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Is the Dollar's Funeral Scheduled for September 4th?

Something quite extraordinary took place which hasn’t happened for several decades.  While Switzerland has been a major source of U.S. gold exports for many years, the tables turned in May […]

The Brexit, oil meltdown, global central banking policy, and a whole lot of uncertainty surrounding November's presidential election could easily push the price of silver

Cracks are now visible in the central banks' wall of deceit. Trillions of dollars of bonds now trade at negative yields. Helicopter money is in the cards. People the world over now sense the jig is up

Nobel Prize-winning economist Robert Shiller, who is the co-creator of the S&P/Case Shiller Index, tells Yahoo Finance's Seana Smith why technology is at the root of the world's biggest problems.

After reversing lower yesterday after the FOMC statement, the US dollar has continued to move lower against the major currencies

In its closely watched GDPNow indicator, on Thursday cut its forecast to 1.8 percent, a sharp reduction from the 2.3 percent expectation just a day earlier

That's how much of the $51 trillion in global company IOUs is maturing between now and 2021

As Europe braces for the release of its bank stress tests on Friday, the world could be on the verge of another banking crisis

The households that helped prop up the nation's banks during the crisis are again on the front line of efforts to bolster Italy's tottering financial system

Crisis-ridden Italian banks are facing a watershed moment on Friday, when the European Banking Authority's stress test results will reveal which big lenders might needing more capital

former Fed chair, discusses the U.S. economy, signs of inflation, & the impact of stagflation on interest rates - Bloomberg

The stock market thinks it's solidly on pavement, but in reality it's like a Wiley E. Coyote moment is just ahead

Ford stock, which this morning is tumbling by 10% as the market is suddenly repricing risk in the US auto industry

the US homeownership rate just tumbled from 63.5% to 62.9%, tied for the lowest print going back more than 50 years, to 1965.

This is no small matter. The terminal fiscal decline of the world's most dominant superpower is one of the biggest trends of our time

the US money supply could balloon to 15 times its current size, sending inflation as high as 1,500%

It's more along the lines of what Ben Bernanke told Etsuro Honda. It feels to me that the line in the sand - the QE "point of no return"- is getting nearer & nearer.

With today’s FOMC announcement that a September rate hike is off the table, it looks like it will be the end of the year before Yellen and company change their monetary policy. It’s business as usual. Yesterday Peter Schiff appeared on CNBC’s Futures NOW in a raucous exchange with setting the record straight about how close his predictions have been about the Fed’s past actions. Peter also sparred with TJM's Jim Iuorio about the deeper motivations behind the Fed's actions.

Sunny Pannu, director of corporate development for Defiance Silver, a silver explorer and developer, recently sat down with Silver Institute executive director Michael DiRienzo for a wide-ranging discussion about the fantastic world of silver.
The discussion focused on the present state of the silver market and its future. Topics ranged from an explanation of how the silver price-fix works to the dynamics of supply and demand.
DiRienzo emphasized the dual nature of silver, noting that it serves as both an industrial metal and a precious metal for investment. He echoed the same themes as a prominent mining CEO did in a recent interview with Kitco News, saying both investor and industrial demand for the white metal is strong.
DiRienzo  said silver coin sales are on a record pace, as are inflows of silver into ETFs. On the industrial side, it’s interesting to note that the demand for silver has been steady despite general sluggishness in the global economy. DiReinzo said th...