Most people avoid investing money because they think that it’s too much of a complicated process that they won’t be able to understand. However, as complex investing can be, there are simple strategies that you can use. Whether this is your first time investing or if you’ve been doing it for a while, there are […]
(from my colleague Dr. Win Thin) · S&P cut China’s credit rating by a notch to A+ with stable outlook · In a follow-up move, S&P also cut Hong Kong’s rating by a notch to AA+ with stable outlook · President Trump issued an executive order that could widen sanctions on North Korea · Hungary’s […]
– Bitcoin “is a bubble” but gold is money says world’s biggest hedge fund manager – Gold is a better “store of value,” Ray Dalio of $160 billion Bridgewater tells CNBC – Bitcoin has climbed over 300% this year on speculation and expectation that it will continue to climb – Bitcoin is not a valid […]
Friday Farrago Today’s post will be all over the map, so let’s just jump in. Many a pundit has made a name for themselves screaming at the top of their lungs about the massive bubble in the Canadian real estate market. And yeah, I get it. It certainly seems scary. There is no shortage of […]
This post America Is Going Broke… and Nobody Cares appeared first on Daily Reckoning. Last week, the plot did not so much thicken as congeal. There’s no changing it now — the cameras are rolling… the costumes are on… and everyone knows his lines. President Trump went further in becoming the first president independent of […]
This post Trump and the Great Debt Betrayal appeared first on Daily Reckoning. And The Donald said: “Open the floodgates!” And the floodgates opened. Less than 48 hours after Congress approved his debt ceiling suspension, more than $300 billion had flooded in. That is the amount by which the U.S. national debt increased on Friday, […]
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Informal mining in Brazil is seen by many as a scourge polluting the Amazon rainforest, poisoning indigenous tribes and robbing the nation of its wealth. For others it is a way of life. Brazilian garimpos, or wildcat mines, are operated by small crews of men, often caked in red-brown mud and working with rudimentary pans, […]
U.S. Global Investors CEO talks about gold investing and hints that investors will soon be able to participate in blockchain technology. Blockchain Technology is a Space I Love, Says Frank Holmes In this interview with SmallCapPower, U.S. Global Investors CEO Frank Holmes discusses why he loves blockchain technology, and hints that investors will soon be […]
LONDON, Sept 21 (Reuters) – Johnson Matthey said it will invest an initial 200 million pounds ($270 mln) in expanding its battery material technology business from 2018, aiming to capitalise on growth in the electric vehicle market. The specialty chemicals company said the overall market “could be (worth) more than $30 billion (in) sales when […]
This week’s landmark Federal Open Market Committee decision to launch quantitative tightening is one of the most-important and most-consequential actions in the Federal Reserve’s entire 104-year history. QT changes everything for world financial markets levitated by years of quantitative easing. The advent of the QT era has enormous implications for stock markets and gold that […]
By Jack M. Forehand — With so many great investing podcasts out there, it can be difficult to identify the best ones. Through our new Podcasts of the Week segment, I will try to help filter out the most interesting episodes and identify the podcasts I learned the most from each week. In addition, we […]
September 22, 2017 Even though we’ve tried to warn and prepare, none of that makes the inevitable Spec wash-and-rinse any easier to watch. At the end of the day, it just is what it is. The year 2017 has unfolded almost precisely as we initially forecast back in January with two steps back following every […]
This post Is There a Bitcoin Bubble? appeared first on Daily Reckoning. [Ed. Note: Jim Rickards’ latest New York Times bestseller, The Road to Ruin: The Global Elites’ Secret Plan for the Next Financial Crisis, is out now. Learn how to get your free copy – HERE. This vital book transcends rhetoric from the Fed and any […]
Up until now most governments have treated cryptocurrencies as little more than a nuisance as their market cap has not been enough to be seen as a threat to primary markets, and their acceptance by the public has been sparse at best. However with the advent of China beginning to crack down on the facilities […]
On Sept. 21, billionaire investor Hugo-Salinas Price published an article which adds more information to China’s upcoming plans to create a Yuan-backed oil contract that would be convertible to gold. And the kicker is that much of the gold would not primarily come from the Shanghai Gold Exchange vaults, but from purchases made in London […]
ROCKWELL Diamonds has gone into provisional liquidation after the Kimberley High Court granted an order to discontinue the services of the stricken firm’s business rescue practitioner Metis Strategic Advisors. According to a note sent to Rockwell employees by Peter van den Steen, a director of Metis Strategic Advisors, there was still “a chance” the company […]
In a follow-up to an article it published a few days earlier, Bloomberg recently reported that hedge fund manager Steven Cohen “is preparing to raise as much as $10 billion from outside investors in 2018 for a new fund.” The move, the article says, would represent an “extraordinary turnaround” for Cohen, particularly given that his […]
This post These “Flying-V” Formations Ignite an Early Melt-up appeared first on Daily Reckoning. We were supposed to see a September pullback. Exactly one month ago, we highlighted two major market weak spots that were starting to weigh on stocks: Small-caps and transportation stocks were quickly breaking down below key levels… The charts were grim. […]
This post was originally published on MastersInvest.com. Forecasting, or more importantly, accurate Forecasting is an art which has long been considered akin to crystal ball gazing. Many think they can do it well, but when you really get down to it you’ll often find that those self professed ‘seers’ are no better at it than anyone else. […]