Unemployment skyrocketed in March and April, during the worst stage of the pandemic and the lockdowns that followed. The unemployment rate approached 15% in April and total initial claimsContinue...Read More
Andy Schectman, CEO of Miles Franklin Precious Metals, returns to Liberty and Finance to offer an update on the latest developments from inside the previous metals world, and to lay out his view of where we are headed next. Andy also answers challenging questions from viewers on:- the specter of default on the COMEX,- FAQs about the bullion market,- storage options vs. government confiscation,- wh...Read More
Students didn't 'feel comfortable' sitting near the murals, administrator saidContinue...Read More
The mainstream press has called the Federal Reserve's recent decision to let inflation run higher amid the pandemic a historic change.For David Collum, a chemistry professor at Cornell University turned investment analyst, it is actually the admission of a long-running trend: the fiat-bubble economy needs ever-lower interest rates to sustain itself.David B. Collum is an economic commentator, chemi...Read More
Is Gold on sale? What about Silver? Should you be buying Platinum? In this exclusive interview, we sit down with Andy Schectman the President of Miles Franklin Precious Metals Investments to find out what he is buying and why. This is another comprehensive interview that conveys the importance of using ratios to increase your precious metals positions. We will address Basil III and the Bank of Int...Read More
You asked and Ron Paul answered. We hope you enjoy another edition of #AskRonPaul!Dr. Ron Paul is a physician and former twelve-term congressman from Texas who ran for president in 2008. He is the author of eight books, including the New York Times bestsellers The Revolution: A Manifesto and End The Fed. An unwavering defender of the US Constitution, Paul has been an advocate of sound money, perso...Read More
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell recently announced that the Fed is abandoning "inflation targeting" where the Fed aims to maintain a price inflation rate of up to two percent. Instead, the Fed will allow inflation to remain above two percent to balance out periods of lower inflation. Powell's announcement is not a radical shift in policy. It is an acknowledgment that the Fed is unlikely to...Read More
"What happened in the embassy was weird."Continue...Read More
We have never heard more gibberish, double talk, and lies from one podium than we have from Fed Chairman Powell. There is no other way to say it: The Fed has become a dangerous rogue Continue...Read More
These Democratic state governors have been so draconian in suppressing their economies for political purposes. Then they have the audacity to turn around and raise taxes to cover theContinue...Read More
A new study out of Princeton University reveals that 48 out of the 50 largest cities in the United States have experienced riots Continue...Read More
The share of young adults living with their parents broke out to new highs. The previous record was set at 48% in 1940, according to Pew data, which was one year into World War II. Continue...Read More
SoftBank was only a cog in the huge machinery.Wolf Richter is the founder of Wolf Street Corp and the publisher of WolfStreet.com. Wolf has over twenty years of C-level operations experience, including turnarounds and a VC-funded startup. He has a BA, MA, and MBA (UT at Austin). In his prior life, he worked in Texas and Oklahoma, including a decade as General Manager and COO of a large Ford dealer...Read More
I'll start off by answering some questions from the comments section of recent videos and then we'll open it up to live questions. Got a question about gold? Buying a house? The next recession? The Fed? My investment strategies? Or maybe my favorite band? (Guns N Roses) ;) If you've got a question, whatever it is...I'm going to give you answer!! In this LIVE Q&A I'm going to help YOU build wealth...Read More
For the last few months, the firms of Warren Buffett (Berkshire Hathaway) & Ray Dalio (Bridgewater Associates) have been changing their investment strategies towards more inflation hedges. Buffett has recently increased exposure to energy companies and even a gold miner, Barrick Gold, along with his Japanese company investments that also have mining exposure."It is pretty obvious that with interes...Read More
"[Juniors] have raised a lot of cash in the last few months. Everybody's excited about the higher gold price."Continue...Read More
The Federal Reserve has effectively declared war on savers by vowing to hold short-term interest rates near zero, likely for years to come. Longer-term bond yields also plummeted to record lows (below 1% for most maturities) this year.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 he...Read More
"In the absence of a vaccine, we may have to live this way for years."Continue...Read More
For the past few years, the US financial system and the Fed have been playing a game of chicken in which the Fed tries to tighten (or at least stop easing) and the stock market behaves like an addict deprived of its heroin.Continue...Read More
Continue...Paul Craig Roberts is an American economist and a columnist for Creators Syndicate. He served as an Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan Administration and was noted as a co-founder of Reaganomics. Dr. Roberts is a former editor and columnist for the Wall Street Journal, Business Week, and Scripps Howard News Service. He has testified before congressional committees on 30 o...Read More