Precious metals news

“if retail sales are as great as the data has been claiming, why are retail stocks lagging by so much?”

The Bank of Japan’s controversial march to the top of shareholder rankings in the world’s third-largest equity market is picking up pace.

IMF officials had no plans for handling a eurozone debt crisis, because they presumed such a crisis was impossible. And it wasn’t that the IMF hadn’t been warned. Long before the deluge, people within the agency had argued that the euro system was fundamentally flawed and would eventually fall apart.

Central Bank Actions Continue To Fail. The global economy risks becoming trapped in a low growth, low inflation, low interest rate equilibrium. Desperation leads to negative interest rates, a bank kil

Why do some nations rise while others wither? Why have some of the world's largest empires eventually crumbled?

More merchants are opting to go completely cashless, skipping out on the hassle and expense of coins and bills

We seem to be well along the path of this “One Road” - yet thanks in part to the prognostications of CIA officials, one cannot say we were not warned!

the "bearish billionaire" bug that recently affected such prominent asset managers as Soros, Gundlach, Druckenmiller & Icahn has not bypassed Tepper either, because as of June 30

Learn how the international monetary system has evolved over the last 100 years and how that evolution has shaped the extraordinarily strange investment

The Investor’s Podcast to talk about how China & the United States are in a tricky situation based on the events that have evolved since 1971   In this episode the listener gets one of the most amazing history lessons about the US Dollar.  Richard Duncan is a international best selling author and joins The Investor's Podcast to talk about how China and the

Kyle Bass is a very famous investor because the block buster movie, The Big Short, was based on him and a few other investors.  In 2008, Bass successfully predicted and effectively bet against the U.S. subprime mortgage crisis by purchasing credit default swaps on subprime securities which, in turn, increased in value when the real

a "Modern Debt Jubilee" is needed to escape from the current economic state of credit stagnation

the dark heart of Italy’s banking crisis as central bank intervention increases financial risk.

Mexico has started "quietly" buying contracts to lock in 2017 oil prices when futures were near their peak in June, signaling the start of what has in prior years been the "world’s largest sovereign petroleum hedge

Midwest farmland prices have been bubbling up for over a decade with annual price increases of 15%-30% in many years.

While rising Gold & Silver prices are a positive sign for the precious metals industry, the surging U.S. petroleum stocks are extremely negative.

The trend for piling into the precious metal sent the price of gold soaring by 25% in H1 - the biggest price rise since 1980. For the first time ever

why devaluation will have the opposite effect that central banks intend, & why the currency war will last much longer than people expect.

ANGELA Merkel could be facing financial chaos after Germany’s largest bank fell into the middle of its biggest crisis as share prices plummeted due to customers losing faith.

Each week there are plenty of new reasons to get fed up with our beloved central bank. Here’s what they’ve been up to in the past seven days.
On Monday, former Fed Chair Ben Bernanke laid out his thoughts on how the rest of this year would play out for the US economy. Overall, he sees that the past two years have brought about tighter financial numbers, weaker growth, and low inflation. Bernanke seems to estimate the Fed’s false promises of a rate hike have caused investors to slow down and even reverse course in some ways.
“Fed-watchers will see less benefit in parsing statements and speeches and more from paying close attention to the incoming data," Bernanke said in his article for Brookings.  “Market participants now appear to expect few if any additional rate rises in coming quarters.”
Of course, Peter Schiff has been predicting all along that any expectation that the Fed will raise rates should be taken with a hefty grain of salt.