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This Time the Shoeshine Boy Is a Player

By Rick Ackerman, Rick's Picks

And yet, when DASH’s shares began to trade last Wednesday, they achieved an 85% mark-up above their IPO price instantly, equating to a market cap of $72 billion. Again, not bad for a company that doesn’t have a prayer of turning a profit in the foreseeable future.

Survival of the Biggest

By John Mauldin, Thoughts from the Frontline

In its purest form, capitalism is an evolutionary process. Businesses that best adapt to changing conditions survive and grow. Typically, that means offering a product or service superior to current ones, or giving consumers more choices. Weaker or poorly managed businesses that don’t adapt to the new situation wither and eventually die.

Markets Rallying on Hope, but Higher Taxes and Inflation Loom

By Mike Gleason, Money Metals

For months, including this past week, markets have rallied on hopes for a vaccine and more stimulus – even as the real economy is suffering under expanding virus restrictions and as a stimulus deal keeps getting thwarted by partisans in Washington.

Shocking Increase In U.S. Money Supply In Past Two Weeks

By Steve St. Angelo , SRSrocco

Something must be seriously wrong behind the scenes at the U.S. Treasury and Federal Reserve for the M1 Money Supply to increase more in the past two weeks than it did in six weeks during the beginning of the pandemic shutdowns in late March.

Beat the Coming ‘Taxflation’ Tsunami with Precious Metals

By Stefan Gleason, Money Metals

Nobody knows what 2021 will bring. But new political risks are likely to emerge – including the threats of higher taxes and a more punitive IRS.

Dave Kranzler: Gold, Silver, & Mining Stock FAQ

By Dave Kranzler, Mining Stock Journal

Dave Kranzler of Investment Research Dynamics answered some of the most common questions about gold, silver, and the mining stocks.

Advice from the snakepit: Dump gold for cryptocurrencies

By Chris Powell, GATA

What is JPMorgan's motive in touting cryptos and disparaging gold? Is it to enlighten investors or scare them out of monetary metals and into a currency that governments might defeat more easily?

Gold's Bullish Fundamentals

By Craig Hemke, TF Metals Report

The year 2020 has played out much like 2019, and 2021 will continue the trend. “What’s past is prologue.”

Open Letter to Gregory Mankiw

By Keith Weiner, Monetary Metals

We’re pleased to see an NYT article from a Harvard econ professor concerned about falling interest rates. Although the dangers are even greater than he suggests.

Friend of the Court: Original Jurisdiction

By Jim Willie, Head CB

The Supreme Court will have the ultimate role of essentially upholding the Constitution, for which the Deep State and its vassal state officials have been showing the most objectionable and egregious disrespect.

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