David Morgan is a world-renown precious metals aficionado. He is the creator of TheMorganReport.com, a monthly report that covers economic news, overall financial health of the global economy, currency problems and the key reasons for investing in precious metals. A dynamic, much-in-demand speaker all over the globe, David's educational mission also makes him a prolific author, having penned Get t...Read More
Something strange has been happening in precious metals lately. Gold has been doing a lot better than silver, even as the paper market internals have increasingly predicted the opposite. The result is a gold/silver ratio that's near the top of its historic range:In the paper markets (where futures contracts are traded) the imbalance is even more glaring, with gold speculators extremely bullish (wh...Read More
Just a few months ago, news impacting gold and other metals was very different from today as at that time we were dealing with the impact of tax reform, the US budget and a major increase in military spending talk of infrastructure spending. We're no longer dealing with: ? War with North Korea (NK), being a daily topic. In fact, plans are underway for a meeting between Kim...Read More
This article was written for Miles Franklin by Gary Christenson. Neither Miles Franklin nor Christenson run a lemonade stand.Summary: Timmy, a precocious ten-year-old opens a lemonade stand and learns about unbacked currencies."Dad, I'm excited and ready for business. Mom made me sign an IOU when she gave me sugar and frozen lemonade so I have stuff to sell." Timmy looked up at his father and sm...Read More
Guggenheim's head of investing sees a hard road ahead for the markets and the US economy, with a severe recession and a 40 percent drop in stocks on the horizonContinue...Read More
JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon sees 'chance of market panic'- In annual letter to shareholders Dimon warns of increased inflation and interest rates- Concerned QE unwinding could cause chaos as 'markets will get more volatile'- Hard to look at the last 20 years in America "and not think that it has been getting increasingly worse."- Positive about US economy over next year, but ignores record leve...Read More
By Alasdair Macleod"Naturally, the smooth termination of the gold-exchange standard, the restoration of the gold standard, and supplemental and interim measures that might be called for, in particular with a view to organizing international credit on this new basis, will have to be deliberately agreed upon between countries, in particular those on which there devolves special responsibility by v...Read More
Cranbrook, B.C., April 6th, 2018: Eagle Plains Resources Ltd. (TSX-V: "EPL") (the "Company") announces that it has completed a special meeting approving the spin-out of certain Saskatchewan gold assets into a separate company named Taiga Gold Corp ("Taiga"). 99.7% of voters approved the Plan of Arrangement transaction in addition to other business put before the shareholders. Under terms of the...Read More
Do you know how much a trillion is (we refer here to the short scale)? A billion is hard enough to imagine, much less a trillion. But let's try. We can write it as 1,000,000,000,000 - that's a 1 with twelve zeroes. In other words it's million million, or ten to the twelfth (1012). One trillion of dollars in $100 dollar bills would stack up to about 631 miles high. Given that the average annual i...Read More
Just a few months ago, news impacting gold and other metals was very different from today as at that time we were dealing with the impact of tax reform, the US budget and a major increase in military spending talk of infrastructure spending. We're no longer dealing with: ? War with North Korea (NK), being a daily topic. In fact, plans are underway for a meeting between Kim...Read More
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:Allan Flynn, who runs the "Comex, We Have a Problem" blog, this week posted a fascinating review of the traders who are the major targets of the recent investigation by the U.S. Justice Department and Commodity Futures Trading Commission of "spoofing" in the monetary metals futures markets.Two details that may be of special interest:1) The traders seemed to find "spo...Read More
Real estate tends to ride an emotional rollercoaster, as anyone who made it through the 2000s can attest. But in some ways the current market is even stranger Continue...Read More
President Trump, desiring to protect U.S. farmers from China's tariffs, may end up putting his country against many more nations in a Continue...Read More
- JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon sees 'chance of market panic'- In annual letter to shareholders Dimon warns of increased inflation and interest rates- Concerned QE unwinding could cause chaos as 'markets will get more volatile'- Hard to look at the last 20 years in America "and not think that it has been getting increasingly worse."- Positive about US economy over next year, but ignores record...Read More
- JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon sees 'chance of market panic'- In annual letter to shareholders Dimon warns of increased inflation and interest rates- Concerned QE unwinding could cause chaos as 'markets will get more volatile'- Hard to look at the last 20 years in America "and not think that it has been getting increasingly worse."- Positive about US economy over next year, but ignores record...Read More
The following is a summary of our recent FS Insider podcast, "Charles Gave: Possible Paradigm Shift Ahead," which can be accessed on our site here or on iTunes here.We've been living in a disinflationary environment for last 30 years and, overall, this has been good for companies and the stock market, says Charles Gave at Gavekal Research. This may be about to change, however, and the implica...Read More
Palisade Research April 6, 2018 Category: Research I always ask myself one thing when looking at investments."Is this fragile, robust, or positioned to be anti-fragile? What’s my risk and reward?”I use a top down approach to try and forecast longer term probabilities for success or failure. When measuring macro-situations, my analysts and I call this our Macro-Fragility Index (MFI).And...Read More
There are four major factors driving the market. The factors are growth, trade wars, geopolitics and regulation of technology.Each of the four factors has its own internal contradictions, in effect a binary outcome for each. This means there are 16 possible paths the market might follow (24 = 16). No wonder the market acts confused.With regard to growth, the bulls expect a boost from the Trump tax...Read More
"It's like traders have an acute case of Attention Deficit Disorder," my friend Rob said last weekend."They can't focus on any one thing for more than a day or two. But they're buying and selling as quickly as possible based on whatever 'shiny object' catches their eye."And he's right!As the market fluctuates higher and lower, traders are increasingly distracted by the prospects of trade wars, hig...Read More