By Gary TanashianFor Notes From the Rabbit Hole bonds are not just an asset class 'throw-in' but instead are a key indicator set to the entire modern macro. Insofar as it may be time to use them for portfolio balance (I am currently long SHV, SHY, IEI & IEF), so much the better. Many could not wait to buy bonds during US ZIRP global NIRP operations, but today they pay better interest and have a...Read More
– Will digital gold provide the benefits of physical gold?– 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;&rsqu...Read More
By BullionStarhttps://www.bullionstar.com/The rapid emergence and commercialization of blockchain technology is undoubtedly one of the key technological trends at the moment, not just within crypto currencies, but as a disruptive technology across many industries and economic functions.At a high level, a blockchain is a distributed and public digital ledger of transactions that is updated across...Read More
By Avi GilburtWhenever I write a new article on the stock market, I usually try to highlight just how ridiculous much of the commentary about the market truly is. My ultimate goal is to force you to think on your own and adopt a more intellectually honest perspective of financial markets, rather than just buying into anything you read or hear.Two weeks ago, I noted how the pundits claimed the ma...Read More
Should government employees be required to pay union fees, even if they aren't members of the union? Can you sport a "Don't Tread on Me" T-shirt to a voting Continue...Read More
Forget about normalization, the Fed is terrified.The Fed officially began Quantitative Tightening in October. To date, the Fed has shrunk its balance sheet by less than $40 billion. And already Fed officials are so spooked by stocks falling, that they're promising more QE down the road... including an implicit purchasing of stocks.To whit, on Friday, Boston Fed President Eric Rosengren stated the...Read More
Analysts disagree about which indicator is best for calling market tops, but the easiest to understand and the most tragic is probably margin debt.This is money borrowed by (usually individual or "retail") investors against their existing stocks to buy more stocks. Investors tend to do this when markets are rising and using leverage seems like an effortless way turbocharge their gains. But e...Read More
Bullion investors buy gold and silver as a matter of self-reliance. Physical metals aren't dependent upon the promises of financial institutions, governments, or other third parties.This lack of counterparty risk makes precious metals quite different from most conventional assets. There is no possibility of a default or mismanagement which renders them worthless. That is a lot more than can be sai...Read More
Forget about normalization, the Fed is terrified.The Fed officially began Quantitative Tightening in October. To date, the Fed has shrunk its balance sheet by less than $40 billion. And already Fed officials are so spooked by stocks falling, that they're promising more QE down the road... including an implicit purchasing of stocks.To whit, on Friday, Boston Fed President Eric Rosengren stated the...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
For a market analyst there is an irresistible temptation to seek out one or more historical parallels to the current situation. The idea is that clues about what's going to happen in the future can be found by looking at what happened following similar price action in the past. Sometimes this method works, sometimes it doesn't.Assuming that the decline from the January-2018 peak is a short-term...Read More
Fed chairmen/chairwomen will come and go but the Fed is the Fed. That's why the real underlying policy has not changed with Yellen's replacement by Powell. And it won't change. The small stick is getting ever smaller, namely interest rate manipulation and money printing. The bubbles will keep on coming, whether it's Bitcoin or the stock market. Promises that were made cannot be kept, whether it's...Read More
Strengths ? The best performing metal this week was palladium, up 0.11 percent as hedge funds boosted their net bullish in the metal. Gold traders are split between bullish and bearish on the yellow metal after the U.S. dollar rose this week. In the prior week traders were bullish and positive sentiment sent $529 million into the VanEck Gold Miners ETF. ? According...Read More
Forget about normalization, the Fed is terrified.The Fed officially began Quantitative Tightening in October. To date, the Fed has shrunk its balance sheet by less than $40 billion. And already Fed officials are so spooked by stocks falling, that they're promising more QE down the road... including an implicit purchasing of stocks.To whit, on Friday, Boston Fed President Eric Rosengren stated the...Read More
Full Article: Silver Could Be On The Cusp Of Major Rally - Mining CEOBy: Neils Christensen(Kitco News) - Lackluster silver prices are not deterring one Canadian silver explorer from implementing its exploration plans because the market could be on the cusp of a significant market rally, according to the company's top executive.In an interview with Kitco News, Greg Johnson, chief executive offic...Read More
COLORADO SPRINGS, CO, Feb. 26, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Gold Resource Corporation (NYSE American: GORO) (the "Company") declares its monthly instituted dividend of 1/6 of a cent per common share for February 2018 payable on March 23, 2018 to shareholders of record as of March 12, 2018. Gold Resource Corporation is a gold and silver producer, developer and explorer with operations in Oaxaca, Me...Read More
Markets were up again big today and volatility was down. But we haven't seen the last of rising volatility, nor of the central banks' attempts to thwart it.Continue...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
The following is an excerpt from this week's edition of Notes From the Rabbit Hole, NFTRH 488. For NFTRH bonds are not just an asset class 'throw-in' but instead are a key indicator set to the entire modern macro. Insofar as it may be time to use them for portfolio balance (I am currently long SHV, SHY, IEI & IEF), so much the better. Many could not wait to buy bonds during US ZIRP global NIRP ope...Read More