Public pensions are unsustainable in many cities, states and counties. Instead of honestly addressing the problem, the very people who are causing the crisis are purposely making it worse. A big-city councilman joins Robert to give an insider's account of this corruption crisis and how it impacts your future.Robert Kiyosaki is best known as the author of Rich Dad Poor Dad, the #1 personal finance...Read More

While it is common knowledge that the US budget deficit is soaring even though the US economy is allegedly growing at a brisk, mid-2% pace, resulting in recurring bond Continue...Read More

A U.S. trade deal with China is "possible" by next Friday, according to sources who spoke to CNBC on Wednesday. Continue...Read More

After spending more than $700 billion and losing thousands of lives, the U.S. military has stopped releasing information about its progress in Afghanistan Continue...Read More

Sector expert Michael Ballanger reviews recent movements in precious metals and discusses how he is playing the market. Last week I sent out my uber-bullish call on the metals and miners at the conclusion of a period fraught with doom and despair for all things gold and silver. The criminality of the interventionists was in full bloom as they bombed gold down through that critical "Line in the San...Read More

Platinum, after making what appears to be a wash-out low in August 2018, now looks poised to be a precious metal leader, writes fund manager John Newell at Fieldhouse Capital Management. What is Platinum: Platinum is a precious transition metal that has the chemical symbol Pt and an atomic number of 78 on the periodic table. Platinum is grayish white in color and is often mistaken for silver. Plat...Read More

As we know, Gold and the US Dollar have an inverse relationship. Gold is priced in US Dollars and the drivers of each are similar (from an inverse point of view). Over long-term periods both trend in the same direction but the magnitude of the moves can vary and be quite different. The standard inverse relationship has not been a perfect one in recent months or years. In the chart below we plot Go...Read More

The silver market appears to be setting up for a big move. After spending this spring stair-stepping lower in a narrowingrange, silver prices have formed a falling wedge pattern. That pattern usuallyresolves in a powerful directional breakout. The good news for bulls is thatfalling wedges usually break out to the upside. Commercial hedgers and bullion banks (i.e., “smart money&rdqu...Read More

By: Keith Weiner The bid-ask spread of both (spot) gold and silver has blown out. Both, on March 1.In gold, the spread had been humming along around 13 cents gold is the most marketable commodity, and this is the proof, a bid-ask spread around 1bps until... *BAM!* It explodes to around 35 cents, or two and half times as wide. On the same day, silver went from half a cent to 1.5 cents, or about...Read More

Bob Hoye & Chris Waltzek Ph.D. - April 30th, 2019. * .Mp3HighlightsBob Hoye, Editor & Chief Investment Strategist of Charts and Markets.com rejoins the show with must-hear commentary. FOMC policymakers set the overnight lending rate this week. The current FFF at the CME which indicates the Fed could begin a new round of QE within a year. There are strong probabilities of a rate cut by Dec. / J...Read More

By: Dave KranzlerThe semiconductor stocks continued melting up last week until Intel threw some cold water on the Dutch tulip bulb price-chasing party. TXN reported Tuesday after the close. Revenues declined 5% from the year-earlier quarter. The management stated that "demand continued to slow across most markets. TXN then said Q2 revenues would drop 10% from Q2 2018. It said earnings would be d...Read More

By: Richard (Rick) Mills, Ahead of the herd "Whoever has an army has power." - Mao Zedong In March Italy broke ranks with its EU partners in joining China's Belt and Road Initiative, known also as One Belt, One Road or the New Silk Road. Students of history know the original "Silk Road" refers to the ancient network of trading routes between China and Europe, which served as both a conduit fo...Read More

By: Gary ChristensonI'll show you real money. It looks like this: Those circulating dollar bills, euros, pounds, and yen are DEBTS (notes) issued by central banks to extract wealth from citizens and the economy, dilute the purchasing power of the currency, and nourish the banking cartel.From Graham Summers:"The problem of course is once it has done this [created the 'everything bubble'], the F...Read More

By: IRA EPSTEINGold at an important point, $1,300 resistance - gold at an important juncture:Read More

Google was down a hellacious 112 points, or 9%, at Tuesday's low, but the plunge did little damage to the bullish look of the weekly chart:The fact that this occurred after the stock had pushed above last July's record high makes the selloff merely corrective rather than impulsive. It was attributable to a dour earnings report which suggested Google is losing ground in advertising to Amazon and...Read More

RAPAPORT... It's not often that a jewel sells for almost double itspre-auction estimate, but that happened this week with a rare Kashmir sapphireat Bonhams. The 17.43-carat stone fetched GBP 723,062 ($944,713), or close to$54,000 per carat, beating its high valuation of GBP 400,000 ($521,440). The cushion-shaped, vivid-blue stone dates to the late 19thor early 20th century, and was formerly o...Read More

RAPAPORT... Jewelers of America (JA) has announced the winners of its 29thannual CASE Awards for jewelry design, recognizing retail members whose piecesfeature creativity, artistry, style and excellence. A panel of judges chose the honorees from a group of 54applicants, evaluating entries' overall design, marketability, practicalityand wearability of the design, and manufacturing quality. "Th...Read More

RAPAPORT... Taking a break from the self-adulation typical of awards ceremonies, the Couture show has invited exhibitors to showcase the worst piece of jewelry they've ever designed. The WTF?! Awards will see applicants describe their designs with the opening sentence, "So what I was thinking was..."They have until May 15 to submit their designs, and the Couture community will vote on the win...Read More

RAPAPORT... Mejuri, a luxury-jewelry brand that sells directly to consumers online, has raised $23 million from investors as it looks to expand its operations.The Canada-based company will use the funds to open more physical stores, develop the business internationally, and invest in branding and customer experience, it said. The startup operates primarily as ane-commerce site, but also...Read More

How to monitor and manage your Tailings Storage FacilitySPONSOREDisometrixWhite Gold Corp a force in Yukon as exploration drive reaps dividendsSPONSOREDwhite gold corpQuality emerges at Galan's blue-chip lithium addressSPONSOREDgalan lithiumAltech ticks boxes on path to production SPONSOREDaltech chemicals"Today's PEA demonstrates the La Mina VMS project is a high-return, capital efficient and...Read More