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Powell Says It's 'Highly Unlikely' the Fed Will Raise Rates This Year, Despite Stronger EconomyApr 12, 2021 - 05:13:05 PDT
Fed Chairman Jerome Powell has reaffirmed the central bank’s commitment to keep loose monetary policy in place.
As I mentioned in our John Deere Trade Trigger last week, we planned to add more short positions if the price continued higher. And that is exactly what we did during early market trading. However, we believe John Deere's stock price will likely move higher, depending on the overall market's direction...
GLOBAL AUTOMOTIVE SILVER CONSUMPTION TO SURGE BY 2025: How Much Silver In Each Vehicle?April 12, 2021
As the world transitions to more electric vehicles over the next five years, silver consumption in the global automotive industry is forecasted to surge by 2025. All of this is taking place right when investors are beginning to wake up to the SILVER STORY. With so much debt, money printing, and liquidity being used...
In today’s market update, our friend Adam Taggart, speaks to investigative journalist Bethany McLean, an expert on crisis.She has written New York Times best-selling books on the collapse of Enron (The Smartest Guys In The Room) as well as the mortgage industry and Wall Street abuses that led to the 2008 Great Financial Crisis (All The Devils Are Here and Shaky Ground).So when she says she’s deeply worried about today’s macro environment, we’d better take notice.
In this video update, I provide examples of how the Falling EROI is negatively impacting several sectors in the global economy. The Falling Energy Returned On Investment (EROI) is the number one equation that allows all living systems the ability to live or die. When the EROI falls to a certain level, then the collapse...
In all, these treasures include three hoards of gold and silver coins, gold and silver rings, and personal items worn by upper-class members of Welsh society from the ninth to the 17th centuries A.D., according to a statement from the Amgueddfa Cymru — National Museum Wales released March 29.
Two weeks ago in this space, we brought to your attention a looming and growing problem within the fractional reserve bullion industry. The situation has seemingly gotten more dire in the past few days..
Gold fell more than 1% on Friday, weighed down by a rising dollar and U.S. Treasury yields, but bullion was still on course to for its first weekly gain in three.
Americans appear to be growing more concerned about the skyrocketing national debt level – officially $28.1 trillion and counting.
The lesson of China's Cultural Revolution in my view is that once the lid blows off, everything that was linear (predictable) goes non-linear (unpredictable, fragmented, contingent, emergent, prone to extremes, uncontrollable). If America experiences a Cultural Revolution, the outcome won't lend itself to tidiness or predictability.
The American Rescue Plan is the latest attempt to create economic growth from debt. Our fear is it won't and instead contributes to weaker future growth.
Investors Have Put More Money Into Stocks in the Last 5 Months Than the Previous 12 Years CombinedApr 9, 2021 - 11:48:02 PDT
Those numbers easily could exacerbate ongoing worries about financial market bubbles as valuations are around the same levels as just before the dot-com bubble popped in 2000. But these are not ordinary times.
...At the end of the day all investing boils down to just three axes: liquidity (how much money central banks are injecting or draining which is a function of interest rates and QE), risk (how sensitive traders are to bad news, and how much downside there is) and growth (corporate profits and macroeconomic upside). The rest is noise.
But as prices reach eye-watering levels in some regions, watch for governments’ attempt to deflate bubbles before they can burst.
The Treasury market’s weight has shifted around in the past year, meaning the Federal Reserve’s $80 billion monthly purchases no longer fit the way they’re supposed to. A reevaluation of how much the central bank is buying of each maturity is in order, likely in the coming months...
Biden Calls for an Extra $1.2 Billion to Help Fund More Tax Audits of Rich AmericansApr 9, 2021 - 11:19:23 PDT
Biden is calling for $1.2 billion in additional funding for the IRS, largely so the agency can funnel more resources to audit wealthy taxpayers and corporations.
"Yellen plainly feels individual U.S. tax rates aren’t high enough, so she seeks global tax harmonization on the corporate level in order to get another swipe at individuals. On their own, Yellen’s desires rate ridicule. As evidenced by the trillions Treasury collects every year from taxpayers...
President Biden has just unveiled a new $2.3 trillion “infrastructure” plan, but a shockingly large portion of this bill is actually unrelated to infrastructure.
Biden To Boost Already Bloated Pentagon Budget With Proposed $715 BillionApr 9, 2021 - 10:41:32 PDT
Despite progressive lawmakers in his own party long demanding a serious reduction in the Pentagon's notoriously bloated budget, President Biden on Friday is expected to request a whopping $715 billion for the Pentagon for fiscal year 2022.
Biden Poised to Issue Executive Order to Force Banks and Investors to Reveal Climate Exposure: MWApr 9, 2021 - 10:37:58 PDT
President Joe Biden is set to issue an executive order on climate disclosure within capital markets, a move that could shift investments overall with implications for the fossil-fuel and renewables sectors, according to U.S. climate envoy John Kerry.