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Clearly, the core strategy of maintaining the status quo is to borrow & spend trillions of additional dollars every year. The Obama presidency was a grand experiment to test this thesis: the status quo of the U.S. is a self-correcting mechanism.

Jim Rickards explains the one factor setting North Korea apart from other nuclear powers...

After a wild day of voting and battles with police, it’s not clear whether the vote was even legitimate.

President Trump arrives in Puerto Rico on Tuesday. He may get a sense of the island's nightmare recovery two weeks after Hurricane Maria hit.

A gunman perched on the 32nd floor of a Las Vegas casino unleashed a shower of bullets on an outdoor country music festival below, killing at least 50 people as tens of thousands of concertgoers screamed and ran for their lives, officials said Monday. It was the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history.

A NORTH Korea ship was seized after it was caught carrying a huge supply of weapons to Egypt as tensions continue to mount with the US.

In what seems straight out of X-Men. It's a true story about gold, and the insight the yellow metal gives science to all things self-healing...

Goldsmith may not be Europe's first profession, but stamping the assay office and purity on a piece of gold jewelry is indeed Europe's first ever "consumer protection". Here's how it all […]

Harvey says the bullion banks keep transferring the risk from the COMEX to London because there is hardly any gold to deliver. Harvey also mentions a great sign showing how […]

The first massive upleg of this young bull propelled gold 29.9% higher from mid-December 2015 to early-July 2016.

On Wednesday, the President announced his plan to cut taxes for Americans, return jobs to America and return the country to economic prosperity. It's a tall

Every so often, it's useful to pull waay back to look at the big picture. To re-examine the Why? underlying our plans & aspirations.

And so the never ending crisis of Europe’s social economy, that feeds the xenophobic political monsters, continues.

'Hard' economic data (that doesn't rely on the emotional responses of humans) has collapsed to its weakest since Feb 2009.

A family of 3 would have to find a way to make an extra $102,245 per year to meet the "affordability" test included in the Obamacare legislation.

There is a lot to learn from the slow and painful post-hurricane recovery that is going on in Puerto Rico right now.

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A few Fridays back, I shared some of the innovative ways people have come up with to smuggle gold. Like I said in that article, gold smuggling is a very lucrative business. People want gold, and they’ll go to great lengths to have it. But smuggling isn’t as easy as you might think, and people have put gold in some places ... Well, let's just say it couldn't have been a comfortable experience.
OK - I'll just come out and say it. More than a few smugglers have resorted to sticking gold up their butts.

Last week, Janet Yellen announced the Federal Reserve will begin the much anticipated "tapering" of its massive balance sheet. The Fed chair also hinted another interest rate hike is in the works. After the most recent FOMC meeting, we raised the question: Is this a viable path forward, or is the central bank playing a game of monetary chicken? Peter Schiff has argued that the Fed ultimately won't be able to reduce its balance sheet to any significant extent. So, despite the Fed's hawkish stance, the path forward seems far from certain.
In a recent article published on the Mises Fed Watch, Tho Bishop also raised some poignant questions about how the Fed will actually move forward with monetary policy.

SD Friday Wrap: Silver is having a party, but it has nothing to do with Sweet Sixteen. The trip to $16 has been brutal. This party is more like a dinner train […]