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The Federal Reserve stayed pat on interest rates in its most recent meeting, but speculation continues to percolate that the central bank will possibly raise rates in September.
Peter Schiff has been saying for months that the Fed won’t raise rates. He reiterated this on his most recent podcast. (Scroll down to listen to the full podcast.)
The Fed continued to say that they believe the economy is evolving in a way that will warrant gradual rate hikes. And of course, by gradual they mean no more rate hikes…So they raised rates once in December and they haven’t raised rates since. That’s about as gradual as you can possibly get. I mean, if a snail was raising rates they would have blown past Janet Yellen…I think, again, the rate-hiking cycle ended when they raised rates. It began when they started talking about tapering. That was the whole rate cycle, and whether people want to admit it or not, we are now in the easing cycle.”
In fact, Peter has said on numerous occasions ...

The question therefore is this: is Japan gearing up to be the guinea pig for central bank policy in the US & Europe?

Anxiety is mounting ahead of the BOJ policy meeting while the visible fears over the global economy are real

China's "shadow banking" system is masking the rise in indebtedness in China, Moody's Investors Service said in a report Wednesday.

If everything is so awesome then why are consumer confidence expectations (otherwise known as 'hope') tumbling?

Today, we adopt a bearish outlook for restaurants as we confidently believe that, at a minimum, the simultaneous -150 basis points to -200bps deceleration

World economic growth remains subdued & is not sufficient to drive improvement in most of the industries & markets we serve

Manhattan & Miami already get mauled. Now expanding to San Francisco, Silicon Valley, Southern California, even Texas!

In the end, here's an illustration of just how much the single family home sales recovery has contributed to the US economy's growth

According to RealtyTrac, flipping activity in the first three months this year rose by 20%, compared to 2015's fourth quarter. It’' running at a pace that’s 55% above the third quarter of 2014.

Fed continues to face unease surrounding the health of the domestic economy & concern regarding volatility abroad suggesting rates are likely to be much lower for much longer.

Are gold prices looking strong here?   The analysts at Peak Prosperity make the case...

A bull market in gold and silver is now confirmed, but the cycle has turned down, suggesting that a long overdue correction may have started. USD broke out and up […]

Fed must proceed cautiously if it wishes to shift policy towards rate normalization & that means keeping the dollar in check.

Mises University is the world's leading instructional program in the Austrian School of economics, and is the essential training ground for economists who are looking beyond the mainstream.

John Mauldin, Chairman of Mauldin Economics,explores the cautionary tale of Japan’s monetary policy, and goes into full detail on why monetary policy has undermined the economic stability

Though it is the world's biggest producer, China cannot keep up with its demand for gold

these new policies of charging clients simply to hold their money is the final warning to get out of most financial institutions

The problem caused by the Fed's phony-baloney credit-money. It has led to a worldwide debt bubble - $300 trillion worth

I shorted the stock market in October 2008, when the S&P fell as much as 33% in one month. Great timing, eh? I'd bought shares in SDS (ProShares Ultra Short S&P 500), an ETF that rose twice