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Why 'Work-from-Home' Darkens America's Future

By Rick Ackerman, Rick's Picks

To escape the burden of steeply rising taxes, the affluent will step up their exodus from big cities, creating a deflationary money spiral that will feed on itself. This will worsen when subsidies from the U.S. Government are scaled back.

Why the Fed Is Wrong about Inflation Being 'Transitory'

By Richard Mills, Ahead of the Herd

Structural supply deficits, climate change, the global trend to electrify and decarbonize, and resource nationalism are not temporary or transitory. The inescapable conclusion? Inflation compounds year after year and the purchasing power loss your currency has experienced will never be regained...

COVID Consumer Headache

By John Mauldin, Thoughts from the Frontline

For one thing, we’re only halfway through 2021. Much of this impressive growth derives from consumer spending, and much of the consumer spending was funded by government benefit programs and monetary stimulus money.

Big US Stocks’ Q2’21 Fundamentals

By Adam Hamilton, Zeal Research

Americans flush with free cash spent it like drunken sailors, driving record sales and profits. But with the pandemic winding down, that gravy train is ending.

Currency Emergency: When the Debt Comes Due

By Stefan Gleason, Money Metals

What happens when the debt comes due? It’s a question millions of Americans are grappling with in their personal finances. It’s also a multi-trillion dollar question facing..

Stocks Wince Because the Stagflation Party Has Arrived

By David Haggith, The Daily Doom

The past week has been a story of stagflation infecting the US economy while the stock market grimaces as Fed officials express the need to start a gradual pullout from economic stimulus much sooner or face a rapid pull-out a little later.

Currency Debasement and Cultural Degradation

By Doug Casey, Casey Research

How instrumental do you think the debasement of their currency was to the eventual fall of the Roman Empire? How did it affect their culture?

BIS gold swaps fall in June by 46 tonnes to 471 tonnes

By Robert Lambourne

The BIS seemingly remains an active trader of significant amounts of gold swaps on a regular basis. So far there seems to be no definitive sign that the BIS is reducing its exposure to gold swaps.

Brazil’s Central Bank refuses to answer any questions about its Gold Reserves

By Ronan Manly, BullionStar

This year has been shaping up to be a strong one for central bank gold buying. This is despite the official absence from the buy side of central bank gold powerhouses such as Russia and China.

Submission: Signs of Inflationary Reflation Running Low on Gas

By Gary Tanashian, NFTRH

The yield curve had been steepening under inflationary pressure and now it is flattening due to dis-inflation or at least a moderation of that pressure. When it steepens again folks, there is no..

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