The Fed’s latest policies should put the issue to rest. But this may be a very costly experiment.
Why in the world were they using gold-plated tungsten and copper when they could have just spray-painted old two-by-fours?
We are at a key pivot point in investment history. The monetary environment is going to change the investment landscape going forward. I have found there are very few investment cycles in an investor’s lifetime. These are periods or cycles where...
The coming world of monetary inflation and sluggish growth has a name: stagflation. And based on America's last experience with it in the 1970s, it's a hard time to feed a family, but a spectacular time to own gold and silver. This is what silver did back then.
The only realistic Plan B is a fundamental, permanent re-ordering of the cost structure of the entire U.S. economy.
"To get the employment-to-population ratio back to where it was at its peak in 2000 we need to create 30 million jobs," said Torsten Slok, Deutsche Bank's chief economist.
With the Fed considering a new monetary policy tool to help hold interest rates low amid the downturn, clues to the tactic’s effectiveness can be found far away: in Australia.
"We knew for years that he doesn't have much gold ― all he has is copper."
The precious metals market is likely to decline, just like it had declined in the first half of March, and there's a reason gold hasn't plunged just yet...
The massive fiscal response to the coronavirus crisis will play a big role in driving federal deficits to an average of $2 trillion a year for the next 10 years, according to new projections from the non-partisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget.
Inflation can wreck even the safest portfolio by eroding the value of investments for decades. The last major episode was back in the 1970s and ’80s, and inflation has all but disappeared since the 2008 financial crisis.
Overprescription of monetary medicine has the economy addled, addicted and searching for a fix.
Lenders have pulled back sharply on lending to U.S. consumers during the coronavirus crisis. One reason: They can’t tell who is creditworthy anymore.
It’s a cash cliff millions of Americans face this summer as the emergency benefits — which lifted U.S. consumer incomes by a record 10.8% in April — expire.
Without fixes for infrastructure, education, health care and government, the U.S. will resemble a developing nation in a few decades.
A "perfect storm" of surging government debt levels, plunging real bond yields, rising coronavirus cases and deteriorating economic forecasts pushed the price of gold to an eight-year high last week, and some analysts now project the metal to top its all-time high within the next 12 months.
The Business Roundtable, a trade group representing the CEOs of the country's biggest companies, released its second-quarter report on Monday.
House Democrats passed $3 trillion coronavirus relief legislation last month, but the Senate has delayed action until at least July.
Mohamed El-Erian, chief economic advisor at Allianz, joins "Squawk Box" to give his take on the state of the economy and to discuss what he's watching ahead of the shortened trading week.
Hugh Hendry, after soaking up years of too much sun and injesting God knows what else down there, now seems to be advocating for potential hyperinflation.