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Will the Trump Administration have an economic calamity in the bond market because of the heavy global debt load?

This is how it's going to play out. Stocks will slide, gold and commodities will reverse their fall and the dollar will give up its gains.

Those who are wiser are acquiring gold at bargain prices, at good prices and at high prices. The price means nothing. But it does require some wisdom to understand this.

Jayant provides the dire, serious consequences the poor facing in India & the merits, prudence of gold and silver stewardship.

Here are the latest stories in macroeconomics that you should be paying attention to... We highlight world money, a country going cashless and more here...

Last week, St. Louis Federal Reserve economist William Emmons presented a study showing American home ownership declining at a rate that’s projected to return levels to the 1950s. In a presentation entitled “Is Home Ownership Still the American Dream?” Emmons explains how the increase in home ownership of post-WWII was fueled by many factors, including New Deal government housing policies, which “laid the foundation for this huge increase in home ownership rates.”
Although the 2008 Housing Crisis was a strong factor, Emmons suggests the downward trend in home ownership began as early as 2005. The Fed economist also suggested the move on balance appeared secular and long-lasting, despite the fact that 90% of Americans younger than 45 have bought or expect to buy a home in the future. Aspirations to own homes are even higher among African-Americans and Hispanics than whites and Asians, yet rates for these groups are 20 - 30% lower.

The Gold market's immediate natural response during Trump's election night was a vigorous spike, which was massively smacked down by dumping the paper equivalent of three years global gold production […]

Silver Expert David Morgan joins Greg Hunter to provide an update on gold and silver. With the metals currently SMASHED along with bonds as the dollar soars, Morgan warns there […]

China's leaders will be on their guard as threats to the country's social and economic stability mount.

For the first time since it started to measure the world’s wealth in 2008, CS found global wealth to be flat over the past 12 months.

Even with the worst post-recession wage growth since 1965, national home prices are back to June 2007 levels, thanks in part to the massive monetary stimulus from The Fed

US new home sales dropped 2% in October. And are back to 1982 levels, after the twin recessions in the early 198os. Median price for new home sales fell 9.5% YoY, not all that surprising since hourly earnings for 82% of the population are growing at the slowest post-recession rate since 1965. New home sales…

Will Trump take the economy back to the stagflation of the 1970s?. The “money multiplier” could really be a money subtractor. Read on...

The middle class got lower wages and more debt. The system is rigged in favour of the Establishment that runs it. Voters couldn’t sort out exactly how…

The Fed confirmed a rate-hike was approrpoate "relatively soon" and was "important to Fed credibility."

The spike in the 10-Year Yield has brought it into a cluster of significant potential resistance stemming back nearly a decade.

An influential government ­adviser says Beijing should stop intervening to control the value of the yuan & instead allow a fall in the currency’s exchange rate ­before Donald Trump takes office as US president at the end of ­January.

Otmar Issing, ECB's first chief economist, told CNBC his enthusiasm for the euro has waned amid rising populism throughout the continent.

With the U.S. National Debt closing in on the $20 trillion mark, there has been a lot of conversation in Washington about debt and its role in government.

Rickards discusses why the price of gold is heading to a price level many thousands of dollars beyond its current price.