As tariffs have flashed on and off and higher and lower, businesses have been saying constantly that this is creating uncertainty that makes intelligent planning next to impossible.
Gold and silver are a little softer on normal profit taking after a strong run. That is not unusual, particularly in silver, where rallies tend to be sharp...
For the 3rd month this year, private payrolls didn’t just fall short of delivering the job gains needed to keep the economy steady with population growth, but reduced the number of jobs.
The two groups have set aside more than 100 ounces of physical gold (currently valued at ~$420,000) to reward deserving students and researchers advancing original sound money analyses.
Thirty-odd billion dollars in monthly tariffs won't erase multi-hundred-billion-dollar deficits. A $7 trillion annual budget and more than $1 trillion in interest payments won't go away.
We have long expected a year-end rally...I believe the party whipping up now may be an impulse to the real play, an “inflation trade”, which could show up and persist in 2026.
The EU and the UK are talking about dumping all their holding of US debt. That’s a vulnerability the US has that would cripple it deeply if it were to happen...
Spreading education programs among many departments may reduce spending. For example, it could spur Congress to stop wasting millions of dollars a year on PR for the Education Department.
