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Gold has even outperformed the S&P 500 so far this year. What does Frank Holmes make of this rally? He’s confident gold could continue to run based on the record $15 trillion in negative-yielding government bonds around the world.
The incoming ECB chief has to try to persuade Berlin to loosen its fiscal stance. Sadly, her chances of success are still very slim.
The US has delayed the implementation of the new 10% tariff on China from September to December. Let's take a look at why.
Speculation that the Fed is behind the curve when it comes to easing monetary conditions is adding fuel to the fire.
The cheap money bubble, the low interest bubble, the one that makes record expansion in debt possible and sustainable in the here and now.
The cheap money bubble, the low interest bubble, the one that makes record expansion in debt possible and sustainable in the here and now.
With little else in place for shelter, the US dollar served as a safe haven. It remains to be seen if this will also be the case when the next financial disaster happens.
...by means of monetary pumping and interest rate manipulation, the Fed doesn't help generate more prosperity, but rather sets in motion "stronger GDP" and the consequent menace of the boom-bust cycle—i.e., economic impoverishment.
Well-organized groups have both the incentive and ability to lobby government for benefits for themselves, paid for by taxpayers at large, who lack organization and whose individual payouts toward said benefits aren’t large enough to prompt them to expend much effort opposing this arrangement.
As these two data sets are trued up to reality (& one another), the implications for the present & future will be a very different world than is currently being projected.
Wall Street watchdogs are poised to take a major step toward overhauling Volcker Rule limits on banks’ ability to trade with their own funds, according to four people familiar with the effort, moving to ease post-crisis safeguards reviled by the industry.Regulators responsible for th...
Elliott Wave Technician: Gold's Rally Gains Upside Traction, No Sign Wave Is CompleteAugust 13, 2019
The initial target for the end of the wave is $1562.90...
The Federal Reserve has the US economy on monetary life support and Daily Reckoning managing editor Brian Maher says it will never again breathe on its own. As hedge fund manager Kyle Bass put it, the economy is trapped within the inescapable tractor beam of zero percent interest rates.
Investors said the $22 trillion U.S. government debt market was now approaching this key milestone on a combination of factors including the growing world of negative-yielding government bonds
Last month US markets once again hit a little-known but highly relevant ceiling which has spelled market trouble numerous times in the recent past, most famously during the major market bubble bursts in 2000 and 2007.
Drag’s plans for a parting stimulus shot before he retires as European Central Bank president are laced with even more suspense than usual.
The ZEW Indicator of Economic Sentiment for Germany once again decreased sharply in August 2019. Expectations are now at minus 44.1 points. This corresponds to a drop of 19.6 points compared to the previous month. The indicator’s long-term average is...
The federal government continues to spend America into a black hole and has already topped last year's budget deficit with two months left in the fiscal year.The US budget deficit in July came in at $120 billion thanks to a surge in spending, according to data released by the Treasury Department.Uncle Sam spent $371 billion in July. That was 23% more than the government spent in July 2018. The Treasury brought in $251 billion. That number was up 12% compared to July 2018.
This is not good news for Powell (and stock market bulls) as it reduces any bull threat of deflation (though it is clear that China's recent devaluation will likely bring more downward pressure).
Chinese propaganda outlets warned on Tuesday that protesters in Hong Kong are "asking for self-destruction," as they released a video showing military vehicles amassing near the border of the city.