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 | Mickey Fulp - Mercenary Geologist |
| The Never-Ending Wars of the United States of America |
| A Monday Morning Musing from Mickey the Mercenary Geologist"War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small 'inside' group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefiMonday, November 23, 2020 |
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 | James Howard Kunstler |
 Drums Along the Potomac  |
| The amateur psychologist in me suspects that the more the USA heaps Russia with censorious opprobrium and punishments, the closer this floundering polity actually is to completely losing its shit. Friday morning’s front-page headline in The New York Times appears to have been written by Pee Wee Herman:
I can just hear Vlad Putin blowing a raspberry out of the Kremlin: “Nyah, nyah, nyah… I know you are, but what am I…?” We’re also informed today by that august journal that U.S. Accuses Russia inFriday, March 16, 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.
And wsoSunday, March 4, 2018 |
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| Bullion Vault |
| Gold Bullion Hits Worst 1-Week Dollar Price Drop of 2018, Turkey-US Tensions Worsen in Syria |
| GOLD PRICES in the global wholesale center of London headed for the steepest 1-week drop of 2018 so far on Friday, holding a 1.7% loss against a stronger US Dollar as major government bond prices edged higher again from this month's sharp sell-off, nudging interest rates down.
Failing to set a 4-year weekly closing high last Friday above $1354, gold prices today held around $1329 per ounce as the US Dollar retained most of this week's rally on tSaturday, February 24, 2018 |
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| Bullion Vault |
| Gold Prices 'Hit by Deep Link' to Real Yields But 'Should Gain' on Inflation |
| GOLD PRICES struggled to recover from yesterday's sharp drop against the rallying US Dollar in London on Wednesday, halving last week's 2.2% gain as world stock markets fell, bond prices steadied and commodities edged higher.
Retreating 2.6% from last Friday's 3-week high at $1361 per ounce, the
gold price in Dollar terms has now cut its 2018 gains to date to just 2.2%.
Priced in EuWednesday, February 21, 2018 |
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| Bullion Vault |
| Comex Silver Speculators Turn Net Bearish, Gold Prices Steady as Russia, Turkey Warn US Over Syrian 'Fire' |
| GOLD and SILVER PRICES remained steady on Monday morning in London against a rebounding US Dollar,
write Steffen Grosshauser and Adrian Ash at BullionVault.
With New York shut for Presidents Day – and ahead of meeting minutes due Wednesday from the US Federal Reserve's latest policy meeting – global equity markets were mixed as non-US government bond prices fell once more, nudging interest rates higher.
Monday, February 19, 2018 |
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| Bullion Vault |
| Start of Chinese New Year Holiday See Gold Bullion Whip on US Inflation Data, Turkey Threatens 'Ottoman Slap' |
| GOLD BULLION prices fell as the Dollar jumped on stronger-than-expected US inflation data Wednesday, only to recover the drop as fixed-income bond prices fell, pushing longer-term interest rates higher once more.
World stock markets also sank and then rallied on the news, with Germany's Dax regaining a previous 1.0% loss by mid-afternoon in Frankfurt.
Gold priced in non-US currencies also spikedWednesday, February 14, 2018 |
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| Bullion Vault |
| Gold Price Gains vs Falling Dollar as Trump's 'Desolation' Budget Leaves GLD Investors Cold |
| GOLD PRICES rallied again versus the weakening Dollar in London trade on Tuesday, briefly touching $1330 per ounce as the US currency extended its losses after President Trump sent his 2019 fiscal plan to Congress for approval.
"After so stupidly spending $7 trillion in the Middle East, it is now time to start
investing in OUR Country!" tweeted Trump on Monday.
With the US militaryTuesday, February 13, 2018 |
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| Bullion Vault |
| Gold Prices Hit Multi-Week Lows as UK 'Hints' at Rate Rise, US Risks Syria Stand-Off with Turkey |
| GOLD PRICES bounced $10 per ounce from new 5-week lows against a rising US Dollar in London on Thursday, rallying to $1316 as Western stock markets also fell hard once again.
Commodities held flat, but major government bond prices dropped, driving longer-term interest rates higher.
Benchmark UK Gilt yields neared the highest since March 2016 – back before the shock Brexit referendum result on quThursday, February 8, 2018 |
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| Mark O'Byrne - gold.ie |
| Greatest Stock Bubble In History GoldNomics Podcast Transcript |
| Dave: Welcome to episode two of the Goldnomics podcast where we look at the developments in financial markets through the lens of precious metals. Before we start today, I just want to remind all our listeners to subscribe to the Goldnomics podcast on iTunes YouTube or SoundCloud. And you can also stay up to date with all of the developments in precious metals markets by subscribing for our market updates at www.goldcore.com. And you can find a link in the show notes accompanying this podcast.
Monday, January 29, 2018 |
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| Bullion Vault |
| Gold Price Steady as US Government Shutdown Hits Dollar, Platinum Bulls Jump |
| GOLD PRICES held steady as the Dollar remained weak Monday morning amid the US government shutdown,
writes Steffen Grosshauser at BullionVault – the first since October 2013.
