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U.S. equity-index futures reversed earlier gains as investors awaited minutes from the Federal Reserve’s latest policy meeting to gauge the pace of monetary tightening.
READ MOREEvery end of May, Incrementum publishes one of the most comprehensive gold studies worldwide. Here you can read and download a compact version for free. The new In Gold We Trust-Report was published on 24 May 2022.
READ MOREThe In Gold We Trust report 2022 covers topics including: ► Status quo of gold: price development in the last 12 months, most important influencing factors and trends on the gold market ► Stagflation 2.0
READ MORESo, mathematically speaking, gold represents diversification away from the stock market; their risks and rewards are totally different. Interestingly, though, gold’s diversification doesn’t stop there.
READ MOREThis means that the prospect of slower economic growth, which is already happening in China, could relieve the pressure on the Federal Reserve to keep interest rates high for longer, allowing the precious metals to gain.
READ MOREAll that obviously means gold is undervalued. That is why, in my opinion, many assets may crash in gold terms. But I fully admit I cannot predict when and by how much the gold prices would shoot. However, when the market realizes this, it will most probably be too late. Gold is a perfect hedge against fiat currency devaluation and is a good asset to hold when many other asset classes are over-popular in spite of the stock market correction this spring.
READ MORETraders are offloading sector-specific funds at the fastest pace on record as the looming bear market seemingly spares no corner of the equity market.
READ MOREWhat’s more, Wall Street lenders just might survive inflation. They probably wouldn’t survive mass defaults. And if there is any certainty in this uncertain world, it is that the Fed will look out for the banks.
READ MORE"There is no prospect for a material reduction in inflation unless the Fed aggressively raises rates, or the stock market crashes," Ackman tweeted.
READ MOREFortunately for the United States, our national debt is in U.S. dollars. As former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan once observed, “The United States can pay any debt it has because we can always print money to do that. So there is zero probability of default.”
READ MOREGlobal debt surged to a record $305 trillion in the first three months of this year as the US and China, the world’s two largest economies, continued to borrow amid slowing economic growth exacerbated by Russia’s war in Ukraine. Total debt climbed by $3.3tn in the January-March quarter, the Institute of International Finance said on ...
READ MORESri Lanka is already wracked with shortages. The social order may shatter if the economy isn’t infused with cash soon.
READ MOREGlobal food insecurity has reached levels not seen since the financial crisis of 2008, and it’s only going to get worse without aggressive intervention, a food insecurity expert told the United Nations Security Council this week.
READ MOREDecade by decade, America's middle class has been shrinking over the past 50 years as rising inequality pushes more Americans out of the middle and into the upper and lower income brackets.
READ MOREVeteran US statesman Henry Kissinger has urged the West to stop trying to inflict a crushing defeat on Russian forces in Ukraine, warning that it would have disastrous consequences for the long term stability of Europe.
READ MORELast week, President Biden signed a massive $40 billion military aid bill for Ukraine. Who cares that inflation is killing the American economy and mothers can't even get baby formula. For Washington, spending on war and empire always seems to trump America’s interests.
READ MOREI have never seen two Federal entities make such a mess in my life. The Federal Reserve and The Federal government. The good news? The 10-year Treasury yield is down -12.9 BPS this morning generall…
READ MOREToday, we're happy to have a special guest: Jack Spirko, host of The Survival Podcast; and who specializes in self-sufficiency, self-reliance and personal liberty. In our age of aggressive government intervention, mixed with corporatism, Jack provides insights on navigating our way through.
READ MOREFood protectionism is on the rise in the developing world as governments try to safeguard local supplies, and the effects are threatening to spill over into richer economies.
READ MOREThere is a frighteningly-long list of shoes to drop as inflation finally forces central banks to do what they desperately wish not to do, which is to yank away the debt shield that lulled both investors and the political class into a false sense of security.
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