Is This Gold Breakout For Real? De-Dollarization may be the key factor.
Historically, fresh all-time-highs portend drawdowns for gold. Why this time may be different. Gold finally did what many of us have been waiting
Historically, fresh all-time-highs portend drawdowns for gold. Why this time may be different. Gold finally did what many of us have been waiting
Guest post from John Rubino: The past few decades of unnaturally easy money have created a world of “moral hazard” in which a ridiculous number
Guest post from Charles Hugh Smith at Oftwominds.com: So sorry, but the lifestyle of low-cost credit and all the goodies it could buy is permanently
Guest post from Egon Von Greyerz at GoldSwitzerland.com: The final stages of major economic cycles are always accompanied by the maximum amount of bad news
We’re deluged with numbers these days, many of them huge, ominous departures from historical norms. But one matters more than the others. To understand why,
A recurring theme of modern financial crises is the “temporary” nature of the extreme steps governments take to fix the system. Recall that the massive
It’s been obvious for a while that the next phase of global monetary madness would be both spectacular and very different from the previous phase.
The past five years have been baffling for gold bugs. In an environment of massive central bank money creation, rising government deficits and a populist
Money manager Michael Pento has been bearish on both stocks and bonds for some time. 2019 is the year, he says, when the big crash
The past few years have seen more than the usual amount of political upheaval. But, interestingly, most regime changes have resulted in pretty much the
A recurring pattern of the past few decades involves governments promising to limit their borrowing, only to discover that hardly anyone cares. So target dates
US growth, such as it is, has lately been driven by a handful of hot sectors. Car sales have set records, high-end real estate is
Good headlines just keep coming. The Chicago PMI index of Midwest economic activity jumps to its highest level in two years. The ADP employment report
The dollar is tanking lately. From a high of around 100 in December, the dollar index — which measures USD against a basket of foreign
Not so long ago the financial world viewed certain numbers as limits beyond which lay trouble. Interest rates near zero, for instance, were thought to
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