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Fed Chief Powell supposedly has strong support inside Congress to fend off Trump's calls for lower interest rates. How do we know this? Well, there was this headline atop the lead story in Wednesday's Wall Street Journal: 'Powell's Support Inside Congress Is Deep'. And here was the sub-hed, in case you missed the point: 'Lawmakers on both sides say they would oppose any bid to oust the Fed chai...Read More

Trend for gold and silver is bullish. Interest rate cut towards the end of the month has been confirmed by the Federal Reserve chairman. If gold rises very sharply till Monday, then value based buying in silver should catch and there can be some rise. I am quite confident that silver will break free from the recent consolidation phase by next week. Tensions in the Persian Gulf can result in hi...Read More

You don't cut interest rates in a booming economy, you raise them. Peter Schiff discusses the record highs in the market and economy claimed by Trump and the Federal Reserve, but shows they don't actually believe what they say or they wouldn't be cutting interest rates. Their actions suggest they realize we're actually in a record bubble, and it's about to burst.Peter Schiff is an internationally...Read More

No resolution is in sight for the trade war with China and relations may even worsen, this according to Steve Hanke, professor of applied economics at Johns Hopkins University.U.S. President Donald Trump has been unwillingly to budge on his trade policies with China, but the Chinese communist regime is unlikely to make compromises either, Hanke told Kitco News. "The U.S. thinking on this thing is...Read More

Max and Stacy talk to professor Steve Keen about the problem of declining incomes and rising costs, and why MMT (Modern Monetary Theory) is not the right solution.Max Keiser is an American broadcaster and film-maker. He hosts Keiser Report, a financial program broadcast on RT. He presents a weekly show about finance and markets on London's Resonance FM, and writes for The Huffington Post. Keiser i...Read More

"If they (tourists from mainland) watch what Hong Kong people are doing, they make copies and bring back to China," she said. "We'll all have democracy in Hong Kong and in China."Continue...Read More

Both the DOW and the S&P 500 achieved records today (Thursday). Why is this happening?Fed chair cements case for cut in interest rates: https://news-flash.info/fed-chair-cem...Wall St claims that S&P500 at 3k is fundamentally justified: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/hardly...Jason Burack is an investor, entrepreneur, financial historian, Austrian School economist, and contrarian. Jason co-founded...Read More

Bank of Japan (BOJ) Governor Haruhiko Kuroda publicly stated that it may maintain ultra-low rates for a further period of well over a year. However, he also warned againstContinue...Read More

"That someone would let a tailor come on such a day is disrespectful," the CEO stated in an interview with the German newspaper Handelsblatt on Thursday.Continue...Read More

"Today, I am here to say we are not backing down on our effort to determine the citizenship status of the United States population." Continue...Read More

President Trump and Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez don't agree on much - and would be loath to admit it if they did. But their ideas on monetary policy are converging on Continue...Read More

The Canadian company remains well funded for this next program.Aben Resources Ltd. (ABN:TSX.V; ABNAF:OTCQB) announced in a news release it just started its fourth season of drilling at Forrest Kerr, on the heels of completing its planned 2019 drill program at Justin in the Yukon.At Forrest Kerr, in British Columbia's Golden Triangle, Aben will start with 5,000 meters of diamond drilling and expand...Read More

"Mueller said the social media operation was the 2nd major component of a "sweeping and systematic" Russian gov't interference campaign - yet he never actually shows Continue...Read More

The combined company will provide exposure to both near- and longer-term projects. San Albino projectTerraco Gold Corp. (TEN:TSX.V; TCEGF:OTCPK), which holds a royalty on the Spring Valley gold project in Nevada, is being acquired by Sailfish Royalty. The combined company will hold a geographically diverse set of royalties, including projects in Nevada, Mexico, Brazil and Nicaragua.According to t...Read More

Platinum has not been this cheap vs. gold since 1907 AD.In other words, in over 110 years, we have not seen platinum values slump this far versus gold.Here at SD Bullion, we have covered Platinum fundamental investment factors as well as information about supply-demand factors at play today.South Africa is the major miner of platinum ore in the world, accounting for about 70% of all new line plati...Read More

Our Adaptive Dynamic Learning (ADL)predictive price modeling system is suggesting Crude Oil will likely continueto find resistance near $64 as a price ceiling and trend lower over the next 3to 5 months – eventually breaking below the $40 price level near the end of2019 or in early 2020.Our research team believes this move could very well be contingent on a continued decline in global economi...Read More

The second half of the year is setting up favorably for theprecious metals sector, which was led in the first half by gold and gold miningstocks. Of course, the Wall Street-beholden financial media is largelyignoring metals and mining – preferring instead to give celebratory coverage toevery move toward new highs in the Dow and S&P 500.“The Dow Jones Industrial Average rallied 7.2%...Read More

- Dave Kranzler"You've assigned us the job of two direct, real-economy objectives: maximum employment, stable prices. If you assigned us [to] stabilize the dollar price of gold, monetary policy could do that, but the other things would fluctuate and we wouldn't care," Powell said from Capitol Hill. "We wouldn't care if unemployment went up or down. That wouldn't be our job anymore." - Jerome...Read More

- SRSrocco In June, the gold price finally broke above the $1,400 level after five long years. So, who was responsible for pushing the gold price to a new high since 2013? Well, if we look at the data, it most certainly wasn't the physical gold investor. And, according to several dealers I spoke with, physical gold retail investors took advantage of the $1,400+ price to sell metal rathe...Read More