Overnight: Gold was a bit choppy last night and either side of unch ($2314), trading between $2304 – $2321. It was pressured on the downside by an improving US dollar, as the DX advanced from 105.41 – 105.64. The greenback was helped by: However, gold was supported by a rate cut by the Sweeden’s Riksbank…
It was a fight! My keynote presentation at the New Orleans Investment Conference pitted the Fed against gold, me playing both parts by using different caps when one or the other was talking. I wanted to do this because I’m continually flabbergasted by how much faith mainstream economists and investors put in what the Fed…
Perhaps a surprise to most investors, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell made it clear last month that the central bank will be “resolute” in fighting inflation. The Fed approved a third consecutive 75-basis-point hike in September, the fifth raise this year, the most aggressive move since the 1980s. The US dollar soared in response. Those…
As governments increase their debts & unfunded liabilities, servicing them becomes a bigger and bigger problem. That’s especially true if the pile of debt is growing much faster than the underlying economy, which has been the case for decades. This forces central banks to print more new currency in order to enable their governments to handle the debt…
Probably the biggest knock against gold and silver right now is that they’re not rising in response to spiking inflation. This is what many investors know them for, after all. Yet despite the CPI—the Consumer Price Index that tracks price changes in everyday goods and services—reaching 40-year highs, gold and silver prices have been weak.…
With inflation driving the costs of living higher, real wages falling behind and financial assets having one of their worst years ever so far, it’s a tough time to build wealth right now. And it’s likely to get even worse, says today’s guest, Robert Kiysosaki, author of Rich Dad, Poor Dad, the #1 best selling…