Fed Stays Steady While BOJ Expands the Stimulus…What About Gold?
The latest FOMC meeting did not bring anything unexpected. Powell did not light up the fireworks. However, we still learned a few important things…
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Egon von Greyerz: THE WORLD’S BEST KEPT INVESTMENT SECRET
“I would be surprised if gold doesn’t break the $2,000 level in 2020 as the dollar declines.”
Continue readingReal Gold Vs Pretend Gold – Craig Hemke
The gold price is determined through the trading of gold derivatives and paper futures contracts, which is pretend gold, so perhaps…
Continue readingIs The Fed Gearing Up For A New Round Of Quantitative Easing? Here Are The Possible Signs
You would think that we were on the brink of another financial crisis, even as Powell himself says the US economy remains strong…
Continue readingFOMC Minutes Reveal An Important Shift That’s Key For Gold, Too
All Fed officials said they opposed the negative interest rates in case of a downturn. Trump, on the other hand…
Continue readingQE By Any Other Name
The cash that’s set to be injected into the system amounts to at least $400 billion, on top of the Fed’s already massive $4 trillion balance sheet…
Continue readingFed’s Balance Sheet Soars Above $4 Trillion: Up $250 Billion Since Repo Crisis
If it seems like it was just over a month ago that the repo market suddenly suffered its biggest cardiac arrest since the financial crisis…
Continue readingEgon Von Greyerz: FINANCIAL SYSTEM IS ROTTEN
In a world that cannot survive without incessant deficit spending, money printing and negative interest rates, there is clearly something very rotten…
Continue readingBUBBLE DYNAMICS: Fed’s “Insurance” Rate Cuts Didn’t Work, Now For The Emergency Cuts
Pity the guys now running the Fed. They’ve inherited an economy that requires ever-bigger infusions of new credit…
Continue readingEgon von Greyerz: THE DECAY AND DECLINE OF THE WHOLE CAPITALIST SYSTEM
The world is now standing before a seminal moment, and virtually nobody can see it…
Continue readingThe Fed Throws In The Towel, But What Does That Really Mean For Gold Investors?
The Fed’s easing efforts can be described as “too little, too late”?
Continue readingThree Times the Price of Gold Collapsed — And Lessons for Today
What can we learn from the three big collapses in the gold price since 1934?
Continue readingAWKWARD: Central Bank Employee Stole 38 Gold Coins From The Bank Of Japan
“a scandal like this could undermine credibility in the entire BOJ. The central bank is supposed to…”
Continue readingThis May Be The Beginning Of The Great Financial Reckoning
Simon Black says “all three of the US government’s biggest lenders are no longer buyers of US debt…There’s a pretty obvious conclusion here…”
Continue readingLearning From Japan’s Stock Crash: The Good Times Never Last Forever
Simon Black says “most folks believe that market corrections will be very short lived…prices will fall 20% or 30% and then be right back to where they were”
Continue readingCharles Hugh Smith: The Central Banks Have Switched From Coordination To Competition
Charles says “this is one reason why I anticipate “unexpected” disruptions in the global economy in 2018.”. Here’s the details…
Continue readingBOJ Keeps Rates Unchanged at -0.1%, Ditches Monetary Base Target
The BOJ has just fired a dud…
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