Of Two Minds, Released on 3/9/22Only crushing recessions introduce the discipline of having to choose between waste, friction and fraud and essential services aContinue... Charles Hugh Smith: The Upside of a Crushing Recession added by Herman James on 03/10/2022View all posts by Herman James ?+'Read More
Mish Talk, Released on 3/9/22The Fed took an unprecedented as well as illegal action on Russia that constitutes economic warfare and may easily start a currency crisis or something even worse.Continue... Mish Shedlock: Unprecedented Fed Action May Have Just Started a Global Currency Crisis added by Herman James on 03/10/2022View all posts by Herman James ?+'Read More
Reddit, Released on 3/9/22A photograph, shared on the social media platform Reddit, showed a fridge packed with at least 50 McDonald's burgers, as a Russian man tried to hoard the fast food.Full story: https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/tancxo/mcdonalds_is_permanently_closing_in_russia_here/https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2537972132095/russian-man-fills-entire-fridgePHOTO: Russi...Read More
Zero Hedge, Released on 3/10/22This comes when global food prices are at record highs, and European fertilizer makers are struggling to produce nutrients ahead of the spring growing season, increasing global food inflation risks.Continue... Russia Decides To Ban Fertilizer Exports To 'Not Friendly' Countries added by Herman James on 03/10/2022View all posts by Herman James ?+'Read More
Summit News, Released on 3/10/22A HarrisX poll has revealed that most Americans see Joe Biden as a primary reason Russia decided to invade Ukraine."Voters believe that Biden has projected weakness Continue... POLL: Majority Of Americans Blame Joe Biden For Putin's Invasion Of Ukraine added by Herman James on 03/10/2022View all posts by Herman James ?+'Read More
International Man (via Dollar Collapse), Released on 3/10/22The jig is up.Not even the Chairman of the Federal Reserve can go along with the farce of maintaining Continue... Nick Giambruno: Why US Threats Against Russian Gold Reserves Mean A Monetary Reset Is Imminent added by Herman James on 03/10/2022View all posts by Herman James ?+'Read More
Gold has hit $2,000 but is stillstruggling to maintain that historical level. It has already tried 8 times -will the ninth attempt succeed? Many indications make this doubtful.Gold is attempting to break above the$2,000 milestone, and miners are trying to break above their decliningresistance line. Will they manage to do so, and if so, how long will the rallylast? Yesterday, gold didn’t mana...Read More
Russian forces have made minimal progress against Ukraine in recent days. Unlike the invader, gold rallied very quickly and achieved its long-awaited target - $2000!Nobody expected the Russian inquisition! Nobody expected such a fierce Ukrainian defense, either. Of course, the situation is still very dramatic. Russian troops continued their offensive and – although the pace slowed down consi...Read More
Crude Oil Climbs High. Is It Enough to Enjoy a BetterView?The threat of sanctions caused a stirin the markets: WTI spiked above $130 and Brent is nearing the $140 mark. Whereis crude oil going next?A possible Western embargo on Russian oilcaused oil prices to soar again on Monday, as stock markets feared persistentinflation and a consequent economic slowdown.On the US dollar side, the continuedral...Read More
This month, the Fed is expected to hike interest rates. Contrary to popular belief, the tightening doesn't have to be adverse for gold. What does history show?March 2022 – the Fed is supposed to end its quantitative easing and hike the federal funds rate for the first time during recovery from a pandemic crisis . After the liftoff, the Fed will probably also start reducing the size of its ma...Read More
After the war-driven gold rally, oilis starting to outperform. History between these two has already shown thatsomeone may suffer. Many suggest: gold miners.The precious metals corrected some oftheir gains yesterday, but overall, not much changed in them. However, quite a lothappened in crude oil, and in today’s analysis we’ll focus on whatit implies for the precious metals market and,...Read More
The gold miners’ stockshave mostly been consolidating sideways over this past half-year. They’ve been held down by periodic bouts ofheavy gold-futures dumping on Fed-tightening fears. But as those traders exhaust their selling firepower,gold stocks have formed a strong technical base that is birthing their nextmajor bull-market upleg. And a stifftailwind is mounting a...Read More
As history shows, gold and silverrallies based on geopolitical tensions are often short-lived. Yesterday, a hintof a trend reversal appeared.Don’t stop reading this mining stockanalysis until you get to the part about junior mining stocks’ analogy.Something might interest you there.While the unfortunate conflictconfronting Russia and Ukraine has intensified in recent days, gold, silver...Read More
Gold prices declined in 2021 and the prospects for 2022 are not impressive as well. However, the yellow metal’s strategic relevance remains high.Last month, the World Gold Council published two interesting reports about gold. The first one is the latest edition of Gold Demand Trends, which summarizes the entire last year. Gold supply decreased 1%, while gold demand rose 10% in 2021. Despite...Read More
A new commodity supercycle is beingdriven by a massive energy transition … And two elements are experiencing asupply squeeze that is creating huge opportunities for investors. The first is lithium, the super metalfueling the EV and energy storage boom. The second is helium, the key tofuture tech innovation and an irreplaceable necessity for semiconductors, whichare also under...Read More
Michael Ballanger looks at the recent rise in the gold price in light of what is happening in the broader markets and geopolitical activity.Before I expand upon the events of the past week that caught my increasingly illusory attention span, I wish to impart upon my readers one of the many chasms that separate the generational narratives these days. When I first entered the Hallowed Halls of Bay S...Read More
Supply shortages…That’s what is fueling the market right now. Oil companies are making out like bandits…Natural gas prices are skyrocketing…And commodities like lithium, cobalt, and aluminum have soared to newheights.But it’s not all sunshine and roses for some industries. The auto industry has seen its production plummet due to the globalsemiconductor shortage&hel...Read More
Gold continues to benefit from themarket turmoil and has apparently forgotten about medium-term problems.Meanwhile, the rising USD and a hawkish Fed await confrontation.With financial markets whipsawing afterevery Russia-Ukraine headline, volatility has risen materially in recent days.With whispers of a Russian invasion on Feb. 16 (which I doubt will berealized), the game of hot potato has uplifte...Read More
Every few years or so, the investing universe gets word about alooming shortage of a certain--usually niche--commodity. Soon thereafter,dozens or even hundreds of natural resource companies, both large and small,quickly “pivot” to said commodity and the next thing you know a commoditybubble ensues before, eventually, bursting.This script has played out numerous times with commodities i...Read More
A dramatic – and potentially lucrative – scenario may now be unfoldingin the markets for one of the most overlooked natural resources on the planet. This essential commodity – helium – is used to drive innovation formany of the world’s biggest tech companies...and it is needed to helpmanufacture everything from medical equipment to computer chips.Yet despite its criti...Read More