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November 19, 2015

Europe is in a very dark place. Under the cloud of on-going terrorist threats there is widespread fear of what the future holds – economically, socially and politically.

Yesterday, the minutes of the Federal Reserve's October meeting were released. What do they say about the Fed’s stance and what do they mean for the gold market?

November 18, 2015

No matter how you look at it, the global economic pie is shrinking. One might be able to argue this is not so based on individual statistical reports issued by various nations. The problem though is this, many reports do not line up with real world reports.

U.S. retail sales barely rose in October. They increased 0.1 percent, below the expectations of a 0.3 percent rise. What does it mean for the gold market? October is the third month of weakness in retail sales, a sign that consumers do not want to boost their...

The War on Cash and negative interest rates are huge threats to your financial security. Central planners are playing with fire and inviting a currency catastrophe. Most people have no idea what really happens when a currency collapses, let alone how to prepare…

For more than a year now, commodity prices have been under pressure from the strong US dollar and slowing global demand. This has made a huge dent in the balance sheet of many net exporters of resources, in turn weakening their currencies.

Is US inflation setup to upset the markets? Motivation for considering this question begins with graph to right. Plotted in that chart is the year-to-year percentage change for the median U.S. CPI. That measure is calculated monthly by the diligent elves at Federal...

In 2008, the world experienced the worst economic collapse in 80+ years. This collapse triggered a stock market crash that erased $30 trillion in wealth. Since that time, collectively Central Banks have cut interest rates over 600 times and have printed over $15...

There is absolutely nothing good that can be said about the mining stocks at this point. Then again, there has been little good to say about these things for a long, long time.

There are four unmistakable signals a financial crisis of epic proportions is headed straight toward us. And to walk you through each of them, bestselling author Mike Maloney has released a shocking new video. It’s the first episode of the all-new season of the...

November 17, 2015

It's all good. Just ask Janet Yellen or any hawkish Federal Reserve board member. Indeed, there have been some better readings on the US economy lately but things are far from outstanding.

In round numbers, these wars (in today’s dollars) were tremendously expensive: Vietnam War: Estimated cost is $740 Billion War on Drugs: Estimated cost is $1,000 Billion War on Terror, including Afghanistan and Iraq: Estimated cost is $1,700 Billion and counting...

We had mentioned in both of yesterday’s Posts, that we did not see an impulsive wave structure on the Intraday Chart in the rally from the 1073.00 low to 1097ish high. That suggested to us, unfortunately, that the 1073.0 low is going to be revisited again.

I’ve talked at length about the relationship between US money supply velocity and interest rates…and done so in a positive way. A modest rise in nominal interest rates encourages banks to make loans, and it makes those loans profitable. Most of the QE money has...

We are in a global economic collapse. And it is going to trigger a stock market crash. The Central Bank fueled “recovery” is officially over. Central Banks propped up the financial markets for six years. But the money was spent on financialization and accounting...

Gold kept falling last week and stayed within our forecast channel. Our long awaited fall to lower lows seems finally to be underway, a new lowest weekly close for over five years last week added to the bearish sentiment surrounding the metal.

From first to worst. Gold and silver were the best assets to own during the first decade of this century. During this second decade... not so much. Precious metals bulls have endured 4 years of prices drifting lower punctuated by periodic smash-downs and the...

As we approach a long term bottoming in the metals and miners complex, I have received many questions about how to best prepare for the impending transition back into a bull market. So, there are a few things I want to address.

As gold began its descent from $1190 to a recent low of $1073, certain quarters of the gold investment community began to retell a familiar tale. This drop was engineered by central bankers aided and abetted by unscrupulous investment banks in an attempt to stop...

Just as the Euro is hanging by a thread above its chart support zone, so too is gold hanging by a thread above a critical chart support zone. The bottom of that zone is the July low near $1070 with the zone extending upward towards $1080.

The autos and light truck sales rose from 9 million units for the year ended in February 2009 to 18 million units for the year ended in October 2015 (see the chart below). Is there a bubble in the automotive market? How could the situation in that market affect the...

Total sales of U.S. Mint gold coins came in at 44,500 oz per 94,500 coins sold – including both Eagles and Buffalos. This marked a significant decline in sales y/y, with volume by weight down 49.7% y/y and the number of units sold down 33.7%. Average weight of coin...

This is the final chapter of this intermediate gold Cycle, and it’s likely to get ugly. If you’ve followed the blog these past few months, you would have been prepared for most of this move as it unfolded in real-time.

The War on Cash is now accelerating. As the financial system lurches towards collapse, the elites and those who derive power from sitting at the top of the food chain are growing increasingly desperate to maintain the status quo.

November 16, 2015

I was encouraged to see that sentiment for gold was very positive. There’s a gold bear market here in North America, where the yellow metal has plunged to a six-year low of $1,083 per ounce on the strong U.S. dollar. But when priced in the weaker Aussie dollar, the...

Gold remained the strongest of the precious metals this past week, seemingly stuck in a narrow trading range for much of the week. Silver did a little worse, falling 3.52 percent, perhaps related to Bank of America warning that silver could hit $12 per ounce on...

Those who place their faith in a sustainable economic recovery emanating through government fiat will soon be shocked. Colossal central bank counterfeiting and gargantuan government deficit spending has caused the major averages to climb back towards unchanged on...

On Friday night, terrorists launched coordinated attacks across Paris that killed at least 129 people and injured hundreds more. Will the deadliest terrorist attacks on a Western city since September 11, 2011 affect the gold market?

The last time I wrote, I said I was looking for a bottom in the US stock market around the 12th of November. I honestly thought we would pull back harder than we have. As of Friday November 13th, the SPX has tagged the .382 Fibonacci retracement of the September...

Anyone who has served in the military, particularly on active duty, knows what it means to “hurry up and wait” very well indeed. Some describe this as “extended periods of boredom separated by times of panic.”

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