook). Gregory currently hosts a b...Read More
Documents leaked to Project Veritas by a Pinterest insider reveal that the San Francisco-based social media company has blocked links from Zero Hedge Continue...Read More
The US Dollar Index is diverging against the Trade Weighted U.S. Dollar Index or Broad Index https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/TWEXB which measures the US Dollar against 26 other currencies and updates the weighting yearly (rather than never) like the older US Dollar Index.The regular US Dollar Index has been showing weakness lately with the US Dollar Index failing to get to or stay above 98 with...Read More
Hard to believe but at least 25% of China's bank debt is worthless. And worse still, if there's a systemic crash, it could go a lot higher. But no one seems to be very concerned about it. After all the cure for bed debt is faster economic growth. But that's not happening either. Growth rates have plunged and could even be approaching negative territory. What's a poor central planner to do?Portfoli...Read More
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
Continue...Mohamed El-Erian is the Chief Economic Adviser of Allianz, a multinational financial services company. He is the former CEO and co-Chief Investment Officer of PIMCO, a global investment firm and one of the world's largest bond funds in the world. Dr. El-Erian also served as a member of the faculty of Harvard Business School. Before joining PIMCO, Dr. El-Erian was a managing director at...Read More
"Trade protectionism and unilateralism are very much on the rise. How to respond to the bullying practices of the United States ... its practices of tradeContinue...Read More
"The purpose ... is to say to Russia, or anybody else that's engaged in cyber operations against us, 'you will pay a price,'" he said. "We will impose costs Continue...Read More
There are times the sentiment for silver gets so out of whack that it's like buying a winning lottery ticket after the Continue...Read More