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 | Mark O'Byrne - gold.ie |
A beginner's guide to investing in Gold  |
| One’s motivation for buying gold is fundamental to deciding in which form you should buy it. Are you a speculator, investor or saver? Do you wish to take a short term speculative position in gold? Are you investing for the short, medium or long term? Or are you diversifying, saving or using gold as a form of financial insurance?Wednesday, March 3, 2021 |
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 | Jeff Clark - Goldsilver |
| Gold vs. Silver: The 5 Differences That Matter Most to Investors |
| You’d like to buy some precious metals, but do you buy silver or gold? Is there really much difference between them other than the price?Both are “precious” metals, meaning their occurrence in the earth’s crust is rare. But when it comes to investing in gold vs. silver, there are 5 important distinctions to be aware of. These differences can supercharge your portfolio—or make it a victim.This article outlines the five differences to know about gold vs. silver, with special emphasis on investmentSaturday, February 20, 2021 |
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 | Philip Judge - Anglo Far East |
Over-Capacity and a Time of Opportunity  |
| Exploding the Myth of Unbacked Silver Certificates and Phony Silver StorageMonday, December 21, 2020 |
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| Philip Judge - Anglo Far East |
 Short Run Economics |
| It was the famous British economist John Maynard Keynes who said, "in the long run we are all dead". While now he may well be, his philosophy and economics are alive and well, havingSunday, April 12, 2020 |
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 | James Howard Kunstler |
| Fishtailing into the Future |
| The opening chapters of Michael Lewis’s new book, The Fifth Risk, detail the carelessness of the Trump transition team in the months leading up to his swearing-in as president. Former New Jersey governor Chris Christie led the team, with its binders full of possible agency chiefs, before he was summarily canned by Steve Bannon, who would be dumped soon himself by the ascending Golden Golem of Greatness. There was, in fact, a set of rigorous protocols for managing the transition of power based onFriday, October 5, 2018 |
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| Graham Summer - Gains Pains & Capital |
| A Gift From The Oldies |
| By Chris at www.CapitalistExploits.at
I bumped into a friendly bloke at my local gym last week. Jim is his name.
Jim tells me he just started because, and I quote, "my doctor says I'm going to die unless I do something".
Now, I assure you it doesn't take a doctor to figure this out.
One glance in Jim's direction and you can tell that underneath all that weight there's a big struggling heart in there... just ready to explode. He was surprisingly frank and tells me it's so bad that he can oMonday, August 13, 2018 |
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 | Przemyslaw Radomski CFA - SunshineProfits |
| Is the Economic Summer Coming |
| Cycles, cycles everywhere. We’ve already discussed the current state of the U.S. business cycle, arguing that the expansion should last for a while, although it is more advanced than in Europe. However, business cycles aren’t the only creatures living in an economic zoo. They are simply the most popular within the modern macroeconomics. The post-war business cycles lasted, on average, almost 6 years. But economists distinguished also shorter cycles, called Kitchin inventory cycles, which are belSaturday, March 17, 2018 |
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 | Mac Slavo - ShtfPlan |
| Global Elitists: Bitcoin’s ‘Intrinsic Value Must Be Zero’, Bubble About To Burst |
| Allianz Global Investors, the investment arm of Europe’s biggest insurer, employees economists who say Bitcoin is absolutely worthless, and a bubble that’s about to burst. Allianz Global, which manages almost 500 billion euro, says Bitcoin “ticks off all the boxes” for a major asset bubble.
“In our view, its intrinsic value must be zero,” Stefan Hofrichter, the company’s head of global economics and strategy, wrote in a recent web post. “A bitcoin is a claim on nobody – in contrast to, for instaWednesday, March 14, 2018 |
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| Przemyslaw Radomski CFA - SunshineProfits |
| Are We in Late Cycle Implications for Gold |
| In the previous edition of the Market Overview, we explored the fascinating history of bull and bear cycles in both the U.S. dollar and gold. Since then, the idea of cyclicity doesn’t lead me to drop off, disrupting my sleep cycles. Let’s then dig into the topic. We start with the business cycles, as in the recent Gold News Monitor we wrote that “we are in the late stages of the economic cycle – as the cycle matures, volatility increases and investors start to buy more gold as a hedge.” Why do wSaturday, March 10, 2018 |
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| Rick Ackerman |
| Tariff Talk Has Become Topic 'A' |
| Bloomberg news has the effrontery to ask: Did Trump Just Start a Global Trade War? Although even MSNBC pit bull Rachel Maddow treats the President with more deference than Bloomberg.com, it’s still a fair question to ask. Judging from the way the stock market has flounced around recently, Wall Street’s answer to the question is an emphatic “maybe.” For once, the Street seems to have gotten it half-right. The bill Trump signed on Thursday will place tariffs of 25% and 10%, respectively, on Saturday, March 10, 2018 |
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 | Alasdair Macleod - Finance and Eco. |
| Trade Wars |
| An overt trade war has commenced. President Trump has fired the starting gun, setting in motion an election promise, part of his Make America Great Again undertaking. It is a blow squarely aimed against China, costing China some trade perhaps, but basically a loser’s last roll of the dice.The back story appears to be far deeper than some relatively minor tariffs on steel and aluminium would suggest. It comes after a prolonged period of shadow-boxing between America in the blue corner and Russia Friday, March 9, 2018 |
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| Mark O'Byrne - gold.ie |
| Gold Does Not Fear Interest Rate Hikes |
| – Gold no longer fears or pays attention to Fed announcements regarding interest rates
– Renewed interest in gold due to inflation fears and concern Fed won’t do enough to control it
– Higher interest rates on horizon will make debt levels unsustainable
– New Fed Chair warns “the US is not on a sustainable fiscal path” and could lead to an “unsustainable” debt load
– Higher interest rates are good for gold as seen in the 1970s and 2000s
– Gold markets aware that central banks are running out of Thursday, March 8, 2018 |
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| Mark O'Byrne - gold.ie |
 Gold $10,000 Goldnomics Podcast Quotations and Transcript |
| In the latest Goldnomics latest podcast, we consider whether the gold price will reach $10,000 per ounce in the coming years and what factors will drive prices.
