The Man Who Can Save Brazil … A million-plus protesters in the streets and a 13 percent approval rating tend to concentrate a politician's mind … Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff [should] get out of the way of Brazil's finance minister, Joaquim Levy. – BloombergDominant Social Theme: What is needed in Brazil is authority and austerity.Free-Market Analysis: This article...Read More
A software update scheduled for release in about three months would give Model S Tesla sedans the ability to start driving themselves, which the company refers to as autopilot mode … For many drivers who commute long distances, the prospect of owning a self-driving car – where a driver takes his hands off the wheel and feet off the gas – has been an elusive dream. – New Yor...Read More
The Man Who Can Save Brazil … A million-plus protesters in the streets and a 13 percent approval rating tend to concentrate a politician's mind … Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff [should] get out of the way of Brazil's finance minister, Joaquim Levy. – BloombergDominant Social Theme: What is needed in Brazil is authority and austerity.Free-Market Analysis: This article...Read More
A software update scheduled for release in about three months would give Model S Tesla sedans the ability to start driving themselves, which the company refers to as autopilot mode … For many drivers who commute long distances, the prospect of owning a self-driving car – where a driver takes his hands off the wheel and feet off the gas – has been an elusive dream. – New Yor...Read More
To Watch Update #47, CLICK HEREAs the number of covid-19 infections outside China now exceed those within, the masses across the world are starting to panic. Empty grocery store shelves. Fights over toilet paper. Schools closing and sending students home en mass. Desperate pleas from health workers to stay home when sick unless in truly dire condition. And this with just 170,000 total worldwide ca...Read More
*This interview was recorded on March 11thMacroVoices Erik Townsend and Patrick Ceresna welcome Axel Merk to the show to discuss how COVID-19 is driving bonds to new all-time highs, perspectives on possible bail-out for shale oil producers and outlook on gold and more.Axel Merk is the Founder, President, Portfolio Manager, and CIO at Merk Investments LLC. He is an expert on qualitative research an...Read More
Bill Murphy, Chairman of the Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee (GATA), contends, "Gold and silver prices right now are artificially low because of these (gold cartel) people. This is what's going to cause the biggest move in history. It's now coming down to the short strokes, and it's been a long time coming. I can't wait for it to happen. Then our (GATA) story will be told, but our story is not as...Read More
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin made the rounds on national media on Sunday, telling anyone who would listen that the Covid-19 pandemic wouldn't shift the economy into recession, even thoughContinue...Read More
The central banks are dead. This is a far greater crisis than most expect. (look for that book on EBay for now).Continue...Read More
Tune in to this evening's market update with Mike Maloney to understand why Mike thinks the Fed is backed into a corner and has to cut rates further. You'll also get some 'behind the scenes' access to one of Mike's most important documentaries, and don't miss the viewer feedback segment. Michael Maloney is a precious metals investment expert and historian. He is the founder and owner of GoldSilver...Read More
The Fed "is prepared to use its full range of tools to support the flow of credit to households and businesses and thereby promote its maximum employment and price stability goals."Continue...Read More
"The deficits are doing to be outrageous." Continue...Read More
Justice, capitalism and progress: Paul Tudor Jones II at TED2015 … Can capital be just? As a firm believer in capitalism and the free market, Paul Tudor Jones II believes that it can be. Jones is the founder of the Tudor Investment Corporation and the Tudor Group, which trade in the fixed-income, equity, currency and commodity markets. He thinks it is time to expand the "narrow definiti...Read More
China's Place in the New World Economic Order … Competition between the world's two greatest economic powers is both inevitable and (for the most part) beneficial. This is the case even when China and the U.S. are arguing over control of increasingly obsolescent international financial institutions. – BloombergDominant Social Theme: The New World Order is coming to town?Free-Ma...Read More
Justice, capitalism and progress: Paul Tudor Jones II at TED2015 … Can capital be just? As a firm believer in capitalism and the free market, Paul Tudor Jones II believes that it can be. Jones is the founder of the Tudor Investment Corporation and the Tudor Group, which trade in the fixed-income, equity, currency and commodity markets. He thinks it is time to expand the "narrow definiti...Read More
China's Place in the New World Economic Order … Competition between the world's two greatest economic powers is both inevitable and (for the most part) beneficial. This is the case even when China and the U.S. are arguing over control of increasingly obsolescent international financial institutions. – BloombergDominant Social Theme: The New World Order is coming to town?Free-Ma...Read More
Central Bank Autonomy Is Under Attack … Current events in Cyprus and Turkey hammer home a point that former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan made in the memoirs he published in September 2007. Central bank independence, Greenspan said, is "not set in stone." Left unsaid was the fact that it should be. Against an ever-shifting political backdrop, monetary policy can provide a...Read More
Global population growth threatens to outstrip fresh water supply: study … Global demand for fresh water is set to outstrip supply as a result of population growth by the middle of this century if current levels of consumption continue, a study said. – ReutersDominant Social Theme: The world is running out of everything. Soon we will freeze in the dark … or maybe die of thirst.Fr...Read More
Central Bank Autonomy Is Under Attack … Current events in Cyprus and Turkey hammer home a point that former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan made in the memoirs he published in September 2007. Central bank independence, Greenspan said, is "not set in stone." Left unsaid was the fact that it should be. Against an ever-shifting political backdrop, monetary policy can provide a...Read More