Precious metals news

If you invest your money, you will have to deal with numerous risks. For instance, if you buy a bond, you run the risk of the borrower defaulting or being repaid with debased money.

Dissatisfaction with aspects of the U.S. government remained the most important problem this month, while healthcare was not far behind in Americans' concerns.

Rickard's "What Are You Waiting For, Get Your Gold Before Your Not Going To Get It Anymore"

This trade war disguised as sanctions will have a continued effect of fueling not merely Europe, but deflation.

U.S. President Donald Trump ramped up the rhetoric in his war of words with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, after a week of tensions that has roiled global markets.

Alarm bells ringing as rampant speculation breaks out over Pyongyang's 'possible' miniaturized nuclear warheads

Members of the FOMC are talking to the media in very dovish manners. The evidence that inflation is falling has clearly disturbed them.

Whomever runs social media for the Federal Reserve learned a tough lesson about the cruelty of the internet this week.
The Fed's Facebook page got wickedly trolled after the central bank posted a simple warning about potential scams.
The post seemed innocent enough. The Fed simply wanted to warn people about scammers sending out emails that claim to be from the Fed.

Gold hit two-month highs this week as investors seek safe-haven amidst increasing geopolitical tensions. Pres. Trump promised "fire and fury" if North Korea continues its threatening posture. Meanwhile, relations with Russia continue to deteriorate.
During an interview on RT, Peter Schiff said world tensions and the weak dollar should be playing an even larger role in pushing up the price of gold than they have been. Given the dollar has tanked this year, gold has really not strengthened very much. But Peter went on to say he thinks people will begin to embrace gold - although not for the reasons you might think. He didn't focus on the current geopolitical brouhaha now in the news cycle, but instead emphasized we should be watching the Federal Reserve and central bank policy.

"The Fed is loaded up and frightened", but that's a given. Alasdair talks with Silver Doctors today about problems that are out of the Fed's league.

One has to wonder how long they can keep their confidence game going?

And other notable statements declaring They Really Don’t Know What They Are Doing

Turd brought his A-Game to report it's "Same As It Ever Was"

Gold - insurance against systemic collapse, hyperinflation and infinite political stupidity

The US fiscal outlook for the long-run - a few decades into the future - looks grim unless changes are made.

Since the financial crash in 2008, the tentacles of Wall Street corruption have touched every facet of American life

And to this day...

The performance in this sector, and in this one stock, is impressive

Producer prices (output) are a measure of the change in the price of goods as they leave their place of production (i.e. prices received by domestic producers for their outputs either on the domestic or foreign market). PPI for July just fell MoM for the first time in 11 months. And PPI Final Demand (less…

The Dow keeps on rising and is now hovering around 22,000. But not every indicator is rising. Corporate profit per unit of real gross value added (after tax with IVA and CC…