The Federal Reserve has been trying to boost the official inflation rate for eight long years, and apparently patience with current policies is finally wearing thin.Rumor has it that the Fed is readying a new “nuclear option”: distributing $1 million…
We discuss the pension crisis too big to ignore and the taxpayers on the hook for it all. In the second half, Max interviews general practitioner, Dr. Bob Gill, about his new crowdfunded documentary, ‘The Great NHS Heist’, and why…
Are the Gold and Silver Shorts About to Receive A Religious Experience? Subscribe for Free to the SD YouTube Channel Physical Market Update: Gold and Silver coin sales remained subdued this week across the US market, as wholesale premiums dropped on…
We discuss the economic shocks that are more lethal in America than anywhere else. In the second half, Max continues his conversation with Professor John Mill Ackerman about the Mexico-USA relationship in the age of Trump. (ps – I could…
I presented this chart of rising wealth inequality a number of times over the past year. Do you notice something peculiar about the inflection points in the 1980s? Correspondent W.S. noted that the inflection point for the top .1% (late…
Bitcoin’s price volatility was lower than Oil price volatility in 2016. This has given Bitcoin stature of an investable asset over one of the highly traded commodities in the world. Read More
Over the past 20 years, central banks have run a gigantic real-world experiment called “trickle-down.” The basic idea is Keynesian (i.e. the mystical and comically wrong-headed cargo-cult that has entranced the economics profession for decades): monetary stimulus (lowering interest rates…
If Silver Prices Break Through $18.50, and Then Through $21, Silver Could Start Trading “Almost Like No Other Market In History…” Subscribe for Free to the SD YouTube Channel
We are living in an interesting but by no means unique dynamic in which the solutions to problems such as slow growth and inequality have become the problems. This is a dynamic I have often discussed in various contexts. In…
– New pound coin ‘most secure coin in world’ ? – New British £1 coins much harder to counterfeit – Pound coin uses “secret” cutting edge technology – Coins uses ‘iSIS’ technology which may involve RFID tags – Central banks, governments…
We discuss the cheap wages and crushed limbs of Alabama’s auto manufacturing boom. In the second half, Max interviews Professor John Mill Ackerman in Mexico City about what the NAFTA renegotiations might mean for Mexico and world trade and whether…
Commentators seem split into three camps: those who see Trump as a manifestation of smouldering social/economic ills, those who see Trump and his supporters as the cause of those ills, and those who see Trump as both manifestation and cause…
– Gold coin called ‘Million Dollar Gold Coin’ or ‘Big Maple Leaf’ stolen from Berlin museum early on Monday – World’s purest gold coin and in the Guinness Book of Records for its purity of 99999 fine gold – Gold…
Gold and silver jumped another 1% overnight in Asia, building on the respective 1.5% and 2.2% gains seen last week. The ‘Trump trade’ is fading, impacting stock markets and risk off has returned to global markets with the Nikkei, S&P…
Since 2009, the central banks have unleashed over $12 Trillion in new money into the world, concentrating wealth into the hands of an elite few, while blowing asset price bubbles everywhere in the process. Our consistent view is that price…