The FBI has access to about 640 million photographs - including from government issued IDs and arrest records - that can be searched using facial recognition technology.Continue...Read More
Tech and retail giant Amazon wants to provide in-home services to people in state-of-the art apartments-whether you want them or not. Investigative journalist Ben Swann unpacks this development with RT America's Manila Chan.Read More
The most consequential words ever spoken by a central banker are, without doubt, ECB chair Mario Draghi's 2012 promise to "do whatever it takes" to stop the bleeding of Continue...Read More
Michael S. "Mickey" Fulp is a Certified Professional Geologist with over 29 years experience as an exploration geologist searching for economic deposits of base and precious metals, industrial minerals, coal, uranium, and water in North and South America and China. Mickey has worked for junior explorers, major mining companies, private companies, and investors as a consulting economic geologist fo...Read More
As house prices tumble - for real this time - in Australia and interest rates are at or below zero, DOUBLE DOWN talks to author, Steve Keen, about what is next in this global Continue...Read More
I contributed $1 to the Comrade de Blasio campaign, but there's a reason. No I don't support his run for president, but rather for comic relief purposes, I think de Blasio is an infinite source of comic material. Is London becoming San Francisco. The place has become a complete hellhole. President Trump was in another tif with London Mayor Sadiq Khan. Trump likened him to a height challenged de Bl...Read More
Michael Ballanger explains how he is reacting to the advances in the gold ETFs. Given the torrid advance in gold (GLD [SPDR Gold Shares]) and the leveraged miner ETFs (NUGT [Direxion Daily Gold Miners Index Bull 3x]/JNUG [Direxion Daily Junior Gold Miners Index Bull 3x]), it is of note that RSI readings have screamed northward to the point where I don't think I can recall a shift in momentum quit...Read More
Precious metals expert Michael Ballanger discusses geopolitical events and movements in the precious metals markets. Hallelujah!It was only a week ago that I was opining that there was nothing ominous in the technical picture for gold and silver that was altering my bullish stance; RSI and MACD were trending up and price was stubbornly refusing to yield to the myriad of bullion bank attacks missi...Read More
The two companies involved signed an agreement outlining the details. Quaterra Resources Inc. (QTA:TSX.V; QTRRF:OTCQX) announced in a news release its subsidiary Singatse Peak Services entered an agreement with Atlantic Richfield Co. to facilitate state-regulated clean-up of the Anaconda copper mine site on Quaterra's Yerington, Nev., property.This development paves the way for Atlantic Richfield...Read More
The Precious Metals sector has broken strongly higher in recent days, with silver breaking out of its downtrend just yesterday, when the fundamental reason for this move emerged - the Fed has let it be known, via the St Louis Fed governor, that they are going to drop rates soon. This is clearly a panic move triggered by the stockmarket breaking down below key support - the intention is to head...Read More
"Markets are constantly in a state of uncertainty and flux and money is made discounting the obvious and betting on the unexpected." George Soros, financier, philanthropist, political activist, author and philosopher, b. 1930 "Regardless of current economic conditions, it's always best to remember that the stock market is a barometer and not a thermometer." Yale Hirsch, creator of the Stock Tra...Read More
By: Ira EpsteinGold is honing on $1,329.20 area resistance. August gold is looking impressive. $1,336 is the next objective. This market is possibly showing an important, watershed moment -- this has an energy that it has not had in a very long time. Is the market overbought? Yes:Read More
London 4th June, 2019: Today, Kinesis Money announces the initiation of its UK and EU debit card program with Contis Group, the award-winning platform as a service (PAAS) that provides end-to-end banking and payments solutions. Kinesis has selected Contis for its European and UK debit card solutions and has officially started developments, scheduled for release in Q4. The release of these EUR a...Read More
By: Clint Siegner, Money MetalsU.S. leaders are demanding the rest of the world recognize economic sanctions and stop buying Iranian oil. The U.K., Germany, France, Russia, China, and India are among the nations who don't fully support the sanctions and would rather not pay higher prices for oil elsewhere.American officials more and more often resort to delivering ultimatums, both to adversaries...Read More
- Richard (Rick) Mills The ongoing battle between the United States and China for economic supremacy isn't only being fought in the gilded ballrooms of Washington, as trade negotiators from either side parry over automobile parts content, intellectual property rights, government subsidies and the like. Casualties and victories are also borne out over the decks of hulking freighters that carr...Read More
By: Avi GilburtWhile I will let the "real" analysts debate about how we should handle our trade deal regarding China, I am only here to discuss the sentiment around the China deal.This past week, I have seen many posts like this one:"We wouldn't be down at these relatively low levels had China settled with Trump. Guaranteed."The posters' logic works like this: The market has been dropping ever s...Read More
By: Keith Weiner, Monetary MetalsWe have been discussing the impossibility of China nuking the Treasury bond market. We covered a list of challenges China would face. Then last week we showed that there cannot be such a thing as a bond vigilante in an irredeemable currency. Now we want to explore a different path to the same conclusion that China cannot nuke the Treasury bond market.To review...Read More
StrengthsThe best performing metal this week was gold, up 1.61 percent. Gold traders are neutral on the yellow metal this week; however, the weekly Bloomberg survey was conducted on Thursday before gold shot above $1,300 on Friday morning. Gold saw its first monthly gain in May, breaking a streak of three st...Read More
Although the S&P 500 is still up almost 10% year to date, it's dropped roughly 5.7% in the last month. So as we approach 2019's halfway mark, you might be feeling like things are turning a bit and it might not be another "sit back and relax" kind of year... one where things just keep going up on autopilot. Well, here's how I look at it...What Can You Control?As investors, we should always reme...Read More
Jun 05, 2019 Guest(s): Daniel Oliver Founder, Myrmikan Capital Gold hitting $3,000 isn't just a belief, it's a "monetary science", and will happen sooner or later said Dan Oliver, founder of Myrmikan Capital. Oliver said that the Federal Reserve has printed enough money to cause over-capacity in our economy and create a bubble that's ready to burst. "When the bubble is happening people don't nee...Read More