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 | Stewart Thomson - Graceland Update |
| Gold Stocks: “V” Bottom Blast-off |
| Gold has staged a superb rebound from the $1310 support zone, but that was overshadowed by the truly spectacular reversals taking place in most of the Western world’s gold stocks!
This is the gold chart. I like the technical action being displayed right now. Here’s why:
First, $1370 is massive resistance. It’s understandable that gold would build a modest head and shoulders top pattern after arriving at this key price zone.
What’s especially positive is that gold has only modestly declined Tuesday, February 13, 2018 |
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| Stewart Thomson - Graceland Update |
| Gold: The Ultimate Iron Lady |
| The appointment of Jerome Powell as new Fed chair is likely the catalyst that ushers in a multi-decade era of rising inflation and soaring gold stocks.
I’ve announced a long term target for GDX of $15,000. That really isn’t very high… given the strong inflation numbers that I am projecting for America in the years ahead.
Having said that, Powell has only been on the job for one day. Investors need to show patience. Wait to see what he actually does before taking “back up the truck” market actiWednesday, February 7, 2018 |
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 | Jason Hamlin - Gold Stock Bull |
| Jason Hamlin Interviewed on ‘Wall Street for Main Street’ Podcast |
| Jason Burack of Wall St for Main St interviewed returning guest, successful small-cap stock and cryptocurrency investor, entrepreneur and creator of the Gold Stock Bull Investment Newsletter that covers precious metals and cryptocurrencies, Jason Hamlin.
Jason has a successful track record of beating the odds and has had routinely good years investing in small cap stocks despite commodities being in a bear market for awhile now. During this very in depth, very long interview, Jason talks about Saturday, February 3, 2018 |
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| Stewart Thomson - Graceland Update |
| Gold Stocks: An Inflationary Money Train |
| Technically and fundamentally, gold is poised to resume its magnificent rally that is taking investors into what I call a “bull era.”
The next FOMC meeting announcement is tomorrow. I expect the Fed to strongly signal more rate hikes and ramped up quantitative easing. There’s an outside chance that bank deregulation is addressed, but that’s likely going to happen in the next meeting.
Regardless, everything the Fed is doing is positive for inflation, negative for government bonds, and negative Wednesday, January 31, 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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 | Chris Powell - GATA |
| Ralph Nader: Corporate coercion and the drive to eliminate buying with cash |
| "Sorry, we’re not taking cash or checks," said the clerk at the Fed Ex counter over a decade ago to an intern. "Only credit cards."
Since then the relentless intensification of coercive commercialism has been moving toward a cashless economy, when all consumers are incarcerated within a prison of corporate payment systems from your credit/debit cards to your mobile phone and very soon facial recognition.
"Terrific!," say those consumers for whom convenience and velocity of transactions are irresThursday, January 18, 2018 |
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 | Alasdair Macleod - Finance and Eco. |
| Investment prospects for 2018 |
| Predicting the future is a mug’s game, and in financial markets we simply cannot know tomorrow’s prices. All we can do is make assessments of the factors that can be expected to influence them.Economists’ forecasts today, with very few exceptions, are a waste of time and downright misleading. In 2016, we saw this spectacularly illustrated with Brexit, when the IMF, OECD, the Bank of England and the UK Treasury all forecast a slump in the British economy in the event the referendum voted to leaveThursday, December 28, 2017 |
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 | James Howard Kunstler |
 Christmas Story  |
| For your reading pleasure Mondays and Fridays
These are the long, dark hours when cis-hetero white patriarchs sit by the hearth chewing over their regrets for the fading year and expectations for the year waiting to be born. I confess, I like Christmas a lot, Hebrew that I am, perhaps the musical and sensual trappings more than the virgin birth business. Something in my mixed Teutonic blood stirs to the paganism of blazing Yule logs, fragrant fir trees, rousing carols, and snow on snow on snowMonday, December 25, 2017 |
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 | Mac Slavo - ShtfPlan |
| Christmas in Venezuela: What It’s Like After Socialism Destroyed the Country |
| This report was originally published by Daisy Luther at The Organic Prepper
The situation in Venezuela is grim and not getting any better. A socialist government has destroyed what used to be one of the healthiest economies in the world and turned it into something for which few were prepared. As we get ready for the holidays here in America, with our usual spending frenzies and feasts, Christmas in Venezuela is looking a lot different than it did a mere decade ago. Maybe some of the young peopFriday, December 22, 2017 |
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| Stewart Thomson - Graceland Update |
 Gold And Cryptos Destroy Fiat |
| I’ve predicted that a long period of deflation in the Western world would end with a Fed taper, rate hikes and quantitative tightening.
That’s clearly in play now, and the deregulation of America’s thousands of small banks is perhaps the most exciting event taking place on this new “inflationary frontier”. Because of these powerful monetary trends, I’ve predicted big problems ahead for Wall Street and somewhat better times for Main Street.
Having said, that, I think investors would be making aWednesday, December 13, 2017 |
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| Sprott Money |
| Why Capital Controls Usually Fail, China Versus Bitcoin Edition - John Rubino |
| One of the recurring themes of financial history is government
over-reach leading citizens to mistrust the local currency and move
money overseas, prompting the government to try to trap that wealth
within its borders. This nearly always fails because rich people are
clever and borders are really hard to seal.
