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A precious metals wholesale trader issued a commentary on the metals’ price decline this week. He cited three reasons for the drop: 1) calmer voices about Ukraine, 2) higher than expected durable goods orders, and 3) improved consumer sentiment.
A long-time client, who is a financial advisor, sent this: I thought it was interesting that the Christie’s Art Auction brought in a record 745 Million yesterday. A Francis Bacon piece sold for 80.8 Million and keep in mind that same piece sold for 15 Million 10 years ago. Looks like the uber wealthy wants
Europe’s economy remains in the doldrums, and central planners there are hinting at fundamental Keynesian moves to weaken the euro, which, in their thinking, would stimulate growth in the eurozone by making European goods cheaper on the world market and foreign goods more expensive for Europeans.
Jim Sinclair recently predicted $3,200 – $3,500 gold by 2020 and “emancipated gold” hitting $50,000. Because of Sinclair having made some really accurate calls in the past, his prediction caused quite a stir in the gold community. Even Ron Paul commented and gave reasoning why Sinclair’s predication is not preposterous.
For most investors, the primary reason for buying gold is to hedge against currency debasement, which, of course, comes about because of excessive money creation by central banks and via fractional reserve banking. At times, gold investors stand alone, even being ridiculed by mainstream investors. Now, though, one of Wall Street’s famed names, Merrill Lynch,
So wrote Gillian Tett in Friday’s Financial Times. Mr. Tett started his piece by noting that Nigeria’s central bank had announced that it would convert almost a 10th of Nigeria’s $43 billion reserves from dollars to renminbi. Tett went on to acknowledge that only 0.01 percent of the world’s central bank reserves are now held
In Austrian Economics circles there is currently a debate whether Bitcoin – the most widespread of the new crypto-currencies – is a legitimate currency or just a complex scam. The debate has become some somewhat reminiscent of the inflation vs. deflation arguments of a couple of years ago with each side digging their heels in
How is it that almost every mainstream economist is continually proved wrong in their predictions, that almost every prescribed course of action has led to a continual decline in the future economic prospects for the average American? The answer lies in the fact that economics has long since stopped being a field of scientific inquiry
There is no great challenge to being successful when you have the sole legal right to create new money. On the other hand, convincing the American people and Congress to go along with such a scheme through the creation of a third central bank, the Federal Reserve, was no small task. But with that task
Here’s an interesting quote from Henry Ford: “It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.” Do you know what he is referring to? I would guess that less than one in a
