The major gold miners' stocks are drifting sideways with gold, their early-year momentum sapped by the recent stock-market euphoria. But they are more important than ever for prudently diversifying portfolios, a rare sector that surges when stock markets weaken. Their just-reported Q1'19 results reveal how gold miners are faring as a sector, and their current fundamentals are way better th...Read More
By: Richard (Rick) Mills, Ahead of the herd "It's the tail that wags the dog" is defined by Urban Dictionary as a way of persuading a large group of people. The phrase is usually employed in a situation wherein a cause that expects to elicit a certain effect, is in fact reversed. The 1997 film 'Wag the Dog' is about a powerful political strategist who tries to get a fictional president on boar...Read More
By: Jordan Roy-ByrneAlthough most of the precious metals sector has trended lower in recent months, Gold has held up well. It and the other, weaker components of precious metals got a boost on Monday when China retaliated with tariffs of its own. There has been little follow through since.This begs the question, will a trade war lead to a new bull market in precious metals?The short answer is y...Read More
Bitcoin is on the move again, a venomous snake in the grass. You might expect to find a reasonable explanation for cryptocurrency's sudden, spectacular rise from the dead. Instead, you get only dim-witted speculation that institutional players are starting to warm to it again. Fidelity, for one, reportedly will be buying and selling bitcoin for institutional customers starting in a few weeks. Wh...Read More
By: Ira EpsteinGold can't get over the 18-week moving average. Concerning..Read More
There is some serious manipulation in gold. Some bank or a cartel of banks have been selling gold futures on every rise from $1330 and also gold huge amounts around $1300. One of the possible reason is to protect options investment. May and November options expiry of every year attract huge investment every year. If this is the case, then gold prices should rise after ten days. Right now the m...Read More
Trading activity in the CIS export billet market slowed down at the end of this week when market participants took a wait-and-see position on whether the reduction in US import duty on Turkey-origin steel products would have a positive effect on prices.The United States lowered its tariff on steel imports from Turkey to 25%, from the previous 50%, with effect from Friday May 17."The Turkey import...Read More
Peter Schiff is an internationally recognized economist specializing in the foreign equity, currency and gold markets. Mr. Schiff made his name as President and Chief Global Strategist of Euro Pacific Capital. He frequently delivers lectures at major economic and investment conferences, and is quoted often in the print media, including the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Barron's, BusinessWee...Read More
Gerald Celente is a pioneer trend strategist and founder of The Trends Research Institute. He is the author of the national bestseller Trends 2000: How to Prepare for and Profit from the Changes of the 21st Century and publisher of the internationally circulated Trends Journal newsletter. Gerald Celente is a political atheist. Unencumbered by political dogma, rigid ideology or conventional wisdom,...Read More
Click Here to Listen to the Interview - *the interview begins at 6:58 Axel breaks down the trade war with China and gives us some keen insights on the likely strategy being employed by President Donald Trump there, and also tells us why he sees inflationary pressures returning in the economy and the affects it will have on gold prices.Click Here to Listen to the Interview - *the interview begins...Read More
Eric Sprott has more than 40 years of experience in the investment industry. In 1981, he founded Sprott Securities (now called Cormark Securities Inc.), which today is one of Canada's largest independently owned securities firms. In 2001, Eric established Sprott Asset Management Inc. Over the years, Eric has personally been the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including one of Investor Dig...Read More
TOPICS IN THIS INTERVIEW:02:20 One tweet by Trump wrecks the stock market05:30 How well is the economic mess being managed?08:50 Gold's bull market feeling like a bitter bear market14:20 An accurate valuation of Gold and where global markets headingBill Holter is currently a writer for Miles Franklin and Jim Sinclair's Mineset where he posts weekly commentaries on gold and financial markets. Prior...Read More
David Stockman appears on "Gold, Goats, and Guns" (May 12th, 2019)David Stockman is a former Republican congressman from Michigan and was President Reagan's budget director from 1981 to 1985. After leaving the White House, Stockman became a managing director at Salomon Brothers, and he later founded a private equity fund. David is the founder of David Stockman's Contra Corner, and he is the author...Read More
What are you not being told about how stock funds are increasing volatility of our already choppy markets, compounding risk upon risk, as baby boomers count on their 401K accounts to be their nest egg to the future?Are the latest market gyrations the "beginning of the end," or are the geopolitical tensions and trade war saber-rattling all part of President Trump's grand plan?John Rubino, founder o...Read More
Jason talks about how more Fed members came out this week and gave speeches or interviews about how they want more inflation (with lower interest rates)Jason Burack is an investor, entrepreneur, financial historian, Austrian School economist, and contrarian. Jason co-founded the startup financial education company Wall St for Main St, LLC, to try to help the people of Main Street by teaching them...Read More
There are two different ways to get rich. One route is to utilize your own cash. The other path is to utilize Other People's Money, or as we call it at Rich Dad, OPM. One (utilizing your own cash) gives little to-humble returns, sets aside a long effort to work out, and requires some financial intelligence. The other (OPM) gives huge to-infinite returns, creates amazing velocity of cash, and requi...Read More
As much as bitcoin can be seen as a form of currency, it still is not a replacement for gold, said Frank Holmes, CEO of U.S. Global Investors.Frank Holmes is the CEO and chief investment officer of U.S. Global Investors, Inc., a boutique investment advisory firm based in San Antonio that manages domestic and offshore funds specializing in the natural resources and emerging markets sectors.Read More
"I'm pleased to announce we've just reached an agreement with Canada and Mexico to sell product without the imposition of major tariffs."Continue...Read More
"I would rather starve to death than change my opinions in that regard," Manning said.Continue...Read More
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