Precious metals news

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When price suppression deniers directly attack one of the best precious metals researchers around, know that the rush into gold and silver must be close... 

President Trump has completely flip-flopped the way he looks at economic data. When he was on the campaign trail, he called the stock market a "big, fat, ugly bubble." Now that he's sitting in the Oval Office, he takes credit for the same bubble.
He's done the same kind of 180 when it comes to employment data. On the campaign trail, he called 5% unemployment "the biggest hoax in American history." But when the jobs report came out last week, Trump eagerly tweeted,  "The unemployment rate remains at a 17-year low of 4.1%. The unemployment rate in manufacturing dropped to 2.6%, the lowest ever recorded. The unemployment rate among Hispanics dropped to 4.7%, the lowest ever recorded...”
Peter Schiff called Trump out on his flip-flop in his most recent podcast.

The Federal Reserve is widely expected to nudge interest rates up again this week. Most analysts agree that the specter of a rate hike is one of the primary reasons gold has slumped over the last several weeks. But are rising interests rates really bad for gold?
The short answer is no. At least not historically

In the aftermath of the Great Financial Crisis, Central Banks began cornering the sovereign bond market via Zero or even Negative interest rates and Quantitative Easing (QE) programs. The goal here was to reflate the financial system by pushing the “risk free rate” to extraordinary lows. By doing this, Central Bankers were hoping to: 1)  

The year 2000 was a transition year in a lot of ways. Though Y2K amounted to mild mass hysteria, people did have to get used to writing the date with 20 in front of the year rather than 19. I

And Missing Trillions. The Pentagon is about to undergo its first audit in history conducted by 2,400 auditors from independent public accounting firms to conduct reviews across the Army, Navy, Air Force and more - followed by annual audits going forward.

Noland foresees tremendous losses as inevitable, as the central banks lose control of the monstrosity they have created.

Rob Kirby discusses hyperinflation, paper dollars, gold, silver, and cryptocurrencies.

The Chinese government plans to roll out yuan-denominated oil futures that can be converted to gold on a domestic exchange by the end of the year.

Low Unemployment & Declining Treasury Curve Occur Just Before Recessions (& Lousy Wage Growth). Yes, we are once more staring into the abyss of a recession where unemployment rates are low (as they seemingly always…

Physically backed precious metals market spells the end of paper gold trade

Every time yields have peaked north of 2.5 percent over the past five years, gold has promptly rallied.

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Unless the conference committee goes completely off the rails and barring some kind of last minute wave of GOP dissent, things are still on track for getting this done by the end of the year.

In recent months, GDP estimates from the Atlanta Fed GDPNow Model were typically way higher than those by the New York Fed Nowcast Model. The situation is now reverse.

And the definition of “cash” widens. The EU’s Orwellian-dubbed Civil Liberties & Economic Affairs committee has approved tough new rules on cash that travelers might bring into or take out of the bloc.

Fed, ECB, BOE & SNB set policy in 18-hour window this week. Wall Street economists are telling investors to brace for the biggest tightening of monetary policy in more than a decade.

The U.S. economy continues towards an epic crisis while the overwhelming majority of analysts are completely in the dark. Even though some alternative media analysts understand that our highly leveraged fiat monetary system and markets will crash, they fail to understand the underlying reasons.

SD Outlook: Lock-n-load. Gold & silver are under attack as this is the most critical week of the year...