Everyone knows that American shale oil production is booming.The mainstream media has been all over the story.They should be. After all, what the entrepreneurial U.S. oil and gas industry has done to free oil long-trapped in shale rocks has been incredible.But...What not so many people know is that the shale producers are pumping the WRONG KIND of oil. U.S. refineries are desperately short of a di...Read More
Erik Townsend and Patrick Ceresna welcome?EUR?Prof. Steve Keen?EUR?to MacroVoices. Erik and?EUR?Steve?EUR?discuss?EUR?possible benefits to US if the dollar loses its reserve currency status, its impacts on international trades and deindustrialization of US, and possible fiscal crisis and the increase of US Treasury Yields. They also touch on consequences of decrease in demand for US dollar, runawa...Read More
Do you have a gnawing sense that no matter which candidate or party gets into office, the same destructive games of deception, deceit, and evil design just keep accelerating? Are you concerned about being able to reach a real retirement, and that your children and grandchildren are being trapped into a future of inescapable debt and servitude?David Morgan, founder of TheMorganReport.com and known...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
Life in the world of gold bullion is full of mysteries. Each mystery is like a straw in the wind, which Continue...Read More
LONDON, 11 April 2019 - BullionVault director of research Adrian Ash is quoted at length today in a special report on gold from FT Adviser, the finance professionals' magazine from the Financial Times.Accredited for Continuing Professional Development (CPD), FT Adviser enjoys "a large and loyal audience of financial planners who are hungry for content and keen to learn" the magazine says.Part of F...Read More
Harry Dent: In 2008 it was the massive real estate bubble that proved to be an indication much worse things to come, and we're seeing similar indicators in the real estate market today...Harry Dent is a Fortune 100 consultant, new venture investor, noted speaker, bestselling author, and the founder and senior editor at Dent Research, where he dedicates himself to identifying and studying demograph...Read More
Yesterday the Federal Reserve released the minutes to its March conclave.They raised no eyebrows, pulled no alarms, flustered no fish.The brethren and sistren of the FOMC merely affirmed market convictions broadly held - no rate hikes this year.Already anticipated, markets yawned off the minutes.The Dow Jones scratched a slender seven-point gain, the S&P 10. The Nasdaq staged a better showing...Read More
From a post on gold and silver on Tuesday…Very simply, if it’s an H&S it’s a minor one with a target to the SMA 200 or short-term lateral support. Gold has curled back up to test the underside of its SMA 50. A takeout of 1310 and then the March high could put yeller back in business. Otherwise, don’t personalize it. A test of the SMA 200 would be normal.The H&S was...Read More
Super Wednesday is behind us! The masters of monetary policy have revealed their cards. The Fed released the fresh minutes, the ECB held its monetary policy meeting, while the Brexit was postponed again. How will all these play out in the gold market?Minutes Show Patience among the FOMC MembersThe minutes from the pivotal FOMC meeting show that the Fed saw the first-quarter economic slowdown as tr...Read More
Gold is often criticized by Wall Street as being kind of a useless investment.Institutional investors tend to prefer investments that are thought to contain the potential for growth, growth = sprouts. An investment has to produce a growing revenue stream - if it doesn’t grow it doesn’t compound. Gold is rejected as an investment because it doesn’t produce sprouts, meani...Read More
By: Stewart Thomson 1. Chinese economic growth is probably the main driver of both physical gold demand and the global bull market in stocks. 2. Please click here now. I'm invested in China through ETFs, bank stocks, and... gold!3. With the possible exception of HSBC, most analysts in the West appear to be underestimating the resilience of a billion Chinese citizens working...Read More
As much as Democrats love wagging their fingers at all of us racists, homophobes and climate-changers, their first love, borne of longstanding political tradition, is kicking fallen bankers in the nuts. It doesn't hurt that in the eyes of the Democrats and America's flourishing grievance industry, many of the perps happen to be privileged white men. Wells Fargo's bankers in particular have been...Read More
By: Ira EpsteinGold neutral, the battle ground around current levels..Read More
Gold prices hit a 2-week peak on Wednesday at 1309 as the European Central Bank reinforced accommodative monetary policy. The focus now turns to the minutes from the U.S. Federal Reserve's March meeting due at 19:00 BST. Where are gold prices heading next? Watch Phil Carr at The Gold & Silver Club review Gold with the latest price forecast and predictions: ...Read More
The March FOMC meeting minutes were released this afternoonThe U.S. stock market closed higher, as investors digested the Federal Open Market Committee's (FOMC) March meeting minutes, released mid-afternoon, which showed the central bank supports no rate changes this year. This forecast -- down from the two rate hikes projected in December -- is a reaction to concerns over a slowing global economy...Read More
The president and CEO of Vancouver-based Mountainstar Gold has been slapped with a C$150,000 penalty by the British Columbia Securities Commission (BCSC) for making "false or misleading statements" regarding the Pascua Lama gold deposit in Chile.The panel also permanently prohibited any trading in or purchasing of securities of Mountainstar, previously Mountain-West Resources Inc. In addition to...Read More
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Most analysts are skeptical of SNAPThe U.S. stock market is mixed following the release of the Fed's March meeting minutes. A number of individual stocks are making notable moves, including Snapchat parent Snap Inc (NYSE:SNAP), neurotechnology name Helius Medical Technologies Inc (NASDAQ:HSDT), and Chinese internet concern Baidu Inc (NASDAQ:BIDU). Here's a quick look at what's moving the shares of...Read More
Gold climbed on Wednesday as concerns over an economic slowdown helped prices tally a fourth straight session gain. "With overall [economic] risks tilted to the downside, the gloomy outlook has sparked immediate responses in safe haven assets, with gold finding comfort above the $1,300 mark," wrote Lukman Otunuga, research analyst at FXTM, in a Wednesday research note. The European Central Bank on...Read More