German manufacturers are reinforcing concern that Europe’s largest economy is headed into a recession.
Washington policy makers and Wall Street investors on Wednesday barreled into an even more difficult problem: There are few good options to deal with one if it happens.
'A Total Failure': America's most 'progressive' cities have become ground-zero for a what has become an all-out homelessness crisis, leaving these once-beautiful cities a bastion of human suffering which rival some third-world nations.
Could key statements from these power brokers trigger a significant reaction in gold?
Talk about a synchronized world - all three economic superpowers are in a recession! Will the gold market warm up to this news?
Gold slid lower last night, trading in a range of $1496.65 - $1508, but found support ahead of $1493-4 ( triple bottom 8/14, 8/19, and 8/20 lows). It faded a move up in global bond yields...
Bonds are now a high-risk investment, all of this is bullish for gold. It's just a matter of time before we go back to $1900 gold & above.
Dave Kranzler says rational investors will begin to sell paper assets like government debt and look for alternatives. Here's why...
"the Federal Reserve might have been able to make use of balance sheet tools even more aggressively over the past decade in providing appropriate levels of accommodation"
The Fed has long been the world’s de facto central bank, but the decade since the last financial crisis has shown interest rates are more than ever globally determined...
Housing debt for 19Q2 is currently beyond the levels of the financial crisis of 2007-8 ($9.294 trillion for Q308) at a record high of $9.41T.
The Fed Minutes are problematic for markets as they confirm that "most Fed officials see the July rate-cut as a 'mid-cycle adjustment" and not the beginning of an epic easing cycle that investors are demanding.
Whatever the Fed chooses to do, it's already failed..
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In his latest slap at the central bank, the president compared Fed Chairman Jerome Powell to a “golfer who can’t putt.”
Morgan Stanley warns that "the wheels for a slowdown are in motion," adding that a slowdown in the manufacturing sector is spreading.
Similar to the late 1970s when then Chairman Paul Volcker faced a stagflationary environment which weakened confidence in the Fed’s ability to deal with the growing imbalances in the economy...
Senior economists at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) have warned countries against relying too heavily on monetary policy easing, and argued that currencies are "neither the hammer nor the nail" in efforts to reinvigorate economies.
"Federal debt, which is already high by historical standards, is on an unsustainable course," CBO director Phillip Swagel said in the report.
"Federal debt, which is already high by historical standards, is on an unsustainable course," CBO director Phillip Swagel said in the report.