By: Ira EpsteinGold short-term is paused, figuring out what next?Read More
By Robert LambourneThe Bank for International Settlements' has just published its statement of account for June and it indicate that the bank is still actively trading gold swaps, which the bank uses to gain access to gold held by commercial banks. But recent activity appears to be much reduced from the second half of 2018.There is not enough information in the monthly reports to calculate the e...Read More
- No Easy Solutions- A Radical Restructuring of the Economy and Tax Code- MP3?- A Brief Commercial- New York, Maine, and MontanaThis is the final letter of the six-part series of my reply to Ray Dalio's essays. Here are some links to help you wrap it all together.Ray's original letter: Why and How Capitalism Needs to Be Reformed, Parts 1 and 2His follow-up: It's Time to Look More Carefully at...Read More
Here are five Fastmarkets MB stories you might have missed on Friday July 12 that are worth another look.The antimony standard-grade II price softened on Friday July 12, and while the price for indium rose slightly the metal remains under pressure due to slow demand. Aluminium foundry premiums in the United States and Europe have fallen over the past month, pressured lower by a lack of demand...Read More
Here are five Fastmarkets MB stories you might have missed on Friday July 12 that are worth another look.The antimony standard-grade II price softened on Friday July 12, and while the price for indium rose slightly the metal remains under pressure due to slow demand. Aluminium foundry premiums in the United States and Europe have fallen over the past month, pressured lower by a lack of demand...Read More
China's economic growth slowed to 6.2% in the second quarter from a year earlier, the weakest pace in at least 27 years, while separate data showed the country's industrial output and retail sales handily topped forecasts, Reuters reported. Base metals were mixed on the London Metal Exchange on Friday and nickel continued its rise. It closed up 2.6% to $13,470 per tonne for three-month d...Read More
The company mined 7,000t of high grade ore (14.5% zinc and 6.Read More
The miner said on Saturday it had been awarded US$40.Read More
Trump's newest economic adviser is a goldbug.Economist Judy Shelton has been a longtime supporter of the return to the gold standard.In August 2016, Shelton was interviewed on CNN, saying, "I think we need another Bretton Woods. Or at least we need to be thinking in terms of a neutral reference point - a global unit of account. I mean something like a gold standard even, updated to reflect a digit...Read More
"I've never been poor, only broke. Being poor is a frame of mind. Being broke is only a temporary situation." Mike Todd, movie producer, Elizabeth Taylor's third husband; 1903-1958 "It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark." Warren Buffett, Business magnate, investor, speaker, philanthropist, CEO Berkshire Hathaway, b. 1930 "Beware of inside information...all inside information." Jesse Liverm...Read More
By Avi GilburtI can no longer count how many times I have been told that "squiggly lines cannot predict the market." Yet, anyone who has tracked us over the long term knows how successful we have been at predicting many major market turns and targets with these "squiggly lines." In fact, we have done so in many markets including metals, equities, Forex, bonds, etc.The issue that many have with o...Read More
By signaling a move toward easing, Powell has made ready to cushion the U.S. against an economic slowdown that has been gathering force around the world. Although it is never wise to fight the Fed, we should be very guarded this time, scanning the horizon for signs of monetary-policy fissures. They are not likely to be obvious right away, since loosening will initially have a bullish impact on...Read More
David Stockman is a former Republican congressman from Michigan and was President Reagan's budget director from 1981 to 1985. After leaving the White House, Stockman became a managing director at Salomon Brothers, and he later founded a private equity fund. David is the founder of David Stockman's Contra Corner, and he is the author of The Great Deformation: The Corruption of Capitalism in America...Read More
What is up with the silver market? Join Mike Maloney as he dives into two immensely powerful data sets that suggest that something big is happening behind the scenes.Link to the article: https://www.goldmoney.com/research/goldmoney-insights/a-whale-is-accumulating-silver-futuresMichael Maloney is a precious metals investment expert and historian. He is the founder and owner of GoldSilver.com, a gl...Read More
The FBI plans to step up its efforts to gather information from social media - issuing a call last week for a new tool to monitor Twitter, Facebook, InstagramContinue...Read More
Recently several prominent social and populist conservatives have attacked libertarianism. These conservatives, some of whom are allies in the fight against our hyper-interventionist foreign policy, blame libertarianism for a variety of social and economic ills. The conservative attack on libertarianism - like the attack on the freedom philosophy launched by leftists - is rooted in factual, econom...Read More
Topics:- Keith's outlook for gold.- Keith's outlook for silver.- A true insider's unique perspective on the gold-to-silver ratio.- What's going on in the mining sector?- What's going on over at First Majestic Silver Corp?- Does Keith see a recession coming, and what about a debt reset?- Industrial use of silver- Central bank manipulation of gold & silver.- It's tough to be a contrarian and a value...Read More
The dollar price of gold has been on a roller-coaster ride for the past six years. But the past six weeks have been a turbocharged version of that. Investors should expect Continue...Read More
You should completely understand that the market is dangerously overvalued and that global economic growth has slowed to a crawl along with S&P 500 earnings. However, you must Continue...Read More
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 Fed. An unwavering defender of the US Constitution, Paul has been an advocate of sound money, personal liberty, free markets, and international peace throughout his political career...Read More