"We can ignore reality, but we cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality." - Ayn RandSomething big is happening beneath the surface of a Dow and S&P 500 trading near all-time highs. The soaring repo rate, more demand for overnight Fed funding loans than is being supplied and a big move in the price of gold since the end of May are clear indicators.The global financial system is unsusta...Read More

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:Delighted as we all may be with this week's news -- the new indictments of JPMorganChase employees involved with the gold market, the U.S. Justice Department's designation of the investment bank as a criminal enterprise, and the prospects of more indictments -- GATA has to admit a couple of things about the situation.First, the market manipulation of which the bank's...Read More

Gary Christenson, Deviant InvestorFrom Ralph Waldo Emerson: "It's not the destination, it's the journey."His insight applies in life, investing, analysis, the S&P 500 Index, gold, silver and others. Consider these examples.You have $10 million to invest in a business and are searching for a manager. CEO #1 and CEO #2 have both amassed a personal fortune over $100 million. Which one do you choose...Read More

The Fed's so-far $128 billion intervention in the repo market slipped off the Wall Street Journal's front page by evening, hardly a concern. Don't be surprised if, years from now, the squeeze on short-term borrowers that caused this flurry of excitement is cited as an early warning sign of the banking system's coming collapse. On Tuesday, there simply weren't enough dollars around to keep short...Read More

By: Gary SavageGold $1,450 / $1,480 as potential downside targets. Gold is just going to take some time to undergo intermediate correction..Read More

The behind-the-scenes commentary! Have you ever wondered just what went into the spectacular productions that Mike has been bringing you for so many years? Let Mike show you how the magic happens as he walks you through the extraordinary work his innovative, talented, and driven team. Mike will let you in on the single best restaurant he's ever been to in his world travels (an out-of-the-way Rome...Read More

Charles Hugh Smith weights in on the FED's dangerous game of financial chess with our economy, on top of that we dive deep into the correlation between our living standards and the stock market.With QE insanity all around, are Gold and Bitcoin the answer to protecting our wealth from long term destruction? TOPICS IN THIS INTERVIEW:02:45 A correlation between the stock market and living standards05...Read More

According to our good friend Jeff Berwick, reality is completely upside down and reversed. Like in Orwell's novel 1984, ignorance is strength, slavery is freedom etc. People in America believe they're completely free, when in reality the opposite is becoming more true by the day. Jeff's prescription is anarcho-capitalism, free trade in the absence of any government. Whether it's workable or not is...Read More

James "Jim" Grant is an American writer and publisher and the founder of Grant's Interest Rate Observer, a twice-monthly journal of the financial markets. He is the author , most recently, of The Forgotten Depression: 1921: The Crash That Cured Itself. Grant's television appearances include "60 Minutes," "The Charlie Rose Show," Bloomberg TV, CNBC and other well-known financial news sources. His j...Read More

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Gunmaker Colt says it is temporarily stopping production of rifles for the civilian market including the AR-15.Continue...Read More

In a Wednesday Fox News video commentary, former New Jersey state Judge Andrew Napolitano describes the great privacy invasion capability of government entities in Great BritainContinue...Read More

Peter Schiff discusses JP Morgan precious metals traders charged with manipulating gold and silver futures. Peter Schiff is an internationally recognized economist specializing in the foreign equity, currency and gold markets. Mr. 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 quot...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

I have been warning that we are headed into a major financial crisis that will be a liquidity event that involves government - not simply the private sector as was the case in 2008.Continue...Read More

The farmers and laborers had just finished collecting pine nuts and were taking a break. Continue...Read More

"There are other options involving the financial markets, Wall Street, you know, the president has a whole range of options," Pillsbury warned.Continue...Read More

For the past couple of weeks we've been watching gold and silver gyrate around the charts like a stoned hippie at a Grateful Dead concert. Prior to that both metals were moving, steadily, consistently to higher ground. Then a drone bombing of one of the largest oil fields on planet earth in Saudi Arabia was quickly flowed by Federal Reserve Chairman, Jerome Powell stating the obvious - quarter per...Read More

Fund manager Matt Geiger provides his overview of the resource market and shares some principles he is using to invest in today's market. The natural resource landscape has shifted dramatically since the end of 2018. At the time, we were still nursing our wounds from an unexpectedly vicious 2018 and hoping to avoid a repeat performance in 2019. I did speculate that "we may have already exited the...Read More

Bill Powers of Mining Stock Education interviewed Greg Crowe, president and CEO of Silver One Resources, at the recent Beaver Creek Precious Metals Summit, and got an overview of the company's two Nevada silver projects and their potential upside for investors.Bill Powers: For about three years you've been the CEO of Silver One Resources Inc. (SVE:TSX.V; BRK1:FSE; SLVRF:OTC). You're focused in Nev...Read More