The Baltic Dry Index represents the cost of renting an ocean-going container ship to move goods from, say, Chinese factories to the Port of Los
The key insight of the Austrian School of Economics (maybe the key insight of ALL economics) is that the amount you borrow matters, but so
We Baby Boomers timed it perfectly. We came of age during in an era of plentiful jobs and relatively high wages. Public pensions were generous.
It’s amazing what a few weeks of outperformance will do for an asset class. Gold and silver, after being pretty much ignored for the past
Are you sick of your gold just sitting there when it was supposed to have long since made you rich? Have you been fantasizing about
Since December gold (light blue line) has outperformed the average stock (dark blue) by a nice margin. So why does this feel like such a
With the election of Donald Trump, the US right let its id off the leash. Now pretty much everything conservatives have thought but not said
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
2019 is looking like one of those either/or years, where growing financial instability leads to either a 2008-style financial crash or another round of asset
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
Despite all the ominous press being devoted to the soon-to-be-inverted yield curve, it’s not always clear why such a thing matters. In other words, how,
I thought I’d seen all the “Peter Schiff Was Right” videos, but just stumbled onto this 2006 CNBC classic pitting Schiff against a new cast
A few years ago the Swiss National Bank (SNB) – which traditionally held “monetary assets” like government bonds, cash and gold to back up the
The apocalyptic fires that hit California last month have left observers scratching their heads and wondering how destruction on that scale could be possible –
There are two ways of looking at the intersection of debt and population. One way says that if debt is rising population should also rise
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