Since President Trump won the Presidency, the dollar has risen strongly, but doubts are now entering investor’s minds...
Trump’s third week in office brings us a look into rolling back financial regulation reforms, the power of the @POTUS’s tweets, and the new Department of Education director.This week, Trump signed an executive order calling for a review of financial regulations. Many Democrats are concerned the audit will target the Dodd-Frank regulations enacted to protect consumers after the 2008 meltdown. Although Trump’s request didn’t specifically mention the regulatory law, he has expressed his frustration with it in the past.
If we applied the same 1981 S&P 500-Silver ratio today, the price of silver would be $230. That being said, the value of the S&P 500 is severally inflated. So, it is difficult to determine a realistic silver price based on a highly inflated stock index.
In 2016, gold refined in Switzerland made up more than a quarter of its total exports, outpacing even the pharmaceutical industries.
As discussed yesterday, the markets have been quiet. Too quiet. That makes me worry as generally when volatility resurfaces it has not been kind to investors in the short-term.
Is A Wholesale US Treasury Bond DUMP Coming?
Utah may soon lead the way of putting “trust” back in God and His Money (gold), rather than in God and the Federal Reserve.
Deutsche Bank of Greg Lippmann and "The Big Short" fame has a dire warning of ANOTHER possible big short situation: commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) backed by retail mall loans. Analysts at Deutsche Bank AG, one of the biggest underwriters of bonds tied to U.S. commercial mortgages, say now it’s time to bet against the securities.…
Precious metals expert Michael Ballanger discusses why technical analysis does not work in the precious metals arena.
Daniel Tarullo will resign from the Federal Reserve's Board of Governors on or around April 5, according to a statement on Friday.
With neither the CME nor the ICE gold futures contracts registering any trades as of yet (according to their websites), it will be interesting to see how this drama pans […]
What is coming down the pike is a Fiscal Bloodbath and the third stock market crash of this century. David Stockman reveals why the upcoming crash “will be violent.” Read on...
Stephen Roach, a senior at Yale University’s Institute of Global Affairs, "there was a lot of concern in markets about a currency war,"
The Federal Reserve and Bank of England are the latest central banks to step into what Pacific Investment Management Co. says is a new “cold currency war.”
The world’s first dedicated bitcoin bank has opened in the center of the Austrian capital Vienna. It is designed to make buying and selling bitcoin easier and safer than other in-person options.
Former Goldman Sachs Group Inc. president Gary Cohn is leading the effort to craft President Donald Trump’s plan to overhaul taxes that will be released within weeks, a White House official said.
There are many different interests that depend on the existence of the Federal Reserve and its ability to create money out of thin air. Today we discuss those groups and the reasons why they have no interest in getting rid of the Fed.
At 9:54 am EST, 11.1 tonnes of paper gold which hit the Comex trading floor and electronic trading system in a 60 second window. It represents approximately 30% of the total […]
The Trump Administration represents a risk to international economic conditions and global sovereign credit fundamentals, Fitch Ratings says. US policy predictability has diminished
The misery of Greece and the others seems destined to continue, until one way or another the eurozone tears itself apart. So much for "whatever it takes." Is the ECB completely insane?