29 December 2018 -- SaturdayYESTERDAY in GOLD, SILVER, PLATINUM and PALLADIUM By Ed Steer The gold price was up five dollars or by shortly after the London open on their Friday morning. It was sold a bit lower at that juncture, but began to creep higher shortly after London closed -- and gold finished the Friday session in New York, close to its ea...Read More
By John MauldinPowell Was Right but the Fed Is WrongTime for an Emergency Fed MeetingLiving on Island TimeQuick Shots from the FrontlineA winters day,In a deep and dark December..."Wait, it doesn't feel like winter. It's not deep and dark, and it's actually warm, and the sun is shining. Toto Shane, I don't think we're in Kansas Texas anymore."Yes, we have actually moved from Texas to a new locat...Read More
By Daniel R. Amerman, CFAThe "Plunge Protection Team" is the colloquial name for the Working Group on Financial Markets (WGFM). The Working Group was established by the executive order of President Reagan in 1988, in the aftermath of the stock market plunge of October, 1987. The group reports to the President, and the official members of the group include the Secretary of the Treasury, the chair...Read More
By David HaggithThe market's last chaotic day closed in a way that befit the entire year. Up, down, up harder, down harder, and done!It looked like the violence of the day may have come from the Plunge Protection Team attempting to push the market up in the middle of the afternoon, except that the middle of the afternoon doesn't fit the PPT's MO because the birthing-sized push didn't come in the...Read More
Let My Passion Create Your Wealth.I've Been Helping My Subscribers Weather the Current Economic Mess. Now I Invite You to Join My Growing Circle of Successful Investors.The Morgan Report is all about YOU and how you can build and preserve Wealth for generations to come. We know it can sometimes seem a daunting task to protect your assets and preserve or grow your wealth. Over 15 years ago, a sma...Read More
In this week's video update, Chris discusses the volatility of markets and the role Central Banks have played in creating massive financial bubbles throughout the world. Read the latest articles at Peak Prosperity: https://www.peakprosperity.com/Christopher Martenson is a former American biochemical scientist. Currently he is a writer and trend forecaster interested in macro trends regarding the e...Read More
The elite rulers of our country can't seem to get enough endless wars. They seem to thrive upon them. So many political and military leaders want Afghanistan to continue forever, with no end game or goal in site. Same with our involvement in Syria. But President Trump has had enough. He's brining the troops back home and letting the chips fall where they may. No more nation building and endless qu...Read More
Wolf Richter is the founder of Wolf Street Corp and the publisher of WolfStreet.com. Wolf has over twenty years of C-level operations experience, including turnarounds and a VC-funded startup. He has a BA, MA, and MBA (UT at Austin). In his prior life, he worked in Texas and Oklahoma, including a decade as General Manager and COO of a large Ford dealership and its subsidiaries. Read More
Host of the popular radio show "Operation Freedom" Dr. Dave Janda warns about the massive debt problems the world is facing and the coming economic reset. Dr. Janda says Trump is correct when he says, "The real problem is the Fed and not China." Janda says the Deep State "rigged the economy to implode" with massive amounts of debt. Dr. Janda says, "Trump has been buying time" to put the American p...Read More
"This is the first time we're going to be using it at a large-scale event," he said. "It's just going to give us an additional view of the crowd."Continue...Read More
The past couple of years have been brutal for precious metals mining stocks. Gold and silver went down a little while the miners went down a lot - four times as much to be exact.Continue...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
*This interview was recorded on 12/24/18Peter Boockvar is the Chief Investment Officer of Bleakley Financial Group and Editor of The Boock Report newsletter https://boockreport.com/.Read More
The very fabric of America is under attack-our freedoms, our democracy, and our constitutional rights have become contested terrain. The Epoch Times, a media committed to truthful, responsible Continue...Read More
President Vladimir Putin says Russia is ready for dialogue on a "wide-ranging agenda" with the United States, according to a statment made by the Kremlin over the weekend.Continue...Read More
"Although some members of the Taliban may be weary of fighting and ready to lay down their weapons, they will only rejoin society if they believe their safety and the safety of Continue...Read More
Although yours truly has yet to completely jump on the bull bandwagon (which has revved up recently), I cannot ignore Continue...Read More
A BMO Capital Markets report discussed the ways this global firm might use the new funds. In a Dec. 21 research note, BMO Capital Markets analyst Edward Sterck reported that Rio Tinto Plc (RIO:NYSE; RIO:ASX; RIO:LSE; RTPPF:OTCPK) closed on the sale of its 40% interest in Grasberg for $3.5 billion through a series of transactions with the Indonesian government and Freeport McMoRan, and that the sa...Read More
Cyclical Assets vs. GoldIn January of 2018 we noted a cyclical leader (Semiconductor Fab Equipment) in trouble: Semi Canary Still Chirping, But He’s Gonna Croak in 2018. We also ran a series of articles featuring the happy-go-lucky 3 Amigos (of the macro) in order to gauge a point when larger herds of investors would become aware of cyclical issues facing the global (including the US) econom...Read More
This year has seen a lot of volatility in the financial markets, Bitcoin, precious metals and other commodities. Frank Holmes, CEO and CIO of U.S. Global Investors, takes a look back on the lessons he has learned, and also looks ahead to what 2019 may bring.The Gold Report: Frank, thanks for joining us today. Let's start with what lessons you've learned from the markets in the past year. Frank Hol...Read More