Mark B. Spiegel, managing member at Stanphyl Capital, joins the team to discuss his favorite ideas, long and short.2:47 Tesla, a love affair in reverse6:40 Opportunities in the nano-cap realm10:02 Fewer public companies. Less value?12:13 Mark's thoughts on agricultural commoditiesJames "Jim" Grant is an American writer and publisher and the founder of Grant's Interest Rate Observer, a twice-monthl...Read More

By Gary SavageThis video examines the concept of controlling greed at tops and limiting anxiety at bottoms using multi-month charts of GDX and Gold.https://blog.smartmoneytrackerpremium.com/ Read More

China's steel futures rose during morning trading on Tuesday January 16 while the contracts for steelmaking raw materials were little changed from their opening price at the end of the session.Futures closing prices - morning session Shanghai Futures Exchange May rebar: 3,824 ($594) per tonne, up 20 yuan per tonne May hot-rolled coil: 3,856 yuan per tonne, up 18 yuan per tonne Dalian Commodity Exc...Read More

For Part 1 of this interview, CLICK HEREFor Part 2 of this interview, CLICK HERE"It's really about what's real. When I talk to people, I say, what do you think will be here in 2040? Will gold still be here? Well, it's been here since eternity. Will the dollar be here? I don't think so. Will blockchain be here, I think so.Robert Kiyosaki is best known as the author of Rich Dad Poor Dad, the #1 pers...Read More

By Frank HolmesStrengths? The best performing metal this week was palladium, up 3.02 percent. After polling neutral last week, gold traders and analysts are back to a bullish view of gold, according to the Bloomberg survey. This week gold ETFs added 91,867 troy ounces of gold to their holdings, the largest one-day increase since early December.? Inflation increase...Read More

David Morgan, one of the thought leaders in our community, joined us for a look ahead at 2018 for precious metals. David's got a company that pulls precious metals out of scrap and is poised to cash in. There's more gold in a ton of scrap iPhones than you find in many mines. 2017 showed strength in gold, not so much in silver. David wouldn't be surprised to see a high of $21 or more for silver in...Read More

By Clint SiegnerIf officials at the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) are bothered by allegations of incompetence and capture by Wall Street's bankers, it is hard to tell. The Commission recently hired Brett Redfearn to serve as Director of the Division of Trading and Markets. Redfearn left a 13 year stint at JP Morgan to assume a key role in regulating banks, investors and traders.The SE...Read More

CIS export rebar and wire rod prices have gone up by $10-15 per tonne in the first half of January with mills selling material from February production at higher prices.In addition, the availability of material, wire rod in particular, was reduced due to the continued absence from the market of Russia's Abinsk Electric Steel Mill and satisfactory sales in previous weeks.Metal Bulletin's weekly pri...Read More

Some commentators have made a big deal over the Yuan-denominated oil futures contract that will soon begin trading in Shanghai, but in terms of effect on the global currency market this appears to be a very small deal.With or without a Yuan-denominated oil futures market there is nothing preventing the suppliers of oil to China from accepting payment in Yuan. In fact, some of the oil imported by...Read More

Paul Craig RobertsIdentity Politics is the ideology of the liberal/progressive/left and the Democratic Party. Identity Politics teaches hatred of white people, all white people.Continue...Read More

By Steve St. AngeloChinese demand for physical gold investment surged in the first three-quarters of 2017 while Americans ditched the shiny yellow metal for increased bets in the crypto mania and stock market bubble market. Even though China's Hang Seng Stock Market outperformed the Dow Jones Index last year, Chinese citizens purchased the most gold bar and coin products Q1-Q3 2017 since the s...Read More

The latest bids, offers and deals in the global markets for rebar, wire rod, steel beams and other long steel products. Latest transactions: rebarRebarUAE (Emirates Steel), domestic, rebar, offered at 2,340 dirhams ($637) per tonne ex-works.UAE (Conares...Read More

A Monday Morning Musing from Mickey the Mercenary GeologistContact@MercenaryGeologist.comJanuary 15, 2018 Price ratios determine relative value of the precious metals and are useful parameters in deciding which metal to buy at any given time. In previous musings, I documented the history of gold and silver prices and gold-silver ratios from the United States' abandonment of the gold standard i...Read More

Peter Schiff is an internationally recognized economist specializing in the foreign equity, currency and gold markets. Mr. Schiff made his name as President and Chief Global Strategist of Euro Pacific Capital. He frequently delivers lectures at major economic and investment conferences, and is quoted often in the print media, including the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Barron's, BusinessWee...Read More

By Keith WeinerWe have been discussing the consumption of capital. Last week, for example, we concluded with:"We see people eating more of the seed corn."Morally, socialism is the enslavement of man to man. If you create something, they want not just to take it from you, but to render you unable to create anything else. They declare that the ideal is "from each according to his ability." This is...Read More

Prices for locally produced rebar in the UAE have increased this week while billet import prices in the country narrowed with a new deal, sources have told Metal Bulletin.Demand for imported rebar, meanwhile, was very weak in both countries because local prices were more competitive. Domestic rebar Major local rebar producers in the UAE announced new prices on Tuesday, January 16. The country's bi...Read More

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has released the latest CoT report. What can we learn from it about the gold market?Light and Darkness in the Gold MarketThe epic battle between good and evil. The conflict between light and darkness. We and them. This is how some analysts portray the Commitments of Traders report. Commercials, i.e. bullion banks such as JP Morgan, are of course the bad guy...Read More

The key to bubble analysis is to look at what's causing the bubble. If you get the hidden dynamics right, your ability to collect huge profits or avoid losses is greatly improved.Continue...Read More

The 91.57 downside target we were using for the dollar looked promising as a place for a powerful bounce to occur. Instead, sellers crushed it on Friday, putting in play a significantly lower target at 88.29 that I would rate as almost certain to be reached. If so, it would add 2.9% to the Dollar Index's so far 12.4% decline from the 103.82 high recorded a year ago. It would also undoubtedly qui...Read More

2017 was literally the smoothest stretch of highway that US stocks have ever traveled. Rising almost every day and seldom falling hard, they made it virtually Continue...Read More