Freshly back from speaking at the Sprott 2020 Natural Resources Symposium , David Smith, the Sr. Analyst at The Morgan Report, returns to Liberty and Finance / Reluctant Preppers to offer highlights and key takeaways from the conference, and to answer our questions about precious metals, mining, and the historic times we are traversing!David H. Smith is senior analyst for The Morgan Report, and a...Read More
Topics discussed include how to handle the rest of this pandemic and the next one, the power of the mask, geronticide, and soul in the game.Continue...Nassim Taleb spent 20 years as a derivatives trader and, after closing 650,000 option transactions and examining 200,000 risk reports, he changed careers in 2006 to become a scholar and philosophical essayist. Taleb is currently Distinguished Profes...Read More
Newrange Gold reported first results from the drill program at its Pamlico Gold project in Mineral County, Nevada. In a news release, Vancouver-based precious metals exploration and development company Newrange Gold Corp. (NRG:TSX.V; NRGOF:OTC) announced "the first results from the ongoing reverse circulation (RC) drilling program at the Pamlico Gold project in Nevada."The firm noted that 25 hole...Read More
The mineralization at Aurania Resources' flagship project is 'resolving into specific targets.' Aurania Resources Ltd. (ARU:TSX.V; AUIAF:OTCQB) announced in a news release it confirmed high-grade copper-silver in the Tsenken B target area of its flagship Ecuadorian Lost Cities-Cutucu project."We are very encouraged to see the copper-silver in the Tsenken area resolving into specific targets that...Read More
Technical analyst Clive Maund charts warning signs of a Fed-driven stock market downturn. There is a now widespread, universally held belief, especially among "dumb money" market participants, that the markets cannot drop because the Fed is going to keep creating money in ever greater quantities to throw at them, pumping them higher and higher. This erroneous belief appears to be based on an assu...Read More
The Critical Investor takes an in-depth look at Treasury Metals and its new acquisition in Ontario. Treasury Metals Inc. (TML:TSX: TSRMF:OTCBB) recently surprised the markets with the raising of C$11.5 million in an oversubscribed financing, after announcing the pretty interesting all-equity acquisition, worth C$44 million in shares at the time of the news release, of the neighboring Goldlund ope...Read More
Aug 05, 2020 Guest(s): Ken Hoffman Basic Materials Sr. Expert, McKinsey While Tesla's chief, Elon Musk, has called for as much nickel to be produced as possible, this doesn't mean that Tesla will be producing any minerals of their own any time soon, said Ken Hoffman, senior expert at McKinsey. "Everyone wants the same two things from an electric vehicle today, and that is, it [has the same range...Read More
LONDON, 3 August 2020 - BullionVault analysis features today in Die Welt reporting on the outlook for industrial precious metals led by silver.With gold prices setting new all-time highs this week, "In the coming months strong industrial demand for silver could have a positive impact on its price," says Germany's 5th best-selling daily newspaper, quoting BullionVault's Adrian Ash.Read the full sto...Read More
Lynette Zang has held the position of Chief Market Analyst at ITM Trading since 2002. Ms. Zang has been in the markets on some level since 1964. Her mission is to convert financial noise into understandable language. She has been a banker, a stock broker and studied world currencies since 1987. She believes strongly that we need to be as independent as possible and at the same time, we need to com...Read More
July ends with record monthly closes.Apple becomes world's most valuable company.Gold settings records.Silver has its best month since 1979.US Dollar has lost better than 99% of its value.Slow orderly decline could turn into rapid disorderly crash.10 and 30 year Treasury Bonds close with lowest yields in history.This is the 1970s on steroids.Jerome Powell levels up on not thinking about rates.Meal...Read More
"It is the square-root recovery in the sense that we came down very sharply, we saw that in today's 32.9% annualized contraction in GDP that you mentioned," El-Erian said. "We came back strongly initially - we saw that in last month's jobs report and the initial improvement in jobless claims, and now we're getting the leveling off.""And that is of worry because not only do we have to deal with the...Read More
Nouriel Roubini, NYU Stern School of Business Professor and CEO of Roubini Macro Associates, LLC joins Yahoo Finance's Julia La Roche to discuss his outlook on the global economy as the coronavirus pandemic continues, and bonus unemployment benefits expire.Nouriel Roubini, a professor at NYU's Stern School of Business and Chairman of Roubini Global Economics, was Senior Economist for International...Read More
We either seize control of our future, or risk losing it.Continue...Read More
Problems often come in bunches. And each new one adds - sometimes exponentially - to the complexity of a given situation. See One Problem Is Manageable. Five Might Not Be.Continue...Read More
Is the US Dollar's recent weakness the beginning of the end?Continue...Read More
"In the midst of the worst global economic performance ever, Russia's reserve position is near an all-time high. Not because of energy or agricultural exports. It's because theyContinue...Read More
Sector expert Michael Ballanger offers his latest analysis of how current economic circumstances are driving the gold and silver bulls. Gold barsBefore I begin this weekly missive (which is being penned on a Wednesday due to my impending cruise to the northern habitats of Georgian Bay), I need to present one quote that for me summarizes everything there is to know about risk management in the cap...Read More
No matter what shape the recovery is, the epidemic will likely have lasting, positive effects on the gold market.During the most acute phase of the pandemic and the following economic crisis, there was no time to analyze various WGC’s reports on the gold market. Let’s make up for it!I’ll start with the report “Recovery paths and impact on performance” about the gold m...Read More
Our trading team witnessed a big drop in Platinum and Palladium prices early this morning while Gold and Silver continued to push moderately higher. We began to question this move and investigate any historical relevance to previous patterns. Our research team pointed out that both Platinum and Palladium rolled lower just 3 to 4 days before the breakdown in the US stock markets on Febr...Read More
Yesterday’s session was indeed volatile around theFOMC, just like we warned,and gold even moved to its previous high, likely forming a double-top pattern.Even though gold moved higher on an intraday basis, it didn’t invalidate itsprevious breakdown, which was a bearish sign. Gold was likely to decline, andit is declining so far in today’s pre-market trading. The above chart show...Read More