Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:Financial analysis published two weeks ago by a major Italian newspaper, Il Sole / 24 Ore (The Sun / 24 Hours), asserted frankly that central banks have been using gold futures and derivatives to suppress the monetary metal's price so they can obtain more of the metal less expensively in advance of its remonetization under new rules promulgated by the Bank for Intern...Read More
By: Money MetalsCharleston, West Virginia (March 8th, 2019) -- Sound money advocates rejoiced today as the West Virginia legislature overwhelmingly passed Senate Bill 502 and sent it to Governor Jim Justice for his signature. First passed in the West Virginia senate unanimously last month, the measure removes state sales taxation of precious metals, specifically on gold, silver, platinum, a...Read More
By: David Chapman 20,000 jobs vs. 55,900 jobs. That was the stark difference between the U.S. nonfarm payrolls and the Canadian job numbers for February. Given Canada's population is only about 1/10th that of the U.S. it would be like Canada created 559,000 jobs in February. For the U.S. Fed it gives meaning to their "patient" approach. To the BofC it gives pause to any thoughts of lowering int...Read More
By: David HaggithLet's review this past devilishly whacky week to see if we can divine the way the world is turning and why the markets are churning. It was 2019's worst week in stocks and, well, just about everything economic all across this crazily spinning planet. Volatility lifted its head back out of the water like Loch Ness's monster while the citizenry took flight to treasury safe havens,...Read More
Social Security Is Not EnoughIs That All There Is?The Indexing Problem in Retirement AccountsDouble ProblemCleveland, Eye Surgery, New York, and More ClevelandI have long said I don't want to retire. I enjoy my work. It's not too physical, other than the travel (which is finally beginning to wear on me). Also, my savings are not yet sufficient to sustain the retirement lifestyle Shane and I want...Read More
Use the above link to subscribe to the paid research reports, which include coverage of critically important factors at work during the ongoing panicky attempt to sustain an unsustainable system burdened by numerous imbalances aggravated by global village forces. The historically unprecedented ongoing collapse has been created by compromised central bankers and inept economic advisors, whose int...Read More
StrengthsThe best performing metal this week was silver, up 0.87 percent and rallying strong on Friday alongside gold. Gold traders were again split this week on their outlook for gold as U.S.-China trade talks remain in the headlines. The yellow metal advanced the most in two weeks on Friday morning as investors awaited the release of the February jobs report for clues on the health of the econ...Read More
By: Ed SteerYESTERDAY in GOLD, SILVER, PLATINUM and PALLADIUMThe gold price edged quietly sideways once trading began at 6:00 p.m. EST on Thursday evening in New York -- and that lasted until around 9:20 a.m. China Standard Time on their Friday morning. It began to head higher from there -- and that lasted until shortly before 9:30 a.m. in London. It crept quietly lower from that juncture un...Read More
This is a pair of photographs taken by Keith Weiner, for a high school project. It seemed a fitting picture for the dual nature of money, the dual nature of wood both as logs to be consumed and dimensional lumber to be used to construct buildings.Last week, in Is Capital Creation Beating Capital Consumption, we asked an important question which is not asked nearly often enough. Perhaps that's...Read More
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Over the weekend, we were surprised to learn that some readers were prevented by Facebook when attempting to share Zero Hedge articles. Subsequently it emerged that virtually every attempt to share or merely mention an article, including in private messages, would be actively blocked by the world's largest social network, with the explanation that "the link you tried to visit goes against our comm...Read More
The world's central banks are like a bunch of kids playing bumper cars. You control your collisions with one pedal, you can take your foot off the gas to slow down, or you can depress it to speed up. Either way, there's going to be a pile up. Now it looks like the Fed has gotten back into the action and who knows when the fun will stop. Perhaps with a massive power failure like Venezuela. In other...Read More
Robert Kiyosaki is best known as the author of Rich Dad Poor Dad, the #1 personal finance book of all time. His book titles hold four of the top ten spots on Nielsen Bookscan List's Life-to-Date Sales from 2001-2008 alone. Robert is an educational Entrepreneur and real estate tycoon, co-creator of the CASHFLOW (R) board game, founder of the financial education-based Rich Dad Company and author of...Read More
The House of Representatives recently passed legislation that would expand the national background check system to require almost everyone selling firearms, including private collectors who supplement their incomes by selling firearms at gun shows, to perform background checks on the potential buyers. The bill has a section purporting to bar creation of a national firearms registry. However, the e...Read More
02:00 Populism and the silent coverage of the global yellow vest revolution06:00 Is the population on the verge of civil unrest?11:35 An out of control money supply with an out of control government20:35 Governments scrambling for gold, what's driving the 21st century gold rush?24:25 The fall of the American empire and the rise of a socialist empire38:55 Bob Moriarty's latest workBob brought 321go...Read More
Danielle DiMartino Booth spent nine years as an advisor to Richard W. Fisher at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. Danielle left the Fed in 2015 to found Money Strong, LLC, an economic consulting firm and launched a weekly economic newsletter She is the author of Fed Up: An Insider's Take on Why the Federal Reserve is Bad for America. DiMartino Booth began her career in New York at Donaldson, Luf...Read More
"I'm not for impeachment," Pelosi said in a soon-to-be published interview conducted by The Washington Post Magazine.Continue...Read More
A Canaccord Genuity report reviewed and discussed these drill results and their implications. In a March 5 research note, Canaccord Genuity analyst Kevin MacKenzie reported that MAG Silver Corp.'s (MAG:TSX; MAG:NYSE.MKT) just released drill results from Juanicipio revealed high-grade intercepts that "highlight exploration upside on multiple fronts."In its recent drilling of 48 holes covering 46,...Read More
This Canadian company aims to determine whether they are zone extensions or new gold discoveries. Great Bear Resources Ltd. (GBR:TSX.V; GTBDF:OTC) announced in a news release results from reconnaissance drilling to the west of the Dixie Hinge zone at its Dixie project in the Red Lake District of Ontario. Drilling consisted of two exploratory "fences" along the D2 fold axis, 150 meters (150m) and...Read More
If the central economic planners (CEP) lose control and the fiat monetary balance is broken, where do you hide! In the most recent years the pendulum as held firm on the side of the CEPs and central bank put (Greenspan Put, Bernanke Put, Yellen Put, Powell Put [just]) was (and is) a real thing. Now in 2019, after being sold the story the easy monetary policy can end and return to normal. The...Read More