April 13, 2022 From the Degussa Market Report In March 2022, annual US consumer goods price inflation was 8.5%, the highestlevel since 1981. While Main Street considers it, and rightfully so, terrifying data,Wall Street actually sees it as good news of sorts: Financial markets are expectingUS CPI inflation to have peaked, and hopefully inflation rates will come down inthe coming months.[...]
Tag: Gold
Longtime Preachers of “Don’t Fight The Fed” Now Fighting The Fed
April 13, 2022 Wall Street strategist have historically preached the old adage "don't fight the Fed." In a nutshell, this advice conveys that investors should simply position their portfolios to benefit from the direction the Federal Reserve is steering the economy via its policy decisions. The wholehearted embrace of this advice was especially true over the past couple of decades whereby[...]
Q1 Results and Where Mainstream Advisors and Media Fail the Average Investor
April 5, 2022 Most investors like to believe they are solely focused on achieving the best returns. Further, they believe they strive to employ the best ideas to build their optimal portfolio. They also like to think that either their financial advisor or they themselves are making decisions on facts and supporting data to achieve their financial goals, if said goals are to achieve the[...]
Will Russia Turn to Gold to Save the Ruble? Possible Pivot in the Financial War.
March 24, 2022 Originally published by QTR's Fringe Finance Russia Will Backstop The Ruble With Gold. The backstopping of the Ruble with gold can come in many forms and doesn’t have to be a direct peg from the Ruble to gold - it can include accepting payment for oil in gold. Now that Russia has come right out and said it will only transact in Rubles when selling oil to[...]
Fed Rate Hikes Unlikely Threat to Gold – XAU/USD Moves Off Monthly Low
March 17, 2022 - Despite yesterday’s 25 basis points rate hike announced by the US Federal Reserve, gold has regained its positive traction and risen above $1,940. Fed Chair Powell has indicated that additional rate hikes are under consideration in the coming months and the consensus is for a total of seven rate hikes by year’s end. Contrary to the belief that an increase in interest[...]
With 93 Million Already Unemployed In U.S., The Coming Nightmare Will Be Multiples Of The Great Depression
With the Dow comfortably above 18,000 and the Nasdaq near 5,000, today a 50-year market veteran warned King World News that with 93 million people already unemployed in the United States, the coming nightmare will be multiples of the Great Depression. He also spoke about the action in the gold and silver markets. John Embry: “I’m so frustrated by the bogus market action that I don’t[...]
Bo Polny – It’s All Down from Here, Except Gold and Silver – Audio Interview
Bo Polny talks with Kerry Lutz and provides his perspective on major markets. He’s calling for a major sell-off on the dollar and treasuries. He also sees a major sell-off on world stock markets as well. It’s going to occur before summer and this will lead to a major increase in gold and silver prices. He believes that you need to be long gold and silver and short the dollar and bonds.[...]
WHERE DO PRECIOUS METALS GO FROM HERE?
I urge you to consider my arguments for investing in gold and silver, and the miners that extract it. I am holding on to my post 2008 forecast for gold reaching $3-5k per ounce by 2017 (and silver reaching $100) because the world’s largest governments continue their plunge into default, and cannot afford to let interest rates normalize if they don’t want to be forced into a[...]
Rick Rule: Have the Cash and Courage to Sustain Your Trade
For the past five months, we’ve been writing in the DR’s email edition, about the danger debt and derivatives tied to the U.S. shale gale posed while crude oil lingers in the $40-60 range. We had occasion to ask Rick Rule about this thesis and more recently. Rick needs no introduction. He’s founder of Sprott’s U.S. Global Holdings and is considered one of the most able natural resource[...]
Gold Bugs Might Have Their Day in 2016
By Sue Chang SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Judging by the gloomy commentary and headlines, there isn’t much cause to recommend gold as an investment option in the near term--a far cry from 2013 when some analysts had boldly predicted that gold would trade at $2,000. That exuberance hasn’t been justified, so far. Gold for June delivery GCM5, +0.64% was looking to snap a three-day losing [...]