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China’s economic recovery displayed mixed signals while remaining broadly steady in October, with small businesses turning more cautious and the property market weakening even as car sales soar.

With its ad hoc rescues and bailouts of regional lenders, the country’s central bank risks fueling a larger financial crisis.

The mainstream isn't worried about inflation. In fact, we're told inflation is muted. And that's true, at least by some measures. We haven’t seen the rising consumer price index (CPI) you might expect as central banks inject trillions of dollars created out of thin air into the economy. But just because government numbers don't reflect it  - yet -  that doesn’t mean there isn’t inflation. In fact, defined correctly, increasing the money supply is inflation. And we certainly have plenty of that.
The fact is inflation is here and it will almost certainly find its way to consumer prices eventually.

Boeing reported another rough quarter as it faces weak jetliner demand, the continued grounding of its 737 Max and the coronavirus pandemic

Homebuyer demand had mortgage lenders incredibly busy over the summer, but that may have now peaked. Mortgage applications to purchase a home were essentially flat last week, after falling for four straight weeks before.

This past weekend, over a thousand investors and like-minded folks tuned in to see Mike Maloney, Jeff Clark, and an all-star line-up of speakers during the Peak Prosperity virtual seminar. If you didn’t get a chance to see it, we've provided the highlights and access to the replay.

U.S. stock futures fell sharply early Wednesday as investors feared an increase in coronavirus infections could halt the recovering economy.

This data has been steadily accumulating for months. Vitamin D has been known to be a powerful immunomodulator for decades. It's also known to be extremely safe...almost ridiculously safe.

A pullback to $1788 should not cause much emotional stress in a properly positioned investor.  Unfortunately, there’s no...

The coronavirus has infected more than 43.8 million people globally as of Tuesday, killing at least 1.16 million people so far.

What will trigger the next trending move?

The current situation in the markets is setting up for a continued disintegration of the U.S. and the global economy in 2021.  With the second wave of the pandemic now hitting many areas in the U.S. and worldwide, governments are starting the process of locking down their economies once again...

Or are financial journalism and market analysis merely failing again?

Gold prices edged higher on Tuesday, helped by a weaker dollar and worries over a second surge in coronavirus cases, although the safe-haven metal held a narrow range as investors' focus on next week's U.S. presidential election.

But the real message is that the solutions to current debt levels are inflationary. That means revaluing the dollar either through a higher gold price or marking the gold to market and giving the government money.

As bad as things are—and make no mistake, they’re bad—we’ve regained some lost ground since the March/April depths. But the problem is in the “here and there” part. Some parts of the economy are literally booming even as others are in a deep, dark depression.

In a market economy, a major service that money provides is that of the medium of exchange. Producers exchange their goods for money and then exchange money for other goods.

Something is afoot here. And someone is going to be wrong.

Don't expect healthcare or any other hollowed-out, heavily optimized system to function as it once did.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average and S&P 500 fell once again on Tuesday as the coronavirus continues to batter the U.S. ahead of next week’s presidential election.