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

During the Financial Crisis, consumers deleveraged by walking away from their debts. And now, with 20 million people still claiming unemployment insurance? The opposite is happening.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...Read More

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Robert Shiller is an American economist, academic, and best-selling author. He currently serves as a Sterling Professor of Economics at Yale University and is a fellow at the Yale School of Management's International Center for Finance. Mr. Shiller has been a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) since 1980, was Vice President of the American Economic Association in...Read More

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Trump's term has clearly established what he really was this entire time: he was a US president. Better than some, worse than others, but Continue...Read More

All new vehicles in Japan must be hybrids or fully electric starting in mid-2030s and this has Toyota howling.Continue...Read More

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Bill Still is a former newspaper editor and publisher. He has written for USA Today, The Saturday Evening Post, the Los Angeles Times Syndicate, OMNI magazine, and has also produced the syndicated radio program, Health News. He has written 22 books and two documentary videos and is the host of his wildly popular daily YouTube Channel the "Still Report", the quintessential report on the economy and...Read More

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Silver Viper Minerals' recent drill results and the impending maiden resource estimate are discussed in a Red Cloud Securities report. In a Dec. 16 research note, Red Cloud Securities Derek Macpherson reported the recent drill results from Silver Viper Minerals Corp.'s (VIPR:TSX.V; VIPRF:OTCQB) phase 2 exploration program at its La Virginia project in Mexico.The analyst noted the result highlight...Read More

Most of the time during a bull market the short, intermediate and long term charts are pretty much in sync even during a consolidation phase. Consolidation patterns are needed to bring the overbought condition back to what is normal for a bull market. Consolidation patterns are notorious for wild swings both up and down to shakeout as many investors as possible before the next impulse move can beg...Read More

Fed Chair Jerome Powell sounded dovish during his press conference on December 16, where he gave a market update after the Fed’s monetary policy meeting. The Fed will remain accommodative for a long time, which should support gold prices.Last week was full of important events. First, both the Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna vaccines received emergency-use authorization from the U.S. Food and Dru...Read More

Do you feel the Christmas spirit whenit comes to the yellow metal and miners? Because we don’t. Multiple signs overthe past few days point to bearish weeks ahead for gold and the gold miners.The VanEck Vectors Gold Miners ETF (GDX) - the most liquid vehicle forinvestors and traders to gain exposure to gold mining companies – is indicatingthat things are only about to go downhill from h...Read More

President-elect Joe Biden is expected to increase further government spending. For this and also other reasons, there is a risk that inflation under Biden’s presidency could be higher than under Trump’s. That would be great news for gold.Let’s face it, Biden won’t have an easy presidency. And I’m not referring to the fact that he will be sworn in as the oldest preside...Read More

Precious metals markets are on the move thisweek. They got a boost following Wednesday’s FederalReserve policy statement. Fed officials kept their benchmark interest rate nearzero and vowed to continue injecting $120 billion per month into the bondmarket. The central bank seemed unconcerned about bubble-likeconditions in equity markets. Nothing seems likely to deter it from pursuingmore stim...Read More

Previously,I have shown how Bitcoin is leading silver higher, and vice versa. .This makes perfect sense in these time,since it is all about the US dollar. Assets that offer a “safehaven” from USdollar meltdown will go higher in some sort of related pattern.Here is an update on that analogue whereBitcoin is leading silver higher (you can find the analogue where silver isleading Bitcoin...Read More

Theworld’s largest gold exchange traded fund (ETF) seems to be having a lotof trouble when it comes toaccounting.TheSPDR Gold Trust (GLD) recently appointed its 6th chief financial officer since2014. And the problem of finding and keeping executives who are willing tocertify the Fund’s accounting does not appear to be the only reason for concernat GLD.Thetiming of the most re...Read More

As Huey pushes his cart of rocks out of the dark and up the hill…In NFTRH we did a lot of work managing the oncoming correction, the valid reasons behind it (these reasons are beyond the scope of this post, but don’t listen to the perma-bulls, they were more than valid and readable in advance), the now nearly 5 month old correction (technically still intact) and more recently the impr...Read More