For what seems like decades, people have been warning that the next time some over-leveraged corner of the financial system implodes, bank and brokerage accounts
Jay Taylor’s Gold Energy & Tech Stocks Newsletter has unearthed some huge winners lately. Here’s an excerpt from his weekly update that concludes with three
One of life’s hardest-to-learn but most necessary lessons is that things usually take a lot longer to work out than you’d like them to. That’s
ECB Chairman Mario Draghi’s announcement of bigger and better QE this morning should have surprised no one. The fact is that the eurozone is coming
A week ago it looked like the US government was destined to end up firmly – maybe even more firmly — in the hands of
In June the UK shocked the world – or at least the world’s elites – by voting to pull out of the European Union. Economists
This year’s recovery in precious metals prices – and the sudden spike in gold/silver mining stocks – convinced a lot of people that a new
These are great times for financial assets — and by implication for finance companies that make and sell them, right? Alas, no. Just the opposite.
In normal times, some asset classes are expensive others are cheap, making it easy to use historical relationships to decide where to invest. That’s not
Brexit looked like the end of the world — until people figured out that central banks would have to ease in response. Then markets turned
Pretend, for a minute, that your country responds to the bursting of a credit bubble by borrowing unprecedented amounts of money and using it to
Now the real fun begins. Last night Britons voted to leave the European Union, sending shock waves around the world — though not directly or
Gold analyst Michael Ballanger just posted an article noting how much things have changed — perhaps for the better — in the gold market. Here’s
One of the oddest things in this increasingly odd world is the spread of negative interest rates everywhere but here. Why, when the dollar is
The list of heavy hitters who are saying bad things about this world and its financial markets — while acting aggressively on their pessimism —
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