Very clear warning signs are now flashing that the U.S. economy could be heading for trouble and that the longest expansion in recent memory may soon end. But as usual, financial media Continue...Read More
Then there's the sinkhole of $1.5 trillion in MBS and $617 billion in Treasuries that mature in over 10 years.Continue...Read More
Money manager Adrian Day looks at recent results from several royalty companies in his portfolio, as well as recent developments in the ongoing Goldcorp saga, and provides updates on a couple of favorite exploration companies. Goldcorp Inc. (G:TSX; GG:NYSE, US$11.52) looks set to be acquired by Newmont, but not without continuing controversy, particularly over chairman Ian Telfer's egregious "ret...Read More
The stock market ebbs and flows with shifting financial conditions... as the tide ebbs and flows with the moon's shifting humors.We are informed - reliably - that financial conditions in late 2018 were the tightest in 2 1/2 years.The results?Scott Barlow, market strategist for Canada's Globe and Mail:If I could only pick one chart to highlight the main drivers of market volatility over the past...Read More
I've been writing on deflation since the early-1990s, when I had the topic all to myself and was regarded as a voice on the lunatic fringe. Continue...Read More
"However imperfect a gold standard may be, it remains the best among all alternatives. The empirical data for both the classic gold standard, which I Continue...Read More
In March, the World Gold Council released the newest edition of its Investment Update. What can we learn from the publication? Let’s examine the most recent history of Fed tightening and loosening with respect to its effect on gold prices.Is Fed’s Dovish Turn Positive for Gold?The WGC has recently published the new Investment Update about the effects of monetary policy on gold. The mai...Read More
While so many were getting so bullish of the metals market over the last few months, my work was telling me that we were not likely going to be seeing a major break out just yet. So, I have been waiting patiently for a good set up for another long trade.But, during my wait, I have seen extremes in sentiment again. At the highs, the extremes were quite bullish. And, now, the fear is starting to cre...Read More
Sector expert Michael Ballanger discusses the pitfalls of market reversals and forecasting. As I reach end-of-week, end-of-month book-squaring, where all of my urgent e-mails and all of my myopic missives and all of my topical tweets are summarized in once terse and quite concise "Monthly P&L," I am astounded at the most recent example of how masterfully the Gold Cartel works in suckering inve...Read More
I’ve received tons of emails from readers like you with questions about retirement.There’s just no way I could respond to them all.And while many people don’t like getting so many emails, I do.Why?Because it means that there are existing or future retirees out there who can use my experience to live a more fulfilling retirement.That’s the reason I became a retirement coach...Read More
LONDON, 4 April 2019 - Private-investor sentiment towards gold last month hit its highest since September says leading monthly UK personal finance magazine Money Observer today, citing BullionVault's Gold Investor Index.The index, "which measures sentiment based on trading among [BullionVault's] 75,000 international and UK users, last month rose by 2.3 points to 54.5, its highest level in six mont...Read More
Continue...James "Jim" Grant is an American writer and publisher and the founder of Grant's Interest Rate Observer, a twice-monthly journal of the financial markets. He is the author , most recently, of The Forgotten Depression: 1921: The Crash That Cured Itself. Grant's television appearances include "60 Minutes," "The Charlie Rose Show," Bloomberg TV, CNBC and other well-known financial news sou...Read More
In March, the World Gold Council released the newest edition of its Investment Update. What can we learn from the publication? Let’s examine the most recent history of Fed tightening and loosening with respect to its effect on gold prices.Is Fed’s Dovish Turn Positive for Gold?The WGC has recently published the new Investment Update about the effects of monetary policy on gold. The mai...Read More
While so many were getting so bullish of the metals market over the last few months, my work was telling me that we were not likely going to be seeing a major break out just yet. So, I have been waiting patiently for a good set up for another long trade.But, during my wait, I have seen extremes in sentiment again. At the highs, the extremes were quite bullish. And, now, the fear is starting to cre...Read More
Sector expert Michael Ballanger discusses the pitfalls of market reversals and forecasting. As I reach end-of-week, end-of-month book-squaring, where all of my urgent e-mails and all of my myopic missives and all of my topical tweets are summarized in once terse and quite concise "Monthly P&L," I am astounded at the most recent example of how masterfully the Gold Cartel works in suckering inve...Read More
In March, the World Gold Council released the newest edition of its Investment Update. What can we learn from the publication? Let’s examine the most recent history of Fed tightening and loosening with respect to its effect on gold prices.Is Fed’s Dovish Turn Positive for Gold?The WGC has recently published the new Investment Update about the effects of monetary policy on gold. The mai...Read More
While so many were getting so bullish of the metals market over the last few months, my work was telling me that we were not likely going to be seeing a major break out just yet. So, I have been waiting patiently for a good set up for another long trade.But, during my wait, I have seen extremes in sentiment again. At the highs, the extremes were quite bullish. And, now, the fear is starting to cre...Read More
Sector expert Michael Ballanger discusses the pitfalls of market reversals and forecasting. As I reach end-of-week, end-of-month book-squaring, where all of my urgent e-mails and all of my myopic missives and all of my topical tweets are summarized in once terse and quite concise "Monthly P&L," I am astounded at the most recent example of how masterfully the Gold Cartel works in suckering inve...Read More
You will recall that last Wednesday a warning was posted before the open that gold was about to break sharply lower from a bear Flag, which it did the very next day, so you had a full day of trading to prepare, either by exiting positions, placing stops or purchasing inverse ETFs or Puts, and I was pleased to learn that some of you did just that. As we can see on gold's latest 8-month chart bel...Read More
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