What if it’s not a new bull market for gold? What if gold prices are going lower – not higher? Think it can’t happen? Think again. …On the chart below, there is a box around the years and price action of gold from January 1980 to December 1987. There is another box around the years… Read More

By Lorimer Wilson, editor of munKNEE.com – Your KEY to making money! In an recent article I posted on TalkMarkets as an exclusive (see here) I identified 12 cannabis or cannabis-related ETFs suggesting that such an approach to investing in the burgeoning marijuana sector was the best way to go. That being said, not all… Read More

Compiled by Lorimer Wilson  This infographic takes a detailed look at: Mortgage Debt By State Average Monthly Mortgage Payment By Metropolitan Area Changes In Total Outstanding Mortgage Debt By Year Salary Needed To Buy A House In Various Metropolitan Areas Changes in House Prices Since the Bubble Burst (2007-2017) The Price Of A Starter Home… Read More

By Lorimer Wilson Interested in investing in cannabis (or, at least, cannabis-related) stocks but don’t know where to place your hard earned dollars? Well, this article gives you insight into the “pot” stock/ETF universe unlike any other article that has been written on the subject. Read on. The cannabis sector is extremely volatile with many of… Read More

Trade between Asia and Europe has dimmed considerably. We know that from the fact Germany and China are the two countries out of the majors struggling the most right now. As a consequence of the slowing, shipping companies have had to make adjustments to their fleet schedules over and above normal seasonal variances. It was… Read More

According to the Census Bureau, auto sales in the US may be on the upswing. Rising 6.8% year-over-year in August, it was the highest rate in nearly three years for retail sales of automobiles. This follows an upward revised 6.3% increase during July, the best back-to-back months in the beleaguered sector since the end of… Read More

The Yield Curve Inverted! Recession is Coming! Do you need to worry about the yield curve inversion? Not if you have a strategy appropriate to your circumstances. Not if you know what tactics you will employ when recession is imminent. And most importantly, not if you know what the yield curve and other indicators are… Read More

Bernie Sanders Says in Last Night’s Debate that Richest 3 Americans Own More Wealth than Bottom 160 Million Americans. It’s Actually Worse than That. By Pam Martens and Russ Martens: September 13, 2019 ~  During last evening’s Democratic debate, Senator Bernie Sanders said this: “You’ve got three people in America owning more wealth than the bottom… Read More

“Over the past 12 years saving gold and/or silver has been an 8x – yes, 8 times! – more effective strategy to grow one’s wealth than banking money and I believe it will continue to be so for the foreseeable future for 4 reasons.” Prepared by Lorimer Wilson, editor of munKNEE.com – Your KEY To Making Money!  [Editor’s… Read More

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on WeWork IPO: “You’re Getting Fleeced” By Pam Martens and Russ Martens: September 12, 2019 ~ Yesterday the U.S. House of Representatives’ Subcommittee on Investor Protection, Entrepreneurship, and Capital Markets held an extremely timely hearing titled: “Examining Private Market Exemptions as a Barrier to IPOs and Retail Investment.” The thrust of the hearing… Read More

…Precious metals are looking like a great alternative…[these days given all the] uncertainty – trade war, high corporate debt, high federal debt, possible negative interest rates, etc. – [that exist in the economic environment out there]…This article analyzes…which metals to choose. The typical choices are gold, silver, and platinum… This post is taken from the original article… Read More

Our very own Jeff Snider, head of Global Investment Research here at Alhambra Investments, was featured on the Wall Street Journal this morning: The Fed Can’t See Its Own Shadow Source: alhambrapartners.com

Canadian home prices have been growing at a breakneck speed, and incomes aren’t even close to keeping up. Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) numbers show Canada topped the house price-to-income index. House Price-to-Income Ratio Definition The house price to income ratio is a basic affordability measure, to see if incomes are keeping up.… Read More

If a currency can’t be converted on demand into the underlying commodity, it’s not “backed by oil,” it’s just another form of control fraud. The broke and broken country of Venezuela appears to be the first nation-state to issue a cryptocurrency token (the petro) as a means of escaping the financial black hole that’s consuming…… Read More

Despite the fact that on Friday WYNN shares dumped over 10% on news of scandal surrounding Steve Wynn, several casino stocks are in a position to breakout and run. Everyone is bullish on the stock market as sentiment surveys show that there is now a record low number of bears. Stock sectors and individual stocks…… Read More

After Chinese vessels were “caught red handed” – in the words of President Trump – by US spy satellites, illegally selling oil to North Korea, and following this morning’s news that a Hong Kong ship was seized after transferring oil to North Korea, Reuters  is reporting ‘two senior Western European security sources’ confirm Russian tankers… Read More