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Since 1999 the Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee has been trying to get the financial industry, the mining industry, and mainstream financial news organizations to acknowledge that the gold market is aggressively manipulated by governments and central banks to protect their currencies and bonds against competition from a potentially superior currency and store of value.

St. Louis US Federal Reserve President James Bullard recently suggested the Fed is likely to maintain its strategy of small, incremental rate hikes for the next few years. This includes one likely December hike and then only one or two more for the next several years. Bullard estimates rates to stay at .68% through 2019.
Given the market’s penchant for overreacting to any change in Fed policy, there was surprisingly little response to Bullard’s comments. In fact, gold seems to be rising along with the likelihood of a December rate increase. In his latest podcast, Peter examines Bullard’s predictions from the perspective of what it would mean for one of the longest and slowest recoveries since the post-war era.

These factors combine to create an environment primed and ready for a massive deleveraging that will wreck security markets

[This article is featured in chapter 78 of Making Economic Sense by Murray Rothbard and originally appeared in the March, 1991 edition of The Free Market] Reprinted from Mises.org There has been a veritable revolution in the attitude of the nation’s economists, as well as the public, toward our banking system. Ever since 1933, it […]

They're going to keep "doubling down" until the whole thing blows up. That's why I'm 100% certain we're going to enter another recession next year...

At this point, a long period of stagnation is inevitable.

The wave of criticism of central bankers hasn’t let up in October with a Barron’s article arguing that central bank s are clowns.

Investors relying on the mainstream media for investment research better rethink their strategy, and quickly. Garbage in, garbage out can ruin your 401K and destroy your retirement dreams. A recent Gallup Poll concluded: "Americans' trust and confidence in the mass media "to report the news fully, accurately and fairly" has dropped to its lowest level in Gallup polling history, with…

You can request, before authorizing the trade, for the broker to email you a verification of how much commission or markup he is taking on the trade. In other words, get it in writing.

waste, inefficiency, environmental destruction--none of these matter. Only two things matter: maximize "growth" by any means necessary, and maximize profits by any means necessary.

For now the stock is not happy, plunging as much as 9% after hours, as much as 3 month lows, although it has since erased roughly half the miss.

The U.S. Dollar is in its final stretch as the world’s reserve currency. Where are gold and silver prices headed as the Dollar enters its death spiral? 

“It’s no secret the dollar is on its way out” as China is accumulating MASSIVE amounts of gold...for one very specific reason. How will a competing gold-backed currency impact the value of […]

FUNDS ARE FLEEING DEUTSCHE BANK..

Investors worried for years about the prospect of deflation. Now another concern—inflation—is starting to rattle global markets.

This fall may be the time for patience and using patterns to position your portfolio for gold’s next leg up:

We are well past the peak in autos and just passed the peak of the housing cycle. And it’s not even an opinion any more. It is a market fact.

This month’s selloff in global bonds deepened amid speculation that major central banks may be moving closer to a scaling back their extraordinary stimulus measures. Oil climbed with the dollar.

$16.9 billion was pulled from stock mutual funds in the seven days through Oct. 19, more than in any other week since August 2011.

Dear Janet, you have a problem.. Will this plunge in housing stocks be the "turmoil" to delay The Fed again?