- Dave KranzlerPressures are already building on the financial stability front that will make the next economic downturn messier than anticipated." - Bill Dudley, former President of the NY FedI get irritated when I see mainstream media and alternative mainstream media parroting the propaganda used to cover up the truth. This morning Zerohedge echo'd the "corporate tax payments liquidity sq...Read More

StrengthsThe best performing metal this week was palladium, up 2.04 percent as hedge funds increased their net-long position in the futures market to a five-week high. Gold traders and analysts are mostly bullish going into next week in the Bloomberg survey amid mixed signals over progress in the U.S.-China trade war. The yellow metal climbed sharply early in the week after President Trump sai...Read More

NEWS &VIEWSForecasts, Commentary & Analysis on the Economy and Precious MetalsCelebrating our 46th year in the gold businessDecember 2019"Gold is set to join the all-time-highs club." - Mike McGlone, Bloomberg IntelligenceWhat we said then. What we say now.Michael J. Kosares, USA Gold- REVIEW & OUTLOOK -January 2019 headline article -Will 2019 be the year of the big breakout for gold?WHAT WE S...Read More

"There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and does it in a manner which not one man in a million is able to diagnose."What the heck did John Maynard Keynes mean by saying this? Overturning the existing basis of society?! Let's begin by sta...Read More

By: Ira EpsteinGold's monthly momentum turning down. At the moment stepped out of the uptrend, but a bullish crossover..Read More

Look at US economy in totality and not just the job creation. Job creation has to be supported by other factors like consumer spending, confidence among other factors. Christmas and early January is a global cyclical period of high consumption and hence higher jobs. US job market and global jobs market on or from February of next year will be the key. December-January trend in global jobs market...Read More

Turkish domestic scrap prices have gone up once again this week on the back of rising imported scrap values, sources told Fastmarkets on Monday December 9.Steel producers and a major scrapyard all increased their buying prices for auto bundle scrap by 45-120 Turkish lira ($8-21) per tonne over the past week because of costlier imports.Fastmarkets' daily index for steel scrap, HMS 1&2 (80...Read More

Stable Prices, SometimesDeaths of DespairRadical SolutionsIt's All Relative...Angst-Ridden VotersAccording to the dictionary, the word angst refers to "a feeling of deep anxiety or dread, typically an unfocused one about the human condition or the state of the world in general." It comes from a German word for "fear."Two weeks ago I referred back to my 2017 Angst in America series. "Deep anx...Read More

Turkish steel producers stayed out of the deep-sea scrap market on Friday December 6 after booking several cargoes earlier in the week to push prices up by more than $10 per tonne since Monday, sources told Fastmarkets.No new cargoes have been booked or come to light during the last two days of the working week. On Monday, it emerged that a steel mill in the Marmara region had booked a U...Read More

What does it mean when the Fed and other central banks jointly bemoan the effects of their own policies? Worried about not being able to keep all the plates spinning?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)....Read More

Harley Schlanger's work can be found at LaRouchePAC.com.Read More

Dozens of countries around the world are seeing massive social unrest. The foundation of the movement is freedom and income inequality. No more central planning and no more government control over individuals. The people in Hong Kong are fighting for their lives. Gerald explains why the Chinese have not shut down HK's massive civil unrest. In Spain it's Catalonia. The list goes on and on. All arou...Read More

*the interview begins at 0:52Mohamed El-Erian unpacks the major risks within Europe's economy. Mohamed El-Erian is the Chief Economic Adviser of Allianz, a multinational financial services company. He is the former CEO and co-Chief Investment Officer of PIMCO, a global investment firm and one of the world's largest bond funds in the world. Dr. El-Erian also served as a member of the faculty of Har...Read More

The gold stocks are setting up for a very good 2020. The current correction is not over but all the indications are that once it ends, gold stocks could begin an impulsive advance.Jordan Roy-Byrne, CMT is a Chartered Market Technician and member of the Market Technicians Association.. He is the publisher and editor of TheDailyGold Premium, a publication which emphasizes market timing and stock sel...Read More

In the interviews, more than 400 insiders offered unrestrained criticism of what went wrong in Afghanistan and how the United States became mired in nearly two decades of warfare. Continue...Read More

Imagine that President Trump spent his phone call with the Ukrainian president threatening to withhold military aid unless the Ukrainian government agreed to use the money to purchase weapons from a US manufacturer. Does anyone seriously think that foreign service professionals and deep state operatives would be so shocked and offended by Trump's request that they would launch efforts to impeach h...Read More

Comparing the popular narrative of rapidly improving sentiment with global dollar liquidity indicatorsBeyond Trade Wars and Trump Tweets: What liquidity indicators are actually telling us about the global economic outlookThe "King Dollar" meme: Why a strong USD doesn't necessarily imply U.S. economic outperformanceRead More

Even though it's on rate-cutting hold, the Fed nonetheless keeps engaging in aggressive oversubscribed repo ops, or as we like to call the process, "QE4R."Continue...Read More

Import prices for steel slab in Southeast Asia and East Asia rose during the week to Monday December 9 despite concerns that a potential supply glut could emerge after United States President Donald Trump threatened to restore tariffs on steel imports from Argentina and Brazil.Sources told Fastmarkets that the uptrend in prices has already been disrupted by concerns that Brazilian steelmakers may...Read More

Many people are overlooking a critical factor in these escalating trade wars with the US and the rest of the World...and that is, the US holds the title of "World Reserve Currency" But how long will that last? And what will happen the US loses that title? Today I'll show you the newest dangers in the multiplying conflicts around Global Trade, how the US actually has the most to lose, and most impo...Read More