The fragile ice shelf of speculative bets and debt clinging to the mountainside is making strange creaking sounds-- will you listen or will you ignore it because 'the Fed has our back'?
In 2017, I discussed the "Unavoidable Pension Crisis." While most didn't want to believe the risk, two years later, the "Pension Crisis" has arrived.
President Xi Jinping says China will step up its preparedness for armed combat and improve its ability to carry out military tasks.
"We continue to worry – a lot – about how US small business will recover from the COVID Crisis, primarily because of this segment’s impact on the American labor market."
Here's more evidence that demand for gold & silver bullion is surging. The question is, what kind of sales would it take to overwhelm the market?
There are new tools and a whole new sub-unit at the DOJ's disposal, supposedly. Here are the details...
The chief economist of the European Central Bank on Tuesday said falling prices rather than rising ones are a more likely to result from the coronavirus...
Europe's coronavirus pandemic has amplified financial vulnerabilities, raising the spectre of further crises ahead as debt levels soar and banks struggle, the European Central Bank said on Tuesday. With the euro zone economy expected to shrink by a tenth this year, governments have pulled many stops...
Canada’s economy will continue to require significant amounts of stimulus in the rebuilding phase, even with the potential for higher debt levels to fuel financial vulnerabilities, according to the outgoing head of the country’s central bank.Bank of Canada Governor Stephen Poloz,...
The Bank of Japan decided on Friday to launch a new lending facility that aims to channel more funds to small and midsize businesses suffering from the economic blow of the coronavirus pandemic. In an emergency policy meeting, the central bank also extended the deadline...
The Federal Reserve has already unleashed a barrage of new policies to keep the economy out of depression. Investors reckon it’s lining up another one. The Fed’s version of the strategy known as yield-curve control is expected to involve capping yields on government bonds of a chosen maturity...
The Perth Mint gold bullion bar and coin sales reached 120,504 troy ounces in April, while silver bullion sales were 2.1 million oz. Thus, the Perth Mint sold 17 times more silver bullion than gold last month. Figures in the chart below are shown in troy oz.
Deutsche Bank chief executive Christian Sewing said on Tuesday that markets were too optimistic in their assessment of a recovery from the coronavirus crisis.
The European Commission will unveil Wednesday a new coronavirus-related stimulus package and expectations are that it could boost markets across Europe.
“He wants to print more money, because he wants to put it into the hands of the lowest third of income earners.”
When it comes to seasonality, astute traders and investors can profitably exploit the markets, and gold & silver are no exception...
Many analysts and economists are trying to predict the shape of the economic recovery post-COVID-19. To understand what the recovery may look like, we need to look at past recoveries and at the history of pandemics.
he euro-area economy is still facing severe threats even after policy makers took unprecedented measures to tackle the coronavirus pandemic, according to the European Central Bank.The deep recession has exposed new risks to the financial system and exacerbated pre-existing ones, the ECB,,,
The supply of homes for sale fell 19.7% annually to 1.47 million units for sale at the end of April. That is the lowest April inventory figure ever. That drop in inventory pushed prices to a record high.
Maybe 'hope' is a strategy after all?