After recording the
6th weekly gain in succession at the London PM benchmarking, wholesale gold bullion prices traded in a $6 range around Friday's close at $1331 per ounce.
Gold for Euro and otherMonday, January 22, 2018 |
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 | Jim Willie CB - Hat Trick Letter |
Silver as a Strategic Metal and Why Prices Will Soar  |
| The arguments in favor of silver as an investment asset are growing rapidly. In the opinion of the Jackass, silver is the most under-valued hard asset in existence, with the highest potential for price appreciation on the globe. To begin with, central banks own no silver, but do own huge tracts of gold. Industry has huge demand for silver, but a trifling amount for gold demand. The investment demand is another key factor in favor of silver, but also for gold. Ever since the tech telecom bust in Sunday, January 21, 2018 |
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| Bullion Vault |
| Gold Price Risks 'Double Top' vs Falling Dollar as Turkey, Pakistan Challenge US Foreign Policy |
| GOLD PRICES pulled back from 4-month highs above $1340 per ounce for the third day running in London on Wednesday, again trading lower for non-Dollar investors as the US currency fell once more.
Asian and European stock markets also headed south after Wall Street marked a "key reversal"
from fresh all-time record highs for technical analysts, closing 0.5% lower overnight after rising sharply earlier on Tuesday.
Thursday, January 18, 2018 |
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 | Alasdair Macleod - Finance and Eco. |
 One-year score card for Trump |
| We understand our politicians to be human, with much that that implies. In a democracy, politics is a competitive business, which means that generally well-balanced individuals tend to succeed, while those who are obviously unbalanced do not. And as for political power corrupting individuals, that is normally limited by the obligation to periodically seek an electoral mandate. That, at least is the theory, but in late-2016, the election of President-elect Donald Trump caused us all to question tFriday, January 12, 2018 |
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 | Jesse - Le Cafe Américain |
| We Come In Peace - |
| "For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities and powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places."
Ephesians 6:12
Stocks drifted higher today, setting new records. Huzzah!
Gold and silver drifted largely sideways.
It was risk on, or at least timidly so, ahead of the start of the new earnings season which I believe begins this coming Friday.
The Trump Administration has a plan to give marching orders to US diplTuesday, January 9, 2018 |
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 | Andy Hoffman - Miles Franklin |
| Market Analysis For 2018 – Part Two |
| Part one discussed global stock and bond markets. Read it here. Since that article was written stock indices have bubbled higher. Some analysts are talking “melt-up” for stock markets. Regardless, bubbles crash eventually.
Part two addresses the U.S. dollar and gold prices.
The Dollar
The Dollar Index dropped from 102.28 on December 30, 2016 to 91.82 on December 29, 2017. The Index tracks the floating value of various unbacked fiat currencies against other fiat currencies also backed by nothingMonday, January 8, 2018 |
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| James Howard Kunstler |
| Forecast 2018 — What Could Go Wrong |
| Markets
If you take your cues from Consensus Trance Central — the cable news networks, The New York Times, WashPost, and HuffPo — Trump is all that ails this foundering empire. Well, Trump and Russia, since the Golden Golem of Greatness is in league with Vladimir Putin to loot the world, or something like that.
Since I believe that the financial system is at the heart of today’s meta-question (What Could Go Wrong?), it would be perhaps more to the point to ask: what has held this matrix of rackeMonday, January 1, 2018 |
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| Mark O'Byrne - gold.ie |
| What Peak Gold, Interest Rates And Current Geopolitical Tensions Mean For Gold in 2018 |
| – Peak gold will be a major driver, gold over $5,000/oz ‘not beyond the realms of possibility’
– Relationship between interest rates and inflation are one of the key catalysts for price
– Geopolitical uncertainty will continue to play a key role in determining the price of gold
– What happens when the unstoppable force of robust global demand for gold meets the immovable object of a small, finite, rare and dwinding supply of physical gold?
The editors over at The Daily Reckoning have taken someFriday, December 29, 2017 |
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| Andy Hoffman - Miles Franklin |
| 2017, The Year of the Truth Bomb! (Part 1) |
| Here we are at the end of 2017 with more “truth bombs” released than I could have imagined! In fact, I believe we probably received more “truth” in just one year than collectively in all of human history. This is a sad statement because it also means we have lived behind more lies than at any time prior. Also surprising is none individually have cracked the dam called “confidence”. But do not be fooled as it looks as if the entire dam is moving, particularly in the last few weeks!
As we haveTuesday, December 26, 2017 |
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 | Adrian Ash - Bullion Vault |
| Gold, Mithras and Killing the Bull in 2018 |
| Forget gold! 2018 investment forecasts love stocks...
The NEW European HQ of financial data and news-giant Bloomberg in London really is something,
writes Adrian Ash at BullionVault.
Amazing views...even more amazing decor and furnishings...
...and a genuine Roman temple in the basement!
Wednesday, December 20, 2017 |
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