2008 has special significance for gold bugs, both because of the money they lost in August of year and the money they made in the
Emerging market chaos is now front page news. Let’s start with Argentina, where the peso has resumed its plunge: In response: Argentina Central Bank hikes
To understand why Europe is watching Turkey’s financial crisis with alarm, you just have to see this chart: Spanish – and to a lesser extent
Seems like every few days a new developing country discovers that it can’t pay back the dollars and/or euros it borrowed back when “external foreign
Emerging market currencies are collapsing pretty much everywhere these days. But it’s safe to assume that most people don’t understand exactly what’s causing this outbreak,
No need to mince words anymore. If the futures market still influences gold’s price, then that price is going to spike. And silver is better
Google “labor shortage” or “wage hikes” and the result is a picture of an overheating economy. Some examples from August 10: 911 Emergency: Call Centers
Money manager Rob Arnott and finance professor Lisa Meulbroek have run the numbers on underfunded pension plans and come up with an interesting – and
Just a few months ago, real estate was on fire. Prices were blowing past records set during the previous decade’s housing bubble as desperate buyers
For maybe the best example of how financial trends are diverging at the opposite ends of the wealth spectrum, contrast the cash flowing into the
The Wall Street Journal recently highlighted a better method of analysing the impact of public sector pensions on state and local budgets. The results are
After a brutal few weeks in precious metals, you’d expect trend-following speculators to be heading for the exits. And the most recent gold and silver
Resource stock analyst and money manager Marin Katusa just sent out a blast email that explains — via some extraordinary charts — why large miners
Excerpted from Michael Pento’s Pento Portfolio Strategies China appears to have more to lose from a trade war with the US simply because the math
Housing bubbles proceed in fairly predictable stages. Stage One is long and (initially) slow, fueled by excess central bank money creation or foreign demand or
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