What does the recent volatility and surging price of bitcoin mean for the future of the crypto-currency, and does its recent out-performance mean that it may supplant gold as a safe […]
The gold sector is on a major buy signal. The cycle is up. Short-term is also on a buy signal
A group of seven large European banks have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to develop a blockchain-powered cross-border trade finance platform for small and medium-sized companies in Europe.
Gold jumps more than 1 percent to its highest in nearly eight weeks, on expectations of a definitive exit from the EU.
Said amount of gold were used to back up the printing of $3 trillion paper currency, early last year. But for whose benefit?
Rolling coverage of the opening day of the World Economic Forum in Davos
Mike Maloney and David Morgan explain the Gold/Silver Ratio: where it’s been historically, where it is today, and what it tells us about the future of the silver price.
The European Central Bank bought a record-breaking €24.7 billion worth of debt last week, taking advantage of a bumper supply of bank bonds to boost its economic stimulus programme.
Air fares, imported raw materials, food and petrol price rises plus Brexit-fuelled fall in pound will squeeze family finances in 2017
Brazil's central bank decision to slash interest rates will help the economy recover without threatening the downward trajectory of inflation toward its target, the bank said in the minutes from its last meeting released on Tuesday.
Jim Rickards unveils 7 Federal Reserve tools used by the U.S central bank - and why they all present enormous economic risk. Find his full analysis here...
Some 300 U.S. Marines landed in Norway on Monday for a six-month deployment, the first time since World War Two that foreign troops have been allowed to be stationed there, in a deployment which has irked Norway's Arctic neighbor Russia.
Yes, the US mortgage market remains like a “Whack-a-mole” game. You knock down one Federal entity (and taxpayer subsidy) and another one jumps out. Not to mention regulators.
(CalPERS Massive Pension Underfunding) The Federal Reserve's zero interest rate policies (ZIRP) have an unwelcomed effect: both the Federal Government and Private Pensions gorged themselves on low-cost debt. The Federal Reserve lowered their Fed Funds target rate starting in 2007, then started their asset purchases in late 2008, culminating in a dramatic decline in interest rates. Then, since the…
Technical analyst Clive Maund forecasts a stock market "swoon" in light of the impending inauguration of Donald Trump.
The largest generation in U.S. history has to start pulling its retirement money this year, kicking off a mandatory movement of cash that could total hundreds of billions in the coming decades.
The President-elect said the U.S. currency is already “too strong.” Stocks declined as traders braced themselves for British Prime Minister Theresa May to set out her plan for leaving the European Union.
It turns out that physicians across the country have been firing Medicare patients; and according to a late 2015 study from the Kaiser Family Foundation, 21% of physicians are not taking new Medicare patients.
The global economic order is teetering. The question is whether it can be rescued.
“How on earth are we going to resolve $120 trillion on balance sheet and off balance sheet liabilities before we consider state and local debt and underfunded pensions? My suspicion […]