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TOP NEWSNew Report Reveals Sudden Crunch in Silver Supply
Most analysts will tell you that the balance between supply and demand isn’t really a factor that drives the silver price. Historically that’s true—it’s usually investment demand, or lack thereof, that has the biggest impact on price.
How Long Can Silver Remain Cheap?
How long can silver remain cheap? That was a question that Jeff Clark posed in a recent article that Mike Maloney wanted to explore further.
READ MOREIs the Bubble Starting in Gold?: Video
We lost a lot of people in the bottom phase. There are a lot of people missing this move higher in gold. There are huge moves happening very quickly.
READ MOREEconomist Roubini Sees 'Mother of All Stagflationary Debt Crises'
Globally, total private- and public-sector debt as a share of GDP rose from 200% in 1999 to 350% in 2021, the economist Nouriel Roubini says.
READ MOREWill Your State Reject The Fed's Digital Dollar?
The adoption of a digital dollar by the U.S. government would be one of the greatest expansions of federal power ever made.
READ MOREChina Treasury Holdings Plunging
Whether this is a deliberate strategy by China to dump US dollar assets or the result of slowing economic activity, large budget deficits, and shrinking FX reserves is debatable. It’s probably both.
READ MOREHigh Global Debt Is Making Rate Hikes Trickier: Bank of International Settlements
The mountain of borrowings accumulated across global economies in recent years is proving a challenge to central bankers as they fight inflation, according to a Bank for International Settlements official.Most Read from Bloomberg‘Huge, Missing and Growing:’ $65 Trillion in Dollar Debt Sparks ConcernStocks Slump as Fed-Hike Jitters Lift Bond Yields: Markets WrapChina’s Covid Pivot Accelerates as Cities Ease Testing RulesAmbitious Plans to Build Indonesia a Brand New Capital City Ar
READ MOREU.S. Pushes To Send $1.1 Billion More of U.S Taxpayer Funds to Ukraine
Moldova, an EU aspirant (and seen as 'NATO-friendly), is heavily reliant on Russia as well as Ukrainian transit points for all of its energy needs.
READ MOREECB Says It's Approaching a Turning Point to Meeting Inflation Goal of 2 Percent
ECB’s Villeroy Wants 50 Basis-Point Hike to Fight Inflation. Francois Villeroy de Galhau, the ECB's Vice Chair and governor of the Bank of France seeks a 50 Basis-Point Hike to Fight Inflation.
READ MOREUS Treasury 10Y Yield Up 10 BPS As US Debt And Unfunded Liabilities Hits $204 Trillion
The start of a new week and the US Treasury 10-year yield is up 10 basis points, always a noteworthy change. And with it, the 30-year mortgage rate should climb.
READ MOREThe Bubble Economy's Credit-Asset Death Spiral
Central banks seem to have perfected the ideal financial perpetual motion machine: as credit expands, money pours into risk assets, which shoot higher under the pressure of expanding demand for assets that yield either hefty returns (junk bonds) or hefty capital gains as the soaring assets suck in more capital chasing returns.
READ MORESpace Race 2.0: China Is Building Weapons To Attack U.S. ‘Ground, Sea, or Air Targets From Orbit’
New details of Beijing’s growing space arms arsenal were revealed the Pentagon’s latest annual report to Congress on the Chinese military.
READ MORE85% of Americans Are Feeling Impact of Inflation in Day-to-Day Lives, Finds New Survey
With inflation in the U.S. at its highest in more than 40 years, global strategy consultancy L.E.K. Consulting surveyed over 2,500 Americans in October 2022 – across generations and income levels – to see how their spending has changed, uncovering the categories and items that consumers have been cutting back on as well as those that they expect to return to post-inflation.
READ MOREInflation Roars Back in the Eurozone With New Highs in Germany, Italy, and France
Yesterday, I commented on Inflation Around the World: How Does the US Compare to Canada and Europe? but have new sources for October data.
READ MOREGlobal Squabbles Erupt Around the World Over the Remaining Crypto Assets of FTX
Global Aspirations of Crypto Meet the Hard Reality of Law. The predicted legal mess over FTX has exploded in Global Clashes Over FTX Bankruptcy
READ MOREFed Remittances Due To Treasury Skyrockets As Fed Tightens, M2 Money Growth Dies
We are truly living in Strange Days under Joe Biden. And with Elon Musk’s release of Twitter’s suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop scandal, they call Joe Biden the Sleaze. As The Fed…
READ MOREBlackstone’s $69 Billion Real Estate Fund Hits Redemption Limit
As The Federal Reserve continues its assault on inflation by raising their target rate, Blackstone Inc.’s $69 billion real estate fund for wealthy individuals said it will limit redemption requests…
READ MOREA Recession Is Not the Problem, a Deep Inflationary Depression Should Be a Far Greater Concern
Persistently massive inflows of cash into a key Federal Reserve facility are in large part being driven by a bank liquidity regulation change from last year, a report from the New York Fed said Friday.
READ MOREGlobal Debt Extends Best Run Since Pre-Covid on China, Fed Bets
Global credit extended its longest rally since before the pandemic on Monday as investors cheered further reopening moves from Covid restrictions in China and stuck with bets for the Federal Reserve to down-shift rate hikes this month.
READ MOREGlobal Debt Extends Best Run Since Pre-Covid on China, Fed Bets
Global credit extended its longest rally since before the pandemic on Monday as investors cheered further reopening moves from Covid restrictions in China and stuck with bets for the Federal Reserve to down-shift rate hikes this month.
READ MORECrypto Exchange Gemini Trying To Recover $900 Million From Crypto Lender Genesis, FT Reports
Crypto broker Genesis and its parent company Digital Currency Group (DCG) owe customers of the Winklevoss twins' crypto exchange Gemini $900 million, the Financial Times reported on Saturday.
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