The latest chapter in this story involves China – which has
engineered an epic debt binge in the past decade, and bitcoin – which
has emerged as a highly efficient way to move capitaThursday, November 30, 2017 |
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| Sprott Money |
| The Dumbest Dumb Money Finally Gets Suckered In - John Rubino |
| Corporate share repurchases have turned out to be a great mechanism
for converting Federal Reserve easing into higher consumer spending.
Just allow public companies to borrow really cheaply and one of the
things they do with the resulting found money is repurchase their stock.
This pushes up equity prices, making investors feel richer and more
willing to splurge on the kinds of frivolous stuff (new cars, big
houses, extravagant vacations) that produce rising GDP numbers.
For politicians anWednesday, November 29, 2017 |
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 | Gary Christenson - Sprott Money |
| Rob From The Middle Class Economics - Gary Christenson |
| Much of our financial world functions as a “Rob from the Middle
Class” economy. The system robs from the middle class and poor via
“money printing” and inflation of the currency supply!
The rich get richer and the poor get poorer.
Little benefit comes from complaining about the process or
fighting it. Understand the process, work around it, and use it
constructively.
Explaining Our Rob from the Middle Class Economy:
Governments, individuals, pension funds and corporations are
increasinglySaturday, November 25, 2017 |
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| Sprott Money |
| Rob From The Middle Class Economics - Gary Christenson |
| Much of our financial world functions as a “Rob from the Middle
Class” economy. The system robs from the middle class and poor via
“money printing” and inflation of the currency supply!
The rich get richer and the poor get poorer.
Little benefit comes from complaining about the process or
fighting it. Understand the process, work around it, and use it
constructively.
Explaining Our Rob from the Middle Class Economy:
Governments, individuals, pension funds and corporations are
increasinglySaturday, November 25, 2017 |
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| Stewart Thomson - Graceland Update |
| Tactics For The Gold Bull Era |
| Gold surged higher on Friday. Then it gave all the gains back yesterday. Looking beyond this short-term noise, gold is not an exciting market right now. What could make that change?
Gold is trading in a rough sideways trend with an upside bias. This bias continues to strengthen, albeit very slowly. The technical action reflects the fundamentals and liquidity flows and clearly, patience.
I jokingly refer to the SPDR fund as “Spider Man”. Chindian demand is decent, but Spider Man looks like Wednesday, November 22, 2017 |
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| Sprott Money |
| Gold Versus Bitcoin: The Pro-Gold Argument Takes Shape - John Rubino |
| Sound money advocates who love the concept of cryptocurrencies but
don’t want to abandon precious metals have been trying to clarify their
thoughts of late. Risk Hedge just helped, with a comprehensive statement
of the pro-gold position. The following is an excerpt. Read the full
article
here.
All the Reasons Cryptocurrencies Will Never Replace Gold as Your Financial Hedge
Despite what the crypto-evangelists will tell you, digital tokens will never and can never replace gold as your finMonday, November 20, 2017 |
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| Sprott Money |
| Next-Generation Crazy: The Fed Plans For The Coming Recession - John Rubino |
| Insanity, like criminality, usually starts small and expands with
time. In the Fed’s case, the process began in the 1990s with a series of
(in retrospect) relatively minor problems running from Mexico’s
currency crisis thorough Russia’s bond default, the Asian Contagion
financial crisis, the Long Term Capital Management collapse and finally
the Y2K computer bug.
With the exception of Y2K – which turned out to be a total non-event –
these mini-crises were threats primarily to the big banks Monday, November 20, 2017 |
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 | Jan Skoyles - GoldCore |
| Is New Fed Chief A “Swamp Critter Extraordinaire” |
| – Is the New Fed Chief Jeremy Powell a “Swamp Critter Extraordinaire”?
– Trump surrounding himself with elites disconnected from everyday society
– Realities of America’s difficulties not recognised by US power makers
– Powell will likely continue to protect Wall Street over Main Street
– Savers should diversify to protect themselves from Fed’s ponzi policies
Editor: Mark O’Byrne
Just like many of his other campaign promises, Trump isn’t doing a great job of draining the swamp. His nominee forSaturday, November 18, 2017 |
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| Sprott Money |
| We’ll Look Back At This And Cringe, Part 1: European Junk Bonds Yield Less Than US Treasuries - John Rubino |
| Financial bubbles are the office Christmas parties of the investment
world. They start slowly, with a certain amount of anxiety. But they end
wildly, with acts and decisions that in retrospect seem really, really
stupid.
Millions of people out there still bear the psychic scars of buying
gold at $800/oz in 1980 or a tech stock at 1,000 times earnings in 1999
or a Miami condo for $1,000 per square foot in 2006.
Today’s bubble will leave some similar marks. But where those
previous bubbles wWednesday, November 8, 2017 |
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| Sprott Money |
| Gold Speculators Refuse To Give Up; Another Drop Likely - John Rubino |
| Normally winter is a good time for gold, with men buying their
significant others jewelry for Christmas and lots of New Years Day
marriage proposals. Here’s an overview of the dynamic from
Adam Hamilton of Zeal Intelligence:
Seasonality is the tendency for prices to exhibit
recurring patterns at certain times during the calendar year. While
seasonality doesn’t drive price action, it quantifies annually-repeating
behavior driven by sentiment, technicals, and fundamentals. We humans
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