Bitcoin seems to be the proverbial cat with nine lives as it continues to survive the onslaught of governments, regulators and traditional financial institutions. The digital currency lost some ground in the market after negative comments from the CEO of…
Sure enough, gold and silver were the slashers this Friday the 13th… As soon as the data releases hit the tape this morning, gold and silver caught a nice bid and the dollar dropped: The volume was nice in both…
– US Mint gold coin sales and VIX at weakest in a decade – Very low gold coin sales and VIX signal volatility coming – Gold rises 1.7% this week after China’s Golden Week; pattern of higher prices after Golden…
If we use gross domestic product (GDP) as a broad measure of prosperity, we are 160% better off than we were in 1980 and 35% better off than we were in 2000. Other common metrics such as per capita (per person)…
In this episode of the Keiser Report from Denver, Colorado, Max and Stacy are joined by artist Alex Schaefer to discuss city planning and state banks in Los Angeles. In the second half, Stacy talks to former George HW Bush…
In this episode of the Keiser Report from Denver, Colorado, Max and Stacy discuss housing bubbles and surging economic activity. Despite the doomsayers, is the economy recovering? Stacy interviews Ellen Brown, author of ‘Web of Debt,’ about the state-owned bank…
Global Outlook – Mad, Mad, Mad, MAD World: News in Charts by Fathom Consulting via Thomson Reuters Alarm bells are ringing for economic fundamentalists such as Fathom Consulting. Asset prices look increasingly out of step with fundamentals, and in some cases…
One of the more mysterious aspects of the official inflation rate is the hedonic quality adjustments that the Bureau of Labor Statistics makes to the components of the Consumer Price Index (CPI). The basic idea is that when innovations improve the utility…
– Young Guns of Gold Podcast – ‘The Everything Bubble’ – Precious Metal Roundtable discuss gold in 2017 and outlook – Gold +9.1% year to date; Performing well given Fed raising rates, lack of volatility and surge in stock markets –…
The revelations coming to light about Hollywood Oligarch Harvey Weinstein perfectly capture the true nature of our status quo: a rotten-to-the-core, predatory, exploitive oligarchy of dirty secrets and dirty lies protected by an army of self-serving sycophants, servile toadies on…
– London house prices fall in September: first time in eight years – High-end London property fell by 3.2% in year – House sales down by over a very large one-third – Global Real Estate Bubble Index – see table – Brexit,…
The cryptocurrency markets have shown high potential regarding returns on investments in recent times. With high profits, they have become the cynosure of the financial world, brewing interest among institutional investors and intraday traders alike. However, the primary challenge with…
My theme this week is The Great Unraveling, by which I mean the unraveling of our social-political-economic system of hierarchical, centralized power. Let’s start by looking at how the basis of governance has transmogrified from consent of the governed to consent of the conned. In…
The week is starting out a-typical and ending that way too. Today is Columbus Day, and the banks are closed, but the markets are open. On the fundamental front, we have a slew of Fed speakers starting tomorrow, and of…
– Perth Mint gold coins see sales double on month in September – Perth Mint silver bullion coin sales surge 78% in September – Perth Mint sold 46,415 ounces of gold in September – Nearly six times more gold coins…