– British people suddenly stopped buying cars – Massive debt including car loans, very low household savings – Brexit and decline in sterling and consumer confidence impacts – New cars being bought on PCP by people who could not normally afford them

– British people suddenly stopped buying cars – Massive debt including car loans, very low household savings – Brexit and decline in sterling and consumer confidence impacts – New cars being bought on PCP by people who could not normally afford them

First things first – when it doubt, smash: Last time I checked, you can pick up a bunch more ounces at $17.75 than you can at $18.25! One look at the economic calendar one thing should immediately stick out like

Dagestani billionaire Ziyavudin Magomedov and his older brother and junior partner are highly ambitious. Their forays into telecommunications infrastructure, gas, oil, construction, and port logistics have thus far succeeded wildly across the the Caucasus region. These victories are enormous, to

Max and Stacy ask, “RIP, Petrodollar?” China readies a yuan-priced oil benchmark backed by gold. Is this the final nail in the dollar’s coffin? In the second half, Max interviews Michael Pento of PentoPort.com to discuss the oil-gold-yuan futures contract,

The Achilles Heel of our socio-economic system is the secular stagnation of earned income, i.e. wages and salaries. Stagnating wages undermine every aspect of our economy: consumption, credit, taxation and perhaps most importantly, the unspoken social contract that the benefits of productivity and

– Gold hits $1,355/oz as USD at 32-month low -concerns about Trump, US economy – Silver and platinum 2.3% and 1.2% higher in week; palladium 3% lower – Euro Stoxx flat for week – S&P 500, Nikkei down 0.65% and 2.2% –

– Gold hits $1,355/oz as USD at 32-month low -concerns about Trump, US economy – Silver and platinum 2.3% and 1.2% higher in week; palladium 3% lower – Euro Stoxx flat for week – S&P 500, Nikkei down 0.65% and 2.2% –

The official policy goal of the Federal Reserve and other central banks is to generate 3% inflation annually. Put another way: the central banks want to lower the purchasing power of their currencies by 33% every decade. In other words, those

A provocative essay, Don’t Blame the Robots, makes the bold claim that “Housing Prices and Market Power Explain Wage Stagnation.” (Foreign Affairs) In other words, the stagnation of the bottom 95% of wages isn’t caused by automation or offshoring, but by the

– “Things have been going up for too long…” – Goldman Sachs’ CEO – Lloyd Blankfein, Goldman CEO “unnerved by market” (see video) – Bitcoin bubble is no outlier says Bank of America Merrill Lynch – Bubbles are everywhere including London property –

In this episode of the Keiser Report, Max and Stacy discuss ‘the mysterious’ moves in gold markets moments before Janet Yellen spoke in Jackson Hole, Wyoming and the equally mysterious, unknowable event that happened in the mid-seventies to cause wages