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I do not believe gold is rising due to a fear trade or due to U.S. dollar weakness; I believe gold is rising because it is only in the teenage years of its current bull market.

The infographic below captures three megatrends that are the driving forces behind global real estate investment.

There has been a proliferation of so-called citizenship-by-investment or economic citizenship programs that allow individuals from all over the world to legitimately acquire passports and more and more countries have joined the game. Below are the terms and conditions, by country, for acquiring such a passport.

The economy and, more importantly, inflation really need to tank hard to justify current bond prices and economic growth, and earnings really need to soar to truly justify current stock market valuations. It's not hard to imagine a scenario in which both could be very wrong.

The stock market huffed, and it puffed, and finally made it over the hump, with the large-cap S&P 500 Index (414 days) and Dow Jones Industrial Average both vaulting to new all-time highs. It’s worth revisiting the details of this bullish buy signal to see what could be in store for the stock market in the months ahead.

Have you ever wondered if the Olympic medals are actually made of gold at all? It turns out today’s gold medals actually contain very little gold at all.

If you don’t understand stock warrants, you are not alone. Very few of the professional newsletter writers and analysts understand them so why should you? Allow me to give you a brief education on stock warrants in the following paragraphs and tell you exactly why you need this information.

Today's infographic serves as the perfect primer for all the questions about oil that you had, yet were afraid to ask. It also illustrates the impact that unexpected geopolitical events can have on the oil price – and how this volatility can be contagious to other global markets.

The banking crisis of 2008 never fully healed. It just got shuffled under the carpet while the public was fed a phony narrative that everything was fantastic which turned out to be a gigantic farce; many of the world’s banking systems are just as risky as they were back in 2008.

The unwinding of the "Central Bank Bubble" will be worse than either the Dot.Com Bubble or the Housing Bubble. It seems like most investors continue to show apathy even with the warnings by us and quite a few others of the "unintended consequences" of the central banks doing things that have never been done before. Those investors are in good company because it appears to us that the leaders of the major central banks of the world do not have any idea of the "unintended consequences" either.