The ability to defeat the price suppression is found in the gold investors themselves. Chris Powell explains how...
SD Friday Wrap: With the price action in the "markets" this week, you'd think gold & silver have become super-toxic, but guess what? When we see...
Gold was fairly steady last night, trading either side of unchanged in a range of $1284.50 - $1289. The yellow metal climbed to its high during Asian hours, helped by a dip in the US dollar (DX to 97.76)...
Precious metals prices took a roller coaster ride this week as the trade war with China gained heat, and Eric is here to break-it all down...
Normalizing and institutionalizing fraud undermines the foundations of the economy and the financial system.
The Intercontinental Exchange is looking to introduce a 3 millisecond pause before executing some trades in its gold and silver futures contracts.
Never before in the history of human civilization do we find an income tax. It is true that Ben Franklin once said that the two certainties in life were death and taxes...
A Wells Fargo banker pleaded guilty to knowingly opening bank accounts for people working with the Sinaloa cartel.
They never warn Americans ahead of time and everyone acts surprised when it all comes down.
The experience of Latin America should serve as a clear warning for today’s Modern Monetary Theory enthusiasts. In a variety of countries, and at different times, fiscal expansions that were financed by printing money spun catastrophically out of control.
“And if these tensions are not resolved, that clearly is a risk going forward.”
It's no longer possible to claim that the Fed's new operating system allows it to "provide effective control of rates with operational simplicity."
Our current super-long economic cycle is a monetary curse. Under sound money it would not exist, and under the pre-1914 gold standard, it never occurred.
Another reason the Fed may want its own Financial Stability Report is to create the illusion that things have dramatically changed...
The periods of significant leverage in the U.S. economy have been identified as follows:...
It marked the slowest annual price growth the index has recorded since 2009, when world markets were in the throes of the financial crisis.
“The proportion of consumers who anticipated an economic downturn in the next five years fell to 36%, the lowest level since 2004.”
Some people have all the luck.Not me. Well, not good luck. I tell people all the time I could never gamble because I would be broke within weeks. I’m the guy that can jinx the best sports team simply by cheering for them.
Rome’s problems are self-inflicted but Europe’s central bank should still offer a hand. Not to do so might mean turning a slowdown into something worse.
The markets have been up and down this week, riding the trade war roller coaster. And analysts can't seem to decide if the data of the day is telling us that the economy is sound or slowing. But we do know one thing for sure - there is a lot of debt out there, and there are signs that it might be catching up with us. In this episode of the Friday Gold Wrap podcast, host Mike Maharrey talks student loan and auto loan debt, and what it be telling us about the economy. He also covers some of the latest trade war news and the last batch of economic data.