Beijing says American complaints about its economy compel China to damage "core interests." In other words: That's not up for negotiation.
While the consensus of investors and stock strategists remains that the U.S. and China will reach a deal that ends the escalation in trade restrictions between the world’s two largest economies, a vocal minority has been warning about woeful over-optimism.
A mountain of evidence in the past two weeks shows that key segments of the economy have slackened. Retail sales fell last month, business investment nearly dried up and manufacturers are growing at the slowest pace in nine years.
The CPI is chronically misrepresenting the price of products in the food basket, with the gap between the government "price" and real-world prices ranging from 14% to as much as 64% for a pound of white bread.
The European Union at present is undoubtedly at a crossroads. The economies which were once reckoned as strong pillars of the EU are now on the verge of an erosion.
And That Bonds Agree With Them. When central bankers use the word “financial” in an economic context, they mean exclusively stocks. Maybe that’s somewhat appropriate given how bonds are so often treated as monetary equivalents.
The European Central Bank continues to disproportionately inflate the debt bubble of the Eurozone, while the economic slowdown of the main European economies worsens.
In the United States, thanks largely to Bernie Sanders, the term "single-payer health care" has become more or less synonymous with the phrase "universal healthcare."
After instituting a $1.5 trillion tax cut, the Senate majority leader said Tuesday that the only way to lower the record-high federal deficit would be to cut entitlement programs.
Is this the chart that shows what Mike Maloney has been forecasting for the last few years? The article Mike references is here.
The biggest threat to our prosperity, to your pension and to the prospects of your children and grandchildren is in all likelihood something that you’ve never heard of.
Fighting gold price suppression would be a lot easier with the help of some of those people who have great resources and purport to be gold advocates...
Financial market conditions had improved following the period of stress observed over the fourth quarter of last year and that volatility in prices and...
Hubris and ignorance will stop investors from even thinking about gold as insurance of their wealth, which is about to implode...
The notion that the precious metals will crash with the markets continues to be proven wrong. Steve St. Angelo explains...
If the gold price drops to Michael's worst case price, it would be a "back-up the truck" moment, but how likely is the worst case? Here's Michael...
The outcome is not everything we started with in the original bill, but certainly better than where we were...
First time guest Tavi Costa joins us for Metals & Markets this week at just the perfect time to talk investments into the 2020s...
SD Friday Wrap: The cartel is getting very nervous right now as gold's downside looks limited and those $100 daily price spikes near...
Gold softened last night, paring some of yesterday’s rebound in a narrow range of $1281 - $1285.30. It rose to its $1285.30 top during Asian and early European time, fading a dip in the US dollar (DX from 97.91 – 97.68).