U.S. manufacturing closed out a tumultuous year with the weakest monthly performance since the end of the recession, with orders shrinking and factories continuing to dial back production. The Institute for Supply Management's purchasing managers' index fell to 47.2 in December from 48.1, the fifth straight month of contraction and missing estimates for a rise in a Bloomberg survey of economists,...Read More

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The New York Times has verified the video which shows an Iranian missile hitting a plane above Parand, near Tehran's airport, the area where a Ukrainian airliner stopped transmitting its Continue...Read More

Tensions continued to climb in the Middle East Thursday evening as reports of another air strike have been confirmed, but this time, it was the Israelis doing the shelling.Continue...Read More

Keith discusses his early interest in geology and what led him to explore Ecuador for old Spanish mines. He was fortunate enough to make a significant gold discovery while exploring the region back around 2001. This discovery led him to retire, having sold Aurelian Resources in 2008, netting him 100 million.Finding retirement boring, him and his team began researching European records for details...Read More

DoubleLine's Jeffrey Gundlach hosts the first annual "Round Table Prime" featuring today's Financial Market Thought Leaders who will weigh in on the economy, Central Bank Policy, global yields, stock markets, opportunities and best investment ideas for 2020. Featured Guests include: Jeffrey Gundlach - DoubleLine, Steven Romick - First Pacific Advisors, Danielle DiMartino Booth - Quill Intelligence...Read More

Erik Townsend and Patrick Ceresna welcome Marin Katusa to MacroVoices. They discuss outlook on gold, updates on previous investments, how private placements work and what to expect at the upcoming VRIC.Marin Katusa has worked directly with and financed many companies of well-known individuals in the resource industry and has become one of the most trusted and well connected dealmakers in the junio...Read More

In the latest escalation in the war on Liberty and Freedom in the land of the free, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is beginning a pilot program this week to collect DNA at border entries.Continue...Read More

Trump's trade policies only create more risk and rot down below. They're just kicking the can down the road. With this latest move by the Fed, they have cut the interest rates three times and short-termContinue...Read More

Continue...Mohamed El-Erian is the Chief Economic Adviser of Allianz, a multinational financial services company. He is the former CEO and co-Chief Investment Officer of PIMCO, a global investment firm and one of the world's largest bond funds in the world. Dr. El-Erian also served as a member of the faculty of Harvard Business School. Before joining PIMCO, Dr. El-Erian was a managing director at...Read More

Portfolio Manager, attorney, finance author, a regular guest on North American media. Danielle Park is the author of the best selling myth-busting book "Juggling Dynamite: An insider's wisdom on money management, markets and wealth that lasts," as well as a popular daily financial blog: www.jugglingdynamite.com. Danielle worked as an attorney until 1997 when she was recruited to work for an intern...Read More

Tensions between the U.S. and Iran are less diffused than everyone seems as the propaganda strengthens on both sides of the political theater.NASDAQ, Dow, S&P hit new record highs. Trump is eager for Dow to hit 30k so he can tweet up a storm claiming credit.Risk premiums for crude and gold are still there although gold mining stocks got obliterated as war became less imminent. Investors were spook...Read More

"No voices calling for peace. No voices critical of empire. Just establishment media and current and former Pentagon officials who feed off the trillion dollar war machine."Continue...Read More

The purpose of the Life Experiences and Income Inequality in the United States was to better understand the different experiences of Americans across all income groups. Continue...Read More

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In this Wall Street View, our host caught up with Rick Rule, President and CEO Sprott U.S. Holdings Inc. to discuss the 2020 macroeconomic and geopolitical outlook for natural resources. Rick Rule, founder and chairman of Sprott Global Resource Investments Ltd., began his career in the securities business in 1974. He is a leading American retail broker specializing in mining, energy, water utiliti...Read More

Readers are asking my take on the Iranian retaliation and Trump's response. I think a deal might have been arranged between Washington and Tehran via a third party. The Iranian attack resulted in no US casualties. Continue...Read More

Jordan Roy-Byrne wraps up today's comments with a close look at the GDX and GDXJ charts. The set up for the precious metals stocks remains strong however there could be some more downside over the next month or two. The recent action, even before the tension between the US and Iran, were foretelling that the overall sector needed a little pullback. Jordan shares the levels he is watching for this...Read More

2019 was an outstanding year for stock market appreciation. What will 2020 bring? Jim believes that the 1st quarter is going to be slow growth since the China deal won't kick in right away. Then there's the seasonal factors, where Q1 is usually the slowest of the year. And of course, profits weren't up last year, only PE ratios. Can that happen again? What's your prediction, where do you see the m...Read More

"It is clear from the amount of messaging and resources the Trump campaign is putting behind this messaging that he sees this as an advantage for his campaign for reelection."Continue...Read More