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Stimulus addicted markets ran into headwinds last week. Fed watchers found some hints about interest-rate tightening in the just-released FOMC's July meeting minutes. That was all it took to rattle Wa...
Clint Siegner
August 23rd, 2021
It is both an oversimplification and an understatement to say that the problem with paper currency is that the government can print too much of it, and it loses its purchasing power. It is in moral te...
Keith Weiner
August 17th, 2021
Sometimes, bad luck can strike. But other times, a catastrophe comes from a series of bad decisions, each the reaction to the consequences of the previous one. On August 15, 1971, President Nixon dec...
Keith Weiner
August 17th, 2021
Let's get the premise of this essay out of the way right now. I don't believe that the inflation we're seeing – especially in the U.S. – is in FedSpeak, "transitory." The indications and real-wor...
David Smith
August 17th, 2021
Afghanistan has fallen. The U.S. government's nearly two-decade-long, multi-trillion-dollar "nation building" effort in the troubled, tribal country may now have nothing to show for itself....
Stefan Gleason
August 16th, 2021
The gold market has no shortage of issues following Sunday evening's "flash crash" that saw prices drop sharply at the open. A mysterious $4 billion sell order – suspiciously placed during the most...
Stefan Gleason
August 11th, 2021
The precious metals futures markets launched shortly after Richard Nixon closed the gold window and removed the last vestige of gold backing from the Federal Reserve Note. Officials introduced paper g...
Clint Siegner
August 9th, 2021
What happens when the debt comes due? It's a question millions of Americans are grappling with in their personal finances. It's also a multi-trillion dollar question facing officials in Washington, D...
Stefan Gleason
August 5th, 2021
Metals and miners have a predictable seasonal tendency to decline in mid to late June and make a secondary – often slightly higher low – in the late July to mid-August period. Though not a pronou...
David Smith
August 4th, 2021
Observing that this paper has value in the market, Fed apologists (and critics alike) imbue it with an almost mystical power: it has value because the government says so (and because the government ha...
Keith Weiner
August 3rd, 2021
While Olympic athletes in Tokyo are going for the gold, investors are going for anything that might provide positive real returns. In a yield-starved environment where bonds and cash are returning le...
Stefan Gleason
August 3rd, 2021
Jerome Powell, after last week's FOMC meeting, said inflation has run hotter than expected. However, he wants to assure Americans that the destruction of their dollars' purchasing power is temporary. ...
Clint Siegner
August 2nd, 2021
Investing is a tough business. Regardless of whether you invest in stocks, bonds, real estate, or even artwork, it is a challenging racket that can at times seem to suck all of the energy right out of...
Stefan Gleason
July 28th, 2021
Once there was a king who was only twelve inches tall. As the story goes, he was a lousy king but he made a great ruler. You're groaning, I know. Cut me some slack. I'm an economist and historian, no...
Larry Reed
July 27th, 2021
We're seeing the argument, again, that silver stocks are being consumed in solar panels, medical applications, and of course, electronics. This argument has a certain temptation. After all, the standa...
Keith Weiner
July 27th, 2021
Fifty years ago, on the evening of August 15, 1971, President Richard Nixon addressed the American people to announce several measures to address a trinity of economic problems engulfing the United St...
Money Metals News Service
July 26th, 2021
The first half of 2021 did not play out as hoped by precious metals investors. Despite the effort to "squeeze" the bullion banks, silver has yet to push through the $30 barrier, and gold remains below...
Clint Siegner
July 26th, 2021
President Joe Biden is in denial about inflation. This week he superficially addressed the problem by admitting the obvious – that prices have been rising rapidly this year – while denying that t...
Stefan Gleason
July 22nd, 2021
Nineteenth century gold miners brought democracy and property rights to Australia, as well as riches. But the history was at times bloody. Historically, the connection between gold and liberty is a po...
Larry Reed
July 21st, 2021
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Money Metals News Service
July 21st, 2021
