"After 9 years of artificial liquidity drenching markets the same game continues in 2018: It's raining money. Again. Still."
"You have the Indian jewelry buyers, the inscrutable central banks like China, the Wall Street firms, the gold bugs, the hedge funds, etc. When enough..."
The bankers have created exploding budget deficits and credit bubbles that will ensure a lot more inflation is on the way.
“Inflation is inflationary. If inflation is going up in a certain sector, like wages, then all things being equal, inflation is going up
First it was PIMCO screaming "doom" if the 10-year Treasury note yield hit 3%. Now Goldman is screaming "doom" if the 10-year T-Note yield hits 4.5%. ‘Stress test’ outcome could sink S&P 500 to 2,155-2,298 range Measures outlier move vs Goldman’s 3.25% year-end scenario (Bloomberg) -- If the 10-year U.S. Treasury yield hits 4.5 percent…
Despite America's growing population, new home sales are only back to levels seen in 1995 when the Clinton push for homeownership began. It was called "The National Homeownership Strategy: Partners in the American Dream." They should have called it "Partners in the American Scream since the house price bubble burst in spectacular fashion. After the…
(Fed Tightening As ECB Maintains Accommodating?) Money is following to European stocks as jitters struck the US stock markets and The Federal Reserve continues to slowly normalize its monetary policy. (Bloomberg) --
(Same For Germany And Japan) The US Treasury 10Y yield appears to have bounced off a reflecting barrier — the 3% yield barrier. For the German Bund, it is reflecting off of the 75 basis point barrier. Even Japan’s …
China, the world’s largest market for gold, saw demand rise 3 percent last year and this number should continue to grow with rising GDP.
The Fed is terrified of the Everything Bubble bursting. And we are a lot closer to a crisis than most realize.
Large U.S. deficits may complicate the government's ability to curb future recessions.
A measure of national economic activity calculated at the Chicago Federal Reserve ticked lower in January from December as a factory slowdown impacted the overall reading.
Jim says we might not get to that point, however, because Jim thinks China will just let the Fed dissolve. Here's what it means for gold and the U.S. dollar...
The most common question Mike has received lately is 'When will silver finally take off?'. In this video, Mike is joined by David Morgan to give their best attempts at predicting when the metals markets might start seeing performance akin to cryptocurrencies of late.
At what point do we abandon the farce of the 'debt ceiling' altogether?
The Chinese yuan is hovering around two-year highs against the dollar as Beijing props its currency up to appease Trump.
"Downside risk, due to the prospect of forced liquidations, is as high as it has been in at least 89 years."
SD Outlook: It's going to be a busy week, and after weeks of pain in gold & silver, that's a good thing. Here's an update...
Bank of America considers cryptocurrency a material risk to its business, public records reveal. The bank has made efforts to restrict its customers’ use of bitcoin and other virtual currencies.
"The era of single-digit VIX numbers is behind us."