The Fed will tighten us into a recession, even as it forms, because it will be slow to recognize this "stealth recession," masked by tight (and misleading) labor data...
The Inflation-Adjusted Gold price is important because it is an excellent indicator of gold miners' performance. It correlates quite closely with their margins or profitability.
When the economy crashes, the Fed will almost certainly do what it always does – try to manufacture a new boom with more artificially low interest rates and money printing. That means more inflation.
Retail sales reports aren't adjusted for price inflation. Americans are forking out more money than they were last year, but they’re actually buying less stuff.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt did try to take most of the gold out of the public's hands. But the scheme didn't go quite as well as many people claim.
India, like several other central banks, has repatriated some of its gold holdings for safekeeping in recent years. The trend began before Western sanctions on Russia.
The big marketeers are still pounding that Fed-pivot/rate-cut hope, even though they’ve whittled it back all the way from expecting six cuts last year to now expecting only one.
Investing success requires answering the question about what to own in a world where free market forces are taking a back seat to crooked politicians and incompetent central planners.
These behemoths have been egregiously misnamed The Magnificent Seven, but they are just flying pigs, bloated with enough hydrogen to levitate a million Hindenburgs.
