Over the last two weeks, the Dow Industrials rose eight of the ten sessions, tacking on more than 800 points for a 3.2% increase and spreading optimism that the bull market is back on track. The Dow hit two records highs this week. According to the Wall Street Journal, investors seems less concerned about the
Silver has hit $50 twice in my 45 years in precious metals bullion business, January 1980 and April 2011. Both times would have been excellent times to have sold. I did not see either and was not a seller. What will be the right move the next time silver hits $50, sell or hold?
Alan Greenspan, Federal Reserve chairman 1987 – 2006, says unfunded entitlement programs are the biggest threat to the dollar. Before discussing how to rectify this problem, consider just how big this problem is.
Listening to analysts and economists who are frequent guests on financial programs, you might conclude that higher interest rates — which the Fed is imposing — will be good for the economy. No, they won’t.
According to news wire reports, gold’s $20 plus upside move today is part of a rush to safe havens. US Treasuries are up also, which means that yields are down. The blame, again according to reports, lies with the tariffs that Trump laid on Chinese imports. China fired back with tariffs of its own. Will
John Scurci, Corona Capital Partner and Chief Investment Officer, is bullish on gold for 2018. One of his reasons is the ratio of the price of gold to stocks. He asserts that stocks are punching out new highs because of the money-printing orgy that the world’s central banks have gone on since 2008. Not coincidentally,
David Stockman, via his Contra Corner, for months has warned that by late September there would be a debt ceiling crisis and that the Treasury would run out of money, causing segments of government to shut down. He further proclaimed that a political storm in Congress would ensue and that the stock market would be
The North Koreans are now believed to have developed a hydrogen bomb, hundreds or even thousands of times more powerful than the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Further, North Korea has exhibited the capability to launch intercontinental ballistic missiles, which could deliver their bombs.
I’ve written for some time about a bottom being put in for gold and silver in December 2015. However, the renewed bull market has not been recognized. So, just what will it take for the metals to move up strongly enough so that they will again gain investors’ attention?
There is a movement underway to convince Republican members of the Electoral College to switch their votes away from Donald Trump to get someone else installed as president. The preferred “other person” that would most please the backers of this movement would be Hillary Clinton. Still, the Trump detractors would be satisfied with just about