Author: JOHN RUBINO In March 2022, there was a disruption in the nickel market that spiked the metal’s price. The lucky investors and market-makers who owned long futures contracts made fortunes. Just kidding. The exchange on which the futures traded canceled them and stiffed the contract owners. Some of the victims understandably brought suit and were awarded a massive victory[...]
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Gold And The Shrinking Trust Horizon
via John Rubino's Substack Last week I posted an article on the implosion of the official vaccine narrative. That’s a controversial topic so not surprisingly it generated some heat on both sides. And a few readers expressed the wish that I’d stay in my lane (precious metals investing) and avoid venturing into unrelated and less well understood territory. But believe it or[...]
Precious Metals Market Leader and Innovator Neptune Global Celebrates its 20th Anniversary
Neptune Global proudly celebrates its 20th anniversary in the bullion and precious metals markets. Yet, more than simply celebrating our anniversary, we commemorate our core product suite’s developmental and market milestones. Famed ocean explorer Edith Widder once said: “Exploration is the engine that drives innovation. Innovation drives economic growth.” Innovation has been[...]
BITCOIN FLOUNDERING AS DIGITAL SUBSTITUTE – Gold Tops $2000 As Crypto-Correlation Crashes
April 18, 2022 From ZeroHedge: Since the beginning of the year, gold has surge over 9%, topping $2000 again this morning amid geopolitical crises and global stagflation fears… At the same time, cryptocurrencies have suffered with Bitcoin down around 15% (back below $40,000 this morning), with the most aggressive shift from 'digital gold' to 'real gold' occurring since Putin invaded[...]
DO YOU KNOW WHAT INFLATION REALLY IS? THEN HOLD SOME GOLD AND SILVER
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.[...]
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[...]
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[...]
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[...]