Do you think you are smart enough to know what things to ban? Can you foresee all the unintended consequences of using government might to moralize society?Some people think they are that smart. Or for some reason, they think restricting people’s freedom will have no larger effect than in the targeted area.One recent New York Times article wants a porn ban to be an option on the table. The a...Read More

Demanding More DebtConsumer debt, corporate debt, and government debt are all going up. But that's not all. Margin debt - debt that investors borrow against their portfolio to buy more stocks - has hit a record of $642.8 billion. What in the world are people thinking? A blow-off in margin debt mirroring the blow-off in stock prices. Since February of 2016 alone it has soared by ~$170 billi...Read More

Serenely Grows the DebtbergWe mentioned in a recent post that we would soon return to the topic of credit spreads and exotic structured products. One reason for doing so are the many surprises investors faced in the 2008 crisis. Readers may e.g. remember auction rate securities. These bonds were often listed as "cash equivalents" on the balance sheets of assorted companies investing in them, but i...Read More

Jim Willie is a statistical analyst in marketing research and retail forecasting. He holds a PhD in Statistics, and his career has stretched over 25 years. He aspires to thrive in the financial editor world, unencumbered by the limitations of economic credentials. Jim operates a free website called Golden Jackass.Read More

Whilethere is disagreement over its causes – man-made versus natural – the realityof climate change is an incontrovertible fact. The planet is warming, affectingour weather, our oceans, our growing seasons, even our food, as crops fail,causing shortages and price hikes. Storms are becoming more frequent, and moreintense, and droughts are lasting longer.Forestfires are an annual occurre...Read More

Mike Gleason: It is my privilege now to welcome back Michael Pento, president and founder of Pento Portfolio Strategies, and author of the book The Coming Bond Market Collapse: How to Survive the Demise of the U.S. Debt Market.Michael is a well-known money manager and a fantastic market commentator, and over the past few years has been a wonderful guest and one of our favorite interviews here on t...Read More

Normally the action in the gold and silver futures markets tends to be pretty similar, since the same general forces affect both precious metals. When inflationContinue...Read More

Our proprietary cycle indicator is down.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 si...Read More

In this episode of the Keiser Report, Max and Stacy discuss JP Morgan stacking silver in response to Max Keiser and also about the whistleblower claiming the VIX index is manipulated. In the second half, Max interviews Mitch Feierstein of PlanetPonzi.com about manipulation of the volatility index and the collapse of some of its associated derivative products. Max Keiser is an American broadcaster...Read More

US Federal District Court Judge Richard J. Leon has stayed Rusoro's $966.5-million International Center for the Settlement of Investment Disputes Expropriation award against Venezuela registered in the US. Following the World Bank agency's decision to grant the award on August 22, 2016, Rusoro took that judgment to the US Federal Court in Washington, D.C. on October 10, 2016. The idea was to regis...Read More

Vancouver-based Trevali Mining (TSX: TV) and Quebec-based Puma Exploration (TSX-V:PUMA) have entered into a Letter of Intent for the acquisition by the former of an option to acquire an interest in the Murray Brook Deposit and to form a proposed Strategic Exploration Alliance in the northern portion of the Bathurst Mining Camp in New Brunswick, Canada.Under the terms of the LOI, Trevali, at its op...Read More

https://uk.reuters.com/LONDON, March 2 (Reuters) – The London Metal Exchange (LME) copper price has risen 26 percent since the start of January 2016. That month saw a five-year downtrend bottom out at $4,318 per tonne. Three-month copper on Friday was trading above $6,900.The lift in price has been part of a broader revaluation of the base metals complex but also reflects specific concerns a...Read More

Normally the action in the gold and silver futures markets tends to be pretty similar, since the same general forces affect both precious metals. When inflation or some other source of anxiety is ascendant, both metals rise, and vice versa.But lately - perhaps in a sign of how confused the world is becoming - gold and silver traders have diverged. Taking gold first, the speculators - who tend to b...Read More

Normally the action in the gold and silver futures markets tends to be pretty similar, since the same general forces affect both precious metals. When inflation or some other source of anxiety is ascendant, both metals rise, and vice versa.But lately - perhaps in a sign of how confused the world is becoming - gold and silver traders have diverged. Taking gold first, the speculators - who tend to b...Read More

"If the Federal Reserve or any of these central banks were in control, do you think we would be in the situation we are in right now? Absolutely not. All they have done is liquefy the world with debt and buy everything they can to keep this propped up. This is not control. This is some kind of a Frankenstein they have created by trying to prop everything up."Gregory Mannarino started his financial...Read More

Peter Schiff is an internationally recognized economist specializing in the foreign equity, currency and gold markets. Mr. Schiff made his name as President and Chief Global Strategist of Euro Pacific Capital. He frequently delivers lectures at major economic and investment conferences, and is quoted often in the print media, including the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Barron's, BusinessWee...Read More

Alex Jones explains the real agenda behind the censorship after Infowars was hit with a third strike on its YouTube channel and faces deletion.Continue...Read More

"I've known Bob Mueller for 20, 30 years; my guess is he's just trying to make the case as good as he possibly can. So, I think that we have to be patient in that regard," Continue...Read More

LONDON, 3 March 2018 - Renowned US investment magazine Barron's today quotes BullionVault analysis in a report on the outlook for silver prices."Silver's failure to rise with gold so far in 2018 means that silver is touching extreme levels in terms of the yellow precious metal," the magazine quotes Adrian Ash, director of research at BullionVault, online.Priced in silver, gold is now "very nearly...Read More

Despite a global economic upswing, which has been a powerful tailwind for stocks, gold remains firm and is trading well above the psychologically important US$1,300-per-ounce mark. There are signs that gold will remain firm over the course of 2018, because of a range of economic and geopolitical risks that could trigger the next market correction. One of the best means of earning outsized returns...Read More