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A lot of investors are disappointed in gold. After all, many buy gold because of inflation. Even with rapidly rising prices, the yellow metal hasn't delivered as you might expect. During his virtual speech for the Money Show, Peter Schiff explains
The final phase of Empires normally ends with the same signals whether it was 2000 years ago in Rome or today in the US.
...if debt ceiling isn't raised. For Americans concerned about the future of the country under the Biden regime, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen just engaged in an unusual bit of honesty: Be very afraid.
Since the start of the pandemic in 2020, the federal government has also used a different methodology, the Household Pulse Survey, to study how many Americans don't have enough food over seven-day periods of time. That methodology has proven that t
It's a peculiarity of the human psyche that it's remarkably easy to be swept up in bubble mania and remarkably difficult to be swept up in the same way by the bubble's inevitable collapse.
Leon Cooperman is a frequent guest on CNBC, probably because since he only manages his own money, he can more or less say what he pleases without the risk of alienating LPs...
Rabobank: What Is Coming Is A Bigger Economic, Market, And Geopolitical Earthquake Than QE Tapering
While continuing claims disappointed last week (but did drop from revised higher numbers), initial jobless claims plunged to 310k (335k exp and 345k prior) - a new post-COVID-lockdown low...
For a long time I have been warning that global food prices would rise dramatically, and that is precisely what we have witnessed over the past 12 months.
Can extremes become too extreme to continue higher? We're about to find out.
Peter Schiff recently appeared on RT Boom Bust to talk about Fed monetary policy and the possibility of a taper. He said even if the Fed does slow asset purchases, the taper won't last long. Ultimately, the Fed will expand QE.
In the 1930's, the farm population in the US was nearly 25% of the total and it was quite common for farmers to borrow from the bank (using their farms as collateral) in the expectation that the proceeds from their annual crop would pay off the not
Despite past failures at timing, cities and municipalities are borrowing money at a record pace to shore up pension plans.
Beneath the illusory stability of rising GDP, the extremes of debt, leverage, stimulus and speculative frenzy required to keep the 'phantom wealth bubble' from imploding are all rising parabolically.
--For The Rapidly Imploding U.S. Economy
Patricia Hill grew up in Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood dreaming of one day owning a home. She and her husband accomplished that dream in 2003 when they moved to the suburb of Matteson to raise their two daughters.
McDonald's in Oregon begins hiring 14-year-olds as desperate businesses across the country turn to teens amid dire labor shortage
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2034 Fiscal Cliff
Jerome Powell delivered his much-anticipated speech virtually during the Jackson Hole summit on Aug. 27. Peter Schiff talked about the speech during his podcast.
John Paulson infamously made his bones betting again the US housing market over a decade ago, when everyone else was waving it in with both hands and feet.
The "transitory" inflation swamping the country has stubbornly persisted into July.
We are collectively in a deep hole. The key issue now is who has the flexibility to be able to stop digging - or at least to be able to 'Dig for Victory'.
As a reminder, unlike existing-home sales, which are calculated when a contract closes, the index of pending home sales is based on contract signings.
The late and great Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises was the individual who logically conquered the impracticability and unworkability of Socialism, Communism & Fascism. But just because an idea can't work, doesn't mean that those with a lust for p
Below, we ask a simple question: Is the 'war on COVID' the needed pretext for even more centralized market "performance?"
Financial writer, market analyst and precious metals expert Craig Hemke says the Fed has all but said it was going to delay the so-called "taper" of easy money policies–forever. This is why gold and silver spiked as the dollar tanked on Friday
Mark Carney and the Strategic Reality of the Collapsing Trans Atlantic System
This month marks fifty years since President Richard Nixon closed the "gold window" that had allowed foreign governments to exchange US dollars for gold.
As prices continue to spiral upward and the Federal Reserve maintains its inflationary monetary policy, a lot of people in the mainstream keep talking about inflation as a good thing.
