There has been no shortage of stories of big-name investors touting or turning to gold over the past few years, and especially over the course of last year as the Federal Reserve sparked widespread inflation concerns with its multi-trillion-dollar stimulus.
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The yellow metal gained over $20 per ounce on the news. The jobs report was a major piece of economic data-possibly the most important of the month.
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Why do portfolio investors typically spread risk across different asset classes like stocks and commodities? This is the most basic form of building a diversified portfolio, with investor’s aim being to minimize risk and maximize gains.
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Is it a temporary blip… or the beginning of a long-term trend? That’s the key question facing consumers, investors, and retirees when it comes to inflation.
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Strong demand for bullion products amid tight market conditions and unprecedented “stimulus” measures from Washington have lots of people asking lots of questions. Here we will answer a few of the most pressing questions currently on the minds of precious metals investors.
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The simple rule is: Don’t listen to WHAT people say, but HOW they say it. Already 50 years ago the Mehrabian model concluded that words only convey 7% of a message, body language accounts for 55% and tone of voice delivers 38%. That is why you should never focus on the words of a speaker since they are the least important.
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Many traders, investors, and momentum players will closely examine the market trend to determine if and when to enter or exit the market. A market with a strong technical foundation can launch to dizzying heights, while a market displaying weak technicals will have a tough time putting together any sustainable upside.
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Ronan Manly – aka Ronan the Destroyer – is one of the industry’s most outspoken critics, regularly releasing in-depth research examining the institutional corruption, market manipulation and shady practices at the heart of precious metals trading.
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Prices for the cryptocurrency have slid from a high of over $64,000 on April 14th to under $48,000 in trading this past weekend. The 25% sell-off would be akin to a crash in the S&P 500. But for crypto markets, that kind of volatility is fairly routine.
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As top officials around the world convene this week for a “climate summit,” President Joe Biden’s administration is planning the most radical expansion of government’s role in the economy since FDR’s New Deal.
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The LBMA and Comex clan has sold their physical silver up to 1,000X over. The current silver price has nothing to do with supply and demand. In a real market the Price of Silver would be substantially higher. In a fake market, the manipulators have no problem to suppress the price by selling virtually unlimited fake paper silver.
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Gold rallied last week toward the top of a down-trending channel that has been in force since prices peaked last summer. A breakout attempt in early January failed. The gold market subsequently slumped to a potential double-bottom low in March around $1,675/oz.
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Ignore what central bankers are saying; instead, watch what they are doing. While they poo-poo gold or pretend it doesn’t exist, global central banks have been quietly but aggressively accumulating gold bullion for several years now. The Central Bank of Russia, for example, has been a consistent buyer of gold.
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The U.S. economy isn’t a light switch that can be flipped on and off at will. Yet that didn’t stop the majority of state governors from turning off their economies in 2020 — causing financial misery for tens of millions of people.
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Housing costs are skyrocketing. The median sales price of existing homes has spiked 16% over the past 12 months – the fastest pace in 15 years. The real estate market is being pressured not only by a low inventories of houses listed for sale, but also by rising prices for construction materials.
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William Watts with MarketWatch sees the “biggest Inflation scare in 40 years” on its way. Bullion.Directory precious metals analysis 12 April, 2021 By Clint Siegner Director of Money Metals Exchange […]
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Rarely do markets move straight up or straight down. The stock market has, however, essentially moved straight up since the March 2020 mini-crash. As the market moves higher, an increasing number of “analysts” are calling for even higher equity prices.
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As NFTs (Non-Fungible Tokens) rapidly become mainstream investments it’s starting to seem like there’s nothing that cannot be made into a cryptographic unit and sold to ravenously excited Bitcoin millionaires.
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The federal government is spending and redistributing newly created cash so rapidly, it’s becoming difficult to keep track of which trillions are going where. This week, President Joe Biden will pitch a $3 trillion “green” infrastructure package. That’s on top of the $1.9 trillion economic “relief” bill he recently signed into law.
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There has been considerable discussion in recent weeks about the prospect and threat of rising inflation. This inflationary scare comes at a time when the government is unleashing massive stimulus measures to bailout states, businesses, and consumers – all in the name of combatting the pandemic.
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An economic framework called Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) governs the financial world today, but fails to account for the consequences of its practices. In fact, MMT is leading us to an extremely dangerous financial situation that could blow up at any time.
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GOLD PRICES popped higher but silver struggled to follow Thursday lunchtime in London after new US data said the world’s largest economy grew a little faster than previously estimated at the end of 2020 but only thanks to a slowdown in price inflation.
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Speaking with Stephen Yeboah, policy analyst, researcher and strategic communicator on commodities in Africa. Stephen is CEO of Commodity Monitor, the Ghanaian-based commodity trading, logistics and research company that’s leading the drive towards mercury-free mining in Ghana and other West African countries.
Full Article →On Monday, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell spoke at a virtual “Innovation Summit” hosted by the Bank for International Settlements, the central bank for central banks around the world. Powell aimed his remarks specifically at digital currencies.
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The Fed’s Open Markets Committee met last week and left policy unchanged – at least for the moment. No one expected central banking officials to make rate adjustments last week with equity prices rubbing up against all-time highs and the economic recovery narrative still dominant.
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The Bank of France has raised its growth forecast to 5.5% for 2021. A crazy figure when the first quarter already starts in the red with the curfew and the closure of restaurants, hotels, ski resorts, etc. It would take 7-8% over the next three quarters to reach this forecast… Let’s get serious again.
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GOLD PRICES struggled to show any change for the week so far Thursday afternoon in London, erasing yesterday’s $30 pop as government bonds resumed their plunge, driving longer-term interest rates higher despite the US Federal Reserve vowing to continue its zero-rate and massive QE policies in the face of surging inflation expectations.
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A Gold IRA can protect its owner from falling dollar values – when the dollar decreases in value, gold doesn't; therefore, it keeps its value regardless of inflation. At the same time, the same issue is present in the stock market.
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