Miles Franklin sponsored this article.Sometimes details obscure the bigger picture. The following graphs do not show most of the details and "noise." These log-scale graphs show one bar every four years (plus April 2018) based on official debt on July 1st, or the average of monthly closes every fourth year for M3, stock indices, houses and commodities.#1: The official national debt of the United...Read More

Graceland Updates By Stewart Thomson 1. For thousands of years, alchemists have dreamed of creating gold out of thin air. Arguably, today's alchemists are gold analysts obsessed with calling "market tops and bottoms". 2. The relentless search for this holy market grail doesn't build retained gold market wealth. That's because gold is simply an asset that is either on sale or n...Read More

By Clint SiegnerLots of bullion investors wonder if the metal they hold might one day be needed for barter and trade. They bought gold and silver, at least in part, as a form of insurance. It just might come in handy in an extreme circumstance such as a currency crisis of the sort Venezuelans are grappling with right now.However, a hyper-inflationary collapse in the dollar isn't the only dire sc...Read More

(Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc said on Tuesday it planned to build a new fulfillment center in Canada's capital Ottawa that would create more than 600 full-time jobs.The center, which is the company's fifth in the province of Ontario, will pick, pack and ship large items such as household decor, sporting equipment and gardening tools, the company said.The Seattle-based company currently employs more t...Read More

As I've noted in the past, the Commitments of Traders (COT) information is nothing other than a sentiment indicator. Moreover, for some markets, including gold, silver, copper, the major currencies and Treasury bonds, the COT reports are by far the best indicators of sentiment. This is because they reflect how the broad category known as speculators is betting. Sentiment surveys, on the other ha...Read More

Tightening is coming, brace yourself! And we mean 'tightening', not just the removal of monetary accommodation. Why we think so? Let's read our article about the recent FOMC minutes and find out! Poor Gold, Economic Outlook Is Positive Last week, the U.S. central bank published minutes from the recent FOMC meeting. How do the FOMC members view the economic outlook? On the one hand, they notic...Read More

By Steve St. AngeloHow much gold did the two largest mining countries produce in history? Well, let's just say that precious metals investors would be quite surprised to learn that the total cumulative gold production from the two leading countries is well over two billion ounces. That is one heck of a lot of gold once we consider that only six billion oz of gold has been mined in recorded h...Read More

Source: Jack Chan for Streetwise Reports 07/09/2018 Jack Chan charts the latest moves in the gold markets and sees the potential for a new "bull leg." --> Our proprietary cycle indicator is now up. The gold sector is on a long-term buy signal. Long-term signals can last for months and years and are more suitable for investors holding for long term. The gold sector is on a short-term buy sig...Read More

Inflation is officially nearly 3% right now. Alasdair MacLeod from GoldMoney says this high inflation is still an underestimate and real inflation is closer to 10%. High inflation is causing a transfer of wealth and economic distortions. The Fed will have to raise interest rates eventually, he says. MacLeod believes Trump is taking down the Deep State and seizing control of foreign policy. Across...Read More

ROME (Reuters) - The head of Italy’s central bank on Tuesday warned the new anti-establishment government to be cautious with public finances to avoid upsetting financial markets and increasing public debt.Bank of Italy Governor Ignazio Visco told a gathering of bankers in Rome that Italy’s reform effort had petered out and that, if a new financial crisis should hit, it was now “...Read More

(Reuters) - Wall Street opened higher on Tuesday, boosted by PepsiCo's strong quarterly results and gains in energy shares.The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 30.38 points, or 0.12 percent, at the open to 24,806.97. The S&P 500 opened higher by 4.39 points, or 0.16 percent, at 2,788.56. The Nasdaq Composite gained 14.43 points, or 0.19 percent, to 7,770.63 at the opening bell.Reporting by Am...Read More

Christopher Martenson is a former American biochemical scientist. Currently he is a writer and trend forecaster interested in macro trends regarding the economy, energy composition and environment. He is the founder of PeakProsperity.com. As one of the early econobloggers who forecasted the housing market collapse and stock market correction years in advance, Chris rose to prominence with the laun...Read More

- "Chaotic" Brexit more likely after Davis, Johnson resignations from UK government- London's rivals are slowly carving chunks out of its financial services business- UK's Brexit options are increasingly unappealing which may pressure the pound- Already Frankfurt, Paris, Luxembourg and Dublin seeing more foreign direct investment and financial services jobs- Risk of "death by a thousand cuts"...Read More

Political developments in the UK and the NATO summit will affect currencies as well as metals and energies. If gold and silver fall today, then physical buyers will be absent as they will be waiting for more correction. Today and tomorrow are crucial days for gold, silver and copper. They need to float over current prices to rise further. Sharp short-term corrections (if any) in gold and silver...Read More

President Trump's choice to fill the slot vacated by Justice Anthony Kennedy is a product of Washington politics. Despite what the Pelosis and Schumers of Congress may say about him, he is no representative of the far right. Instead, he inhabits the same "radical center" as his detractors. What does that mean to the Constitution? Civil liberties? Privacy?Dr. Ron Paul is a physician and former twel...Read More

By Ira EpsteinNot a strong rebound in gold.https://iraepstein.com Read More

Trump, Tariffs, and Trade Wars...John Rubino is the founder and manager of the popular financial website DollarCollapse.com. Mr. Rubino is the co-author, with GoldMoney's James Turk, of The Money Bubble and The Collapse of the Dollar and How to Profit from It. He spent the 1980's on Wall Street as a Eurodollar trader, equity analyst and junk bond analyst. During the 1990's he was a featured column...Read More

July 10 (Reuters) - Stock futures pointed to a slightly higher opening for Canada's main stock index on Tuesday, led by energy shares as supply disruptions buoyed crude prices.Oil prices rose more than $1 per barrel on Tuesday due to growing supply outages, with Norway shutting one oilfield as hundreds of workers began a strike and Libya saying its production more than halved in recent months.Sept...Read More

This may be the most powerful interview with Harley Schlanger that you've ever heard. Harley says there has been a rebellion, and it's global. From the #GreatAawkening in the United States with the election of Donald Trump to the turmoil in the EU as the unchecked power of the bureaucrats in Brussels is being challenged - and increasingly ignored. In Poland, Hungary, Italy, Spain, and even in Germ...Read More

In January, Congress reauthorized many of the unconstitutional surveillance programs that Edward Snowden let us know aboutContinue...Read More