Precious Metals Analysis

Bond yields are telling us gold should sit at $2,000: A recent analysis by Credit Suisse suggests that gold’s price is quite a ways off from where it should be. According to the bank’s analysts, gold’s current fair value is around $1,914 when taking into account market conditions.

One thing is certain, we sure are living in strange times and for retirement savers, that can also mean levels of anxiety that rise a lot faster than IRA balances. From mistakes anyone can make that could derail their retirement, to ongoing market volatility that the media claims is a “good thing,” there are…

Financial media headlines were absolutely schizophrenic. We saw everything from “Dow Plunges on Covid Resurgence” and “Speculators Flee Suddenly Volatile Market” to “Wall Street Ends Higher, Powered by Strong Earnings, Economic Cheer.”

Reddit’s silver “apes” expect 100% to 1,000% gains on their new silver push. Whoever thought that the Reddit-fueled attempt to squeeze silver and expose big bank manipulation of the metal’s prices was done is in for a surprise, via Fox Business

Goldman Sachs has said Gold is underpriced at $1,800 and ready to move back to $2,000. Even though gold met many bullish expectations last week by consistently closing above $1,800, Goldman Sachs analyst Mikhail Sprogis thinks the move could be the start of a much larger uptrend.

With negative real interest rates and the ongoing drop in the dollar’s buying power, it’s becoming more and more difficult to hold onto one’s savings (let alone make sound investments). The well-known stockpiling of gold bullion by nations around the world, especially Russia and China, offers hints of a possible solution

The U.S. economy is at a fork in the road – one route leads to the return of market fundamentals and sane stock valuations, at the cost of a historic market correction. The other route leads to runaway hyperinflation that eats up the debt almost as fast as it devours the dollar’s buying power.

Transitory Inflation Takes Hold of the Economy – How Long Will It Last? Just a couple of weeks ago, Bloomberg reported that Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell sold investors on the idea that rising inflation wasn’t going to last. Officially, as of May 2021, inflation had risen 5%, the highest since August 2008.

Social Security Under Pressure Thanks to These 3 Economic Trends: The Social Security Administration (SSA) is in enough trouble on its own. But now, there are three big cultural and economic forces that appear to be taking their toll on the program.

The economic shock of the COVID-19 pandemic has forced many retirement savers to reevaluate their plans. That isn’t surprising, because the global economy tanked in late February, and that’s bound to have financial consequences.

The last time the Fed was noticeably hawkish was back in August 2018. Starting October 3 of that year, the market imploded (you might remember the Dow losing 5,000 points). Now there could be a “second verse same as the first.”