Kitco News, Released on 11/5/22Lobo Tiggre, editor of TheIndependentSpeculator.com, joins the show to discuss his outlook on the Fed, the stock markets, and why he thinks the efficient markets hypothesis does not work. He also weighs in on Elon Musk's $8/month Twitter subscription plan with David Lin, Anchor and Producer at Kitco News. 0:00 - Fed rate hike and market reaction7:47 - Efficient marke...Read More
Kurt Nimmo on Geopolitics, Released on 11/2/22We are now perilously close to descending into a nuclear abyss.If this editorial by Continue... Former CIA Boss Petraeus Demands US Forces Enter the Fight in Ukraine added by Herman James on 11/06/2022View all posts by Herman James ?+'Read More
Blockworks Macro, Released on 11/3/22 (Recorded on 11/2/22)Shortly after Fed Chair Jay Powell's press conference on November 2nd, 2022, Jim Bianco of Bianco Research and Joseph Wang, former senior trader for the New York Fed, join Jack Farley to share their thoughts from the November Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting.00:00 Introduction00:42 General Thoughts on The November FOMC Meeting0...Read More
The Morgan Report, Released on 11/5/22The long term structural demand for the yellow metal is starting to break out. I told my members six month's ago that the run to gold has begun. As I have stated many times, raising interest rates will not really affect the gold price in the longer term. We ended the week with big move in both Gold and Silver. Hang on folks, it's going to be a heck of a ride.?...Read More
Natural News, Released on 11/4/22An employee at a hospital in Fresno, Calif., leaked an email to the media showing that stillbirth rates have been spiking ever since the Continue... Stillbirths are Skyrocketing in the Post-COVID Vaccination Era, Leaked Hospital Email Reveals added by Herman James on 11/06/2022View all posts by Herman James ?+'Read More
The key yield curve has inverted, shouting loudly that a recession is coming - and with it, better times for gold.I activated the high-degree recession alert! I’ve been writing about the downturn for some time, but in October, another important indicator flashed a red light. As you can see on the chart below, the key yield curve has inverted. Earlier this year, the spread between 10-year and...Read More
Mp>The Fed delivered another 75-basis points hike. Gold didn’t like the FOMC meeting and declined further.November’s FOMC gathering is behind us. It was quite boring. You know, another meeting, another 75-basis points hike…The Committee seeks to achieve maximum employment and inflation at the rate of 2 percent over the longer run. In support of these goals, the Committee decided...Read More
RAPAPORT... De Beers is working on a new testing machine for screening some of the tiniest melee diamonds, claiming the move will help the industry spot synthetic stones more efficiently.The new instrument will enable fast and automated verification of up to 3,600 stones per hour in the 0.001- to 0.0033-carat (0.6- to 1-millimeter) range, the miner said Friday. The equipment, part of the comp...Read More
RAPAPORT... Titan Company's sales and profit jumped in the second fiscal quarter as the Indian retailer benefited from solid festive demand. Revenue - including at subsidiaries - climbed 22% year on year to INR 92.24 billion ($1.11 billion) for the three months ending September 30, the company reported last week. The jeweler registered a profit of INR 8.35 billion ($100.9 million), a 30% incr...Read More
RAPAPORT... De Beers has hired Antoine Borde as CEO of its Lightbox lab-grown diamond brand. He will succeed Steve Coe, who left the company in July.Borde was most recently global e-commerce vice president at French multinational food-products corporation Danone Group. He also worked at Coty Luxury, where he led e-commerce and digital transformation, and spent 12 years at cosmetics giant L'Or?(C)a...Read More
RAPAPORT... US holiday spending is set to top last year's record figure, as consumers dip into their savings and rely on credit to provide gifts for loved ones, the National Retail Federation (NRF) has forecast.Retail sales in November and December will grow between 6% and 8% year on year, for a total of $942.6 billion to $960.4 billion, the organization predicted last week. The average increase o...Read More
(IDEX Online) - A criminal case is to be opened in South Africa against Jagersfontein Developments over the dam burst tragedy in September that killed at least two people and devastated a town.The Department of Water and Sanitation says that in addition to the criminal case it is implementing administrative enforcement measures against the company, owned by Dubai-based Stargems. It alle...Read More
(IDEX Online) - A huge collection of over 100 Australian pink diamonds, many from the iconic Argyle mine, collected over three decades by New York based LJ West Diamonds, is now on display at Melbourne Museum, Australia.It's described by organizers as "the largest collection of Australian pink diamonds to be shown in the world".Among the gems on display is the 2.83 carat Argyle Violet, the on...Read More
(IDEX Online) - De Beers is launching a new diamond verification instrument, which it says is capable of automatically screening large volumes of melee at speed, and identifying rogue lab growns.Through its innovation arm, Ignite, it has developed technology to verify 3,600 diamonds per hour in the 0.001 carat to 0.0033 carat (0.6 to 1.0mm) size range.It says the new instrument, available early ne...Read More
In case you haven't noticed, the majority of Big Tech's most notable recent moonshots are far from critical. I've asked it before, and I'll ask it again: Do we really need a metaverse? I'm struggling to imagine anyone working a 9-to-5 job as a legless, dead-eyed denizen of Mark Zuckerberg's uncanny valley. Or how about self-driving vehicles? I'll be the first to admit I can't wait to hand...Read More
Share this article VANCOUVER - Solgold [SOLG-TSX, LSE] has struck a binding agreement with Osisko Gold Royalties Ltd. (OR-TSX, OR-NYSE) for a US$50 million royalty financing with reference to the company's Cascabel copper-gold project in northern Ecuador.Osisko will receive a 0.6% net smelter royalty (NSR) royalty interest from Solgold, calculated with reference to net smelter returns from the Ca...Read More
Ugh, do we have to politicize everything?Texas congressman Ronny Jackson, recently posted this tweet ...This is, for lack of a better word, stupid.Why would someone have to politicize disruptive food technology? And in such an absurd way, too?Why would lab-grown meat (also called cultured meat), turn you into a socialist democrat?That makes no sense.The meat isn't "fake" either.The only differen...Read More
I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but the war in Ukraine is showing no signs of slowing down. From what I've seen, aside from some of the more brainwashed Russian public, the world is almost unanimously on Ukraine's side. Regardless, nobody is benefiting from this. Russia's economy is falling apart as more and more international businesses pull out. Even McDonald's revoked the nation's...Read More
YouTube/PeterSchiff, Released on 11/7/22 (Recorded on 11/6/22) ? Commodities break out of their bear market corrections. ? Tech stocks collapsing further. ? Smart money is buying gold mining stocks. ? Labor force participation rate has declined despite extra jobs.Peter Schiff is an internationally recognized economist specializing in the foreign equity, currency and gold markets. Mr. Schiff made h...Read More
Wall Street Silver, Released on 11/7/22Axel Merk, Founder & CIO of Merk Investments Manager, joins the show to discuss the Fed's fourth consecutive rate hike of its size to 75 basis points and what this could mean for the Gold and Silver markets. Furthermore, we talk about what the Fed will do next, Centrals Banks buying massive amounts of Gold, and what Axel is investing in right now. Axel Merk i...Read More