April Gold's tortuous slog toward an 'easy' rally target at 1332.00 warrants a closer look at the bearish case. For if the futures were to fall just $9 to the green line shown in the chart (click on inset), that would trip a theoretical sell signal to as low as 1255.90 a 4.5% plunge from current levels. Although the bull trend begun last August from 1182 still dominates the daily chart, the...Read More
Any simpleton can recognize an unfolding calamity…The two trains about to collide, the twister racing for the schoolhouse, the betrayed lover with a finger on the trigger.But you require a wider vision to perceive the chains of disaster coming together... link by fateful link…When a conductor gets his signals crossed, when the winds take a fatal shift, when someone takes the first bite...Read More
Americans seek health care in other countries for numerous reasons. Some are immigrants who prefer providers from a similar culture. Others might want a procedure that is not available in the U.S. However, the biggest factor motivating them is cost. In the U.S. we have the most expensive health care system in the world. It's not difficult to find countries that offer procedures at 30%-65% of the c...Read More
I’ve got a confession to make: I’m a terrible landlord.No, I don’t own a run-down apartment complex where people have to deal with poor living conditions. Quite the opposite in fact!When we outgrew our old home when our fourth child was born, I kept the house intending to make some extra income by renting it out. I thought it would be easy money!Boy was I in for a surprise...As I...Read More
Mar 28, 2019 Guest(s): Edward Egilinsky Managing Director, Head of Alternative Investments, Direxion While palladium has been seeing a recent run-up in prices, gold should see renewed favor from investors owing to a shift in monetary policy, said Edward Egilinsky, managing director and head of Alternative Investments at Direxion. "If you're looking for a flight to safety, treasuries might be uti...Read More
?>>?Stephen S. Roach, former Chairman of Morgan Stanley Asia and the firm's chief economist, is a senior fellow at Yale University's Jackson Institute of Global Affairs and a senior lecturer at Yale's School of Management. He the author, most recently, of Unbalanced: The Codependency of America and China and Stephen Roach on the Next Asia: Opportunities and Challenges for a New Globalization.Read More
Robert Shiller is an American economist, academic, and best-selling author. He currently serves as a Sterling Professor of Economics at Yale University and is a fellow at the Yale School of Management's International Center for Finance. Mr. Shiller has been a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) since 1980, was Vice President of the American Economic Association in...Read More
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In the last week, there have been a slew of articles warning that we're on the verge of a recession. The most prominent is talk about the yield curve - the 10-yearContinue...Read More
Trends Research Institute's Gerald Celente returns with ebullient comments on the gold sector.Now that the US Fed has officially announced the end of the rate-hike cycle, the die is case.The next leg of the gold bull market may be inevitable. Although domestic home prices have declined amid the 3 year rate hike cycle, now that rates could soon decline.Amid robust new home starts figures, the econo...Read More
Maybe you have some gold (and silver) butnot enough. Maybe you haven't added to your stash for quite awhile, and youkinda' forgot why you bought it in the first place. Or perhaps you don't own any preciousmetals at all!If one of these circumstances fits you,then it's time to refresh your memory on the multiple reasons why you should owngold, assess your risk profile and unique financial...Read More
Maybe you have some gold (and silver) butnot enough. Maybe you haven't added to your stash for quite awhile, and youkinda' forgot why you bought it in the first place. Or perhaps you don't own any preciousmetals at all!If one of these circumstances fits you,then it's time to refresh your memory on the multiple reasons why you should owngold, assess your risk profile and unique financial...Read More
Maybe you have some gold (and silver) butnot enough. Maybe you haven't added to your stash for quite awhile, and youkinda' forgot why you bought it in the first place. Or perhaps you don't own any preciousmetals at all!If one of these circumstances fits you,then it's time to refresh your memory on the multiple reasons why you should owngold, assess your risk profile and unique financial...Read More
By: DAVID Chapman "Money is not an invention of the state. It is not the product of a legislative act. Even the sanction of political authority is not necessary for its existence. Certain commodities came to be money quite naturally, as the result of economic relationships that were independent of the power of the state." Carl Menger, economist, founder of the Austrian School of Economics, 1...Read More
Stocks erased their weekly gains and bond yields fell on Friday as investors reacted to a number of economic developments. Chief among them were a Treasury yield curve inversion, the first since before the financial crisis, and continued slowdown in the pace of U.S. manufacturing expansion.I had my eye on several other market-moving news items, some of which I share with you below. 1....Read More
By: IRA EPSTEINGold pushing top of the Bollinger band resistance. Higher lows and higher highs, gold overbought but benefiting from...Read More
Buy Gold, Sell Stocks Is the Trade of Century is our latest weekly perspective. Watch this video on Buy Gold, Sell Stocks Is the Trade of CenturyThe "trade of the century" is to buy gold and sell stocks as risk assets are due for another meltdown.It's only a matter of time until the bearish bet pays off big, according to Crescat Capital LLC. While the Denver-based firm has only about $50 million...Read More
Since last spring we've written over and over again about a Fed rate cut being the catalyst for a bull move in gold stocks.The history is almost bulletproof. Many lows in gold stocks over the past 60 years coincided with the end of rate hikes.At present the Federal Reserve is in pause mode and the market is on the cusp of pricing in a rate cut. Friday, Fed funds futures showed a 56% chance of a...Read More
Fed "policy," such as it is, went all silly Monday when a little-known spokesman for the central bank said he expects one more rate hike in 2019 and perhaps another in 2020. Didn't Chairman Powell just finish saying that there would be no tightening this year? And weren't we reading the other day that the yield curve had inverted, raising the risk of a U.S./global recession? In any event, a Ph...Read More
Gold mining stocks are showing relative strength vs. gold and stocks.This has bullish implications for gold's intermediate-term outlook.Latest fears over Eurozone slowdown are also fueling gold demand.The strongest gold bull markets have historically been characterized by three major factors. The first is a weak dollar, which serves to strengthen gold's currency component. The second is safety...Read More