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Guess how far you have to go back to find a president who decreased America’s federal debt burden? Vermont’s own Calvin Coolidge. Who left office in 1929.

make it clear that we are at a major inflection point.

Chris says the metals are still poised for a big move higher, despite the pullback on Friday. Here's what the move higher depends on...

At today's price of $1278 we are 92% below the 1980 inflation adjusted high of $16,662

Just because gold and silver has not made a major move up, does not mean that the terminal illness of the international monetary system has now gone away. On the contrary, its imminent demise is now more certain, given the various financial confirmations (see…

The IMF's new Global Debt Database is an impressive piece of work. And the numbers suggest that the so-called debt intensity of growth has increased: we seem to need higher levels of debt to support a given rate of economic than we did before.

Silver at $17 is at all time inflation adjusted low. With the 1980 high, equivalent to $770 in today's money.

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SD Outlook: After getting pummeled on Friday, gold & silver are looking for a bottom. Here's the details...

Central banks no longer buying, the overall lack of liquidity due to machines taking the place of human market makers, and trading algorithms all trying to sell at once in the face of the next serious negative headline is the stuff of broken-market nightmares.

as central banks pick their poison

“The 2008 financial crisis was the consequence of a loosely regulated banking system in which power was concentrated in the hands of too limited a cast of speculators,” Nomi Prins tell me. “And after the crisis, the way the US government and the Federal Reserve dealt with this corrupt and criminal banking system was to […]

The last time the global bond index turned negative was in 2007 ahead of the global financial crisis; before then it turned very negative in late 1990s also, just before the bursting of the dot com bubble...

The combined unfunded liabilities of Social Security and Medicare are more than $50 trillion, according to official government projections. But those estimates are probably optimistic — for two reasons.

"The Fed could be caught behind the curve and might be forced to hike aggressively which could have a negative impact on growth while leaving only inflation behind. This is the most dangerous development which the Fed would want to avoid."

What the Fed rate hike means for your credit-card bill.

If Europe is faced with a future economic shock, the bond-buying program is an instrument the bank could use again, Belgian Central Bank governor Jan Smets said.

In April, Russia got rid of US Treasury securities worth $ 47.5 billion, cutting investments in US government bonds by half.

Concerns about U.S. fiscal policy, how the central bank sets monetary policy, and how he feels about handing over the reins to John Williams

U.S. stock index futures fell sharply ahead of Monday's open amid heightened trade tensions between the U.S. and China, the two largest economies in the world.