Look Where Gold Was Trading The Day After The 4th Of July
What are the odds of this happening on Independence Day Weekend?
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The Global Bond Market Is Turning Japanese, As All Long-Term Rates Plunge Towards Zero
What happens when everyone else’s interest rates fall to Japan’s level? Lots of bad things, including…
Continue readingWouldn’t That Be Cool…
Will momentum like this will look tasty to day traders – especially those with no prior experience in this treacherous sector?
Continue readingStagflation Is Paradise For Gold And Silver
If we can’t stop the massive deficits and rampant currency creation, we might as well embrace the resulting stagflation and keep stacking…
Continue readingWe’ve Been Here Before – And It Ended With An Epic Crash
The major market indexes that recently soared back to record highs are being elevated by an amazingly small number of stocks…
Continue readingHow Pension Funds Die, CalPERS Edition
CalPERS has levered-up and bet the farm…
Continue readingOne Crisis Is Manageable, But Five Might Not Be
Most Americans are no doubt praying that this is it for a while because really, our plate is more than full and we don’t deserve any more abuse. But the…
Continue readingIn A Class Of Its Own: Q1’s “Extraordinary” Debt Binge
Quite possibly the single most outrageous three months in financial history…
Continue readingHow Long Can The Insane Stock Valuations Last?
How do we make sense of the apparent detachment of stock values from economic reality?
Continue readingWelcome To The Third World: California Makes Its Case For A Bailout
The descent from the illusion of prosperity to the reality of bankruptcy continues…
Continue readingWho’s Getting The Biggest Bail-Out? Believe It Or Not, It’s The Gold Miners
When the media figures this out, the coverage will be catchy. Here’s a very early and relatively staid example…
Continue readingSilver Will Be Totally Spectacular
There is going to come a time when everyone will want to talk about silver…
Continue readingWhy The Gold/Silver Ratio Is A Useful Indicator
The real reason the gold/silver ratio has tended to fluctuate within a broad but well-defined range is that…
Continue readingAs Russiagate Morphs Into Obamagate, The Democrat Party Enters Civil War
Trump has an energized base and copious material for attack ads and high-profile investigations heading into his re-election campaign…
Continue readingGold: $6,600, $20,000
What historically happens to the gold price with every $500 billion increase in US deficit spending? What does this say about the current environment?
Continue readingBankrupt Cities And States Get The National Disaster They’ve Been Hoping For
Mayors and governors – along with public sector union leaders – have been hoping for a massive crisis to save their bacon…
Continue readingWill Airbnb’s Implosion Trigger A Housing Bust?
From out of nowhere, the sharing economy suddenly looks patently absurd. Ride in other people’s cars? No thank you. Sleep in other people’s beds?
Continue readingGlobal Margin Call For A Leveraged World
Current US monetary policy has created a doom loop, but also a golden opportunity…
Continue readingWhat The Fed Can’t Print Finally Matters
While there is admittedly a fair bit of gold sitting in vaults around the world, 99% of it is not for sale because…
Continue readingJohn Rubino: Deep Recession + Boomer Downsizing = Plunging Home Prices
The supply of homes for sale might spike rather than drift higher, sending prices lower, possibly a lot lower. Here’s why…
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