Over the last several months, analysts have focused on Federal Reserve rate hikes. The central bank nudged rates up in December, and then bumped them another .25 points in March. Many observers expect the Fed to boost rates another two – maybe even three more times in 2017. But all of this focus on interest rates misses an even more significant issue facing the Fed – its bloated balance sheet.
Silver looks set to become explosive one way or another very soon, as COMEX open interest has surged to nearly 220,000, only 5,000 contracts away from the all-time record of […]
“What They’re Going To Do Is Lock Down The System. Maybe you’ll be able to get $300 a day from your ATM for gas and groceries…"
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Washington has published a Working Paper on “de-cashing”
The US Census report has shown that the net migration from the New York City area has surged during 2016, and that even included myself. Indeed, much
GATA Chairman Chris Powell Joins CNBC For An Eye Opening Discussion About How Central Bank Intervention is the Main Determinant of Gold Prices.
For decades, every presidential candidate has vowed to "fix" social security, yet it never happens. In the meantime, workers have money deducted from their paychecks and retirees get paid. Is the system really broken? In a word – YES! While the politicians fiddle, the system continues to deteriorate.
Jamie Dimon sees one thing that could derail the recovery: The $3.2 trillion ($15 trillion globally) nonbank financial system, or “shadow banks.”
The trend line break this week in US 10yr yields to me indicates the froth being taken off the Trump side of the reflation theme.
President Trump & his advisers have vowed to bring back a Depression-era law that would cleave the biggest U.S. lenders in half by separating commercial &investment banking operations. Wall Street doesn’t expect that to happen.
Based on fundamentals? You gotta be kidding.
Time to buy a condo in Miami?
Maxwell Gold, Director of Investment Strategy, ETF Securities discussed the outlook for gold with Bryan Curtis and David Ingles. He assessed what’s driving the market at present, the impact of geopolitical risk, and what effect tightening may have.
Risks to the global economy was the main topic of the conversation between precious metals expert Jim Rickards and Lior Gantz, editor of Wealth Research Group.
The deal adds to the list of mining-related transactions leading China’s outbound investment drive this year.
President Trump and Xi Jinping, the president of China, will take each other’s measure on Thursday as they meet for the first time to discuss trade tensions, North Korea....
U.S. may be the slowest-growing economy among the G-7 nations.
This is really a big crisis coming. “A bear market is coming which will be the match that lights the fuse.”
The chairman of America’s biggest bank expressed his concern about the consequences of Brexit, as well as the financial deregulation promised by Donald Trump’s administration.
Prolonged low interest rates have been devastating for retirees and Americans saving for retirement, BlackRock chief Larry Fink tells CNBC.