By: Keith WeinerWe think we are the only generation to be smart. In the 19th century, they did not have the internal combustion engine. In the 18th century, they did not have the railroad. In the 17th century, they did not have the piano. So, most people assume, they were dumb. They did not know about smart phones, so they would not have understood anything. Such as money.So let's tell the...Read More
StrengthsThe best performing metal this week was platinum, up 0.26 percent as money managers boosted their positions on expectations for higher prices. Gold traders remained bullish this week even though the yellow metal tumbled below $1,300 an ounce, according to the weekly Bloomberg survey. Turkey saw its gold reser...Read More
By: Dave Kranzler"The reason nobody really knows what caused the financial crisis is that no one asked Ben Bernanke, Chairman of the Federal Reserve at the time, or Hank Paulson, the Treasury Secretary at the time, exactly why they were lying about why those banks supposedly needed a bailout" - John Titus, "The $1 Trillion Devil in the DetailsMany people believe what happened in 2008 is settled...Read More
In an interview I did last week with USA Watchdog's Greg Hunter, I came across as a lukewarm gold bull. Although many of those who commented apparently agreed with my grim deflationary scenario for the global economy, the negative implications this could have for gold did not resonate with Greg's audience.In fact, I see significant appreciation potential for gold, although not to the celestial...Read More
By: David Chapman Elliott Wave International (www.elliottwave.com) (EW) recently noted an interesting piece of market symmetry in an addendum to its March 2019 Elliott Wave Theorist dated March 26, 2019. We thought it interesting enough to repeat it to the readers of the Technical Scoop. What EW showed was how the topping process of 2018-2019 has mirrored to a "striking degree" the topping p...Read More
By Avi GilburtOne of my members laughingly posted an article in our chatroom entitled "Riding the Bond Rally No One Saw Coming." Were you one of the many who did not see this rally coming? The point my member was trying to make was that while we were preparing for this rally since October of 2018, it seems most of the market was surprised by the rally.Before I address how we have handled the bon...Read More
A recent study by the U.S. Bank found that only 41% of Americans use a budget even though it’s one of the most effective ways to keep track of your finances. Building a budget, automating bills, consolidating debt, negotiating lower premiums…all these financial must-dos are easy on paper but for whatever reason prove challenging in practice. Why do you avoid doing what you know is best...Read More
Apr 02, 2019 Guest(s): Juan Carlos Artigas Director of Investment Research, World Gold Council Gold has seen a steady uptrend, but investors should still pay careful attention to macroeconomic forces, says Juan Carlos Artigas, director of investment research at the World Gold Council. "There are four drivers of gold that investors need to keep an eye on. The first one is economic expansion. Ther...Read More
Click here for the full transcript: http://financialrepressionauthority.c...Charles Hugh Smith writes the Of Two Minds blog which covers an eclectic range of timely topics: finance, housing, Asia, energy, long-term trends, social issues, health/diet/fitness and sustainability. From its humble beginnings in May 2005, Of Two Minds now attracts some 200,000 visits a month. Charles also contributes to...Read More
"University police determined today they will be charging two of the students with interference with the peaceful conduct of an educational institution, a misdemeanor," Arizona President Robert RobbinsContinue...Read More
This is the second post in a week on Chicago's epic financial train wreck. That's a lot of attention and it probably won't happen again, given the target-rich world we live in.Continue...Read More
Much of the glowing press coverage today was focused on the uptick in manufacturing data coming out of China, as reported by the Caixin Manufacturing PMI (Purchasing Managers Index)Continue...Read More
"JPMorgan Chase could incur significant losses arising from concentrations of credit and market risk. JPMorgan Chase is exposed to greater credit and market risk to the extentContinue...Read More
Dominic discusses the problems with uranium which is the public mistrust of nuclear power and why it may take higher prices in oil or another event to convince the public that nuclear is still worthwhile. He remains a gold bug, but he questions what golds role will be in the future with an increasingly digital economy. Gold needs to get above technical resistance at 1360 for him to be fully bullis...Read More
Nobel Prize winning economist Robert Shiller says that the long expansion in the economy, housing and stock markets, combined with continued low interest rates, could mean the U.S. is due for a recession. However, he says that human behavior makes it very difficult to make such predictions. The Trump administration and extreme weather events haven't affected markets...yet.Robert Shiller told CNBC...Read More
Nicola Twilley is a contributing writer to The New Yorker. She is a co-host of the podcast "Gastropod" and is at work on two books: one about refrigeration and one about quarantine.Continue...Read More
Michael Krieger of LibertyBlitzkrieg.com joins us to discuss his latest article, "Russiagate Might Be Dead, but Big Tech Censorship Is Here to Stay." Today we examine the real legacy of Russiagate: the neo-McCarthyite censorship campaign that has purged independent voices from social media.Read More
The passage of Bill C-45 could be a signal to early investors that pot stocks are ready to pop.With Bill C-45 now in effect, it's possible that in the very near future, investors may be seeing stock market gains that will never be seen again. This is a sentiment echoed by The New York Times, which reported that when this bill passes as expected, it will "completely legalize marijuana as a consu...Read More
AngloGold Ashanti Ltd. is complying with an order from South Africa's Department of Mineral Resources to amend its mining rights to reflect black economic empowerment, the company's spokesman Chris Nthite said.The world's No. 3. gold producer may have contravened black economic empowerment rules tied to its mining rights when it awarded a 4.5 percent stake to employees instead of 6 percent, City P...Read More
Scientists from Rice University, Argonne National Laboratory and Northwestern University discovered that when heated in a furnace and place on a gold surface, boron atoms dissolve into a bath of gold and when the materials cool down, they resurface in the form borophene.Borophene is the atom-flat form of boron.Illustration by Luqing Wang | Rice University.In a press release, the researchers explai...Read More