After what seems like a decade in the shadow of tech stocks and cryptocurrencies, gold and silver are rocking again. Which of course leaves everyone
For at least the past decade the behavior of the people who trade gold futures contracts – and thereby determine the metal’s price – has
Back in September the hedge funds that speculate with gold futures contracts got extremely bullish, which – since speculators are usually wrong when they’re overexcited
There’s a debate raging over what, exactly, bitcoin and the thousand or so other cryptocurrencies actually are. Some heavy-hitters are weighing in with strong, if
For what seems like decades, other countries have been tiptoeing away from their dependence on the US dollar. China, Russia, and India have cut deals
That didn’t take long at all. Just a few weeks after the Commitment of Traders (COT) Reports for gold and silver turned positive – setting
The failure of fiat currency and fractional reserve banking to produce a government-managed utopia is generating very few mea culpas, but lots of rationalizations. Strangest
The dollar has been falling lately, which isn’t what a lot of people expected with the Fed being the only major central bank that’s raising
Just a quick, happy update on the gold/silver COT reports. See last week’s post for a little more background. Speculators are running scared in the
The stars — in the form of smart and dumb money futures contract positions — have once again lined up favorably for precious metals. Here
The global financial system’s ever-increasing leverage pretty much guarantees another crisis in coming years — unless it’s pre-empted by new weapons that can, in theory,
The past century has been an orgy of experimentation. We tried fascism, which initially looked good to some before (literally) crashing and burning. We tried
Some lives were changed recently: Gold Treasure Found Inside A British Piano (Mercury News) — British officials say they’ve been unable to trace the rightful
Inflation is back, thanks to the past few years’ exuberant borrowing and currency creation. Meanwhile, populist politicians are gaining traction in Europe, threatening both the
When the history of these times is written, former Fed Chair Alan Greenspan will be one of the major villains, but also one of the
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