Weaker equities underpin safe-haven demand and provide an additional boost.
"Over the 10 years from Q1 2008 to Q1 2018, student loan balances soared by 146%, from $619 billion to $1.521 trillion."
To the extent we have seen some upward pressure, we don’t have the ability to stop trends on a dime. Some overshoot is fine.’’
It stood at about $600 billion 10 years ago
"The last time the SKEG indicator dropped this steeply negative gold rallied over $300 during the next few months."
The latest emerging market tumult exposes a critical fault line in the global economy: the dollar’s dominance.
In this Real Vision special, Raoul Pal presents the single most important financial topic of a generation, the Baby Boomer retirement crisis.
"Perhaps most alarming, we have seen virtually no real steps to reform the financial system."
"We are coming off of one of the most extreme periods of overvalued, overbought, overbullish enthusiasm in market history."
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Here we go again. The US Treasury 10-year yield has pieced the 3% resistance level … again. And then promptly feel below 3% resistance level again. Meanwhile, oil keeps rising. And gasoline i…
"Debt-based consumption and artificially low interest rates rob the future to gratify the present."
Peak bitcoin prices lined up with the day the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, or CME, introduced bitcoin futures trading on Dec. 17
Credit card debt has plateaued for the first time since August 2008.
Holder of the world’s biggest oil reserves, has seen its output fall almost 40 percent since 2015, to 1.5 million barrels a day, amid political turmoil & an economic meltdown
The Trump administration called Tuesday for Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro to step down.
Oil Prices vs Forward Inflation
Rising oil prices are a double-edged sword for the world economy.
"ignore short term market noise and focus on the big weekly chart base pattern for gold. Note the price targets of $1500 and $1750..."
According to the World Gold Council, overall global demand for gold was soft in the first quarter of this year. But demand in the technology sector was particularly strong, marking its sixth consecutive quarterly gain.Overall, demand for gold in technology and industry increased 4% to 82 tons year-on-year.