What you are about to read is going to absolutely shock you. Rick Wiles has done outstanding work over at TruNews for well over a decade, and now just days before the August 21st solar eclipse he has issued his most ominous warning ever. His warning is not directly related to the eclipse, but I […]
The Gold Report: The U.S. stock market has been in a bull run for a number of years. What are your thoughts on the market and what it means for precious metals? James Kwantes: Since Donald Trump was elected president, but also for years before that, large-cap U.S. stocks have been a “can’t miss” for investors, who […]
It was almost exactly a year ago when the mainstream began pushing for governments and central banks to ban or eliminate cash from the monetary system. And as more and more economists hop on board a bandwagon which sees the potential of a new financial crisis just over the horizon, the originator of the idea […]
The economy continues to grow weaker despite all of the Fed, Wall St. and media propaganda to the contrary. The economy is growing weaker due to the deteriorating financial condition of the consumer, which is by far the biggest driver of GDP in the United States. The only way the policy-makers can avoid a systemic […]
Snippet: Gold fell $14.30 to $1267.70 at about 9AM EST before it chopped back higher at times, but it still ended with a loss of 0.74%. Silver slipped to as low as $16.583 and ended with a loss of 2.46%. Author(s): Chris Mullen <td style="border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: #f0f0f0; padding-bottom: 0in; background-color: t […]
This post 5 Charts that Prove this Market Bubble is Not Slowing Down appeared first on Daily Reckoning. The stock market continues to show volatile signs of a market bubble. Here’s five charts that show that a very real bubble is on the horizon. 1. Economic Bubbles and The Breadwinner Economy Former Congressman and Reagan’s […]
August 15, 2017 Dow Hits Record High as Street Rallies on Strong Q2 Results – July 31, 2017 That’s a nice message, isn’t it? U.S. markets are higher because of “strong Q2 results”. Move along people, no bubbles to see here. The Dow had eight straight record closes because of (supposedly) “strong Q2 results”. There […]
August 15, 2017 Last week I said: It is commonly accepted to say the dollar is “printed”, but we can see from this line of thinking it is really borrowed. There is a real borrower on the other side of the transaction, and that borrower has powerful motivations to keep paying to service the debt. […]
A recent study conducted by Morningstar that analyzed returns from actively managed stock and bond funds between 2003 and 2016 found “no relationship between any type of management change and future returns,” according to an article in InvestmentNews. Although management changes get a lot of attention in the media and the investment community (the article […]
As a quick aside, I got an email today from a colleague, a self-admitted “very small fish,” who told me he was now getting cold calls from Goldman Sachs brokers offering “very interesting structured products.” I told him the last time I heard stories like that was in the spring of 2008. One of my […]
This post The First “Crypto-Quake” Just Hit appeared first on Daily Reckoning. Part of the allure of cryptocurrencies is the fact that they’re portrayed as completely anonymous. No dealing with banks. No federal regulations. Just an independent third party verifying transactions. The thing is that’s not 100% accurate. Yes, cryptocurrencies are able to provide an […]
The quantitative easing that has occurred in the post-Lehman era has led to a situation, writes fund manager Bill Gross in a recent Barron’s article, where central bank balance sheets are replete with equities “in a desperate effort to keep global economies afloat.” Concurrently, he argues, more than $5 trillion of investment grade bonds “trade […]
Major U.S. indices slid for a second straight week as President Donald Trump and North Korea both escalated their saber-rattling, with Kim Jong-un explicitly targeting Guam, home to a number of American military bases, and Trump tweeting Friday that “Military solutions are now fully in place, locked and loaded.” The S&P 500 Index fell 1.5 […]
Ross Beaty August 2017 – With over 40 years’ experience creating, selling and running mining companies worldwide, Ross Beaty is the founder and Chairman of Pan American Silver Corp., one of the world’s largest silver producers. He is also founder and Executive Chairman of global renewable energy company Alterra Power Corp. Ross is well-known for his […]
Jaxon Minerals (TSX.V: JAX) (Frankfurt: 0U3) is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Yingting (Tony) Guo to its Board of Directors. Dr. Guo is a member of the Technical Committee of the Zijin Midas Exploration Fund, a strategic investor in Jaxon and a subsidiary of Hong Kong listed Zijin Mining Group (HKEX:2899), the Fund’s […]
Last week index score: 61.18 This week: 46.26 NuLegacy Gold (TSXV: NUG) commenced follow-up drilling to extend the gold mineralization discovered at North Iceberg. The Oreninc Index fell in the week ending August 11th, 2017 to 46.26 from 61.18 the previous week with the markets very quiet as vacation season is in full swing and […]
JOHANNESBURG-listed African Rainbow Minerals (ARM) and Vale, the Brazilian state-owned company, are to sell their joint venture stake in Zambia’s Lubambe Copper Mine to a private equity firm for $97.1m in cash. Patrice Motsepe, executive chairman of ARM, said in September last year that Lubambe was under review after it contributed the lionshare to the […]
Last week President Donald Trump declared a state of emergency on the country’s opioid epidemic, which in many cases starts through addictions to legal pain killers administered by hospitals and pharmaceutical companies. And perhaps the best case study and testing ground for looking at alternatives to these drugs can be found in none other than […]
Alright, let’s start by getting the B.S. out of the way – of how stocks are rising, and bullion falling, due to the “diminished Korean threat.” To start with, amidst supposed investor “terror” of nuclear Armageddon, the VIX, even at its most “terrifying” point, barely rose – whilst the stock market had exactly one bad […]
The one given about Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies is that they are extremely volatile due to their free market attributes. By this we mean that there are no regulated structures in place to keep the digital currency from going parabolic (which it had done since the Hard Fork last week), or fall just as fast […]