Martin Armstrong is back explaining what's really happening in the Repo market. It's all about Europe. It's a function of the Euro's failure and the march into the safe-haven US Dollar. The Repo crisis is about Deutch Bank going down and the European politicians refuse to bail it out, what happens next? No one wants to merge with it, it's the red-headed step child of international banking. The US...Read More

"The amount of money being fed into the system is soon going to be too hard to hide."Rob Kirby is a financial commentator and former broker who worked on an institutional trading desk for most of the 1980s and right up until 1996. He also worked for 11 years at Prebon Yamane, an international inter-dealer broker of foreign exchange and interest rate products. He spent an additional year at another...Read More

Turkish steel producers have continued their deep-sea scrap purchases for December deliveries at steady prices, sources said on Wednesday November 13.A steel mill in the Marmara region booked a Baltic Sea cargo, comprising 25,000 tonnes of HMS 1&2 (80:20) at $262 per tonne and 5,000 tonnes of bonus at $272 per tonne cfr.A Monday booking from...Read More

The Federal Reserve has given another $112 billion to Wall Street. Hardly a sign of a "thriving economy." David Stockman, former budget director for President Ronald Reagan and author of "Peak Trump: The Undrainable Swamp and the Fantasy of MAGA" joins Rick Sanchez to share his insights. He argues the market "can't digest" all the money flooding into Wall Street and that the Federal Reserve respon...Read More

Last night we heard some knucklehead on the War Channel (CNN) braying about Ukraine as a vitally important "ally and strategic partner". The implication, of course, was thatContinue...Read More

The life and work of co-founder of the controversial White Helmets rescue group in Syria has come under scrutiny since his recent death in Istanbul, in fact, James Le Mesurier's Wikipedia profile has undergone something of a rewrite, omitting anything detrimental.Read More

Gregory Mannarino started his financial career working for the securities and trading arm of the now defunct Bear Stearns before the dot-com bubble. He is an active trader of the capital markets and has published several books pertaining to finance, global economics, and equity trading; His most recent book is titled Ultimate Guide To Money and The Markets (free ebook). Gregory currently hosts a b...Read More

Danielle DiMartino Booth spent nine years as an advisor to Richard W. Fisher at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. Danielle left the Fed in 2015 to found Money Strong, LLC, an economic consulting firm and launched a weekly economic newsletter She is the author of Fed Up: An Insider's Take on Why the Federal Reserve is Bad for America. DiMartino Booth began her career in New York at Donaldson, Luf...Read More

Update on monetary policy: Monetization by any other time is ok, but call it what it is and you're a crackpot conspiracy theorist!Market outlook for non-monetization: Gold bull run could pause a little longer, but stocks already heading higherWhat if the 'risk off event everyone's been waiting for' already happened in the form of the Repo crisis?Read More

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 of The Great Deformation: The Corruption of Capitalism in America...Read More

The National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) was hacked over the summer according to sources who spoke to Reuters. The unnamed sources concluded the attack came from ChinaContinue...Read More

"We see the current stance of monetary policy as likely to remain appropriate as long as incoming information about the economy remains broadly consistent with our outlook of moderateContinue...Read More

Amidst all the political brouhaha regarding foreign aid, it is important that we keep in mind the nature and purposes of this particular federal program, as well as its related program, sanctions.Continue...Read More

A shift of sentiment last week to a more risk-on appetite by investors led to some selling of save haven vehicles, including $600 million of GLD, the world's largest gold-backed ETF, but in the larger picture, holdings of gold ETFs have still increased, said George Milling-Stanley, Chief Gold Strategist of State Street Global Advisors."Let's put all of this into context, including that $600 millio...Read More

Gold futures tumbled to a three-month low as contracts equal to over 3 million ounces changed hands in half an hour, fueling the sell-off. According to CME data as of end of market close November 11th, gold futures open interest is now up to 704,741 contracts!Gold Trade Equal to 3 Million Ounces Sends Futures Tumbling https://www.bloomberg.com/amp/news/ar...Monitor Gold Futures Contracts Open Inte...Read More

Export billet prices from Iran have surged in the week to Wednesday November 13 with mills starting sales of their January-rolling material, Fastmarkets has learnt.Last week, several cargoes of January-rolling billet were reported sold to traders within the range of $360-365 per tonne fob for further sale to Asian markets."There is very little tonnage left now from the January allocation,"...Read More

The company is starting off with a resource of close to a million ounces of gold before drilling. Gatling Exploration Inc.'s (GTR:TSX.V; GATGF:OTCQX) Larder gold project is located in Ontario on the Cadillac Larder fault in the Abitibi Greenstone Belt, 35 km east of Kirkland Lake, and is composed of three separate deposits, Bear, Cheminis and Fernland. All three have seen exploration historicall...Read More

The details of this transition project in Nevada are discussed in a CIBC report. In an Oct. 28 research note, CIBC analyst Bryce Adams reported that Premier Gold Mines Ltd.'s (PG:TSX) "first project at South Arturo, El Ni?o underground, has achieved commercial production ahead of schedule and on budget." South Arturo is a joint venture project between Premier that owns 40% and Nevada Gold Mines,...Read More

Mickey Fulp, the Mercenary Geologist, sits down with Maurice Jackson of Proven and Probable to discuss silver and its position among the metals, as well as some of his favorite copper, gold and uranium companies. Maurice Jackson: Joining us for a conversation is the Mercenary Geologist, Mickey Fulp. Thank you for joining us. Two years ago, Mickey, we discussed the value propositions in tax-loss...Read More

Prices for hollow steel sections in Northern and Southern Europe were unchanged this week although some mills were offering higher prices on possible rises in feedstock costs, market sources told Fastmarkets on Wednesday November 13.Fastmarkets' weekly price assessment for steel sections (medium), domestic, delivered Northern Europe, was ?,?560-580 ($617-639) per tonne on Wednesday, unchanged week...Read More