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
The decline in the bellwether Turkish ferrous scrap market, along with sluggish long steel demand that led buyers to adopt a wait-and-see approach, applied downward pressure on billet prices in most regions in the week ended Friday July 12.Fastmarkets' daily index for steel scrap, HMS 1&2 (80:20 mix), North Europe origin, cfr Turkey, was $282.08 per tonne on July 12, down by $14.10 per tonne from...Read More
The decline in the bellwether Turkish ferrous scrap market, along with sluggish long steel demand that led buyers to adopt a wait-and-see approach, applied downward pressure on billet prices in most regions in the week ended Friday July 12.Fastmarkets' daily index for steel scrap, HMS 1&2 (80:20 mix), North Europe origin, cfr Turkey, was $282.08 per tonne on July 12, down by $14.10 per tonne from...Read More
July 12th, 2019(S14-E704)Featured GuestsDr. Marc Faber& John ScurciPlease Listen HereInterview RecapFrom his Thailand office, Dr. Marc Faber, a globally renowned economist and editor of the GloomBoomDoom report, returns with his outlook.According to Dr. Faber, the global economy is on the cusp of a recession. Investors are advised to batten down the hatches.A global / domestic economic maelstro...Read More
By: David HaggithThis month the economic expansion brought to you by your Federal Reserve and by US government largess becomes the longest expansion in the history of the United States! That's something, right? Something? Let's take an honest look at what we now call great.By "the longest expansion" we mean the longest period in which US GDP has been growing without a recession. Now, that's some...Read More
By: Gary SavageGold's commercial short position will not crash gold, analysts are mistaken:Read More
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:Modern Monetary Theory, which has been getting much attention lately, is so controversial mainly because it is misunderstood.It is misunderstood first because it is not a theory at all but a truism.That is, MMT holds essentially that a government issuing a currency without a fixed link to a commodity like gold or silver is constrained in its currency issuance only by...Read More
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