Gold has big year in 2020 and outlook for this year robust. Learn about monetary expansion and gold future prices.Read More
The gold futures price reached US$1,767/ounce this week before retreating, which was the second time it has surpassed US$1,760 in the past two months, marking some of gold's highest levels in several years.Read More
Billionaire businessman Mark Cuban, a fierce supporter of Hillary Clinton, said the Democratic nominee’s recent health episode is being overblown. “It’s not crazy, it’s lazy,” he told Business Insider in a Monday interview regarding coverage of Clinton’s pneumonia. -Business InsiderIt's a battle of memes and elite dispensers are growing irritated and increasin...Read More
A giant problem The rise of the corporate colossus threatens both competition and the legitimacy of business ... DISRUPTION may be the buzzword in boardrooms, but the most striking feature of business today is not the overturning of the established order. It is the entrenchment of a group of superstar companies at the heart of the global economy. -The EconomistThe Economist provides pre-eminent...Read More
BriefTrump Says Janet Yellen Is Keeping Interest Rates Low So President Obama Can Play Golf ... After months of surprising restraint, Donald Trump has finally started spewing conspiracy theories about the Federal Reserve. -SlateSlate writers and editors seem to believe criticism of central banking is "conspiracy theory." Specifically Donald Trump's criticism made a few days ago that Yellen is hold...Read More
'Crazies' Will Undermine the U.S. System ... Former Fed chief doesn't spell out whom he is referring to Says economic and political environment is worst he's seen ... Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan voiced concern that the U.S. economic and political system could be undermined by what he called "crazies." - BloombergOnce again we observe a meme we've been covering, populism versus g...Read More
Yeah, Hillary Has Pneumonia, But Trump Is Still A Deranged Threat To America ... Modern medicine can remedy one of these ailments more thoroughly than the other. -Huffington PostAs libertarian (former) Congressman Ron Paul pointed out recently (here), the "deep state" elects whom it wants and it seems to have wanted Hillary Clinton.And even after Hillary’s most recent collapse, articles ar...Read More
Hillary Clinton abruptly left the Sept. 11 memorial ceremony in New York City Sunday morning after feeling "overheated," according to a campaign statement. "Secretary Clinton attended the September 11th Commemoration Ceremony for just an hour and thirty minutes this morning to pay her respects and greet some of the families of the fallen," Clinton campaign spokesperson Nick Merrill said in a s...Read More
Trump Wants Border Wall, but Britain Is Building One in France ... The U.K. government has announced plans to begin constructing a 13-foot concrete roadside barrier at the French port of Calais, where truck drivers have been targeted by migrants trying to sneak through the Channel Tunnel. -NBCWalls are being built in the West not to keep others out but to keep citizens in. They are being erec...Read More
Green Party's Jill Stein Pledges ‘Truth’ About 9/11 Attacks if Elected ... US Green Party Presidential bid Jill Stein claimed that as an elected president she would launch a new investigation into the 9/11 attacks, because the probe carried out during the George W. Bush Administartion "defrauded the nation." -SputnikJill Stein is correct about the Bush administration "defrauding th...Read More
Those figuring that the Fed still might hike rates in September are getting one more bite at the apple. As the week drew to a close and the Fed’s “quiet period” before meetings was about to settle in, investors recoiled over news that the central bank’s most dovish official, Governor Lael Brainard, will be delivering a previously unannounced speech Monday at The Chicago Co...Read More
Thom Hartmann exposes libertarian philosophy for the billionaire scam that it is ... With the major party candidates’ negative ratings at historic highs, millions of Americans are looking to third-party candidates, with libertarian Gary Johnson polling highest among third-party candidates currently. But do libertarians and progressives really see eye to eye on the big issues, as Johnson wo...Read More
Dirty Money in Afghanistan ... How Kabul is Cleaning Up the Illicit Economy ... Drug trafficking, smuggling, unregulated trade, and fraud in procurement contracts are encumbering the country’s economic development and funding the terrorist groups that undermine its stability. Money laundering plays a crucial role in supporting this criminality. - Foreign AffairsThe US and its allies are...Read More
As soon as I take office, I will ask Congress to fully eliminate the defense sequester and will submit a new budget to rebuild our military,” Trump said. “This will increase certainty in the defense community as to funding, and will allow military leaders to plan for our future defense needs.” -PoliticoDonald Trump recently gave a speech that was well-received by the defense comm...Read More
The tide of globalisation is turning Trade liberalisation has stalled and one can see a steady rise in protectionist measures ... Has the tide of globalisation turned? This is a vitally important question. The answer is closely connected to the state of the world economy and the west's politics. - Financial TimesThis article present a lot of positives surrounding "globalism," which is a fund...Read More
YouTube says the demonetization is the result of changes to its notification system, and not a reflection of changes in its policies, it’s unclear why DeFranco and other vloggers are just getting flagged on content now even though many of them have been posting similar videos to YouTube for years. DeFranco and his supporters worry the move could have implications for all YouTube creators. -V...Read More
Britain will never leave the European Union (EU) because the process is too complicated, an academic has claimed. His comments prompted UK Independence Party MEPs to warn that Project Fear is "alive and kicking". -BreitbartWith Hillary running for president on an authoritarian platform, Brexit foundering, China restricting websites and wars spreading around the world, it may look as if the Interne...Read More
A number of users called YouTube's actions a threat to free speech, although the company technically isn't bound by the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, since it is a business and not an arm of the government. Like Facebook, it can remove whatever content it wants to. More than anything, however, the dispute reinforces how much of our public speech and behavior is now controlled by large...Read More
Shawn Perger is based in Vancouver Canada and has worked in the international financial markets for 30 years with a primary focus on mining. For the last 15 years, he has worked with mainly silver companies in corporate finance and communications capacities.The Daily Bell: Let's start at the beginning for those who are new to Golden Arrow. Explain a bit more about what you do.Shawn Perger: I s...Read More
Nafta Was Good for the U.S. and Mexico ... The North American Free Trade Agreement, Donald Trump said on Wednesday, “has been a far greater benefit to Mexico” than the U.S. Just minutes before, Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto, standing by Trump’s side in Mexico City, said Nafta had done both countries “a lot of good.” -BloombergWhy would anyone who believes in fr...Read More
Want a Free Market? Abolish Cash ... If you believe that government meddling in financial markets was responsible for the last recession and the lackluster recovery, you might be right. But probably not in the way you think. - BloombergSome Bloomberg editorials are stranger than others. This one is especially strange because it argues that banning cash will create a stronger, freer market.How do...Read More
Dilma Rousseff Learns Fiscal Crime Doesn’t Pay ... At her impeachment trial this week, Brazil’s suspended president Dilma Rousseff warned of the “death of democracy,” comparing the senators trying her to the military tribunal she faced as a young woman fighting dictatorship. The actual charges against Rousseff — which she has denied, and for which she was impeached...Read More