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The Bulletin: November 21-27, 2024

November 27, 2024

The Bulletin: November 21-27, 2024 How Societal Collapse Can Save Humans From Mass Extinction Our Sixty Days of Nuclear Chicken Have Begun ZeroHedge Edit: Fort Knox, Egon Von Greyerz, and Zoltan Pozsar Doug Casey on the Looming Debt Crisis and What Lies Ahead – International Man Biden’s parting Ukrainian sacrifice – by Aaron Maté Trump’s […]

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July 10, 2024 Readings

July 10, 2024 Readings AS POLITICAL PARTIES FALL, GOLD AND SILVER WILL RISE – VON GREYERZ AG Dark Side Of ‘The Next AI Trade’: Seizing Private Property For Transmission Lines | ZeroHedge Goldman Sachs Failed Major Test – by David Haggith The Climate Is Falling Apart. Prepare for the Push Alerts. – The Atlantic Can […]

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Gold Hit With One-Two Punch

Gold Hit With One-Two Punch Read on for the good news On Friday, two announcements combined to hit gold and silver about as hard as they’ve ever been hit. First, the US jobs report, as usual, came in far hotter than expected, which led credulous headline readers to conclude that the economy is booming and […]

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Would Returning to the Gold Standard Resolve Our Most Pressing Monetary Problems?

Would Returning to the Gold Standard Resolve Our Most Pressing Monetary Problems? We all know the problem with fiat currency: the temptation to print more currency is irresistible, but ultimately destructive. Money in all its forms attracts quasi-religious beliefs and convictions. This makes it difficult to discuss with anything resembling objectivity. But given the centrality of […]

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Is Hyper-Inflation that Destroys a Currency a “Solution”?

Is Hyper-Inflation that Destroys a Currency a “Solution”? This contrarian sees a strong consensus around the notion that hyper-inflation is the inevitable end-game of nation-states / central banks issuing fiat currencies, i.e. currencies that are not restrained by being pegged to tangible assets such as gold reserves. The temptation to issue (via “printing” or borrowing […]

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Dear Jerome Powell, Is Everything Under Control? Spotlight Gold and Silver

Dear Jerome Powell, Is Everything Under Control? Spotlight Gold and Silver The US stock markets are all at record highs, gold is at a record high, and silver is at the highest price since 2013. Welcome to the everyone wins market, no craps allowed. Chart courtesy of BullionStar Congratulations to silver bulls, copper bulls, gold […]

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Why The Gold Rush Is Just Beginning, In Six Charts

Why The Gold Rush Is Just Beginning, In Six Charts A lot of embarrassed investment advisors out there… Gold blew through $2400/oz this morning: And the world’s central banks continue to add gold to their monetary reserves. Note that the real action coincided with the outbreak of the Ukraine war, when the US started slapping […]

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Why Gold Is Flowing From West To East

Why Gold Is Flowing From West To East Yesterday silver hit a four-week high and gold continues to hold onto recent gains. Today’s labour market data isn’t sparking significant movement in the gold market. However, it is facing some technical selling pressure as it tests resistance levels slightly below $2,400 per ounce. Yesterday’s US CPI […]

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What the Rising Gold Price Signals

What the Rising Gold Price Signals The recent run-up in the gold price has not garnered the attention among the mainstream financial media outlets as it should. Gold has, in part, been overshadowed by the rise in the price of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. Naturally, the financial press, which is really an arm of the government […]

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Staggering Quantities of Valuable Metals Are Winding Up in the Garbage Bin

Staggering Quantities of Valuable Metals Are Winding Up in the Garbage Bin Recycling more of the copper, aluminum, and other minerals in our old electronics could reduce the need for mining. Photo: vladdon (Shutterstock) To build all of the solar panels, wind turbines, electric vehicle batteries, and other technologies necessary to fight climate change, we’re going to […]

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AI, Gold and Nuclear War

AI, Gold and Nuclear War So-called artificial intelligence (AI) is taking the world by storm. Meanwhile, gold has shot up like a rocket over the past couple of months. In mid-February, gold was trading at $1,990. Two months later, gold is trading above $2,400 — a $410 gain in just two months. So here’s a […]

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The US Is Living on Borrowed Time

February 1, 2024

The US Is Living on Borrowed Time In late December, I published a final report on the themes of 2023 while looking ahead at their implications for the year to come. I repeated my claim that debt markets and debt levels made the future of Fed policies, currency moves, rate markets and gold’s endgame fairly clear to […]

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Never Ending War on Cash

January 22, 2024

Never Ending War on Cash In the last few decades, there has been a global shift towards a “cashless world,” a trend that continues to shape financial autonomy. Physical currency is becoming increasingly rare as the majority of the world’s money supply exists in electronic form. Governments and financial institutions are actively promoting a cashless […]

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Central Banks Will Keep Gobbling Gold in 2024

January 19, 2024

Central Banks Will Keep Gobbling Gold in 2024 The first half of 2023 was a record-breaking moment for central bank gold buying, led by none other than China and Russia. Organizations like the World Gold Council reported a staggering increase compared to 2022: “On a year-to-date basis, central banks have bought an astonishing net 800t, 14% higher than […]

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Hope Dies, Gold Rises

December 5, 2023

Hope Dies, Gold Rises The primary stages of grief include: Denial, anger, bargaining, depression and finally, acceptance. When it comes to grieving over the slow demise of the American economy, sovereign IOU/USD and the absolute failure of our “re-election-only-focused” policy makers, these stages of grief are easy to see yet easier to ignore. But false […]

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