U.S. manufacturing ended the year with the weakest monthly performance since the end of the Great Recession, with orders shrinking and factories continuing to dial back production.Continue...Read More

Eric Sprott has more than 40 years of experience in the investment industry. In 1981, he founded Sprott Securities (now called Cormark Securities Inc.), which today is one of Canada's largest independently owned securities firms. In 2001, Eric established Sprott Asset Management Inc. Over the years, Eric has personally been the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including one of Investor Dig...Read More

Gerald Celente is a pioneer trend strategist and founder of The Trends Research Institute. He is the author of the national bestseller Trends 2000: How to Prepare for and Profit from the Changes of the 21st Century and publisher of the internationally circulated Trends Journal newsletter. Gerald Celente is a political atheist. Unencumbered by political dogma, rigid ideology or conventional wisdom,...Read More

- Markets off to a volatile start for the new year.- U.S. assassinates an Iranian military general driving up safe haven investments like oil, gold, Swiss Franc, Japanese Yen, Treasurymarket. Gold outshines them all. But is the world safer or more dangerous than ever?- Bitcoin touted as the best performing asset of the decade. But it's not that simple.- CNBC thinks the hardest job for the Fed is c...Read More

Rick Sanchez talks to retired Congressman Ron Paul about the assassination of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani and whether or not it amounts to a US declaration of war against Iran. Dr. Ron Paul is a physician and former twelve-term congressman from Texas who ran for president in 2008. He is the author of eight books, including the New York Times bestsellers The Revolution: A Manifesto and End The...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

Jordan Roy-Byrne gives an update on the balance between gold and the gold stocks. The stocks have been under performing recently and the moves today [Friday] on the back of geopolitical actions further drive that home. We could be in for a short term correction or pause but the long term outlook remains very strong.Jordan Roy-Byrne, CMT is a Chartered Market Technician and member of the Market Tec...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

Central bankers are the ones to blame. In a sense, they are far more powerful and dangerous than the elected ones.Continue...Read More

Jesse Ventura and Brigida Santos discuss US airstrikes in Iraq and Syria. Will a war with Iran break out now that Washington is working on a peace deal with the Taliban in Afghanistan? Former CIA counterterrorism officer John Kiriakou talks about the past two decades of US foreign policy.Jesse Ventura, is an American politician, actor, author, Navy Seal, and former professional wrestler who served...Read More

Dr. Rand Paul is the junior United States Senator for Kentucky. Elected in 2010, he has proven to be an outspoken champion for constitutional liberties and fiscal responsibility, and a warrior against government overreach. A graduate of Duke University School of Medicine, Rand was a practicing ophthalmologist in Bowling Green, Ky., for 17 years. Rand has been a vocal advocate for term limits, a ba...Read More

I believe in 2020, we will need to be highly targeted in picking winners. It won't be a "rising tide, lifts all boats" environment.Continue...Read More

Continuing with their New Year's Eve celebrations, the Keiser Report is joined by Dr Michael Hudson, author of Super Imperialism: The Origin and Fundamentals of US World Dominance. Will 2020 see further decline in that super imperialism about which he first wrote all those decades ago? They discuss this and then turn to the upcoming elections in the US and whether or not he believes the stock mark...Read More

JP Morgan is sitting with $55 Trillion in Derivative Exposure at the same the they have half their precious metal trading unit being charged with Financial Racketeering what could go wrong?! What is JPM is actually the BAD CREDIT and defaults as the Counterparty to EVERYONE?!Bix Weir has 30 years' experience in the financial industry with various fortune 500 companies. He is the creator of the "Ro...Read More

President Trump is swallowing the neocon line on the Iraqi protests at the US embassy in Baghdad, blaming the whole incident on Iran. Suddenly everyone who doesn't want the US military to continue to occupy Iraq - nearly 17 years after an invasion based on lies - is an "Iranian proxy." Will Trump continue to take the neocon bait and stumble his way into a war on Iran? Starting a war based on neoco...Read More

If I were Trump, I would use the Senate impeachment trial to call Joe Biden and enforce the subpoena in the Supreme Court since the trial must be conducted by the Chief Justice of Continue...Read More

The 2010s were not kind to precious metals, in either nominal or relative terms. Gold and silver are down from their 2011 highs and waaayyy down versus equities and other favorite assets Continue...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

I think we will look back at late 2019 as the beginning. This period will be rough but survivable if we prepare now. In fact, it will bring lots of exciting opportunities.Continue...Read More

Slides and Links: https://www.itmtrading.com/blog/stock...Question 1. John S: Don't you think it's possible that once inflation takes off, that our government under pressure from financial institutions would pass legislation to peg things like consumer debt and mortgages to an inflation index. There by negating your strategy to pay off debt with inflated dollars?Question 2. Rey M: Can you give us...Read More