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“Labor costs are getting just too high,”

Singapore home prices fell in the quarter ended June, extending the drop in property values to a record 15th quarter as most measures to cool the market remain in place despite a slight easing in March.

The answer I had for the group is that we should expect financial collapse quite soon–perhaps as soon as the next few months. Our problem is energy related, but not in the way that most Peak Oil groups describe the problem.

Yra Harris, Ronald Peter Stoeferle and Jayant Bhandari discuss what Interest Rates and Gold Prices are Saying

Haruhiko Kuroda shouldn’t serve another term as governor of the Bank of Japan because the central bank will need fresh ideas as it moves toward exiting years of unprecedented monetary easing, according to an adviser to the prime minister.

In the month since China changed how it calculates the yuan's guidance rate, market participants have discovered that this factor is lopsided and operates mainly to thwart yuan depreciation.

President Xi Jinping’s complaint about a “negative” turn in China’s relationship with the U.S. showed the challenge facing Donald Trump when the two leaders meet in Germany this week.

Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro raised the country's minimum wage by half on Sunday to just over $12.50 per month at the black market exchange rate.

The famed short-seller offers a mid-2017 reality check for “fake fiscal news,” economic pipe dreams, and “portents of even worse things”

The federal government and corporations are piling up more and more pension debt across the country, and eventually it’s all going to fall over.

There will be an extremely painful oil supply shortfall sometime between 2018 and 2020. It will be highly disruptive to our over-leveraged global financial system, given how saddled it is with record debts and unfunded IOUs.

A painful correction is coming and there's little that can be done to prevent it, according to former Republican congressman and libertarian firebrand Ron Paul.

As the budget year started most places Saturday, 11 states did not have budgets in place, according to the National Association of State Budget Officers.

The U.S. dollar recovered slightly on Friday, but posted its biggest quarterly decline against a basket of rival currencies in nearly seven years after hawkish signals from foreign central banks this week pressured the greenback further.

As the Mainstream financial media continues to promote the biggest market bubble in history, only a small fraction of investors are prepared for the disaster when it finally POPS.  The […]

Fund Manager Dave Kranzler Joins the Show & Explains Why The Battle in Gold is Over $1300 There's Never Been A "Fat Finger" Gold Smash to the UPSIDE The Bond Market's […]

The first half is over.  Will first half blues in gold and silver prices turn into second half euphoria? 

 Is the Pain Finally Over for Gold and Silver Prices?

You can buy a box of 100 paper clips at Staples for $2.29.
Or you could buy a single paper clip from Prada for $185.
Now, why in the world would anybody plop down than much money for a paper clip?

During a recent interview on CNBC's Power Lunch, Nobel Prize winning economist Robert Shiller called stock market valuations "concerning" and hinted that markets could be set up for a crash.
Several other notable economists have recently expressed concern about surging stock markets, particularly in the US. Marc Faber has predicted "massive" asset price deflation  - possibly of drop of as much as 40% in stock market value. Billionaire investor Paul Singer recently said the financial system is not sound. And former Ronald Reagan budget director David Stockman said we should get ready of "fiscal chaos." Now Shiller has weighed in, pointing out that market valuations are at "unusual highs" and noting that if history is any indication, it could foreshadow an upcoming crash.