By Dave KranzlerFed Head, Jerome Powell, is not an economist. He's a politician who made a lot of money at the Carlyle Group. He has an undergraduate degree in politics and went to law school. After working for awhile as a lawyer at a big Wall St. firm, Powell migrated to investment banking at Dillon Read. Powell must have built a relationship with Nicholas Brady at Dillon Read, because he jumpe...Read More
President Donald Trump announced that he will be running for re-election in 2020Continue...Read More
By Frank HolmesDisney's Black Panther is in theaters right now, breaking all kinds of box office records and wowing audiences. The film features a fictional, highly-advanced African country known as Wakanda, whose vast wealth and prosperity are derived almost exclusively from the mining of a rare, fantastical metal called vibranium.In its own colorful way, Black Panther does an excellent job dra...Read More
Graceland Updates By Stewart Thomson 1. For the past fifteen months or so, gold has repeatedly been turned back by immense technical resistance in the $1370 area.2. Please click here now. Double-click to enlarge this daily gold chart. 3. There have been three clear attempts to push through the $1370 area since November of 2016. The first two failed miserably, but the cur...Read More
Precious metals expert David Morgan tells us based on the level of base money and the amount of gold held by the U.S. Treasury, gold is headed to $10,000/oz. If silver reverts to its historic price ratio to gold, that would mean over $500 silver.Morgan also points out how an economic crisis could impact the silver supply. 75 percent of silver is mined as a byproduct of base metal mines. If the eco...Read More
By Gordon LongSLIDE 5Going into last year we were tracking close to 33 Tipping Points. We thought 33 to be high, but somewhat expected the overall number to fall off going into 2018, with fewer but those ones likely being more elevated.What we have identified however going into 2018 are 44 Tipping Points with 11 categorized as "High Risk". High Risk has traditionally been approximately 5-7 in...Read More
Gold was well bid during the equity correction but it could not breakout then and has retreated as equities have roared backContinue...Read More
- New Asian gold trading corridor could boost demand for 1 kg gold bars- Should increase turnover for yuan-denominated gold coins and bars - President- Secure supplies of physical gold from Middle East and Asia for China- China positioning itself as leading gold trading and owning nationby Karen Yeung in the SCMPThe Chinese Gold & Silver Exchange Society (CGSE), Hong Kong's gold exchange, is...Read More
"This comment usually gets a hearty laugh, which merely goes to show how little most people have determined it actually to be a problem. But consider how many times has the following sequence of events occurred? For a full year, you trade futures contracts, making $1000 here, losing $1500 there, making $3000 here and losing $2000 there. Once again, you enter a trade because your (trading) method t...Read More
QUESTION: Mr. Armstrong; The goldbugs are saying that China, Russia, India are “rogue” rising economic powers that are rogue nations. They cite David Stockman who preaches the U.S. economy is in deep trouble thanks to its “massive indebtedness” and they seem to ignore what you have pointed out that the USA is in the best shape. They also cite that there is a “mass...Read More
Feb 28, 2018 Guest(s): Pierre Lassonde Chairman, Franco-Nevada While a much higher gold price is needed to bring bullish sentiment back into the mining space, they yellow metal is already fairly priced, said Pierre Lassonde, Chairman of Franco-Nevada Corp."At $,1300 [an ounce], I will argue that gold is well priced," Lassonde told Kitco News on the sidelines of the BMO Global Metals & Mining...Read More
Feb 28, 2018 Guest(s): Sean Roosen CEO, Osisko Mining Even if gold is unable to make new multi-year highs, the market is still in a good space and the mining sector has room to grow, said Sean Roosen, CEO of Osisko Gold Royalties. "I think the gold market at $1,330-$1,350 is a pretty good price to set the stage for new projects to come online," Roosen told Kitco News on the sidelines of the Gold...Read More
Christopher Martenson is a former American biochemical scientist. Currently he is a writer and trend forecaster interested in macro trends regarding the economy, energy composition and environment. He is the founder of PeakProsperity.com. As one of the early econobloggers who forecasted the housing market collapse and stock market correction years in advance, Chris rose to prominence with the laun...Read More
Question 1. Anthony G: when it comes time to pay the debt, what the hell are we going to use to pay other than our land, resources, blood? Is this part of the Act of 1871 when the US went bankrupt and became a corporation under admiralty law?Question 2. Henrik A: Is it true that local banks/Credit Unions are unaffected during a bail-in ("Cyprus style"), OR will all banking institutions, regard...Read More
Apple CEO Tim Cook has one big hope for the future - that he lives to see the end of money.Continue...Read More
Palantir Technologies is a private American software and services company which specializes in big data analysis. Headquartered in Palo Alto, California, the company is known for two projects in particular: Continue...Read More
Popular financial data maven Lynette Zang, Chief Market Strategist at ITM Trading, returns to Reluctant Preppers to dive deeper into the DROPOFF CLIFF of INTER-BANK LENDING and why it offers us a CRITICAL SIGNAL of BANKING LOSS of TRUST. Zang answers viewer questions on WHO REALLY OWNS YOUR ACCOUNTS, whether the government FDIC insurance offers any real protection, and WHAT YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT whi...Read More
This deal may be a forerunner for how the Defense Department will purchase certain technologies in the future.Continue...Read More
CloseGain/LossGold $1333.20+$3.90Silver$16.63+$0.11XAU81.27+0.92%HUI178.10+0.79%GDM620.15+0.70%JSE Gold1104.42+14.83USD89.85-0.07Euro123.20+0.21Yen93.64-0.13Oil$63.91+$0.3610-Year2.863%-0.004T-Bond144.125+0.0625Dow25709.27+1.58%Nasdaq7421.46+1.15%S&P2779.60+1.18% The Metals: Gold gained $11.50 to $1340.80 in Asia before it fell back to $1330.20 by midday in New York, but it then bounced ba...Read More
- Digital gold and crypto gold products claim to combine efficiencies of blockchain with value of gold- They are yet to provide the same benefits or safety as owning physical gold- National mints jumping in on the 'sexy blockchain' act - BOE declares bitcoin 'not a currency;' Royal Mint launches blockchain gold product- Digital gold, blockchain gold and crypto gold is frequently not fully bac...Read More