The Bank for International Settlements has just published its September statement of account, giving summary information on its use of gold swaps and other gold-related derivatives in that month: https://www.bis.org/banking/balsheet/statofacc180930.pdf The information provided in BIS monthly statements is not sufficient to calculate a precise amount of gold-related derivatives, including swaps...Read More

By Frank HolmesYou've likely seen the reports: A whopping 44 percent of Americans wouldn't be able to afford a $400 emergency expense without borrowing it or selling something. That's according to the Federal Reserve's findings in 2017. And earlier this year, financial services firm Bankrate reported that only 39 percent of Americans would be able to pay off an unexpected expense of $1,000 from...Read More

I chimed in on the capriciousness of copper in the late spring (Mercenary Musing, May 28, 2018). Since then, copper prices hit a 3.5 year high at $3.29/lb in early June but then lagged over the summer months. Weakness continues unabated with Friday's close at $2.86 equating to a 13% loss from its ephemeral high in June: The downtick has occurred despite strong fundamentals: ?...Read More

By Stefan GleasonIs the Trump agenda in peril? It's a question investors should consider ahead of the mid-term elections.Up to now, the Trump economic agenda has certainly been great for Wall Street and much of the broader economy. The Dow Jones Industrials continues to defy all naysayers - notching yet another new record high in the first week of October before correcting.Meanwhile, the latest...Read More

Ah, Saudi Arabia, land of heat and contradictions. One day they're jailing women's rights activists for wanting to drive, the next day they're dismembering still-living Washington Post journalists. And yet they can count the world's capitalist democracies as friends, because today's dysfunctional economic/geopolitical system depends on both Saudi oil and Saudi willingness to help keep their (app...Read More

By Craig Hemke The mainstream media is shocked today to report that the U.S. federal deficit increased to $779B in fiscal 2018. This despite the fact that all of this was projected back in February. And we wrote about it back in February too. Here's the link: https://www.sprottmoney.com/Blog/total-us-debt-and... It was back then that the Office of Management and Budget first proposed that the t...Read More

Gold miners completed the inverse head-and-shoulders pattern - it's now a fact. And many analysts would have one believe that it's the only fact that matters right now or that it's of major importance. But just like focusing on one tree can make one miss the entire forest behind it, the above could make the entire precious metals outlook appear different than it really is. There are multiple fac...Read More

Today's topic: the U.S. Equity Market"The business cycle backdrop and financial conditions still look very positive for the U.S. equity market; however, some measures of market breadth are showing weakness and are not far from levels that are historically consistent with major market tops...."We invite you to download a copy of the chart book (PDF); or to view the video: Read More

By Avi GilburtWhen the market, represented by SPDR Gold Trust (NYSEARCA:GLD), broke down below 117.40, and then followed below the next support in the 114 region, we were hyper-focused on the 109 region. Thus far, that is where GLD has bottomed out (in overnight action). From there, we were expecting a rally, and the market has not disappointed.For the last two weeks, I have been outlining how...Read More

- "Large challenges loom for the global economy to prevent a second Great Depression" warn IMF- Massive government debts and eroded fiscal buffers since 2008 suggest global dominos await a single market crash- 2008 crisis measures cast long, dark "terrifying" shadowby William Pesek via Asia TimesIs another "Great Depression" on the horizon?It would be easier to dismiss these words from Nourie...Read More

Gregory Mannarino started his financial career working for the securities and trading arm of the now defunct Bear Stearns before the dot-com bubble. He is an active trader of the capital markets and has published several books pertaining to finance, global economics, and equity trading; His most recent book is titled Ultimate Guide To Money and The Markets (free ebook). Gregory currently hosts a b...Read More

"We're witnessing the beginning of the end, in my view," David Morgan tells us.After a 40-year bull market in the bond market, we're beginning to see a hint of a change. Rates are increasing. Now the ten-year Treasury yeild is at a five-year high. Morgan says this recent sell-off could be the beginning of a crash. If stock's have another five-percent correction by the end of November, that would b...Read More

A recent study called "Hidden Tribes: A Study of America's Polarized Landscape" shows that about 2/3 of Americans have views far outside what the media promotes as our "national conversation." They polled 8,000 Americans about issues like immigration, white privilege, sexual harassment, and a bunch of other stuff that the media focuses on these days, and spent about a year on the research, and the...Read More

The headlines and news reports talk about a burgeoning economy with more jobs added all the time and increasing incomes to boot. But under the surface there are many problems, such as geometrically increasing debt, increasing population, scarce resources and increasing global tensions. While the death of a supposed Muslim Brotherhood Washington Post reporter at the hands of the Saudis is reason fo...Read More

Ah, Saudi Arabia, land of heat and contradictions. One day they're jailing women's rights activists for wanting to drive, the next day they're dismembering still-living Continue...Read More

Why is Trump starting a trade war with China? Economist Richard Duncan joins Robert from Asia to discuss China's strategy to combat Trump and what it means for Americans. From Wal-Mart shoppers to 401k investors, what happens in China impacts all Americans.Robert Kiyosaki is best known as the author of Rich Dad Poor Dad, the #1 personal finance book of all time. His book titles hold four of the to...Read More

Axel Merk is the Founder, President, Portfolio Manager, and CIO at Merk Investments LLC. He is an expert on qualitative research and macroeconomic trends. Mr. Merk is also an expert on macro trends, hard money, international investing, and on building sustainable wealth, and he is a pioneer in the use of strategic currency investing to seek diversification. He is a speaker and author on topics ran...Read More

"We're going to ask every Cabinet secretary to cut 5 percent for next year," Trump told reporters before a Cabinet meeting at the White House on Wednesday. Continue...Read More

Running out of space to store contaminated water that escaped during the Fukushima meltdown, the Japanese government will be releasing it into the Pacific Ocean - despite the Continue...Read More

Jordan Roy-Byrne, Founder of The Daily Gold joins me today to address the relative strength of the move up in gold and gold stocks. He shares some of the minimum upside targets he expects gold and the gold ETFs to reach. It is also important to understand the overall strength of this move has been relatively weak. However the global equity markets look even weaker which will matter for US markets...Read More