Precious metals news

The lower-for-longer drumbeat is playing at most global central banks, paving the path for gold’s return to the $1,500 perch after a two-week gap. Expectations grew that the Federal Reserve will add to the rhythm with its own rate cut next week.

But the Duke professor who created it told us everyone should still be prepared for the worst.

As corporate earnings reports roll in, analysts are keeping a close eye on profit margins as a possible early warning signal for the markets and economy.

The global Libor-rigging prosecution sputtered toward its final chapter on Thursday when a federal judge in Manhattan said she wouldn’t jail two former Deutsche Bank AG traders convicted last year of manipulating the benchmark interest rate.

The third-quarter earnings session is upon us, and many companies have indicated that a “strong” dollar will hit their bottom lines.

Argentine society has gone through two hyperinflationary outbreaks (1989 and 1990), an astronomical crisis in 2001, and a foreign debt default that same year.

United States foreign policy under President Donald Trump continues to run counter to America’s traditional post-war objectives. Should the US carelessly relinquish leadership of the global multilateral order, the dollar might eventually lose its own long-standing primacy.

Calls for massive student debt forgiveness. A. Wayne Johnson had been COO of the Office of Federal Student Aid, which manages the country's $1.6 trillion outstanding student loan portfolio.

The Fed likely will finish its "midcycle adjustment" and remove language that it will "act as appropriate to sustain the expansion," according to Goldman Sachs.

Should investors look at gold differently than other commodities?

Over the coming decade, the current growth based system and paradigms will fall by the wayside. The global trickle-down mantra is already failing, and will entirely come apart.

Is it so hard to believe that after the U.S. equity market hit 140% of GDP this year, the S&P 500 could suffer a similar fate? Of course it is - we're in the midst of another mania, and there is only room for belief in the impossible.

Is it so hard to believe that after the U.S. equity market hit 140% of GDP this year, the S&P 500 could suffer a similar fate? Of course it is - we're in the midst of another mania, and there is only room for belief in the impossible.

Great news for GoldSilver followers - Mike Maloney recently spoke with Ronni Stoeferle of the ‘In Gold We Trust’ report and had a very in-depth discussion about the global economy, gold, and investing in general. As you know, Mike Maloney loves charts, and Ronni’s team has just published a ‘Chart Book’ to accompany their extensive annual report. In this new series of videos, Mike picks out his favorite charts from this summary and dives into the data.

"The Federal Reserve is derelict in its duties if it doesn’t lower the Rate and even, ideally, stimulate..."

Chart book of the In Gold We Trust report 2019. Ronald-Peter Stoeferle Mark J. Valek October 2019

If the economy stumbles, Federal Reserve cuts and bond buying may push bonds across the zero line.

The US government is spending money and running up debt at an unfathomable rate. The US national debt increased by a staggaring $814 billion in just two months. When confronted with this reality, most people just shrug. Policymakers certainly don't care. They continue to ramp up spending and call for even more. Paul Krugman recently tweeted that we need more government stimulus — ie spending — to stoke tepid demand.
Democrats have never cared about spending and Republicans swear tax cuts will grow the economy and fix the debt problem. But as we've reported many times, debt retards economic growth.
Now we have even more evidence that government stimulus doesn't stimulate. In fact, it has the exact opposite effect, as we can see from Europe's spending binge.

Renovation spending of the housing market - are expected to decline for the first time in a decade.

Term Repo Oversubscribed Amid Month-End Liquidity Panic.