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After three straight months of sagging retail sales, American consumers flush with stimulus money went on a spending spree last month. Retail sales surged 5.3% to start the year, significantly beating expectations. In his podcast, Peter Schiff called it Christmas in January.

While many investors believe we are heading towards a huge inflationary trend, the opposite could be the case.  In my newest Metals & Market Update, I provide charts showing how overvalued the market is becoming and a small video explaining how the GDX Gold Miners ETF is signaling a major...

The massive power failure in Texas during the record freeze is a prelude to the coming disaster in the United States.  I do not mean to be an "Alarmist," but as the country has significantly changed the electric power grid structure, we are setting ourselves up for a massive failure and series of failures...

Palladium was manipulated for years. It had the largest short position relative to its size, while physical demand rose inversely to decreasing supply. Could Silver be next?

When this happens, it becomes necessary for to protect one's savings with gold, silver, inflation-linked instruments, and stocks in sectors that do not suffer from negative rates.

One of my earliest childhood memories was my grandmother and me bringing home groceries and her ranting about rising grocery prices.

Jobless claims for the week ending February 6 were reported last week as 793,000. That was supposedly a sign of a strong job recovery. But it didn't happen.

Here are 21 headlines from various news sources regarding dire climate predictions over the last 50 years. Many of the predictions are outrageously funny.

The risks of ongoing business failures in the United States "remain considerable" even as the economy emerges from the coronavirus pandemic, the Federal Reserve said on Friday in its semi-annual monetary policy report to Congress.

We are on the cusp of a new commodity supercycle. Commodities are one of the most compelling long-term investment opportunities.

"Were any issues to arise that could affect the willingness or ability of both domestic and foreign investors to use Tether, the most likely result would be a severe liquidity shock to the broader cryptocurrency market."

What main street needs isn’t just money, but a greater sense of certainty in what is ahead. And today there is no one offering a compelling and unifying vision of the future offering hope.

House Budget Chair Rep. John Yarmuth (D-KY) has released the nearly 600-page combined text of the $1.9 trillion stimulus package, which includes a federal minimum wage hike that President Biden insisted wouldn't happen after Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) said it was a non-starter.

With stocks pushing to new heights on valuations not seen in decades, and as corporate bond yields plunge, the central bank official said he’s not worried about current pricing.

President Joe Biden promised on Friday to repair what he called “strained” relationships with European allies and NATO partners in the wake of his predecessor’s “America first” foreign policy.

The president also noted that “this is also how we’re going to be able to meet the threat from Russia,” which wants to “weaken the European project and our NATO alliance.”

Will the Fed be able to control future inflation and shrink its balance sheet back to a reasonable size?

Our central bank is conducting fiscal policy masquerading as monetary policy. How a change in the Fed’s framework took us from funny money to crony credit.

Our good friend Adam Taggart, sat down with highly-respected economic analyst Stephanie Pomboy of MacroMavens.com to discuss how the discrepancy between today’s record financial asset prices and the underlying economy they’re supposed to reflect are the farthest off she’s ever seen in her entire career.She predicts a shockingly painful market correction looms in the coming months.But worse than that, she expects that the central banks and their respective government will continue their stimulus expansion, stoking inflation and continuing to worsen society’s accelerating wealth