The main reason to buy gold and silver is to protect against currency debasement, which is brought on by massive deficit spending that requires the Fed to print dollars to cover debt that could not be sold to private investors.
It’s astounding to hear talking heads blame the stock market collapse on falling oil prices. Lower oil prices should have caused stocks (except oil stocks, of course) to rise. This is especially true of the stocks that make up the Dow Transportation Index.
Charles Payne, host of Fox Business News “Making Money with Charles Payne,” may have put his job in jeopardy Friday when he called into question the need for the Fed, the US’s central bank. Make no mistake, central bankers and the people who benefit from central banking are powerful, with tremendous influence in the media.
To Keynesians, easy solutions reside for monetary and economic problems. When the economy is in recession, deficit spend. When inflation heats up (meaning rising prices, which the developed world hasn’t seen for some time), choke back the money supply. Problems solved. Recessions are averted; inflation is held in check. So, if “managing” the economy is
As is the case with most firms in the financial field, we have TVs running in our offices from the time we open to closing. Sometimes, we learn something of value, but most of the time the commentators talk about meaningless developments, such as the daily changes in value of the dollar to other currencies.