The Owl Has Landed: Lagarde’s New Vision For The ECB
It would be a mistake to assume that we’ve already seen the worst of it when it comes to monetary interventions. Investors & savers should…
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“Inflation Is Inevitably Going To Rise”…Is Former Fed Chair Alan Greenspan Right?
It isn’t just Greenspan that is worried about rising US consumer price inflation…
Continue readingDaniel Lacalle: Monetary Policy Puts Middle & Working Classes At Big Disadvantage, Negative Interest Rates Coming Soon To USA
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Daniel shares his thoughts on the economy and why the Fed’s current policy does not favor the middle or working class. During our discussion, Daniel…
Continue readingEasy-Money Policies Don’t Solve The Problem Of Idle Resources
It is widely believed that resources that are utilized in normal times to promote economic prosperity become underutilized during recessions…
Continue readingSYSTEMIC RISK IS UNCONTAINABLE | Danielle DiMartino Booth
What is a concerned, ordinary person to make of the Fed mysteriously injecting life and liquidity into a seizing-up banking system?
Continue readingThe European Central Bank’s “Mea Culpa”
Conservative investors and market observers have been issuing warnings for years regarding the severe impact of the current monetary policy direction…
Continue readingWhat ECB’s Tiering Means For Gold
In a key policy shift, the ECB has recently introduced tiered system of interest rates…
Continue readingGreed Driving Stock Market Today As Investors Lose Interest In Gold & Silver
With the Fed propping up the entire market and extreme greed driving the stock indexes to new highs, investors have lost interest in the precious metals…
Continue readingWill Repogeddon Make Gold Rally?
One of the most important recent developments in the world of finance was the September liquidity crisis in the U.S. repo market…
Continue readingRetailers Scramble For Promotions To Combat Shorter Holiday Selling Season
Not unlike how the Fed runs monetary policy, retailers this holiday season are trying to “move the goalposts”…
Continue readingFed Cuts Rates, Causing Gold To See-Saw
Inflation would have to soar to force the Fed to increase the federal funds rate…
Continue readingEurope’s Spending Binge Is Slowing Its Economy
The idea that governments can’t lower taxes because there is a deficit, but are free to raise all expenses even if there is a deficit…
Continue readingWill Sputtering Global Growth And The Just-Announced Brexit Deal Support Gold?
It’s the lowest one since the Great Financial Crisis. Is the much talked about recession coming?
Continue readingFor The First Time Ever, Greece Issues Negative Yielding Debt
The former bond market pariah and Eurozone’s most indebted nation has joined the exclusive club of negative-yielding European nations…
Continue readingWeakening Dollar Is last Hope For World Economy, Saxo Bank Analyst Says
Weakening the dollar is the last throw of the dice in rescuing the global economy…
Continue readingIs James Bullard About To Replace Jerome Powell As Fed Chair?
“has caught the eye of Trump and others in the administration”
Continue readingDeflation Or Inflation: Gold Doesn’t Care
In our view, gold investors should settle back with some popcorn and enjoy the coming fireworks, which will include the best gold bull market ever…
Continue readingA World That’s Stuck In A Debt Trap, And What It Means For Gold
The global debt as a percentage of the GDP has increased from around 100 percent in 1950 to almost 200 percent in 2007 and to 225 percent in 2017…
Continue readingIn Search Of The ‘Effective’ Lower Bound Of Interest Rates…Gold Gold?
The Fed is no longer talking about zero-bound but effective lower bound. What’s the difference? Where is it?
Continue readingLiving On Borrowed Time (And Money): Our Prosperity Is Temporary (And It’s An Illusion)
Will the US dollar or the Swiss franc always be valuable? We cannot know the future, but we can study the past, and gold…
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