There is no easy solution. There is no possible painless normalization path. Powell will have to choose between the risk of a global financial meltdown or prolonged inflation.

Gold will go much higher than most of us allow ourselves to contemplate. Buckle your seatbelts and enjoy the ride ahead!

It is commonly said that the Fed needs to tighten to fight inflation, which will make things good again once it gets inflation under control. I believe this is both naïve and inconsistent with how the economic machine works. Here's why.

Here are six surefire mistakes that can kill your retirement – and remedies that can help get you back on track.

Between soaring inflation, falling wages, slowing economic growth, and a Fed bent on tightening monetary policy, there is a storm on the horizon. The magnitude, timing, and location of the “economic hurricane” are still anyone’s best guess.

Investors should consider today’s prices a gift and perhaps a last chance to acquire gold at these prices before the real safe haven race begins. Gold is so cheap right now, it’s practically a steal.

Gold should be soaring with red-hot inflation raging but, instead, it is breaking down but gold’s bizarre decoupling, driven by a parabolic USD surge fueling unsustainable heavy gold-futures selling, is an extreme anomaly that will prove short-lived.

Gold represents the spirit of affluence but can gold still deliver wealth and prosperity to the modern investor? The answer is yes, absolutely! Gold can play a vital role in a robust, high-performing portfolio...[but] these results are not guaranteed. To bolster your wealth with gold, you need to understand how it functions as an asset.

An annual quiz from Mass-Mutual that tests the public's knowledge about Social Security...has 13 true or false questions...and the results consistently show the average person knows little about these government benefits...

After two years of declines, many investors sold their gold holdings and vowed never to invest in gold again. However, in the fall of 1976, gold began an ascent that saw it rise 750%, peaking at $850 a troy ounce three years and four months later. After a 3-year correction, the same opportunity to buy low exists today, just as it did in 1976.