Demanding More DebtConsumer debt, corporate debt, and government debt are all going up. But that's not all. Margin debt - debt that investors borrow against their portfolio to buy more stocks - has hit a record of $642.8 billion. What in the world are people thinking? A blow-off in margin debt mirroring the blow-off in stock prices. Since February of 2016 alone it has soared by ~$170 billi...Read More

Serenely Grows the DebtbergWe mentioned in a recent post that we would soon return to the topic of credit spreads and exotic structured products. One reason for doing so are the many surprises investors faced in the 2008 crisis. Readers may e.g. remember auction rate securities. These bonds were often listed as "cash equivalents" on the balance sheets of assorted companies investing in them, but i...Read More

Jim Willie is a statistical analyst in marketing research and retail forecasting. He holds a PhD in Statistics, and his career has stretched over 25 years. He aspires to thrive in the financial editor world, unencumbered by the limitations of economic credentials. Jim operates a free website called Golden Jackass.Read More

US Federal District Court Judge Richard J. Leon has stayed Rusoro's $966.5-million International Center for the Settlement of Investment Disputes Expropriation award against Venezuela registered in the US. Following the World Bank agency's decision to grant the award on August 22, 2016, Rusoro took that judgment to the US Federal Court in Washington, D.C. on October 10, 2016. The idea was to regis...Read More

Click here for the full transcript: http://financialrepressionauthority.c...Charles Hugh Smith writes the Of Two Minds blog which covers an eclectic range of timely topics: finance, housing, Asia, energy, long-term trends, social issues, health/diet/fitness and sustainability. From its humble beginnings in May 2005, Of Two Minds now attracts some 200,000 visits a month. Charles also contributes to...Read More

*This interview was recorded on 2/28/18Catherine Austin Fitts is a former Wall Street investment banker, macroeconomic expert and publisher of The Solari Report https://solari.com/.Read More

Whilethere is disagreement over its causes – man-made versus natural – the realityof climate change is an incontrovertible fact. The planet is warming, affectingour weather, our oceans, our growing seasons, even our food, as crops fail,causing shortages and price hikes. Storms are becoming more frequent, and moreintense, and droughts are lasting longer.Forestfires are an annual occurre...Read More

Mike Gleason: It is my privilege now to welcome back Michael Pento, president and founder of Pento Portfolio Strategies, and author of the book The Coming Bond Market Collapse: How to Survive the Demise of the U.S. Debt Market.Michael is a well-known money manager and a fantastic market commentator, and over the past few years has been a wonderful guest and one of our favorite interviews here on t...Read More

Normally the action in the gold and silver futures markets tends to be pretty similar, since the same general forces affect both precious metals. When inflationContinue...Read More

Our proprietary cycle indicator is down.To public readers of our updates, our cycle indicator is one of the most effective timing tool for traders and investors. It is not perfect, because periodically the market can be more volatile and can result in short-term whipsaws. But overall, the cycle indicator provides us with a clear direction how we should be speculating.InvestorsDuring a major buy si...Read More

Most experienced investors know the four most dangerous words are: This time is different. It never is. And yet one of my key predictions here at Peak Prosperity is Continue...Read More

Among the topics addressed over the course of the call:the current commodity selloff in the face of the ongoing dollar weaknessthe purpose (if there is any) of the 135MM ounce JPM Comex silver vaultDavid's three ideal investments for the next 20 yearswhich mining companies offer the best potential returns going forwardwhether technical analysis is useful in today's marketsand much, much more!David...Read More

Billionaire investor and Trump adviser Carl Icahn sold $31.3 million of stock in a company heavily dependent on steel last week, days before Trump announced tariffsContinue...Read More

"When a country (USA) is losing many billions of dollars on trade with virtually every country it does business with, trade wars are good, and easy to win," Continue...Read More

In this episode of the Keiser Report, Max and Stacy discuss JP Morgan stacking silver in response to Max Keiser and also about the whistleblower claiming the VIX index is manipulated. In the second half, Max interviews Mitch Feierstein of PlanetPonzi.com about manipulation of the volatility index and the collapse of some of its associated derivative products. Max Keiser is an American broadcaster...Read More

The gold/silver ratio has risen to 80/1. The ratio should be 9/1 or even lower, President of First Majestic Silver Keith Neumeyer says. Even if the gold price stayed flat, a 9/1 gold/silver ratio would mean triple digit silver.Silver is more than "poor man's gold," he says. Because of how silver is used in technology, it is an essential metal to our modern way of life.Neumeyer updates us on how bl...Read More

The Mexican steel association, Canacero, has called on the federal government to take "reciprocal measures" against the United States if it imposes a 25% duty on steel imports from Mexico. "Canacero expresses concern and it expects immediate reciprocal measures from our government if our country is included in the [232] measures," the association said late on Thursday March 1.The US recorded a ste...Read More

Vietnamese re-rollers are fretting over a 25% import tariff that the United States is set to impose on steel imports, expecting them to reduce the volumes of finished flat products that they can ship there, market sources told Metal Bulletin on Friday March 2.This could in turn result in a supply glut of flat steel in Asia, they warned."Vietnamese re-rollers are growing increasingly worried and th...Read More

The European Steel Association, Eurofer, has welcomed the European Commission's pledge of "appropriate and swift measures" after the United States finally announced Section 232 trade tariffs.US president Donald Trump announced the imposition of import duties of 25% on steel and 10% aluminium on March 1. "We welcome the [EC] announcement [that] appropriate and swift measures will be taken...Read More

Tim Sykes here, filling in for Nilus.Today I want to tell you about a dusty old theory that will change how you get things done.The theory was actually the topic of my first Tedx Talk in Sydney, Australia.It has to do with a specific approach to setting goals that will make you more likely to achieve them.It all started with the pioneering research of Dr. Edwin Locke in the late 1960s. In 1968, he...Read More