Gold has firmed above $1300 in recent days and is holding comfortably above $1300 for now. We think the market will break to the upside sometime this year. The question is when. Here are 3 things to watch that will tell us if Gold is on the cusp of that break-out soon or later. First, keep your eye on Gold’s close at the end of next week. It’s not only the end of the week and month but...Read More

As we noted in mid-2017, Big Tech is in BIG trouble.There are multiple scandals brewing in this space. And the invasion/ selling of/ handing over of private data is one of the more minor ones.That larger scandal concerns fraudulent online advertising.Companies like Facebook and the like generate a significant portion of their sales from online advertising. In this business model, clients pay Faceb...Read More

Our proprietary cycle indicator is now up.To public readers of our updates, our cycle indicator is one of the most effective timing tool for traders and investors. It is not perfect, because periodically the market can be more volatile and can result in short term whipsaws. But overall, the cycle indicator provides us with a clear direction how we should be speculating.InvestorsDuring a major buy...Read More

Defenders and critics of “free trade” and globalization tend to present the issue as either/or:It’s inherently good or bad. In the real world, it’s not that simple. The confusion starts with defining free trade (and by extension, globalization).In the classical definition of free trade espoused by 18th century British economist David Ricardo, trade is generally thought of a...Read More

A more reasonable standard, of course, would recognize that iPhones and iPads do not have a single country of origin.More than a dozen companies from at least five countries supply parts for them. Infineon Technologies, in Germany, makes the wireless chip; Toshiba, in Japan, manufactures the touchscreen; and Broadcom, in the United States, makes the Bluetooth chips that let the devices connect to...Read More

?>>?PDAC 2018 – Viola R. MacMillan Award – IAMGOLD & Sumitomo from PENDA Productions on Vimeo.http://www.pendaproductions.com/ This video was produced by PENDA Productions, a full service production company specializing in Corporate Communications with a focus on Corporate Responsibility.This award, named in honour of PDAC's longest serving president, is given to an individual or...Read More

Martin Armstrong is a world renown economist and the creator of the Economic Confidence Model. He is the founder of Armstrong Economics - a public service and blog for the average person to comprehend the global economy and for professionals to access the most sophisticated international analysis possible. Read More

Lynette Zang has held the position of Chief Market Analyst at ITM Trading since 2002. Ms. Zang has been in the markets on some level since 1964. Her mission is to convert financial noise into understandable language. She has been a banker, a stock broker and studied world currencies since 1987. She believes strongly that we need to be as independent as possible and at the same time, we need to com...Read More

Bill, Jim, and Dave discuss the recent trade wars and fear of morphing into hot war. China is set to trade oil for yuan beginning Monday, countries have been invaded and rulers deposed in the past who threatened to trade oil in currency other than dollars. The recent convulsions in markets leading up to the oil for yuan trade are only a precursor to the main show. The biggest generational shift in...Read More

Jason Burack of Wall St for Main St interviewed returning guest, PhD Economist, professor, fund manager and author, Daniel LaCalle http://www.dlacalle.com/en/Read More

Chart NotAvailableSymbol DataSymbolCurrencyASX:ADNAUDDescriptionAndromeda Metals Ltd are a junior, project generator looking for goldLogin or Subscribe to access Don's SummaryAlert me when stock is updatedQuick LinksLogin to accessGeneral DetailsFinancial03/24/2018LastAnalysisDataCurrent DataChangeItemValueValueUpdatedValueMkt. Cap (FD):$8.63M$8.64M03/24/2018$0.01MTotal Assets:$5.08M$5.09M03/24/20...Read More

Friday's commitment of traders (COT) report for gold and silver offered more of the same. Which is to say the gold futures action was boring and the silver action was strange and exciting.Continue...Read More

Jerome Powell, the new Fed Chairman, made his debut last week. It was jarring to see a modest, reasonable, straight-talking person in that spot after 30 years ofContinue...Read More

Defenders and critics of "free trade" and globalization tend to present the issue as either/or: It's inherently good or bad. In the real world, it's not that simple.Continue...Read More

Willem discusses how the Bretton Woods system created our current financial system and how that system is nearing its end. Many countries around the world like China are preparing for a new world monetary system. Precious metals futures markets have a lot of paper manipulation occurring. Both China and the United States have a vested interest in low gold prices. The Chinese like low prices because...Read More

"Right now, the good guys are 70% to 80% in control."There is free information and interviews at DaveJanda.com. If you want to support Operation Freedom, and keep it on the air, go to the upper right hand corner of Dave Janda.com and click the donate button.Read More

Now that the FOMC meeting is behind us, the full reality of another rate hike hit the stock market hard this week, right as trade war concerns flared up. All the major indexes are down sharply for the week, with U.S. Treasuries surging.Stocks have been trading in this no-man's land in between the 50-day and 200-day moving averages, with 60% of stocks in poor shape. The recent sell-off pushes the i...Read More

The inescapable conclusion is that Iran will not negotiate away its nuclear program. Nor will sanctions block its building a broad and deep weapons infrastructure. The inconvenient Continue...Read More

Gold has firmed above $1300 in recent days and is holding comfortably above $1300 for now. We think the market will break to the upside sometime this year. The question is when. Here are 3 things to watch that will tell us if Gold is on the cusp of that break-out soon or later. First, keep your eye on Gold’s close at the end of next week. It’s not only the end of the week and month but...Read More

Rick Rule, President and CEO of Sprott U.S. Holdings Inc. @ PDAC 2018.(c) Florian Munsch, goldgeldwelt.de. Quotes from Rick's talk:"Expectations are so low that getting under the bar is tougher than getting over the bar.""At the same time expectations are low, the orientation is financial performance.""Money is made on the delta between the share price and the value.""The first thing you can do to...Read More