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  • Uncertainty: Deadly for Markets and Not Likely to End Any Time Soon

    Uncertainty: Deadly for Markets and Not Likely to End Any Time Soon

    Written by: Steven Feldman, CEO Hard Assets Alliance At this juncture in our global economic landscape, I find myself increasingly selective about which financial news sources I trust. Bloomberg and Financial Times have emerged as my primary mainstream reads, largely because they maintain a refreshing absence of political bias in their reporting. Their recent analyses

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  • Gold in Q3: Attack of the US Dollar

    Gold in Q3: Attack of the US Dollar

    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

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  • Worried About a Recession or Stock Market Crash? Here’s How Gold – and All Precious Metals – Have Historically Performed [CHARTS]

    Worried About a Recession or Stock Market Crash? Here’s How Gold – and All Precious Metals – Have Historically Performed [CHARTS]

    Convinced a recession is here? Worried the stock market isn’t done crashing? It’s a distinct possibility things could get worse. Which raises a natural question: how does gold—and all precious metals for that matter—perform during these events? If we use history as a guide, there’s a clear tendency with all of them… Precious Metals vs.

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  • Is Our Money Dying?

    Is Our Money Dying?

    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

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  • Silver & Gold’s Historical Correlations to High Inflation: This Answers Some Questions

    Silver & Gold’s Historical Correlations to High Inflation: This Answers Some Questions

    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.

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  • Robert Kiyosaki: Worst Crash Of Our Lifetime Ahead, Here’s What The Wealthy Are Doing Says Rich Dad

    Robert Kiyosaki: Worst Crash Of Our Lifetime Ahead, Here’s What The Wealthy Are Doing Says Rich Dad

    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

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  • Could Home Prices Crash As Much As In 2008?

    Could Home Prices Crash As Much As In 2008?

    Housing analyst Nick Gerli returns to the program to warn how swiftly the prospects for home prices are eroding. Confidence in the housing market was supreme just a month or two ago. But suddenly that confidence is vaporizing as an increasing number of experts now caution of a “full blown” correction ahead. Rising mortgage rates are a huge part of the

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