Watch on YouTube or read the quotations and transcript below.
Dave: Hello and welcome to the Goldnomics podcast where we look at global markets through the lens of precious metals. And you can keep your eye out for new episodes on iTunes, on SoundCloud and also on YouTube and you can like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter.
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| Mark O'Byrne - gold.ie |
| Trump Risks Trade and Currency Wars – Protectionism and Economic War Loom |
| – Global stocks slump as Trump risks trade wars– Gold prices little changed despite dollar weakness after tariff news– Trump announced plans to impose heavy tariffs on imported metals– China likely to retaliate with heavy tariffs on U.S. agricultural exports– Geo-political tensions with EU and of course China and Russia to escalate– Trade, currency wars and competitive currency devaluations tend to lead to actual war– Russia unveils next generation of “invincible nuclear weapons”– Safe haven golSaturday, March 3, 2018 |
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| Alasdair Macleod - Finance and Eco. |
| Currency exchange value dynamics |
| In a recent article[i] I postulated that the dollar could lose all its purchasing power with a rapidity that will come as an unpleasant bombshell, even to those who already see inflation as society’s greatest problem in the future. The key to understanding why this may be so lies in human reactions to the monetary consequences of the next credit crisis. The undermining of the dollar as a currency affects all other fiat currencies, because it is the reserve currency and all financial markets use Thursday, March 1, 2018 |
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| Bullion Vault |
| Gold Price Falls as Fed's Powell Speaks, US Data Miss Badly, Euro Confidence 'Elevated' |
| GOLD PRICES fell as new US Fed chair Jerome Powell began his first testimony to lawmakers on Tuesday, retreating to last week's closing level as the US Dollar rallied from a fresh drop on the currency market.
New data meantime missed analyst forecasts, showing the US trade deficit in goods widening badly even as orders for larger domestic applicances and other durable goods
sank 3.7% from the month before, led by a hard drop in vehiTuesday, February 27, 2018 |
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 | Oilprice.com - oilprice.com |
| 5 Record Breaking Gemstones Even Billionaires Can’t Buy |
| As Elizabeth Taylor once said: “I adore wearing gems, but not because they are mine. You can't possess radiance, you can only admire it.”
It’s a good philosophy, because when it comes to the world’s biggest, rarest and most extraordinary gemstone discoveries, no one—not even billionaire President Donald Trump—could afford the possession.
We’re not talking about the average diamond engagement ring that sets you back $4,000 and was probably grown in a lab. And we’re not talking about the $3,000 ruThursday, February 22, 2018 |
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 | Egon von Greyerz - Matterhorn AM |
| THE 2007-9 CRISIS WILL RETURN IN 2018 – WITH A VENGEANCE |
| US economics is extremely predictable. It doesn’t matter who is President and what party he comes from. Because every president will spend more money than the US can afford. On average, US Federal debt has doubled every 8 years since Reagan came to power in 1981. And Trump has just fulfilled the prediction. The budget deal that has been agreed is guaranteed to produce substantial deficits in coming years. The current year’s deficit might be just under $1 trillion but thereafter it is virtually gFriday, February 16, 2018 |
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| Oilprice.com - oilprice.com |
| Bitcoin Was Only The Beginning… |
| Upset that you missed the boat on the bitcoin craze last year?
Millionaires were minted overnight as bitcoin returned 1,700 percent in 2017, only to see prices crash by more than half since December. The bubble seems to have popped, and not everyone got out in time.
While we may be past the peak temporarily, the cryptocurrency trend is just getting started, and investor enthusiasm is still growing by the day.
(Click to enlarge)While the bitcoin investment boat may have already set sail, it’s likThursday, February 15, 2018 |
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| Mark O'Byrne - gold.ie |
| Global Debt Crisis II Cometh |
| – Global debt ‘area of weakness’ and could ‘induce financial panic’ – King warns– Global debt to GDP now 40 per cent higher than it was a decade ago – BIS warn
– Global non-financial corporate debt grew by 15% to 96% of GDP in the past six years
– US mortgage rates hit highest level since May 2014– US student loans near $1.4 trillion, 40% expected to default in next 5 years– UK consumer debt hit £200b, highest level in 30 years, 25% of households behind on repayments
The ducks are beginning to Wednesday, February 14, 2018 |
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