Silver had a tough year in 2017, with flat demand and shrinking supply. Even with these headwinds, the white metal still gained more than 6% on the year. With demand growing in key industrial sectors and supply tightening, it appears silver is poised for a strong year in 2018.In its most recent issue of Silver News, the Silver Institute outlines the 2017 silver market data compiled in the GFMS/Thomson Reuters’s Interim Silver Market Review and highlights a number of technological innovations involving silver.
The United States uses the dollar as a weapon to keep other countries in line, but it's becoming a less and less effective strategy as other nations find ways to minimize their dependence on the greenback.Pakistan serves as the latest example. Just one day after Pres. Trump blasted the country on Twitter, Pakistan's central bank announced it was abandoning the dollar and replacing it with the yuan for bilateral trade with China. This is yet another sign of global de-dollarization.
"Ordinary people have also invested in the gold market to retain the value of their money...the CBI will interfere in the market to control the situation..."
The waters are calm, but they mask the real danger of the debt beneath and that is: The math doesn’t work.
In years to come, when financial historians look to pinpoint the precise moment in time when the excesses of Quantitative Easing reached their apex, I suspect that November 15th, 2017 may well be the date upon which they settle.
December meeting minutes revealed lengthy yield curve debate
Harry Dent says goldbugs have two fatal flaws: We believe gold is a store of value, and we are ignorant of the dollar. Then Harry adds a bonus third flaw...
Ray Dalio of Bridgewater sees years of low-interest rates as Americans’ debt becoming a drag on growth & markets
USD struggles to find demand.
Yet again, when things such as life and death are on the line, we come to learn, real quick, what real money is (and what it is not)...
The new bull market in gold will be even more powerful than the 1971–1980 bull market & the 1999–2011 bull market.
TYVIX (T-Note Vol) Falls Below 4. Are markets out of control due to The Federal Reserve keeping rates so low for so long? The VIX just hit an all-time low.
[How Low Will It Go?] The US Treasury yield curve, an important measure for financial markets, has declined from over 100 basis points in January to 50.8 basis points this AM. TYVIX, 10Y T-Note Volatility, has fallen from over 6 to under 4 over the course of 2017. How low can they go?
If you want to find real, accurate information on inflation, you need to ignore what the Fed says & focus on what’s happening for real businesses. The Fed will never give an accurate portrayal of inflation because doing so would reveal that: 1) The Fed has been lying about inflation levels for decades. 2) The
Tech Giant LG Electronics said it will showcase three new concept robots at CES 2018 in Las Vegas next week.
U.S. private employers added 250,000 jobs in December, marking the biggest monthly increase since March, a report by ADP Research Institute showed on Thursday.
Maybe gold is telling us something here!
Jim says the next great bull market has begun. Here's where things stand today...
“We think it will be much tougher to make money in 2018 & 2019 as the risk of a recession & outright bear market comes closer,”
Property values are starting to crash hard in, New Zealand, and London. They all targeted foreigners buying property as the leading cause for the rise in housing prices.