America’s “Bridge Loan” Of Pandemic Spending On Main Street Is Up
In reality, the economy’s in very bad shape. The idea that we’re going to bounce back out of this with all this pent up demand is nonsense. The data…
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On The 2020 Election: The Cases For Biden And Trump
Trump has advantages in money, technology, incumbency and a more energetic campaign style. His disadvantages include…
Continue readingBLOCKBUSTER PREDICTION: Stakes Too High, Biden Will Be Replaced As Nominee
Investors should prepare now for the political shocks by going with larger than normal allocations to cash and some hedging assets such as gold…
Continue readingOn ‘Rising China’ And The ‘Chinese Century’: The China Myth, Exposed
For almost twenty years, the myth of a “rising China” and the “Chinese century” has been gathering steam…
Continue readingOn Gold At Record Highs, China And The US Dollar: Financial Warfare?
Given the possible seizure of China’s Treasury note holdings as compensation for victims of China’s criminally negligent handling of the…
Continue readingStock Market Disconnected From Economic Reality? Don’t Fight The Narrative
Why the strong stock market in a weak economy?
Continue readingThe Dollar Price Of Gold: Best Leading Indicator Of Inflation
“When gold pushes past $2,000 per ounce toward $3,000 per ounce, that’s your signal that inflation in the price of everything else is…“
Continue readingMonetary and Fiscal Policy Won’t Help Lift Us Out Of The New Depression
The next two decades of U.S. growth would look like the last two decades in Japan. Not a collapse, just a slow, prolonged stagnation. This is the…
Continue readingEconomic Depression and The Great American Exodus
What the U.S. economy is going through right now is far worse than a technical recession?
Continue readingGold Legend Changes 2020 Election Prediction: From Doubling-Down On “Trump Only Loses If There’s A Recession” To “It’s A Toss-Up”
From a President Trump re-election win of ‘historic proportions’ to a coin toss…
Continue readingCentral Banks DRIVING GOLD: They Would Prefer To Ignore It, Yet They’re NET BUYERS
Central banks are signaling (by their actions) that they’re losing confidence in their own money and their money monopoly. They’re getting ready…
Continue reading“Stocks Only Go UP” (While Unemployed People Use Their Stimulus Checks To Trade Stocks)
“It was basically free money”
Continue readingWhy Gold, And What Are The 3 Main Drivers That Could Push Gold Over $2,000 Per Ounce?
These events (and others) would push gold well past $2,000 per ounce, on its way to $3,000 per ounce and ultimately much higher…
Continue readingHong Kong Headed for Crisis Again
With the U.S. warning China against strong action in Hong Kong, let’s hope the situation doesn’t light a powder keg resulting in a shooting war…
Continue readingChina: More Bark Than Bite With Serious Structural Economic Problems BEFORE The Pandemic
The CCP is an illegitimate regime that will remain in power only so long as it provides jobs and a rising living standard for the Chinese people…
Continue readingJim Rickards: The War On Cash Is Kicking Into Overdrive
This war is decades old, but courtesy of the Covid-19 pandemic, the War on Cash is kicking into overdrive…
Continue readingJim Rickards: Worst Recession in 150 Years
An economic breakdown is more than just economic. It leads quickly to a social breakdown that involves looting, random violence, fraud and…
Continue readingJim Rickards: Markets and Black Swans
Distress in one area of financial markets spread to other seemingly unrelated areas of financial markets. In fact…
Continue readingJim Rickards: Covid-19 (Coronavirus) Likely Came From A Chinese Bioweapons Lab In Wuhan, China
Evidence is mounting that the virus leaked from a biological warfare lab in Wuhan. In any case, the China-U.S. economic relationship will never be the same…
Continue readingJim Rickards: Get Ready For World Money
The specter of a global debt crisis suggests the urgency for new liquidity sources, and the logic leads quickly to one currency for the planet…
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