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TOP NEWS The Fed's Tragic Plan For Long Term Rates Revealed
Here comes QE on steroids. Join Mike Maloney as he explains the Fed's latest plan to manipulate and distort the markets, and what the results are likely to be.
Silver Supply/Demand Crunch Part II: Primary Silver Producers Stuck in Quicksand and Still Sinking
As we outlined in our silver supply/demand crunch article, the silver market has entered a structural imbalance. It is not temporary. Global supply is locked into a decline, leaving the industry ill-equipped to respond meaningfully to any spike in demand of physical metal for the foreseeable future.
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Gold & Silver Prove Once Again
They Go Up When Most Everything Goes Down. As the markets sold off on Thursday, gold, and silver were few of the only assets that remained in the green for the entire day.
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Renewed Trade Tensions Are Choking US Business Growth
'According to the IHS Markit PMI, corporate earnings will be under pressure going forward.'
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The Slow Down
Remember all that talk of optimism in Q1 and into April? It came easy after markets rallied hard following the Fed caving.
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25% of Americans Are into Debt Trying to Pay for Necessities like Food
A recent survey found that 23% of Americans say that paying for basic necessities such as rent, utilities and food contributes the most to their credit card debt.
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Bernie Sanders Wants to Tax Stock Trades. That’s a Non-Starter.
Senator Bernie Sanders, the Vermont socialist seeking the Democratic presidential nomination, is reviving an idea he’s flogged since his failed 2016 bid, a tax on financial transactions.
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Bankers Stunned as Negative Rates Sweep Across Danish Mortgages
At the biggest mortgage bank in the world’s largest covered-bond market, a banker took a few steps away from his desk this week to make sure his eyes weren’t deceiving him.
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Investors Slowly Wake Up to Fears of a New Cold War
The U.S.-China trade conflict might be a repeat of a pattern that is all-too common in markets when it comes to geopolitical risks: ignore them, then panic.
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Markets Are Worried About Much More Than Trade
Investors are back to worrying about stagnation and economic decline...
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Fed Officials Seek Maximum Recession-Fighting Firepower
Central bank faces crucial decisions on mix of Treasury securities in its portfolio to fight a future downturn
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Billions in Losses on Margin Loans Spook BOE’s Bank Regulators
The Bank of England is warning that the safety of the financial system could be at risk from big investment banks extending loans against borrowers’ share holdings
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What Latest Tariff Increase Will Cost the Typical American Household
New Federal Reserve Bank of New York researchers doubled their projections on the impact of the trade war with China.
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Bank of America Will Offer Mortgages Without Origination Fees
Bank of America is looking to make its home loans cheaper for borrowers.
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The Truth About U.S. Inequality
Why U.S economic inequality is caused by the Federal Reserve and fiat currency, and is not capitalism's fault.
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House Passes Bill Aimed at Boosting Retirement Savings
One issue that has been moving methodically (and under the radar) towards becoming law: private retirement reform.
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Trump Plans Executive Order To Help Lower Health-Care Costs
A lack of health-care transparency makes it difficult for patients to comparison shop for the cheapest care.
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Pound up After PM May Resigns but Gains Seen Short-Lived
The pound was up 0.4% against the euro on Friday after 14 days of losses as Prime Minister Theresa May set out a departure date after two years of trying to push through a Brexit divorce deal.
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Gold Firms Above $1,280 as Weak U.S. Data Rekindles Rate-Cut Hopes
The U.S. dollar retreated after hitting its highest level in two years as weak domestic data and the potential economic fallout from the trade war with China increased expectations for an interest-rate cut this year.
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Gold Traders’ Report - May 23, 2019
Gold firmed last night, trading in the well-worn range of $1272.70 - $1278.20. It dipped to its $1272.70 low during Asian time, fading strength in the US dollar (DX to 98.19) and against the slightly hawkish...
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Ray Dalio Increased His Bets on Gold during Q1
Dalio also recommends gold for diversification purposes and as an inflation hedge. Gold tends to perform well when inflation is high or growth is declining.
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